storm is almost over. there s people in mississippi without power. we have issues with people losing power but that s going to slow down, too. the highest winds on the map are 30 to 35 mile per hour range. so the winds have come down, up around jackson, mississippi up to meridian, isolated power outages at worst. we have to watch, the potential for isolated tornados. the highest wind gusts we saw, in most of the locations, down towards the coast, that s where the landfall was. that s extreme, the 172 mile per hour gust was a shift tied to the coastline around the port. so that damage should be incredible to see. that s a very strong tornado went through that area. new orleans highest wind gust was 87 miles per hour. we have to worry about tornados from pensacola, beloxi, mobile.
wind damage and storm surge. i want to go east to jackson, mississippi, that s where we find ron allen. good morning, as we looked at bill s radar there, it looks like the storm is spinning through the east where you are in alabama. what does it look like in jackson? reporter: it started raining overnight. the wind is picking up. it s not that strong, the last time i looked i saw about a 15, 20 miles per hour. this is the beginning of things here. already in the southern part of the state there are reports of power outages. last time i checked they were in the neighborhood of more than 100,000 and growing. we are in a hotel in jackson. if you look, all these cars around me here, they all have louisiana license plates. this place has become a refuge for people leaving louisiana and southern mississippi and head