we have our reporters covering every angle of this across the region. want to start with sam brock. 24 hours ago you and i were talking about hundreds of people trapped, needing to be rescued. please tell me they're safe. >> reporter: largely from what we can gather they are, stephanie, amazingly. you said the name of the town correctly. laplace, la feet, two areas that saw so many rescues going on. we got mixed signals whether there needs to be hundreds of folks rescued, then we saw it with our own eyes that there were high water vehicles coming through communities. this spot, the big issue is when. the power lines are strewn in the yard. this is a microcosm of what you'll see on highway 61. there are power poles turned like this, 45 degree angles, barely hovering above the