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Joining me from plaquemines parish, nbc s mariana at tense i don t. you ve been showing us the water going over the levees. it appears things have changed brac based on the water coming from the sky. reporter: the water has overtopped the levees in plaquemines parish. what we re noticing now is because of the rainfall, because of the flooding and the storm surge, this water is moving to my right towards the highway. that is highway 23. the only way in and out of this area, leaving these communities essentially cut off. more updates for our audience from the national weather service. still a high risk of storm surge in the area, still a high risk of rainfall today into tomorrow, six to ten additional inches in southeastern louisiana where i am. i want to bring in state representative christopher ....
They say thankfully the river has started to go down which is a sigh of relief for everyone here. what s concerning is the water spilling onto the highway and everyone hoping and praying, as you just heard from the state representative, that it doesn t cut off these communities. that is going to complicate relief efforts and people wanting to get back to their homes. mariana, we ll be talking to you over the next couple hours. for now let s go over to nbc meteorologist michelle grossman tracking barry for us as well. there s been a change since the last time we spoke two hours ago. we have a new advisory. what s been the change in the last couple hours? the change is a decrease in speed a bit. looking at 65-mile-per-hour winds. again, winds haven t been the biggest issue. that s a lot of wind. we could still see power outages and trees down, roads being ripped up. forward speed of 7 miles per hour. still moving very slowly. went from five to six to seven ....
The levees have been saturated for so long with the high river, it s simply not safe to do it this time. when will your teams, crews, authorities be out and about starting to pick up the pieces? i m not directly involved with that. i would imagine as soon as the weather permits. thank you representative christopher leopold. you heard it. as soon as the weather permits, richard. judging from what i said in terms of the area still being at risk for more rain fall and storm surge, i don t know if that s going to happen any time soon. may . / how has the level changed? we saw the stop sign. we can see one of those electrical polls. how has the water level changed? reporter: i ve been speaking the the firemen here on site. i m standing in front of a fire station, richard. nay know the area pretty well. ....