national weather service, there has been another breach of a levee this one in alliance. and they have sent out a warning, a flash flood emergency issued for northwest parish, which is in southeast louisiana. they say it is a particularly dangerous situation that people who wear their should seek higher ground. they re worried about low water crossing small creeks, streams urban areas highways. this happened in fact near highway 23. ana bring into the conversation lieutenant general russell honore who led the response to hurricane between 2005. general honore, we appreciate you being here. and these are the kinds of warnings that were familiar to back in 2000 and. five absolutely in the state when it comes to hurricane flooding, it is a confluence of levy, but then
hour? rosemary, we re seeing gradually weakening in the last couple of hours, the system barely hanging on to category 1 hurricane sat status at 75 miler hour. just when you think southern louisiana is in the clear of the system, we re getting reports in the southeastern region and the northern part of plaquemines parish, there is a levy failure in place. there is over 276 miles of levies just in this area. so the levies in lace here, over 3,000 miles of levies make up the protection zone of louisiana that keeps cities like new orleans safe from hurricane flooding. and now a levy is failing at this hour. so it speaks to how much
might be 8-10 feet. when you go up to the rivers and creeks, the banks narrow. it s like a funnel effect. the waters going to go up even higher. those areas might get 12-15 feet. a surge way up the river. it s farther upstream. jon: people well and linda will be experiencing hurricane flooding, probably something they weren t expecting. exactly right. okay i m not on barrier island, okay. that s a real misconception. the higher surges will be inland. again because the funnel effect. the waters going to pile up because can t spread out. it s a problem there. this is quite an event. i haven t seen anything like this and quite a few years. jon: it s going to be something. stephen letterman. thank you for covering this today. joining us now, of the national hurricane center how are
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