guarantees. if this levee were to fail, what are the consequences and who would be impacted and how far? the town is 30, 35 miles from here. that town would be under water. have you numerous towns under water and all major highways and thousands of homes would be under water and hundreds of thousands of acres would be under water and we d actually flood about 1.2 million achers. officials are hoping and praying the possibility of an all-out levee failure is small, but they can t rule it out. until the water recedes, these will be very nervous days and nights, all along the levee. the projections are that the water will rise exactly a foot and that is how much free space there is right now. will it go over the top? officials thinks pretty much at will and that s probably within the next 24 hours. a flood threat the of a
we ve got. plus, a global business big wig charged with attempted rape, a posh new york city hotel the location, he was naked forcing himself on a raid. we re live at the courthouse where he s facing a judge right now. plus this. and to the people in arizona, in atlanta, georgia and atlanta, you should be ashamed of yourself. musician carlos santana blasting georgia s new immigration law, fanning the flames in the upcoming presidential election. i ll examine with cnn s errol lewis. i m don lemon and the news starts right now. tonight thousands of people in louisiana are packing up and leaving. there might be nothing left when they return. billions of gallons of water now pouring through the morganza spillway. today two more gates were opened double the amount of water diverted from the swollen mississippi river. over the coming weeks it will flood the area half the size of connecticut. incoming water extremely dangerous, alligators and snabs and other wild animals are b
it s worse than we thought. it s really worse than we thought. we thought maybe we might have water in our yard and this is going to come into our homes. this is going to take everything we ve got. plus, a global business big wig charged with attempted rape, a posh new york city hotel the location, he was naked forcing himself on a made maid. we re live at the courthouse where he s facing a judge right now. plus this. and to the people in arizona, in atlanta, georgia and atlanta, you should be ashamed of yourself. musician carlos santana blasting georgia s new immigration law, fanning the flames in the upcoming presidential election. i ll examine with cnn s errol lewis. i m don lemon and the news starts right now. tonight thousands of people in louisiana are packing up and leaving. there might be nothing left when they return. billions of gallons of water now pouring through the morganza spillway. today two more gates were opened doubling the amount of water diverted
they cause so much damage. what can you say? reporter: at current flow rates, it could be months before all that water recedes. wow, incredible flooding all throughout north america. big winter has a lot to do with it, all that snowfall in canada and the northern united states also. it s hard to believe they did the same thing that we did here, and that was just yesterday. so our neighbors to the north are suffering just as much as the united states. 3,000 homes have been covered in water in that area. many people have been forced to evacuate. to put it in perspective for you, here you can see the u.s. border, north dakota, here s lake winnipeg. we ll show you that lake they re talking about, the cinnabon i hope i pronounced that correctly. the river will form these little oxbows where they ll cut themselves off and then they ll flow into this other area in the
2,000 people in st. landry parish west of baton rouge have been told to pack up and leave. they have until 6:00 p.m. eastern time. six other parishes in the region are also expected to flood. the evacuations come after the army corps of engineers started opening flood gates on the morganza spillway. more will likely be opened in the days ahead. they re merging spillways away from new orleans and baton rouge, but that puts nearly 4,000 people in the path of that flood. we re joined from st. landry parish where people have gotten the word. they re packing up as fast as they can. ed set up the scene for us. reporter: we re in a little stretch of community in a man-made lake called red mile lake, and they ve been told they need to evacuate by this afternoon, so we ve encountered lots of people packing up to leave their homes. authorities have been going door to door with the national guard, local sheriff s deputies, that kind of thing, urging people to pack up. you see moving v