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AP-APTN-2330: US Isaac 4 Wednesday, 29 August 2012 STORY:US Isaac 4- +4:3 Isaac lashes New Orleans on Katrina anniversary; aftermath, governor LENGTH: 02:57 FIRST RUN: 2130 RESTRICTIONS: See Script TYPE: English/Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/ABC/POOL/NASA STORY NUMBER: 856556 DATELINE: Various - 29 Aug 2012 LENGTH: 02:57 SHOTLIST AP TELEVISION - AP TELEVISION CLIENTS ONLY Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana - 29 August 2012 ++16:9++ 1. Rescue crew moving out to find people stranded by floodwater 2. Wide of high water 3. Rescue boat being pushed into water 4. Rescuer stabilising boat 5. High water around construction machinery ABC - ACCESS ALL OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA/NO ACCESS BROADCAST OR DIGITAL IN NORTH AMERICA ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++ Baton Rouge, Louisana - 29 August 2012 ++4:3++ 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bobby Jidal, Louisiana Governor: "The storm is almost stationary overnight making landfalls twice, all along our coast including in Plaquemines and Terrebone. The eye of the storm is drifting towards the west, northwest. We will continue to be affected in the southern part of our state by this storm throughout much of the day." AP TELEVISION - AP TELEVISION CLIENTS ONLY Braithwaite, Louisiana - 29 August 2012 ++16:9++ 7. Wide of people rescued from southern Plaquemines Parish walking on on road after getting off boat 8. Rescued residents getting into National Guard vehicle 9. Rescued residents walking with their pets 10. Pets in their carriers being loaded into National Guard vehicle 11. Wide of rescued woman bracing herself against wind ABC - ACCESS ALL OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA/NO ACCESS BROADCAST OR DIGITAL IN NORTH AMERICA Baton Rouge, Louisana - 29 August 2012 ++4:3++ 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bobby Jidal, Louisiana Governor: "Let me focus on the Plaquemines Parish. On the east bank, in Plaquemines Parish, there was overtopping near Braithwaite at a non-federal levee. This is an area where there was a mandatory evacuation called by the parish at noon on Monday." AP TELEVISION - AP TELEVISION CLIENTS ONLY Cedar Grove, Louisiana - 29 August 2012 ++16:9++ 13. Wind and water whipping around a mailbox 14. Two girls wading through water NASA TV - AP TELEVISION CLIENTS ONLY Satellite over the Gulf of Mexico - 28 August 2012 ++16:9++ 15. Time-lapsed satellite imagery taken by NASA that shows Hurricane Isaac around the time it made landfall on Tuesday evening AP TELEVISION - AP TELEVISION CLIENTS ONLY Gulf Shores, Alabama - 29 August 2012 ++16:9++ 16. Wide of wind and rough surf along beach 17. Mid of rough surf 18. Tight of beach sign blowing in wind 19. Woman crossing bridge in storm 20. Wide of woman walking under her home surrounded by water 21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gina Johnson, Gulf Shores resident: "Well, I woke up this morning, and it was all under water, about two feet." 22. Wide of water around home, swing blowing in wind AP TELEVISION - AP TELEVISION CLIENTS ONLY Mobile, Alabama - 29 August 2012 ++16:9++ 23. Wide of rough surf along rocky beach 24. Wide of water overtopping ledge onto street AP TELEVISION - AP TELEVISION CLIENTS ONLY Bayou La Batre, Alabama - 29 August 2012 ++16:9++ 25. Pull out to wide of water surrounding home AP TELEVISION - AP TELEVISION CLIENTS ONLY Biloxi, Missisippi - 29 August 2012 ++16:9++ 26. Wide of wind blowing trees and streetlights 27. Dense wind and rain blowing trees 28. Water surging up on beach 29. Water surging toward beach hotel AP TELEVISION - AP TELEVISION CLIENTS ONLY Pensacola, Florida - 29 August 2012 ++16:9++ 30. Wide of rough surf along beach 31. Wide of people walking out on pier, rough waves crashing below 32. People walking along beach in strong wind STORYLINE Newly downgraded Tropical Storm Isaac plodded its way across Louisiana on Wednesday, inundating parts of a mostly rural area southeast of New Orleans. In hard-hit Plaquemines Parish, officials rescued dozens of people by boat after they became stranded by floodwaters. Some residents from Braithwaite carried their pets with them as they filed into National Guard vehicles to be ferried to shelters. Authorities feared more could need help after a night of slashing rain and fierce winds that knocked out power to more than 700,000 households. "The eye of the storm is drifting toward the west, northwest," said Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal Wednesday afternoon. "We will continue to be affected in the southern part of our state throughout much of the day." Water driven by the large and powerful storm flooded over an 18-mile stretch of one levee in Plaquemines Parish. The levee, one of many across the low-lying coastal zone, is not part of the new defences constructed in New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Jindal said officials were considering using a backhoe to cut a hole in a levee on the east bank of Plaquemines Parish to relieve pressure on the structure, but said there was no estimate on when that decision would be made. It was still too dangerous to venture out, but some residents of Cedar Grove ignored the governor's warnings and waded through shallow water in their neighbourhood. Plaquemines Parish also ordered a mandatory evacuation for the west bank of the Mississippi River below Belle Chasse, affecting about 3,000 people in the area, including a nursing home with 112 residents. Officials said they were worried more storm surge from Isaac would be pushed into the area and levees might be breached. Meanwhile in New Orleans, Mayor Mitch Landrieu issued a curfew in part to make it easier for utility crews to restore electricity. The curfew was set to start Wednesday night and would last until further notice. Forecastors say the slow-moving, comma-shaped storm virtually parked itself over southeastern Louisiana for several hours. It wobbled a bit at times and made landfall twice - Tuesday evening and again early Wednesday morning, the seventh anniversary of Katrina. NASA released satellite imagery showing the storm's lethargic trek. Although Isaac was at Category 1 compared with a much stronger Katrina, which peaked at Category 5 and made landfall as a Category 3, the threat of dangerous storm surges and flooding from heavy rain was expected to last all day and into the night. The slow motion over land means Isaac could be a major soaker, dumping up to 20 inches of rain in some areas. In Mississippi, the main highway that runs along the Gulf, U.S. 90, was closed in sections by storm surge flooding. Fierce winds bent trees and rattled streetlights in Biloxi into the late afternoon, as water continued to surge toward beach front hotels. Rough surf pounded Alabama's Gulf Coast and caused some flooding in the town of Gulf Shores. One resident there said she woke up to two feet of water surrounding her house. People ventured out to the end of a long pier in Pensacola, Florida to get a better look at the turbulent waters crashing ashore along the state's panhandle region. 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