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More. when you open up the flood gate, we ll see more of the water flooding the area you re seeing just to this region to the west. that is going to flood roughly about 34,000 square kilometers. this area for butte he rose, that doesn t have a levee system. as i take you over towards the east, talking about morgan city. you can see populated area. they do have a levee system. everything plays out, it looks like hopefully morgan city will be doing pretty good. keep in mind. pay attention, a little more about morgan city. as i show you a little more about levees. just imagine if there is a levee there and the water gets so high and it over tops the levee, the homes will look like islands. if you have the levee system there and it holds up, it will protect the towns nearby. by opening morganza spillway, ....
captions by vitac www.vitac.com hello. you re in the cnn newsroom this saturday, may 14th, i m fredricka whitfield. saving two of louisiana s biggest cities at the sacrifice of flooding homes and farmland. that s what will likely happen as the u.s. army corps of engineers opens the morganza spillway beginning an hour from now. while opening the gaelts would slowly divert floodwaters from baton rouge and new orleans, areas in yellow could get up to 20 feet of water, in green up to 15 feet. the morganza spillway hasn t been opened in nearly 40 years. but for the u.s. army corps of engineers, it s a necessary move to protect major cities. they re going to open it slowly so people and wildlife are not caught by surprise. there s a slow opening for a lot of reasons. one is from an engineering perspective. the water will come out of here pretty quickly. you don t want to scour the back side of this structure. from an environmental perspective, ofb yous think there are ....