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this is for commonlit pls right answers only and ASAP pls I just need part B but i’ll leave part A for context* Part B: Which TWO sections best support the answers to Part A?
A:”As rising water and widespread devastation hobbled rescue and recovery efforts, the authorities could only guess at the death toll in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast.” (Paragraph 4)
B: “It was not the water from the sky but the water that broke through the city’s protective barriers that changed everything for the worse.”( paragraph 9).
C: “Mayor Nagin said that one of the levee breaches was two to three blocks long, and that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had been dropping 3,000-pound sandbags into the opening from helicopters”(paragraph 11)
D:”Preliminary damage estimates from insurance experts on Monday ranged from $9 billion to $16 billion , but they were pushed up past $25 billion on tuesday,”( paragraph 20)
E: “getting food and water into the city was an urgent priority. Officials said that there was only one way for emergency vehicles to get into parts of the city to bring in supplies”.( paragraph 29)
F: “We’ve been saying that the response is going to be the largest Red Cross response in the history of the organization.”(paragraph 43).

Part A I’ll leave it right here with the answers* Part A: Which TWO statements express the central ideas of the text?
A: Authorities in New orleans weren’t prepared for the chaos and destruction that would result from the leeves breaking and the resulting flood.
F: Louisiana didn’t have the proper plans in place to respond to a disaster of this magnitude, and because of this they lost more citizens than expected.