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Tropical depression number 7, and that will become earl, and, then we have another wave, off of africa that is probably going to become fiona. martha: okay. >> heres frank in the pacific, off the coast of mexico, that is a hurricane. and, there is danielle, also, a hurricane. and, you can see, right there, that is our tropical depression number 7, that is just formed and that will become earl later on today, there is danielle and there is earl and fiona is next theyve coast of africa. lets look ...

Cone of uncertainty going a little bit more to the west, so, im afraid we are still going to have to watch the storm as we head into the weekend. because, you know, anything is possible, these storms are fickle and well deal with a trough off the coast that is supposed to pick up danielle, but, again as we are a few days out we have to watch. this is tropical depression number 7, as you can see, becoming a hurricane by saturday, and, then it is monday, becoming a category-2 rand you can see, thi...

The new orleans levees brought down by hurricane katrina are being rebuilt. theyre already stronger than they were before. but locals are wondering if theyre strong enough. cnns tom foreman is on the cnn express. >> reporter: all around new orleans, the federal governments latest promise to keep this city safe from the next big storm is rising. >> were doing about 15 to 20 years of construction work in about 36 months. >> reporter: colonel robert sinkler is supervising construction of this two-m...

Here. the army corps of engineers is an overreaching campaign to fix those problems and put into place a much, much more robust system. they have been making a lot of progress building up. all around new orleans, the federal governments latest promise to keep this city safe from the next big storm is ruse i rising. colonel robert of the army corps of engineers is supervising construction of this two-mile long storm surge barrier across one major waterway. improvements to pumping stations hundred...

What we have seen so far, from what we can tell, this would also stop the research that president bush had allowed to go forward early in his presidency. so were exploring all possible avenues to make sure we continue to do this life-saving research. >> got to tell you, for 300 years, the survival of new orleans has depended on its levees and we all remember what happened five years ago during hurricane cat trane. tom foreman is back. >> reporter: people are saying there were two disasters, katr...

It will move up and down as it gets to the warmer water and now the weather machine. live from the weather center. >> hello. behind danielle, earl, you can kind of see. there is the possibility of earl but the computer models say we coul" have a depression in the next 12 to 24 hours. andally could mean trouble because the early tropical storm models show earl just moving west so that is one to watch. >>shepard: a fish storm. @&c"p%. we need to watch bermuda, but it will move east of bermuda but ...

Point in time, were not expecting that. still a strong storm as it moves a little bit more to the north and west, and then as we hit sunday, very close to bermuda. so bermuda, you are within that cone of uncertainty but the good news here, we are not expecting u.s. landfall but we are going to see some good surf. i know my husband is looking for some good surf. this is the map i was going to use. i can tell you whats happening to danielle, this is the high pressure system, our bermuda high, whic...

We think, earl and it looks like earl will follow the same path as danielle. these are the storms we like to talk about in the tropical season. they can get big and nasty but as long as they dont hit land and dont affect anybody, thats the good news. just a quick look at the august storm origins as we go further out in time, we usually take a look at the carribean and then closer to the coast of africa, which is where danielle originated, as well as earl, so as we get into august and september, ...

Katrina hit. and despite all of that, the gulf oil spill, the recession, people in new orleans are still saying, let the good times roll. the city is open for business. tourists are more than welcome. tom foreman is on the cnn express in new orleans. he joins us live. tom, its got to be one of the finest cities in america. it was before anything went wrong. but when you saw what that town went through and the fact that they can still smile and they can still welcome you, you have to love new orl...

See this day. the storm hit, it was so, so, so difficult. and one of the very big concerns was the tourist industry. so many people canceled trips here. so many conventions went away because people thought the city simply could not recover. im telling you this week, they are celebrating the fact that in many ways, particularly the tourism, they really have. it may be hard to believe, but new orleans has 300 more restaurants than it did before katrina. 1100 in all. and at the long-standing landma...