where you re going to have all the flooding. 3,000 scare miles and you have roughly 25,000 people that live there, over 11,000 structures that could all be under water. some places the water may be as high as 25 feet in depth. the problem is that water s going to be flowing over to morgan city, a place protected by several levees. a place without levees really can t hold back the river. sometimes it can move miles inland. in this situation, we re hoping the levees will be strong enough to hold back that rising water and protect those communities. again, 12,000 people call morgan city home. a very scary prospect indeed. what we re seeing in terms of weather, we need some dry weather in parts of the southeast, especially in parts of louisiana. louisiana and mississippi should be okay, but more rain expected in the united states. not only some rain, but even some snowfall in high levels of
new orleans and baton rouge would be saved. also mirroring arizona, the second state with some stiff immigration laws. the governor nathan beale signed that law yesterday. the author will be here with me in the studio live and also someone who s against it. you want to hear the conversation. also another conversation you ll be interested to hear, a rare interview with hank aaron, talking about baseball, how it s letting down the black community. also talking about who the real home run king should be. from the cnn center, this is your cnn saturday morning. glad you could spend part of your day here with us. it s 7:00 a.m. in morgan city, louisiana. all eyes on morgan city today. let s talk about this flooding, major flooding has swamped the upper mississippi and ohio river valley is now making aim at lower mississippi. later today the army corps of engineers could open the morganza spill way in louisiana. it has not been opened in more than 40 years. w450i why would they