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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 ....
flood walls. those walls could fail. the city s mayor talked about his concerns with our ed lavandera. are you worried about it flooding? this is the heart of the city right here. it is the heart of the city, primarily protected by that wall right there. it would take a failure of that wall before this would be at risk. what we re really concerned about is that high river stage raising the water level back where the lake is, and if that got topped, because that level of protection is not nearly as high as that, if that got topped, the water is going to flow throughout the city. it won t be held within a particular compartment of the city. we re an island, the river on one side and both our eastern boundaries and south even boundaries is the river, the northern and western boundaries is the lake. this water threat surrounds you? absolutely. it s starting to lap up under the planks of the wharf. so the water is just now getting here. it will be water all the way ....
Gate. if you look real closely, there is the mississippi river. what this is going to do, of course, this is going to alleviate some of the flooding potential for baton rouge as well as new orleans. as i zoom in more, the area towards the west, this is the area that s potentially going to be flooded out, talking about small communities and farmland. roughly about 25,000 people could be at risk. interstate 10, that road may be at risk for being impassable. this area here doesn t have a flood gate. we ll likely see flooding there. it gets a little better if i show you this area of morgan city. they have a levee there. hopefully morgan city is going to shape up or should i say not sustain any of the flooding. as i close this, i want to show you the other graphic real quick. hopefully the magic wall is going to work with me. let s talk about more of the flooding that s going to be happening as we go through the next several days and weeks ahead. not until the end of the month ....