baton rouge where the mississippi river is a big part of our economy, our way of life. when you live down here, you know to respect the bayous and the rivers. even someone who was born and raised here and lived my life here, we haven't seen this much water come into these communities about you build these levees. it is like having fire insurance on your home. you hope you never have to use it. >> thank you for coming down. not every day you hear an interview with that banging behind you, is it? that's a pile driver. the governor had the authority to stop that construction. but we decided that wouldn't be a good idea because of the urgency of the flood challenge here. they took a giant steel barge 30 feet high, took it out in this river and sunk it. they are making a danl putting steel around it. they're trying to block the water from coming into the community, send it into marsh and wetlands. a pile driver literally pounding these steel casings in as we
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