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Near new orleans late tuesday or wednesday, almost seven years to the day when hurricane katrina made landfall. isaac hitting south florida with torrential rains and winds knocking out power to thousands. prompting, louisiana, mississippi, alabama and tphr-r tflorida to declare states of emergency. we are expecting news conferences coming up. jenna: jon just mentioned for us there, isaac looks like its steering clear of tampa, looks like it. jon: they are getting wind and rain but not too bad. j...

What is expected? >> right now it is a beautiful morning here on the mississippi coast. temperatures expected to get into the mid-90s. we could see some deterioration as early as this afternoon. eventually, expecting wind gusts along the mississippi coast of up to 100 miles per hour and 12 to 15 inches of rain. that rain could make things difficult for people along the coast. it is a slow moving storm. people here also keenly aware of what could happen seven years ago with hurricane katrina. the...

Sure that we understand the totality of what isaac has done. we are also as the storm makes its way northward through the state keeping an eye on, as you stated the heavy rain fallses that are occurring. we had tornado warnings generated throughout the state and we are preparing for an impact in the panhandle later on tonight and into tomorrow as the outer bands of that storm bring extremely heavy rain, wind gusts and storm surge to the northwestern part of the state up in the panhandle. >> you ...

Devastating effect on this coastal and mountainous country. the haitian prime minister is urging everyone to remain calm but also saying that people should stay away from the rivers. dont cross the rivers when the rains come urging them to tape up their windows. here in haiti with the extreme poverty, a storm bringing all of that rain can cause lots of problems because they have a history here of mud slides and flash flooding. nearly 400,000 people are still living in tents now two and a half ye...

I am stunned. you would think the "simpsons" would have sold better, as popular as they are. >> dont you think the target audience, the youth, arent using u.s. postal service these days. >> thats a fine point. you dont need a stamp with the ipad or text message. >> dont know what a letter is? writing, how do we write? >> whats this? your wednesday weather. >> a pen. >> thank you. stormy in the southwest expect up to three inches of rain and flooding, vegas to albuquerque and salt lake city. ...

>> florida in august, gulf coast, this team of year is rough. you know what i mean? hopefully it will be all right. maybe mother nature will keep it south. we hope. well see. heres your wednesday weather -- rain, flooding from the desert southwest into the colorado rockies and salt lake city. warming up in the central plains. downpours in central florida. showers from atlanta into the carolinas. >> 80s from the midwest to the east coast. 90s in dallas, colorado springs. 68 in seattle. 88 in sa...

Dangerously close to some of those homes tucked in the valley behind me. further abc news, im mark miller. aerial spraying is on again in the dallas area as official struggle to curb the west nile virus. planes loaded with pesticides had been grounded on saturday night as those storms rolled in there. they were back in the skies last night. more than 300,000 acres covered, and in this first round, there will be a second coating tonight. the storm in dallas washed away some of the mosquito la...

Pests that may be killed as well. local authorities say, listen, whats the worst of the two evils here. de numbers are staggering in dallas. i think it accounts for 90% now, west nile in the area. >> the chemical is doing it -- for anybody saying i dont want the chemical sprayed, leave town a few days if you dont like it. something they have to do. >> they have to take care of the now before it gets worse than it has become. your friday forecast. thunderstorms from the desert southwest into no...

This. a daring rescue after flash flooding in new york city trapped an 86-year-old nun and two of her friends in their car. a fast-moving storm caught them off guard. emergency crews and anothers pho*eand other pho*e motorists and the erred their prayers and brought them to safety. >> the car went dead and it started to float and the water started to come through. >> they were asking for help and we needed to give it to them. if not we would have had three people who would have drowned. martha: ...

The vp giving to bill clinton. that says something for the democratic side of the party. >> and he came out swinging at -- president obama in the campaign when he was running against hillary clinton. so also kind of remarkable, the prominence that he still has in the democratic party, considering that. >> really is strange. politics makes strange bedfellows. amazing how the road twists and turns. well see what happens. moving on to weather news, tropical storm ernesto, on the way to making a s...