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(CNN Student News) -- May 13, 2011

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CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Fridays are awesome! Yes, that includes Friday the 13th. Thank you for spending part of your day with CNN Student News. I'm Carl Azuz, and I know there's a paper airplane around here somewhere.

First Up: Bracing for the Worst

AZUZ: Louisiana is trying to prepare as this bulge of flood water moves south down the Mississippi River. In New Orleans yesterday, the water level was at 17 feet. But officials don't think the river will crest -- hit its highest point -- until it hits 19 feet. And they expect that to happen more than a week from now. Next door, in Mississippi, 14 counties have been declared major disaster areas by the governor. That'll help free up money for the relief efforts. Ed Lavandera is in Louisiana. He's looking at how officials -- and individuals -- are preparing to deal with the water that's heading their way.

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GERALD GAUDET, STEPHENVILLE, LOUISIANA RESIDENT: They going to start pumping the water out when it starts coming in.

ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Gerald Gaudet will fight off the rising water with a little Louisiana bayou ingenuity: his own homemade levee wall.

Gerald, do you really think this wall will be enough?

GAUDET: I'm hoping so. If it gets any higher, there ain't going to be much in the neighborhood for sure.

LAVANDERA: Disaster is flowing downstream and residents in towns like Stephenville and Morgan City are at the end of the line.

GAUDET: Getting pretty ready now. The more closer it gets, starting to get worried about it.

LAVANDERA: Worried because the Morganza Spillway will likely be opened in the coming days. That will redirect Mississippi River water away from Baton Rouge and New Orleans west into the Atchafalaya River basin. Army Corps of Engineers Colonel Ed Fleming will decide when to open

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