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speak to john harwood. first, let s focus on isaac. last night the hurricane made initial landfall and produced a dangerous storm surge along the gulf coast. then went back out to sea. about 3:15 eastern this morning it hit land again west of port fourchon. scot cohen is in new orleans joining us with the latest. reporter: on canal street up what you just described, first landfall right at the mouth of the mississippi. the second landfall sort of bouncing along the gulf coast to the west a little bit. and the storm sitting there, dumping this rain on southeast louisiana and ultimately into new orleans. and the wind. you look at what i m getting, which is probably half of what they re getting to the southeast of here in plaquemines parish where the levee overtopped and they re talking about severe flooding. just bounding this area over and over for hours and hours. you get a sense of what we re looking at. this is a major event. some 300,000 people without power. that s