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Morgan city is protected by 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. ....

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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 ....

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they re going to have to sacrifice some homes and businesses in order to save many, many more. the army corps expected to open louisiana s huge morganza spillway when the river flow hits 1.5 million cubic feet per second. what does that mean? all you need to know is that rate continues to go up and getting closer and closer to that point. the spillway was last opened in 1973, but we are expecting it today and maybe in the next few hours. now, doing that, what does that do? it takes the pressure off levees in baton rouge and new orleans and it will also flood seven louisiana parishes west of the river. the national guard is out. you see them here, they have been working around the clock filling sandbags in morgan city. that s a community of 12,000 that is expected to be just flooded out when this water is released. can you imagine this, folks? people just standing by and waiting on the water to come and destroy everything. it s worse than we thought. it s really worse ....

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