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WE WILL HAVE MORE COMING UP AT 4, 5, AND SIX. CHARLES: NOW TO OUR OTHER TOP STORY. EASTBOUND CLAIBORNE IS CLOSED FROM MISTLETOE TO LEONIDAS DUE TO A WATER MAIN BREAK. WDSU ANCHOR CHRISTINA WATKINS IS LIVE FROM THE SCENE WITH WHERE CREWS STAND ON FIXING THE BREAK. CHRISTINA? CHRISTINA: THEY BLOCKED OFF A HUGE PERIMETER ON CLAIBORNE. YOU CAN SEE THEM WORKING TO FIX THIS WATER MAIN BREAK. THE WATER STOPPED GUSHING OUT, AND WE’RE TOLD THERE WAS NO LOSS IN WATER PRESSURE. HOWEVER THIS AREA OF CLAIBORNE IRONICALLY, RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE SEWEAGE AND WATER BOARD PLANT, IS LIKELY TO BE CLOSED OFF FOR A WHILE. THIS IS WHAT THINGS LOOKED LIKE EARLIER TODAY. YOU CAN SEE JUST HOW MUCH WATER CREWS HAD TO GET CONTROL OF. THIS LATEST WATER MAIN BREAK COMES LESS THAN A MONTH AFTER A 114-YEAR-OLD WATER MAIN CRACKED IN UPTOWN ALSO ON CLAIBORNE. THAT ONE HAPPENED IN A NEIGHBORHOOD, AND FORCED A BOIL WATER ADVISORY THAT LASTED FOR MORE THAN TWO DAYS. IN THE SPIRIT OF TRANSPARENC THE SEWEAGE AND WATER BOARD ACTUALLY JUST RELEASED A MAN FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO SEE JUST HOW OLD PIPES ARE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. A LOT OF THE PIPES, IN THE CITY ARE OLDER THAN 100-YEARS-OLD. THIS PIPE THAT BROKE I’M TOLD YOU WILL NOT FIND ON THIS MAP. IT WAS ON-SITE AND PART OF THE WATER TOWER HERE AT THE PLANT. THE WATER MAIN BREAK SHOULD NOT AFFECT ANYONE AS FAR AS HOMES BUT IT COULD LIKELY AFFECT YOU WITH TRAFFIC SHUT OFF. THEY EXPECT TO OPEN AT LEAST ONE LANE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND HOPE TO GET THESE REPAIRS BACK OUT HERE FINISHED HOPEFULLY BY THE END OF THE DAY BARRING COMPLICATIONS. AS SOON AS THE ROAD REOPENS, WE WILL LET YOU KNOW ONLINE AND ON YOUR F

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