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Over the next two days and again, you know, just how much is anyones guess. but that is the key feature here. the flash flooding, you know, and the potential for people to be caught up in that. most people have heeded the warnings. those in low lying areas, especially south of us, have already evacuated. plans are in place. in our area we tend to be a little bit higher and have less direct impact from flooding. but that could change depending upon how much rain we get. you know, the estimates ha...

Curfew in place tonight hoping people will stay off a streets after p.m. to keep things clear for first responders should things get a lot worse. last hour we showed you the industrial canal that gave way during katrina, the levee that broke -- right here that flooded that wall that replaced that broken levee. this concrete surge barrier that circles the lower 9th much of new orleans and a lower floor flooded so many years ago you yu can see home rebuilt and 3,000 plus destroyed but so many empt...

We continue to track tropical storm barry. its been downgraded to a tropical storm yet again. the center of the storm swirling right there, about the town of new liberia. thats where the center of it is. the rain bands extend all the way to the left, to the east to pensacola and some pretty strong rain bands that are making their way inland at this hour. the storm is going to be with us for several days. take a look at the track that many of the forecasters are saying, by 7:00 p.m. tonight, its ...

It was just an invest. and it was a tropical storm disturbance that was forming before it pushed out over the gulf. it dumped 8 inches of rain on this city in three hours. and they were not prepared. the roads turned to rivers. business us were flooded. but then it was flash flooding. so the water went down within a matter of hours. but yesterday at one of those press briefings, the officials on the ground here compared what could potentially happen with barry to that situation on wednesday beca...

Leadership and evacuate when that is an option for them. >> we do hope so, because then end up putting the lives of first responders in danger when we choose not to heed those warnings. we saw some video there are folks packing up sandbags in an effort to protect their homes and their businesses, their livelihood, so that is not ripped away from them from this flooding. have you noticed a neighbor helping neighbor already? >> oh, it has been incredible. in fact, people coming in from nowhere nea...

Best for new orleans and everybody louisiana and mississippi. and we will be back tomorrow at noon eastern join us then. jon scott is up next. thanks for being with us. >> bury has weekend to a tropical storm after making land fall as category one hurricane in southern louisiana. the e slow-moving if system dumping massive amounts of rain are thats had supposed a major test for new orleans flood defense built after hurricane katrina. good evening im jon scott is and this is the "fox report." rei...

Im on the third floor of a fire station. when you have the governor of louisiana in the press conference saying, this is now a flood event, this is what hes referring to. as that storm sturj, you have the flash flooding, and water has nowhere to go. water that locals are going to have to pump out for the next couple days. thats the perfect cue to bring in the governor of plaquemines parish. what is your immediate concern right now, you just got off the phone with the governor, do you have any up...

Part of the reason well see so much rain and flooding potential. we are moving to the northwest at 7 miles per hour. it was anywhere from 3 to 5 miles an hour. so just a little bit of speeding up. that will be good news. what we were paying attention to, we are waiting for the worst of the rain to work its way onshore. you see deep, dark colors hanging 50 miles offshore. that is going to be something we have to pay close attention to. this is kind of interesting. you can see the center of circul...

For about 30 hours. you get caught in one of these rain bands, you could sit in heavy rain for a good majority of that time. thats the fear. its one of the ugliest-looking hurricanes on satellite youll ever see. the whole northern portion of the storm doesnt have clouds which are the thunderstorm tops, so the bottom half of the storm is the strong side. we havent seen many problems with damage, and now is when well start to see all the issues. the number one issue is rainfall. the high risk of f...

Single report, and it really does tell the story. this is a flash flood story and a life-threatening flash flood story. this will be the story at least until wednesday. were seeing that water that needs to find its way to rivers, streams and creeks and well see what damage is being done. lets talk about whats happening now. barry did make it to a category 1 storm. thats not the big story. well have winds and power outages but the story here are the rains, and were finally starting to see these r...