emergency flood gates in louisiana, intentionally flooding millions of acres of land. this to save baton rouge and new orleans. when the spillways open some time in the next 24 hours, seven parishes aare expected to be nooded with reart levwater leveh as 25 feet in some region. the worst flooding in years has swallowed up parts of some neighborhoods. tom with another good morning to you. just how bad is the flooding in slix burg? and is the worst yet to come? the worst is yet to come. it should be about thursday. it will even out at 57.5 feet. that will break a record selt back in 1927. that was the worst flooding in a generation. back then it was the 56 feet. so we re talking more than a foot and a half of water coming through here, topping the previous record. more than 2,000 homes in mississippi have been evacuated.