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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190713:14:10:00

us this morning. nick watt in youngsville for us this morning. it may be hours from landfall but certainly the effects are starting to be felt and there is this, you don t want to call it anticipation but it s just this waiting period, really, for a storm that we know is going to last for a very long time. yeah, days this thing is going to last, erica hill, we appreciate it so much. thank you. you know, at this time tomorrow morning, president trump s migrant raids may be in progress. protesters of those raids are organizing today and cities across the country as thousands of immigrant families are decided what to do. we re talking to one woman who says her stepfather sat in a deportation facility for eight months, the challenge she is now making to politicians who say conditions that aren t so bad. johnson & johnson is a baby company.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190713:15:05:00

until a couple of days ago, there was concern this could go over 20 feet, and the levees only protect up to 20 feet. hurricane katrina, 14 summers ago, the death and devastation was caused by levees that failed. this particular storm, this concern was that the mississippi river would get too high. the good news, forecasters announcing they do not anticipate the river will go above the 20 foot mark. the worst is yet to come. people are hoping the worst is better than they would have imagined. what we can tell you is levees have been dramatically improved since hurricane katrina. there have been billions of dollars spent on a levee system. there are water pumping stations pumping the water back into lake pontchartrain. right now, the authorities are feeling good about the city of new orleans, the metropolitan area, has 1.3 million people. fingers crossed throughout. gary tuchman, thank you so much. i want to bring in nick watt just outside new orleans in youngsville, louisiana, an ar

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190713:19:14:00

none are broken. the biggest threat from this tropical storm, as we keep repeating, because it is so important, is the heavy rain that will likely flood communities all along the storm s path, flooding that may last for several days. let s get right out to cnn s nick watt, just outside new orleans in youngsville, louisiana. right now one of two levees not reinforced after katrina is overtopping in several spots. nick, what is the concern from this levee? reporter: well, ana, that is down in plaquemines parish, 40 miles or so outside of new orleans, as you mentioned. the levee being overtopped. and we heard from the lieutenant governor who said that people in the southern part of that parish only have two or three hours to evacuate before highway 23 there is inundated and closed. he said they don t want to evacuate people along the tops of the levees, because there will be water on both sides and a car tipping off that could be

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190713:21:14:15

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190713:21:14:15
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