you do not have a lot of light. of course you don t have any natural light at this time of the evening. and there s not a lot of street light out here as well. you have police helicopters shining lights down there. you can see some of the emergency management workers and the philadelphia fire department out there with their vehicles shining lights onto the area that is really in focus right now. and that would really be this area right here. this is where the front of the car the front of the trean detached and looks like almost a distance of just i would make an estimation 50 to 100 feet and the cars went right into another track. also, another thing that we noticed up here it does appear to be fairly windy down there. we ve seen a lot of the debris blowing around and even here around skyforce10 we re experiencing turbulence up here. it s interesting to see how
president is today. wendell thank you. jon: new information on the damage from what is now tropical depression isaac. life started to return to normal in too new orleans which avoided a direct hit from the storm. areas near the big easy across the mississippi border are battling major flooding and widespread power outages still. steve harrigan is live on the ground in mccomb, mississippi, for us. steve. reporter: frantic efforts underway in this state park where emergency management workers and as well as army corps of engineers they re trying to stop this levee from bursting. it is holding back a 700 acre lake. you have three large tractors pumping out water as fast as possible. if chris can pan over here to the other side. you see opposite work in action. those are backhoes digging slits in the top much this levee. they re trying to reduce pressure on the levee from the water built you will with hurricane isaac the past several days. if this dam were to collapse