cnn news 2012-09-01 加文本（cnn news）

1、CNN news 2012-09-01 加文本（ 加文本（CNN news）CNN news 2012-09-01Relentless waves of rain, some serious and dangerous flooding and more than three quarters of a million people without power. That is the impact of the storm named

2、 Isaac had along the U.S. Gulf Coast. This is what it looked like. These are images of the storm that were taken from the international space station. When Isaac made landfall on Tuesday night, it was a category one hurr

3、icane, it was downgraded to a tropical storm yesterday, but that didn`t mean that things eased up on the ground.Part of the reason is that Isaac is moving really slowly, and the slower it moves, the longer it has to poun

4、d the Gulf Coast. Check out the conditions that some of our reporters were in from Tuesday night through Wednesday morning.The wind is just whipping these trees, a huge danger of flying debris. I`ve got to kind of keep a

5、n eye out. My brave photojournalist Ken Tooey and I are going to be taking you through some of the -- an illustration of some of what they are dealing with here.You`ve got a huge warehouse behind the camera, you`ve got t

6、he huge ballroom to my left here, and kind of the outdoor part of the facility is this canopy structure, which is coming apart with the winds of this storm.Right now, I feel like I`m being attacked by a swarm of bees, th

7、e me, but this is the storm surge. This is the - ah, sorry. See how fast moving the water is all around us. We probably got another two feet here before water starts coming inside the house. It`s hard to keep the door op

8、en with the wind, but just look at how powerful that water is coming across the yard. We gave you the ground level view of the storm surge and the water pushing by the house, but this is what we needed to stay away from,

9、 we just don`t know how high this is going to get. And obviously being on the ground floor is too dangerous, and being down there with all our equipment is not smart either. And then one last thing I`m going to show you,

10、 I`m going to show you the one - the room that has basically kept us on the air and able to do all the reporting we`ve done all day.We took one look at this generator here, we knew that we`d be in good shape. This genera

11、tor is able to power up the house and keep it on. No problem here, it`s absolutely amazing. It`s gone out a couple of times, you know, kind of been struggling a little bit, but you can`t complain. We`ve been able to stay

12、 up through the worst part of this storm. So, thank God we have that with us.Ed did that report at about midnight on Tuesday. For the next morning he said the house did flood. There were three to four feet of water in th