Francine makes landfall in Louisiana as category 2 hurricane

which made landfall as a hurricane large areas of Louisiana underwater take a look at this video storm surge from yesterday please know this is not the open ocean that's supposed to be land in the community look at this of duac Louisiana the storm slammed into the coast as a category 2 hurricane is now moving North as a tropical storm leaving hundreds of thousands without power yikes Jason Allen from CBS News Texas is in New Orleans right now with the latest Jason good morning to you I hope they get the power back on soon that is never fun boy the people here Gail they they hope for the same thing it's really that power that is needed for cleanup you can still see a lot of the flooding here on the streets in this neighborhood here it's just north of downtown New Orleans the good thing is it's starting to go down and some people here stayed up all night trying to keep this water out of their homes the extreme flooding and the winds from Francine were enough to prompt the president to declare this a federal disaster what