12:15 P.M. - Meteorologist Brad Panovich: Homes in the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard Parish can expect 8-9 feet of water from the levee breach.
12:08 P.M. - An Army Corps of Engineers official is blaming today's flooding in New Orleans on an earlier-than-expected storm surge from Hurricane Rita. Brigadier General Robert Crear says contractors are being brought into the city to repair breaches in a patched levee with rocks and sandbags.
11:55 A.M. - St. Bernard Parish Sheriff Jack Stephens says water is coming into the parish quickly and the only way out of the parish will soon by by boat.
11:53 A.M. - WWL-TV Northshore Bureau Chief Mike Ross says water is already beginning to get on the Mandeville Lakefront area.
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