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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 ....
the state making a decision to open the spillway and release water into some communities, burying homes in those communities to protect communities like baton rouge, new orleans, one of the extraordinary measures this state is taking. the stakes are enormous. governor jindal saying $300 million alone in crop damage, tens of millions in other property damage. there are a dozen oil refineries in flood zone. there are chemical factories, homes and businesses as well. listen to governor jindal here explaining the tough decision to open the spillway he says will protect larger communities without a doubt but for the families right in the devastated zone, listen to how many homes could be, could be just buried. look, worst case scenario and i don t think the numbers will be this bad. they said 3 million acres under water. 20 to 30,000 people will be flooded. approximately between 11 or 15,000 homes. since then the estimate has been revised. they didn t have to open as much ....