to get a good idea of how much water we re taunging about here. by the end of this hour, $269 million gallons will flow through there. how much is that? sounds like a lot. here s perspective for you. the water flowing out of that one gate is half of what s flowing over niagara falls right now. if they opened all the gates that spillway will generate the same flow in one hour that my rag rah falls does all day long. you get that? all of this headed down the flood plain in central louisiana towards evacuate the communities. right here the boat i ve been using for the last four days in and out, people going to their camps getting everything they own because they probably won t have a camp yet. we love the river. it s always been a part of our
like baton rouge and new orleans down river. listen to ed lavandera. you you can see the water gushing out the spillway. there are 125 gates. for now only one has been opened. officials say they will continue to open up more in the coming days. right now they re trying to slow down the process. you can see the water making its way into this area that was just a big grassy area. the reason they re doing it slowly is to give the wildlife and animals a chance to adjust to the vast amount of water that will be pouring through. just through the one gate the amount of water that is gushing through. two. so exactly how much water are we talking about here? by the end of this hour of cnn sunday morning, some 269 million gallons will have flown through that spillway, heading down the floodplain in central
i get carlos santana, morgan freeman, ernie banks in the same room and try to get them to stop selling themselves short. documenting a terrorist takedown. those s.e.a.l.s who went in after osama bin laden had high-tech cameras. we have new details for you. welcome to this cnn sunday morning. i m t.j. holmes. as always a special good morning to our military men and women watching us on the armed forces network. thank you for being here and thank you for what you do. we need to start with what s happening in louisiana, an intentional flooding that s taking place. look at this here, one floodgate is opened now at the morganza spillway. more gates could be opened later today. the whole point is to try to relieve some pressure on the swollen mississippi river. the army corps of engineers opened the spillway potentially flooding hundreds of homes in order to protect larger cities like baton rouge and new orleans down river. listen to ed lavandera. you you can see the water gu
freeman and ernie banks all in the same room and i try to get them to stop selling themselves short. plus this morning we re talking about politics. presidential politics in france. why? because one of the people, the man you are looking at there, who is believed to be the front-runner to be the next president of france is now sitting in a jail cell in new york. scathing details of how all of this played out. we ll have that for you. but welcome to this cnn sunday morning. i m t.j. holmes. thank you for spending part of your weekend here with us. let s start now with the case of saving new orleans at the cost of others. the latest on the historic flooding along the lower mississippi valley. now take a look at this. you see that picture? this happened yesterday. the army corp of engineers opened just one of the 125 gates at that huge morganza spillway north of baton rouge. this is something that has not been done since 1973. they could open two more of those gates toda
they intends to hold onto that with tanks inside the city. the rebels in the field are unorganized and not a robust force. and finally at an international conference in london coalition members said there has been no decision on whether to arm the rebels. megyn: the price tag on this mission in libya is starting to pile up. fox news confirmed so far the cost to american taxpayers has ballooned to $600 million. more than 190 tomahawk missiles worth $269 million, 435 precision guided bombs and a graw drop of bombers $10,000 an hour times 25 hours each plus all the ammunition they dropped. a brand-new development in the wisconsin budget battle that