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is cresting does not mean that the water goes away quickly like i mentioned, so you have wear in the near-record levels and pushing and putting pressure on the levee system, and the longer you put force on it, the more you pound it for an extended period of time, the more you will weaken thing, and more begin to structurally compromise things and that is what they are worried about and up and down this levee, there are miles of levee system, and the army corps of neeengineers continues to lo for the weaknesses and shore them up, and so far they have a hand on it, but they are not resting on the laurels yet. because we have several weeks for this water to get down on this system and down to the gulf of mexico. they don t want a small trickle to turn into a big trickle in the levees. rob marciano there in memphis for us. thank you. in 90 minutes president obama will try to elevate the debate on one of the issues that everybodying a e greece ne ingi