jennifer grey is in the cnn severe weather center with more on how this could affect the drive. jennifer? yeah. we could see some wet roads. if you re taking your trip by road, i would wait until tomorrow. conditions are going to be much better tomorrow. if you re hitting the skies though, chicago could be delayed up to two hours today as well as d.c. d.c. we re going to see showers and even thunderstorms start to develop this afternoon. new york city, we could see delays up to two hours as well due to thunderstorms a little bit later in the day. here s the big picture. here s why. we have mainly rain. it is stretching all the way from the florida panhandle all the way up into the northeast. and so we re going to be dealing with possibly flooding situation today. the good news is the tornado threat has come down. so we will see some thunderstorms develop today. it s mainly going to be a rain event. and then all up to the north, that s where we re seeing the snow. we re seeing snow an
with her and a certain dude getting more friendly. picture. uh-huh. first, tropical storm isaac well on its way to becoming a category 2 hurricane. and then setting its sights on new orleans. yes, indeed. isaac is packing 65 mile-per-hour winds this morning, churning now west of florida. the gulf coast, meanwhile, is bracing for up to 15 inches of rain. hurricane warnings issued from the florida panhandle all the way westward to new orleans where the storm is expected to blow ashore come wednesday morning. as isaac approaches the governors of alabama, mississippi and louisiana have all declared states of emergency at this point. officials in louisiana have already issued evacuation orders, in fact, for more than 50,000 folks in saint charles parish, conditions expected to worsen over the next 24 hours. parts of south florida already have gotten 10 inches of rain. we have more on this now from abc s matt gutman. reporter: here in south florida, millions pummelled by lashing wind
he may have said this is in longer classified, therefore, if you leak it, there is no crime. shepard: and we do not have a way to know. judge napolitano: we may know it when we get the report from the special prosecutor that would produce a political reaction but no prosecution. shepard: very interesting, thank you so much, judge. fox extreme weather alert, and, man, it is the least talked about huge disaster i can remember. tropical storm debby has wrenched florida s gulf coast for days flooding homes and animal shelter, forecasters warn that the storm will likely not make landfall for another couple of days. it has been raining since the 1st day of the weekend. folks can brace for a lot more of it, too, the flooding for officials to close part of interstate ten, the main interstate, east and west along the florida panhandle all the way to the east coast and the white house says president obama called the governor scott and promised federald.
perhaps modest. martha: all right. this fox news alert for you, december, kicking off kind of soggy and wet for us here on the east coast, flash flooding and travel delays possible from the florida panhandle all the way to new england, the same system is spawning scores of tornadoes. look at some of this damage. this is no laughing matter there, folks in a very tough situation on the ground. damaging twisters, touching down at a home in suburban atlanta, folks are grateful that it wasn t much worse. just as i was pulling out, i could start to see shingles flying off the roofs and siding coming off and i noticed in the back of the subdivision, a house just fell over. i didn t see anything, i was keeping low, getting it get past us. it just destroyed everything. when i heard that noise that they talk about, it was so loud! and the wind was so strong, and i just ran for the closet with my dog and
straight-line winds. the national weather service will be out to assess the damage later on this morning. there was also quite a bit of flooding across the area. record rainfall in atlanta, more than 2 inches, and that flooded the streets across much of the area. and this happened, unfortunately, during that rush hour drive home. this is a picture of interstate 85 where cars were actually getting stuck in the water and just caused total mayhem on some of the interstates yesterday afternoon. now, the storm system has continued to cause problems at this hour. the severe weather threat still out there. as we take a look at the national map, we ll show you where we have the watches in effect now. this thing stretches from montreal all the way down to florida. the tornado watches from north carolina on through virginia, up towards the delmarva region. and these should expire by about 10:00 this morning as some of the energy from the storm.