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To turn into the first hurricane of the season making landfall sometime this morning near morgan city, louisiana. louisiana has been under a state of emergency since wednesday. mississippi, tennessee and alabama are also expected to get heavy rain from barry. the storm has been gaining traction and could pack winds is high 75 miles an hour. this as part of the state have you to dry out from torrential rain which dropped 9 inches of rain and caused flooding the national weather service warns that...

Some areas, depending on whether it starts to form, could see 3,000 to 400 pretext of rainfall. and theres a mansion for flash flooding, all the way to the new orleans. we have about 10 million americans under some kind of flash flood threat. you can see the totals across this region. not only being the storm surge and flooding, the risk of arounds as we talk to you later this hour. thank you very melania trump. > very much. how are things looking on your end right now? >> well, gm. initially, w...

We could deal with flash flooding, southern mississippi and anywhere near the mobile area. heres the latest update from the hurricane center, central louisiana during the day today. landfall around noon or so. that doesnt matter. theres no eye to track. its mostly just for the history books of when the storm finally came on shore. this is the story as we go through the next 48 hours, once the storm surge starts to go down, and i dont think its going to be excessive damage from that. well have to...

Lets talk about the rain. thats the big headline right now. we did have an advisory come out about an hour and a half ago, 65-mile-per-hour winds, still pretty strong tropical storm is moving to the north-northwest at 7 miles per hour. so picking up a little speed. it was really moving at five and then six and now seven. still seeing the bands come onshore. this is the track and this is what we or talking about in terms of length. its going to take a long time to get where it needs to go, very s...

They realize, in 2016, there was a big flood that we had, dont want to be caught in that situation again. to talk a little bit about why new orleans is particularly susceptible to flooding and being below sea level. >> i can tell you it is a very humid here. >> yeah. [laughs] >> its a very low lying city, and when they first started building it, a lot of people were taking the high ground, but than others, there wasnt any land left on high ground, so they built on low ground. that is one of the ...

Lets turn to bill ckarins. >> happy to report nothing happened overnight. it went from winds of 40 to 50. i would be surprised if we see any significant wind damage. this is all about how much water it will produce in the amount of rainfall or in the storm surge to push on the shore. doesnt even look like the tropical system. will most likely be sunny in these places too. the heavy rain on the south side will transform there will be life-threatening flash flooding. takes you here into central lo...

Ago. what are we hearing? >> heres that excessive high risk of flash flooding. according to the 5 a.m. update from the national hurricane center, there has been no change to the strength of the storm. we still believe this will make landfall late friday night, early saturday morning as a strong tropical storm or perhaps as a low end hurricane one category equivalent. we dont want to get lost in the minutia. were not trying to point home the idea that this is a major wind problem. we believe the ...

Meteorologist rob marciano leads us off from new orleans. >> reporter: along the louisiana coast tonight, thousands sandbagging and scrambling to evacuate ahead of tropical storm barry. >> were just hoping everything will be okay and life and property will stay safe. >> reporter: in new orleans, hundreds of flood gates are closed in and around the city. the mayor telling residents there to have a plan and be ready to shelter in place. >> you need to have at least 72 hours of food, water and medi...

Arkansas. here is the rainfall. this is the biggest issue that well see. life threatening flash flooding is possible. well see up to ten inches widespread central louisiana and up to two feet of rain. so louisiana and mississippi are the areas of greatest concern. and the weather service is saying that we have a high risk of flash flooding including the new orleans area and as of right now the forecast for the mississippi river is supposed to be a foot below the levee heights but well wait and s...

Circulation will move on shore. here is the rainfall forecast over the next five days. when you get to the colors here, purple is five, red is seven. pink is 10 inches of rain or more. we are focusing in here. the flood area is from memphis through the heart of mississippi, eastern portions of louisiana, baton rouge and mobil. the heaviest rainfall totals will be watching the center moving on shore and the east of it. flash floods for jackson, hattiesberg and new orleans. expecting 3 to 6 feet o...