Hurricane Katrina - 2005-08-30 - levee breaches - CNN

Name: Hurricane Katrina - 2005-08-30 - levee breaches - CNN
Uploaded: 2024-05-16
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Uploaded: 2024-05-16

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[0:06] [Music]

[0:09] we welcome you back to this special

[0:11] continuing coverage on Hurricane Katrina

[0:14] and its aftermath it is 4:00 in the East

[0:16] 3:00 in New Orleans where the Army Corps

[0:18] of engineer are meeting right now to try

[0:21] and make some very important decisions

[0:23] let's try and pass along to you some of

[0:24] this information that we've been

[0:25] Gathering officials are telling us that

[0:27] a levy that holds back part of Lake pon

[0:30] train has been breached they say it's a

[0:32] two block span along the 17th Street and

[0:35] Canal streets area uh this is a

[0:37] potentially devastating problem because

[0:38] the Crescent City as you may know is

[0:40] below sea level now authorities in New

[0:43] Orleans have been talking about possibly

[0:45] evacuating two hospitals in the area one

[0:47] of the biggest hospitals toan University

[0:49] Medical Center but we have just now

[0:51] learned that those plans have been put

[0:54] on hold that the two hospitals will not

[0:56] be evacuated and the reason that they're

[0:58] not going to be evacuated is that the

[1:00] water is rising but not Rising that fast

[1:04] now here's an interview we did just

[1:05] moments ago with some folks who were

[1:07] talking to us about that very

[1:10] thing we don't have any confirmed

[1:12] reports of casualties at this time our

[1:15] biggest concern is rising water um our

[1:18] hospital is in downtown New Orleans and

[1:20] we did not get any accumulated water

[1:23] from the storm when the storm actually

[1:25] occurred but within the past 2 hours the

[1:27] water has been rising at the rate of an

[1:29] in every 5 minutes we now are completely

[1:32] surrounded by 6 ft of water and um we're

[1:36] getting ready to ge