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Taking them to alexandria so people can get air conditioning, food, water, medical services that they need. >> let me ask you this. i know how hot it is there. my entire family is still there. theyre in baton rouge and alive and safe so im happy. they will lose the food in the refri refrigerator or freezer, fine. it stifling heat there. if you dont have a place to go and tell people not to come back and others to leave, look, i dont want to be hyperbolic. any death is tragic. were not going to g...

To a place where there are fema trailers for folks. are we going to reach that point with this? >> if you dont have a house, you have to stay somewhere to rebuild. so i mean, yeah, thats what it will look like certainly on grand isle. people will need, you know, these resources. they have to be close to their home to rebuild. so i think i got disconnected -- >> no, youre here. youre there. we can hear you and see you. >> my skreent screen went blank. okay. >> youre good. >> okay. so yeah, i mean...

Tom, whats the latest forecast? this thing is strengthening, no doubt about it? >> no doubt about it, jim. what weve been watching is a well-defined eye popping up. inside the eye, columns of warm air are shooting up and cooling at the top. we got a lot of lightning activity, so its strengthening. well get a 5:00 p.m. update from the national weather service, but well see the pressure drop. when the pressure drops, the winds respond and they really pick up. so, again, were at 100-mile-an-hour su...

But the rain is certainly kicking up and i was texting with my contact at the national guard and he said dont get overly confident because the storm is still strong and its on its way and brace yourself for a lot of heavy rain coming your way, but i can show you whats going on right here right now and as we said were on the banks of the mississippi and were at the belle casino which is pretty quiet out there today. the water is kicking around a bit and the trees are dipping into the water, at le...

And its stagnant, you get the problems with contamination, or it makes its way to the extremesextreme streams, creeks, and rivers. roads being washed away. you have to think of baton rouge in 2016 where they received 15 inches of rain, 10 to $15 billion had to be poured into the cleanup. some people are still sitting in fema trailers three years later and going through the same process all over again. so lots of prayers going on. our heart breaks for them. thats what well be watching over the ne...

Grossman. so michelle, we have another advisory coming at 5:00. and what are the concerns you are watching when that advisory does come out? >> so well have that advisory at 5:00. it wont mean much in terms of what were expecting of rainfall, life-threatening rainfall. really this is a rainmaker. where you saw morgan, that will be a very different picture over the next 24 hours. the winds may decrease, but the winds havent been the big headline with this storm. right now we are seeing 70 miles a...

Some people are still in fema trailers, the river forecasts in that region are supposed to equal or exceed what they just did three years ago when all of that happened. thats what the residents around baton rouge are facing. talk about heartbreaking? theyre sitting there on pins and needles looking at the skies, just praying that rainfall predictions dont come true. heres the forecast right now. its making landfall shortly. along the coast now. it may be a hurricane, it may be a strong tropical ...

Are still in fema trailers from three years ago that they were given and they now could be facing something like this again. again, its louisiana tonight and tomorrow. thats the concern. central portions of the state from baton rouge to about halfway to new orleans. new orleans is looking much better. if they didnt get hit by the horrific storm from the levees, the river crested about three feet below the levees. that was fantastic news last night. were still waiting to see if the pumps can hold...

President say, it is a significant storm and there will be potentially a lot of damage. >> harris: whats interesting is people are taking for the most part more seriously because they have seen harvey and sandy in recent years. one thing that fema is tasked with doing and i dont know if people know this, sometimes your commitment, used to be years and i assume it still is where people are in fema trailers for a long time waiting, can you talk about that? how long term the government effort has t...

They going to open their supermarkets? >> isnt it true fema has a presence in new orleans for several years? people were living in fema trailers for years. >> we were in new orleans just two years ago and we left 5,000 mobile homes there. and we were there for seven or eight months, and we flooded that. were going to be in puerto rico and now virgin islands also for as long as it takes. >> despite what the president says? >> you know what? we dont follow -- i dont see tv. i dont even pay attenti...