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Flash flooding, and we want to make sure people are aware of that, and do everything they can to prepare themselves and their family. >> so how do you prepare? whats the best way to go about this? >> the best way is to download the fema app. lots of resources on there to help prepare you and your family. you can also look locally to your local emergency managers, or your state emergency managers for local apps. plenty of resources out there to get you and your family prepared now. >> but if your...

Iberia. its a slow drift and then a slow drift through arkansas. slow-moving storms producing massive amounts of rain. most hurricanes are like a bagel. you have the hole in the middle which would be the eye. there is nothing on the northern side of this. the whole bottom half of the storm is the strong part. thats the part over the water. thats the part that hasnt moved inland yet that will. thats why we think the epic rain will come tonight and all day sunday and even into monday in some cases...

Shot picture of morgan city, louisiana. it doesnt seem torrential. yet the forecasters are saying the intense rain, the deluge is still out in the gulf and hasnt hit yet. that raises the possibility overnight of rising levels, potential flooding, and thats continuing over the next few days. >> thats right. most of of the serious accidents tend to happen when people are driving through flooded areas or driving across flooded roadways. so the old motto is turn around, dont drown. we are asking peo...

We can start to see those rain bands forming, which we havent seen in a while there theres been dry air shutting it down. most of the energy and most of the rain was just south of that out in the gulf. but now were starting to see some of those rain bands forming here the good news, if theres good news at all about this storm, which is not good news for most people in central louisiana into mississippi, but for new orleans, there is good news in terms of rainfall. the bulk of that heaviest rain ...

Louisiana. and i want to talk about a couple specifics. this is the forecast radar imagery. this is a slow moving tropical system. whether or not it is a hurricane or tropical storm, it doesnt matter because this threat is really about the storm surge and the flooding that will come to this area most likely. because of the excessive amount of rainfall that we have in this forecast. you can see the flood threat there, we have about 5 million americans under a flash flood watch as we speak. and wh...

Every flood wall in and around the mississippi river in new orleans were closed for the first time ever. this is the first time it has been threatened when the river was at flood stage. they are concerned about flash flooding and the possibility of other areas in the city of new orleans. there has been a lot of focus on the pumping stations. there are more than 100 of them designed to keep the water off the streets. we got a tweet from the sewer board. it may appear the water is not moving, but ...

Water in mississippi. largely impassable. and they could see up to 20 inches of rain. the governor warning the real problems are still ahead. >> this storm is still coming ashore. the sooner bands will bring more water. 5 inches now in and around the gulf coast area. so well have flooding. there will be more, not only here on the mississippi delta, but southwest mississippi and adding to the floodwater in the mississippi delta. this will be a long and slow recovery. reporter: officials are expec...

Well move very slowly, at a walking pace, 5 miles per hour. that will happen over the next several days. this will go out until tuesday and wednesday. well see coastal areas getting that rain. and once we go inland to arkansas, also mississippi getting buckets of rain over the next day or so, and then it will finally make its way into the tennessee valley, eventually into the northeast. lets swing by and look at some of the flash flood watches thats in effect. again, we see where the green is. t...

If you look at this, you see its a really narrow piece of real estate thats going to get that heavy rain. you might be able to go 20 miles in one direction and talk about maybe 2 inches of rain. and 20 miles in the other direction and talking about 18 inches of rain. we cant say exactly who is going to get that 2, who is going to get that 18. thats why everybody needs to prepare for that one of those things with this storm where we dont see it immediately because flooding is very difficult to ge...

This pink area here indicating a high risk for flash flooding. the red air -- area around it. in some areas, they could get two, three, four inches in just a few short hours. its not only the long-term threat of how much total rain they get but how quickly will it come down? that can flood hopes, businemes businesses, communities. there are three main rivers that run around baton rouge. all three of them are expected to reach major flooding stage because of hurricane barry. one of them may end u...