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KAGAN: Well, it's Hurricane Katrina that's still very much making history all along the Gulf Coast. That includes New Orleans.
Now, the French Quarter of downtown New Orleans still too wet and too flooded to get our satellite trucks in there, but with the use of a new technology called FTP, our John Zarella able to go out into the streets of the French Quarter, shoot a standup, shoot his story, and send it back us to via computer. So here now, John Zarella from the French quarter in New Orleans.
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JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We are on Common Street in the French Quarter. The height of the storm still not here on top of us yet. But already, you can see blown out windows in the building across the street from us.
The wind is howling and circulating throughout this -- the corridors of these streets, just howling through here. The water is already coming up on the streets, up through the drainage system, all along the street here. Off the sides of the buildings you see the water pouring down.
Back in the distance, you can still barely see down the street. It's just a white sheet of water, a white sheet of rain pounding in downtown, in the French Quarter.
You can hear debris flying through the air. You can see debris up in the skies, circling in the wind, just being whipped around by the wind. Pieces of shingle, pieces of roof tiles flying by.
We do expect that we are going to see a lot more water rising. What we are seeing here is just water coming up from the drainage system. Just from the rain. It's not floodwaters from, say, Lake Pontchartrain. This is just strictly the overflow. All of the rain we have had for the last several hours as Hurricane Katrina continues to beat its path at our door.
John Zarrella, CNN, in the French Quarter.
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KAGAN: And once again, John Zarrella filing that report just a little while ago, using our FTP technology, filing it simply through computer.
