their habitats into residential areas. officials warn that large gators won t think twice about grabbing a human. let s go to the st. landry parish of crop springs. ed, what do you know? reporter: well, don, we are in one of those neighborhoods that got the mandatory evacuation orders a few hours ago. as you look around here, this is a small subdivision right on the edge of the river. and authorities came through here literally going door to door, the national guard and sheriff s deputies are urging people to leave. and in this subdivision made up of 20 homes, almost everyone has heeded that warning. you can see the spot behind me here, just a patch of dirt, a few hours ago there was a trailer home on that spot. a young man by the name of bret ensley literally had the trailer picked up and driven out of the neighborhood taking it to higher ground. we have seen that in a number of places. other than that, people are bringing in trucks and trailers and loading up what they ca
morganza spillway that could start to change. so obviously we have a fluid situation here over the next couple of weeks. and the situation will be precario precarious, but crop springs is one of the early significant spots along the river downstream from the morganza spillway. and one of the first areas that we ll start to see the major effects of the flooding as it continues to move down to morgan city. don? reporter: thank you very much, ed. we want to go now to some residents. bridgette robin is one of the people forced to flee from the rushing water rushing into the basin. she is joining us by phone. bridgette, we appreciate you joining us. we know you have lived in st. landry parish for 15 years. whechb did you evacuate? we finished moving out at 3:00 today. you got your stuff out at 3:00 today. yes, we finish ed today because they gave us until 5:00 this afternoon to evacuate. have all of your neighbors