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Tremendously distracting, personal story, for literally, tens if not hundreds of thousands of people in isaacs path but the rest of the country goes on and that is what the republican campaign has done. they recognize in a country this large that faces so many challenges simultaneously, wraps it is possible to hold a national political convention at the same time a hurricane lands. insofar as at the storm slowed things down and held up in new orleans and stalled there for a few days and brought ...

Absolutely a total loss. for two straight days the strong winds and pelting rain and long south to north bands of the tropical storm, first a hurricane, have been moving across southern coastal mississippi and has caused damage to houses, closed businesses, sending debris across the area. also, flooding, now, that is the major concern across certain mississippi and now moving up into central and northern mississippi, major flooding issues are rising just like the waters across the street and man...

Quickly and it will cause spreading. for the crops, they all dry. so, it will bring rain but no help to this years season for the crops but any rain this is going to be good. too much coming too soon. where you are, shep, tomorrow morning, a big improvement with sunshine tomorrow. >>shepard: folks in southeast louisiana will be glad to hear that. rick, from the fox extreme weather center. the biggest problem is flooding overrode ways. people are having a hard time figuring out when you can go wh...

Northwest just across the louisiana border, macomb, obviously we are worried about lake tangipahoa and if the dam breaches it cause as world of hurt below that. if they get a smaller break they think they can control it. here is the future radar, this is where we are now, we will go forward in time and the center pulls to the north tonight and tomorrow a lot of rain in arkansas. arkansas needs the rain but they will get so much, some spots could be 4" to 6 itch and you have a lot more mountains ...

All of this exactly seven years after hurricane katrina devastated the region. we have live coverage from across the gulf coast. kasey is in new orleans and anna is in baton rouge, louisiana. we begin with casey. actually we will have to go back to casey. can you tell me about the conditions some. >> absolutely. tropical storm isaac, it has been down graded from a hurricane, and it is indeed a slow moving soaker. it has been wreaking havac all over the region, but it is waiting to move northwest...

Office, 200 people evacuated. according to the governor, bobby jindal, 3,000 more people waiting for evacuation. 4 to 5 feet of flooding across this town. the folks telling me that, they havent seen this type of flooding in 40 years. theyy. that generally flood even during heav parts of town that never flood. developments that have never seen significant flooding and theyre entirely submerged right now. several hundred people from the sheriffs department and agencies out in flat-bottom boats, tr...

Seeing soaking rainfall. two bands in particular. one that is just off to the west of mobile, alabama. and one that is hugging the louisiana/mississippi border. thats where the rain is heaviest and will continue to be most through the next 6 to 12 hours. going forward. getting to the end game. isaac will weaken. make a bit more in northwesterly progress, 24 hours. and swing, further northward, eastward. into the midwest. ohio valley. so missouri in particular going to see rainfall, some heavy ra...

Flow through the weekend. swing into the ohio valley. spreading plenty of rain. especially in the darker green shade here. many spots, six to eight inches of the rain. that will dent some of the drought and bring localized flash flooding. >> thank you to meteorologist jim dickey live at accuweather. as folks are watching the storm coverage here, you can see that the city of new orleans proper made it out okay. the rebuilt levees there have worked. what you are seeing, suburban, new orleans, spar...

States are without power. rescuers risked dangerous conditions to save people stranded by the floodwaters. >> our focus obviously has been on evacuation today and to get people out of harms way. >> reporter: despite their house being underwater, this father and son are being called heroes. >> oh, we have rescued a lot of people. and saw a lot of things that you never thought youd see. >> reporter: anxious moments outside a nursing home. medical vehicles and school buses waiting to evacuate patie...

>>shepard: governor bryant, we certainly hope so. this is shepard smith across the border in slidell. i am curious about your assessment of the coastal areas where we have seen a lot of flooding. >>caller: it is heavy. is this shepard? >>shepard: yes. >>caller: you have seen it. it is nothing like katrina. but it is remarkable yesterday was the 7th anniversary of katrina. we will have a lot of damage due to flooding because this water was much higher inland than we had anticipated. nothing like ...