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550,000 acres that have been flooded since february. that water is not going anywhere. we look at 6 to 12 inches of rain added to that. its basically the pro verb mall stopper in the bathtub. another good thing is we have had a couple weeks where we had so much rain, so some of our inland rivers, they cant take on some water. but there is going to be some flooding. roads will be flooded. and well have to watch that. these things never happen during the daylight hours. so we are look at nighttime...

Here, your moderate is your pink, the lighter pink, thats high risk of flooding, flash flooding, life threatening flooding. you want to stay indoors, listen to every warning. water can take you away quickly. were going to see buildings going down, houses and cars being washed away. wind gusts, we want to talk about this again. theres a lot, tens of thousands without electricity right now, were talking no sump pumps, no electricity, were talk iing ai conditioning being out. wind gusts from 22 to ...

Their concern right now about tropical storm barry is about the threat of flash flooding, but all the way into next week, were talking monday, tuesday, wednesday, there is the lingering concern of more flash flooding. a lot of people in new orleans come to baton rouge to shelter from these storms. its a bit of high ground for you. i have some family here. we considered sending my husband and the kids and everybody to baton rouge, but you really couldnt do that for this storm. the governor kept r...

Court. some new news about hurricane barry. officials are warning about consequential flash flooding while parts of mississippi, alabama and louisiana are already under water. it is expected to be a threat to residents until early next week. lets go to bill karins. hurricane barry, now that it is a hurricane, what are the expectations? >> the name doesnt really change what the expectations are. there are different types of flooding. you can get flooding from storm surge which most of the pictu...

Winds pushing on shore into lake pontchartrain, as well. were seeing coastal flooding across louisiana. if you are next to water, youre probably seeing water pushing up on shore. when it comes for the rivers, you know, the rainfall is just now starting to push in, and were starting to get some of the first bands set up. so as that goes on through the course of the morning, then well start moving into a transition where were going to start being worried for flash flooding as well as river rises a...

That is the mississippi river. it is full of water right now, and this area very saturated. as the storm makes its way up inland and northwest as they are saying it could, the concern is that all that water wont have anywhere to go. and you will see a lot of flooding in these communities, especially in baton rouge. they are sort of being proactive, i dont know if you can tell. they set up porta-potties, and they set up hand washing stations. and there is no shame if you are worried and you are i...

72 hours. >> time is short. if you have preparations you need to complete, now is the time. you do not have much more time at all before the impact of barry will be here. >> anna, a really important update from the national weather service a short time ago, the mississippi river has now crested at just 17.1 feet, far below the 19 feet they were concerned it would breach, which would be just a foot below the top of many of the levees. it has crushed it already, they say it is already receding, so...

19-foot crest this morning, but it happened that the river started going down last night about 10:00 p.m. they called it a crest and it was only 17 feet and everybody sighed a great sigh of relief. now we have an update from the hurricane center. were getting close to landfall. were at 70 miles an hour maximum sustained winds now, so one tick higher and it will be a hurricane. one band of rain is up toward biloxi and mobile right now. cluster storms off the coast will move onshore later today. t...

Kennedy talked about before the break there. itll continue several days. eric: most of the rains as we point out, lets talk about that, massive flooding and continue through at least wednesday if not further and the danger of that, people hear about a hurricane, tropical storm and say its just in your area, and once it passes its over and now threat of potential massive flooding. >> thats exactly right, the rain from storm has potential and we want to make sure we are getting the message out and...

Meteorologist adam klotz back with us with the forecast of the extreme weather center. adam, we have been talking about all the rain over the gulf but at the same time its going to hit the saturated land and in many places theres no way to go. >> youre absolutely right, thats why flooding has been the biggest concern with the system. you can see in visible satellite, this is all the cloud cover, we are looking for circulation, sometimes you really see high wall. you notice just thickness to have...