and it all leads up to tomorrow s throwback game between the braves and the philadelphia phillies. let s check in with our jennifer mayerly as she s live in atlanta with a taste at what s happening at centennial olympic park. hi, jennifer. reporter: this morning has been a lot of fun and games with pitching sensations and batting cages. but now we re slowing things down a little bit and getting a little bit more serious. there s a youth summit going on with a lot of former major league baseball players. when the civil rights movement, some baseball players played a pivotal role. hank aaron, jackie robinson. hank aaron will be celebrated later tonight. a lot of these baseball players who are up on stage right now, really commend them for helping them to get to where they got today. those players are going to have a summit with the youth and tell them how they got where they did and how these youth can succeed like they did. we just talked to jesse williams
you re looking at centennial park. a big youth summit is taking place right there sponsored by mlb. we ll have much more of the overall weekend celebrations after this. i can t enjoy my own barbecue with these nasal allergies.
u.s. army corps of engineers is expected to open the floodgates on the morganza spillway. the plan is to slowly divert floodwaters away from baton rouge and new orleans. the spillway has not been opened in nearly 40 years. the move will flood other areas in south central louisiana. and this map right here you re about to see it, it says it all. areas in yellow could get up to 20 feet of water and green up to 15 feet. we ll have live coverage of a briefing by the u.s. army corps of engineers at 2:00 eastern time. in areas like morgan city, louisiana, could get disastrous flooding. morgan city is protected by flood walls. but those walls could fail. the city s mayor talked about his concerns with her ed lavandera. reporter: are you worried about it flooding? this is the heart of the city. it is. and it s primarily protected by that wall right there. it would take a failure of that wall, i think, before this would really be at risk. what we re really concerned about is tha