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Channel. the back levee has been overtopped so much that there s 12 foot of water against the mississippi river levee, but inside the levee system, areas that never had water from katrina are inundated with water. billy, any idea of why this happened? well, we had a mandatory evacuation because of the storm currently projections for that area were 9 to 12 feet with we had an eight-foot levee. that was a parish levee that wasn t in the federal system. the parish has been adding to that every year and we just needed three or four more years without a storm. obviously we didn t get that with the this event here today. we ve been hearing about the dozens of rescues taking place throughout plaquemines parish by the national guard as well as bystanders that were paying attention. those people living in st. bernard s parish which is right next door to plaquemines parish were out on the roads trying to ....
Christian which took a hard hit in katrina. they lost every school, every church, every public building. there s a mandatory evacuation order for all residents of this community. that is largely unheeded. there are people who are living in their homes behind boards, many behind boarded up houses. many of them have decided to stick it out because they rebuilt their homes after katrina. i ll tell you, again, last night, the 30 to 35-mile-an-hour sustained winds gave a false sense of security that we were not going to see anything of this type. but has really become intense today. as you have mentioned this storm is not moving. it is stalled out over mississippi as it is louisiana. tamron, back to you. janet, thank you very much. great work. we just got word that the mayor of new orleans, mitch landrieu has put in a dusk to dawn curfew this in area and jefferson parish. there are about 500,000 people ....
Particularly the one in the greater new orleans area and st. bernard all evacuated to higher ground. really we re finding this mostly in the nursing homes. i think that the state gave nursing homes we put additional requirements on them to he have these plans and procedures to evacuate. i think the state is finding we gave them a little too much discretion in determining when they should leave. in most of the areas throughout the state, they have very few mandatory evacuations. typically whefrl a parish president or mayor says this is a voluntary evacuation, that s to say able bodied people should not have to leave, i think we have to re-evaluate how we determine wa a voluntary evacuation is and hey, if able bodied people maybe should leave, then unable people should definitely leave. that s a question that will linger after this. thank you for your time. ....
Road on the levee and we launched the boat from the surface road. and i imagine people were just absolutely beyond relief to see you there to help them out? oh, absolutely. we after we finished braithwaite park which is the first subdivision on the north side of plaquemines on the east bank, we we were headed down highway 39 and there was a family of five t 5 on a trailer with about one foot left before they would go under. they were screaming away. let me ask you, were you in a part of the area that was under the mandatory evacuation? yes. yes, ma am. you were? i m sorry. i can t hear? you were part of that area? yes. the entire east bank was under mandatory evacuation. well, thank you so much for joining us. i appreciate. obviously, i m having a tough time hearing you, but good work out there, getting in to help ....
Interior protection features and provides it right there at the gulf intercoast waterways. we ll fill a swimming pool in four seconds. i ve got congressman jeff landry on the line. thank you for your time. great to be with you, tamron. reporter: absolutely. what is your concern right now, sir? well, you know, our biggest concern right now is the slow movement of the storm and the amount of flooding it could cause as well as the sustained high winds that we re getting. you know, part of the district i represented has rl been improkted it, plaque mince, st. bernard, possible st. charles, areas inundated with four major hurricanes over the last ten years so the people out there are resilient and want to make the federal government is will to support whatever they need. sir, you know, this is not the image anyone wanted to see. to be rescued by the coast guard or police agencies. there was a mandatory evacuation ....