we are keeping our eyes on what is happening with the mighty mississippi as water from the bloated river inches closer to the top of the main levee. if it breaches that levee thousands more acres of farmland could suddenly become swampland, jon. jon: from flooded fields to streets and roads underwater now homes and buildings in parts of louisiana also inundated. rick leventhal is live in amelia, louisiana keeping an eye on it for us. reporter: we are just outside morgan city about a hundred miles south of the morganza spillway. we talked to the louisiana army national guard that told us the water has reached highway i10. that is still 60, 70 miles from us here. it s a very slow advance of this floodwater. that s given people here time to build these hesco basket temporary floodwalls and levees. here in amelia they ve built five to eight miles of the temporary walls to protect from the water. it s definitely high, the water table is high, but it has not yet reached the flood
yet reached the floodwalls which stretch all the way around this community which is the industrial hub of st. mary parish. they think they are well protected here, they won t know until the weekend when the floodwaters arrive and some time next week when it s expected to crest. i want to show you compelling pictures from st. andrews cemetery where family members are putting sandbags on top of grave sites, putting the sandbags on the concrete caps on the cyrpts that are in the ground. as we saw in katrina, if that cemetery floods those coffins can rise up out of the ground and float away. that is not something anyone here wants to see. they are sandbagging graves here in amelia as well as the walls around homes to keep the water out and protect themselves. jon, a lot of people are not leaving here, they believe they will be okay. jon: it has to be a strange