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>> reporter: open floodgates, thousands hit by floodwaters so new orleans stays dry. the alternative, city officials say, would have been worse than katrina. >> water is pouring through 15 of 125 floodgates at morganza, louisiana right now, a quarter of the gates will eventually be opened. downstream, water from the spillway is already overrunning some homes. as many as 25,000 could go under water in the next few weeks. president obama is welcoming jordan king abdallah to the white house. the conversation is expected to center on the arab uprising. so thursday, the president is exp...

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photos michael jackson wanted to have destroyed. good evening everyone. i'm don lemon. the news starts right now. the legendary mississippi river is rewriting history tonight. for the first time in nearly 40 years the morganza spillways a opened today to divert the swollen river into the atchafalaya basin. it's a pressure valve to relieve the threat of flooding in beige and new orleans, but it means tiny communities could be under many feet of water and force thousands of people from their homes. this is what it looked like back in 1973. the one and only time this spillway had to b...

their habitats into residential areas. officials warn that large gators won't think twice about grabbing a human. let's go to the st. landry parish of crop springs. ed, what do you know? >> reporter: well, don, we are in one of those neighborhoods that got the mandatory evacuation orders a few hours ago. as you look around here, this is a small subdivision right on the edge of the river. and authorities came through here literally going door to door, the national guard and sheriff's deputies are urging people to leave. and in this subdivision made up of 20 homes, almost everyone has ...