when we re talking about storm surges, you know, the levee may not be able to stop that. how dangerous of a condition is this right now? well, that s a good point. down along the coast where you re having a surge, there s a lot of 10 and 12-foot levee or dikes, or berms as we call them, but if you get a 12-foot tidal serve, that s what overtopping means. now you have to pump the water out, because the levee is to hold water in when it gets inside, so it s a complex operation. the governor of louisiana says the state of louisiana is not the same stay that it was 16 years ago, so lieutenant general, are you confident in this system right now? well, i agree with the
been pushing this area thicker cloud in western areas and bringing outbreaks of rain over eastern towers in that rain is continuing to push its way northwards and eastwards overnight. it will come along in bursts of heavy rain and ease of becoming light and more drizzly nature. it is i was going to be quite murky, mist and fog patches forming around our coasts and hills in very mild, temperatures no lower than 16 in hulland in very mild, temperatures no lower than 16 in hull and liverpool. as we sat at the weekend we have got this range to contend with. it is looking at its heaviest really it is looking at its heaviest really it is looking at its heaviest rally across wales and northern england, perhaps eastwards, midlands two. it will post eastwards reaching east anglia and south east england as we had in the acclaimed will tend to ease off in south east england and wales with a mixture of some trifling. temperatures in the most part a little disappointing, generally into the high tee
for. floodwaters have receded in many areas, revealed the extent of the destruction. in germany, rescuers had to check flooded cars and trucks for victims. army tanks pulled vehicles out of the water. thousands of germans are now without homes, after the disaster destroyed their residences. take a look at this video of floodwater carrying a house down a river before it crashed into trees and knocked them down. just one dramatic piece of video we ve seen there. we ve also learned about the deaths of 12 disabled residents at a care facility. they were trapped on the first floor and drowned before aid workers could arrive. also in eastern belgium, train lines and roads remin blocked. authorities are rushing to provide drinking water to residents without potable supplies. in the netherlands, soldiers and firefighters are working to reinforce dikes and prevent flooding. we cannot precisely say how much
there is now a frantic search going on for hundreds of people who remain missing. cnn s sam kiley is in the netherlands. tell us more as we see people with sandbags behind you, what other measures are being taken? reporter: well, here on the river you can see that this orchard behind me, indeed from the street sign, just how high that s got. those are pear trees that stand at least two meters, two yards, six or eight-feet high. and the river is some 200 or 300 meters beyond its own banks. there are dikes throughout the netherlands, and it s these here that the dutch army are now reinforcing. that s because the town just downriver from here has already evacuated or is planning to evacuate some 10,000 people. they ve already evacuated the local hospital. and this is because the netherlands, if anything, can be a silver lining to this very
catastrophic humanitarian situation. it is the dutch, the people of the netherlands have had forewarning of what has been going on in brussels rather in belgium and in northern germany where you ve seen those catastrophic scenes, scenes of utter devastation. we were earlier on today in a german town where whole houses have been ripped away, flushed away by flash floods. this is the preparation against those flash floods being carried out all the way along the river. the river levels we re told are either rising or remaining stable at the moment. but the longer this water sits against these dikes, the mushier they become. they absorb it like a sponge. they ve got holes in them that are created by animals and other issues. and that means that if the water s up against them for a long period, they can give way. if they were to give way, there would be walls of water that would come rushing down this river valley into these towns. and many of the towns and