The levees in the lower 9th ward and on 17th street have either been breiched(sp?) or topped, but it really doesn't matter. Those areas were obviously already evacuated, so very few are really in harms way, but of course, they will be under water again.
I was watching a local press conference, and some government ******* was denying that the levees had been topped. Immediately, the station put up in the upper corner of the screen, actual video of the levee with water pooring from it into the neighborhood. I chuckled just a little bit lol.