tragic for them but a little less than houston. we ll sfee that develops or not. it s a close call regardless. finally, our friends on the east coast, we have a tropical storm watch for the carolinas, but this will be a very minor event compared to what we of been dealing with in the houston area. so for the next 24 hours as officials look at where they have to sort of train their resources and we know that preserving life is number one, but is it in that area around the buffalo buy you? is it looking ahead to yes. they ll be watching in the houston area down to victoria, they ll be watching the major rivers. it takes longer for all the water to collect in the stream and head to the major rivers. those rivers are cresting in the next two days. that s where they ll have those new evacuations, once they have those projections. even though victoria hasn t had a lot of heavy rain, that river hasn t crested yet and it won t for about another 24 to 48 hours from now. i read last nigh
ground and folks who are still trying to get out of the mess. thank you, kyra. live from studio 7, i m suzanne malveaux and up to speed for august 30th, tuesday. here we go, again, the rivers in new jersey are bursting the banks overwhelmed by all of the rain that hurricane irene dumped on the state. the passaic river has been overrunning parts of paterson, new jersey, all morning long. emergency workers pulled some 1,500 people to safety after the passaic flooded homes. governor chris christie says that nine new jersey rivers have surged to record flood levels, but thankfully, they are receding now. he says only one, the passaic has not crested. the number of people killed now by irene and the aftermath rose to 38 today across 11 states. i want to get the latest on the emergency rescues in paterson, new jersey, where we are taking a look, a dramatic look of pictures throughout the morning and on the phone is sergeant alex popoff of the paterson police department, and we unde
freeman and ernie banks all in the same room and i try to get them to stop selling themselves short. plus this morning we re talking about politics. presidential politics in france. why? because one of the people, the man you are looking at there, who is believed to be the front-runner to be the next president of france is now sitting in a jail cell in new york. scathing details of how all of this played out. we ll have that for you. but welcome to this cnn sunday morning. i m t.j. holmes. thank you for spending part of your weekend here with us. let s start now with the case of saving new orleans at the cost of others. the latest on the historic flooding along the lower mississippi valley. now take a look at this. you see that picture? this happened yesterday. the army corp of engineers opened just one of the 125 gates at that huge morganza spillway north of baton rouge. this is something that has not been done since 1973. they could open two more of those gates toda
thousand properties were under water. the flooding is moving steadily south. vicksburg, mississippi, historic town hit hard by flood waters. the river hasn t crested there yet. st. mary parish, they re piling up sand bags to save the church there. in new orleans, the river is already at flood stage and the army corps of engineers is opening more bays at a spillway that directs water into lake pontchartrain. they may open another spillway that would spare new orleans but flood southeast louisiana instead. martin savidge joins us now. reporter: each though the flood waters have begun to recede in memphis, there are still pockets of misery. we re in north memphis tonight and this was, still is, i guess, a mobile home park that had anywhere from 100 to 150 units in it. water is now in every single one of those units. the water has been there now for
across the south, the lower midwest, about 3 million acres of farmland are flooded tonight and the waters are still rising along the mississippi river. here s what it looks like in memphis, leaving as many as a thousand properties under water. the flooding is moving steadily south. take a look at vicksburg, mississippi, historic town hit hard by flood waters. the river hasn t crested there yet. st. mary parish, they re piling up sand bags to save the church there. some 26 parishes in the state have declared states of emergencies. in new orleans, the river is already at flood stage and the army corps of engineers is opening more bays at a spillway that directs water into lake pontchartrain. they ve also warned they may open another spillway which would spare new orleans while flooding southeastern louisiana instead. martin savidge joins us now.