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Biological emergency management officials. >>shepard: a lot of water with this system. >> absolutely. water will be a big part of this. large systems pose water problems in two main ways: first, a large tropical storm or hurricane is a much bigger storm surge producer than a smaller storm. 6 to 12 above ground level could occur. it will move slowly moving ashore tomorrow and tomorrow night and a large slow moving system can dump a tremendous amount of rainfall coastal and inland and we could see...

Center. it looks like this has slowed down in forward movement and it is headed if the big easy. >> it is. the concern is the excessive rain. we will deal with this system not if hours but days. we just got news from hurricane centers, we are seeing hurricane force winds and the storm visually looks really good. we do not see an eye but the pressure is dropping. i believe at 5:00 p.m. when we get the new advisory i believe this will be a hurricane. it is not going to be katrina. it is going to h...

Strengthened more and why we are lucky in that way? , with the thunderstorms in the center getting more organized today than it did this time yesterday, over keys, but, also, there was a lost land interaction over haiti, cuba, and some land interaction with florida, and now it is in the open waters of the gulf, and they are plenty warm, mid-to-upper 80s, and, finally, it seems to be overcoming the impediments and poised to strengthen, the pressure is falling and we will have to see if we are fin...

>>shepard: isaac storm is approaching as we approach quarter past the hour. the expectation is isaac will make landfall as a strong category one hurricane, not a category two. the expectation is category one hurricane with sustained wind at between 80 and 90 miles per hour and lots of rain coming in right around new orleans. the worst of it will probably be to the east of the storm as it almost always is. that puts biloxi, mississippi, in a world hurt. steve harrigan is now along the mississippi...

Much needed rain. >>guest: i hope we dont get the wind. that is what i am afraid of. the wind and the surge. as long as the walls, the new walls that the army corps put up, if they hold up, we are good. but this is a test period. the test period not homes with the 150 miles per hour wind, a test period for a whole lot. im hoping we will be safe because i intend to ride it out this trip. >>shepard: good luck to you. i will talk to you about what they have done around here and steve is over in bil...

>>shepard: people in our national audience, probably do not remember tropical storm lee, a hurricane for a while, came ashore here in september of last year, i think september 10th or 11, and that storm it wasnt very strong and it made a lot of headline, but, 14" to 16" of rain it dropped in jefferson parish, louisiana, just down from us. that occurred in a very short period of time and the pumping stations can nat keep up with that and 90 percent of all deaths in hurricanes are attributed to fl...

Behind choice is shut down in anticipation of the rifle. we have seen tugs moving barges. they are strapping down equipment. they are moving everything out of harms way and moving the rail cards out of the rail yard to keep them from being harmed by the winds. of course, oil platforms are being shuts down in the gulf of mexico. in katrina, the price of oil rose more than $10 a barrel sending gas prices to more than $5 a gallon and with production being trimmed prices can spike in the days and we...

So, everything will get rain. here is what they are expecting in new orleans. this is the local emergency management folks preparing for 7 to 11 storm surge from new orleans east. to the mississippi coast, 8 to 12, higher than the water would normally be by 8 or 12 so anything below sea level is wet in mississippi. the pressure, how does it build? a hurricane is an area of low pressure, right? what happens is there is warm water and warm surface temperatures and the clouds are cold. the warm air...