to put that flood. officials are debating whether to open the floodgates at the morganza spillway. it could wash out 3 million acres of land. rob marciano live in the middle of it now. the town of tunica up river from new orleans. what s it look like in tunica? i can tell you this is the hardest hit area as for the number of people displaced from their homes. the tunica cutoff north of where i m standing here, that area saw the river rise very quickly. and when it did that, hundreds of people had to evacuate. there s well over 200 homes that are completely flooded out. five or six people that are out of their homes here. and a lot are in the shelter behind me. the red cross shelter is where they had a refuge not just for the past few days but for many of these folks, for the past couple of weeks, this has been a long-term event. far before we started covering it. and it will be a long-term event