deck of the first floor. i started checking my toes first. i could move them. then i would start to breathe in and see my ribs. it hurt on the left. so i broke a small rib. it wasn t important. we need to get warm towels around him. my behind hurt a lot. that was the most concerning, but you know, you don t need a behind, so, it looked like everything was fine. so, then i was lucky. it could have been so much worse. what saved him? possibly the last-minute choice to jump, despite the failing wind. two seconds before i m ready to jump, i feel a lack of wind of strength from 32, it went down probably to 20-mile-an-hour winds. i think if i would have stopped, it would have thrown me through the glass, through the sharp things inside the house. to avoid hitting the house and its plate glass windows, he decides to jump and aim for the steel pilings, board first. i do a lot of martial arts and i know how to absorb some
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 of the
revised. they didn t have to open as much of the spillway as they thought. the good news is that the numbers of people impact ld be lower than that. reporter: you hear that noise behind the governor as he speaks? that s a pile driver driving a steel pile into the river bed. they opened that spillway. something else they re doing to stop floodwaters from coming back up into these small communities, they took a 30-foot high steel barge, took it out into the river and sunk it, using rocks to hold it down. using steel pilings that s the banging you heard to keep the water from coming back up into the waterways, back flooding they call it. building a makeshift dam to divert the water into wetlands and less populated areas, all designed to protect communities here. much more on this story in the hour ahead. i want to begin by giving you a glimpse of what we saw today. we got on an army helicopter. the national guard here up with governor jindal and up with the