Worst possible news: MSNBC is reporting at 7:50 PDT that the patch on the breach in the Industrial Canal has been compromised and that parts of the city of New Orleans that had been pumped dry are already waist deep again in flood water.

The channel’s newsreaders are speculating that the first bands of rain from Hurricane Rita caused the patch to fail. If this is true, a second disaster may be unfolding in New Orleans, which could get six inches of rain and more from Rita over the next 24 hours.

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