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In the natural disaster emergency hanging over the entire state of louisiana is far from over today. the hurricane and tropical storm winds are no longer pushing over telephone poles or damaging homes, but forecasters say something potentially more dangerous is still coming. meteorologist karen maginnis is in the severe weather center. you just got a new update and new data from the national hurricane center. >> the national hurricane center sent out their last advisory regarding what used to be...

Just a water story and how much water well get. new orleans seems to be fine in the storm but other areas, there is a lot of water to deal with in this storm. back to you. >> all right, rob. thank you. and as we see behind rob, rick, houses on stilts there in mandeville but its going to continue to rain. >> they built them on stilts because theyre here where it is prone to happen. its going to continue to rain and spots are going to see a lot of flooding. you see the heavy bands cutting across a...

Waters have already pushed us cavies and the lying areas. is there humphrey has been to one off the paces in the easy and hardest hit by barry small town off mitchell grove heres what she found. this is the flash flooding brought by tropical storm barry some 40 kilometers south of new orleans the community of myrtle grove is now submerged and this is as far as we can go now authours hes ordered a mandatory evacuation on the thursday telling residents leave or go it alone and with good reason her...

Much rain this community would get. what happened over the last 24 hours? >> the worst did not happen here, plaqueman parish. one hurricane went back down to a tropical storm. for communities like the one where im standing, which is under mandatory evacuation, the fear is what youre seeing behind me. because of the flash flooding, because of the storm surge, they were going to get cut off. if you glance over to my right over here, and hopefully my cameraman can pan, the fear was that highway you...

Extreme "weather center" with the very latest on all of these life-threatening flash floods. adam, when is the absolute worst going to be for folks that are in the storms path cracks. reporter: the thing is when we talk about rain and flooding the worst is going to be within the next couple of hours always because there will be more rain on the way every few hours for the next couple of days. they is our center of circulation. none of the activity is around us so it doesnt matter where the storm...

Areas in franklin. this is the middle shark. a lot of this is submerged here. this beariary has been here for years. some of the gravel brought in was done yesterday and overnight in preparation for this very purpose. ive been told for the part of this business, theyve lifted a lot of things off the floor, so they should be okay. they were prepared for flooding like this. we also know that a neighboring community in glencoe had to go through evacuations last night because of fear of flash floodi...

Lines. the latest radar across the area, heavy rain bands just offshore from morgan city, new orleans, a few scattered raindrops at the moment, but its not over yet. when youre looking at observed rainfall, the heaviest rain has been in alabama. but it is still coming. we still anticipate some significant impacts across this area. staying off the roads is your best bet tonight and sunday, as the moisture gets drawn in from the gulf of mexico and moves up the mississippi river valley. some of the...

In red are where we have current flash flood warnings. one spot in mississippi just passed 10 inches of rain. thats the highest total ive seen. baton rouge, over the last hour or two youve seen the worst weather of the storm. numerous tornado warnings. a good one east of the town. now the heavy rain is starting to shift a little bit to the east. youll get a little bit of a break. probably maybe another hour or so of heavy rain. and then a couple more bands later today. as far as the flood risk g...

They were expecting a tropical storm but now were hearing its a hurricane. nothing has happened and i think thats why you heard them saying please dont move barricades. people were getting anxious. we were talking to some of the workers who are in this area who think theyve lost several days of wages because of all this talk of the storm. you have people literally looking for a place to go to get something to eat at this point. so right now the 10 to 15 inches of rain that everyones been talking...

Authorities are really looking at here is a triple threat, already high river levels driven by nefloods that pushed this wa and the storm surge from new mexico and the rain surge falling in such huge amounts. everything in yellow is below sea level. in a normal quick flash flood, the bowl of new orleans can fill up with water from all of that rain and then dozens and dozens of these huge pumps will start pushing it back out to these water sources on either side. usually that can do a pretty good...