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To about 100 miles per hour. so if were focusing on an area or region, if youre with your family and you havent lost power yet and youre still listening, you want to get to your safe area. again, thats this area. there is the northern eye. and when we see these magenta colors in here, thats when we get to the extreme rainfall. and that actually helps bring down some of the stronger winds from aloft. and thats when you can get -- thats when we saw our reporters in naples gust to 142. we shouldnt ...

Rain. spotty in different areas. handle that? were comfortable with the preparations. execution mode right now. happy with the way things are going at this point. >> shepard: colonel, what is still on the drawing board? what is yet to be done. i know the levee right across the water here still needs some attention. just got a bunch of money. thats going to be years away. >> shep, at this point the post katrina work the $14.6 billion that we were appropriated. we are about $10 billion into that. ...

I have never seen it this shut down, ever. and 40 years of coming here and 9 hurricanes covered here. this is the most boarded up, shutdown and evacuated i have ever seen the french quarter. our friends at the local fox station tell us they have never seen it either. folks who live here day in and day out say the level of evacuation here, he is especially no mandatory evacuation. only when the storm is a category 3. pleased how many people have some things are. some people carrying on life and t...

>> yeah. shep. we had to reteeth a little bit. we were standing there on the edge. and you saw all the spray that we were getting off the lake and it was really getting all of our gear wet. as you said. we have got a long ways to go. we are going to be live here on fox news channel all throughout the night so why obviously had to protect our cameras so that we can bring you reports. you can see behind us, this is just right at the shore. again, the eastern shore and the grass is pretty much just...

Water, of rain in jefferson parish, louisiana. and they had a lot of flooding. they have done a lot of work since then and they think things will be better. as you look. this is beinville street. everything on that level is closed. if you look down here past our satellite truck. this is perpendicular to bourbon street. nothing and nobody on the streets. extremely rare for this city at hurricane time for everybody to just get the heck out. but it appears they have either done that or they are at ...

>> shepard: this is the fox report. its the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. live from the heart of the french quarter on a balcony overlooking the french quarter from the royal ton esta hotel bienville and bourbon street. not a lot of wind here at the moment. 10 to 15 miles per hour. it will change. it has on lake pontchartrain thats where casey stegall will be riding out isaac. whats it like there now? >> like why said at the top of the hour we have seen wind gusts here up to ...

>> shepard: 21 minutes past the hour live on bourbon street. french quarter in new orleans. bands of rain are coming into new orleans. the worst of the storm will be here overnight and into tomorrow through the tomorrow and into the next day. right now we are on lake pontchartrain. surf is up. casey stegall. first to reed timmer winds have gotten strong. >> we have had intense band coming through. every times intense band comes through intense more and waters will rise. the parking lot has becom...

Parking garage. as this water rises we will will keep going up in the floors of the parking garage. as we were driving out here you could see what was left over from that damage from katrina. you could see a lot of the tree damage and you could see probably at least 20, 30 feet of water easily. thankfully we wont have that. but there is enough water with this storm surge to cause foe tenelly catastrophic damage for low lying areas around here waveland and new orleans and far south of louisiana. ...

To the north and so were looking at potential for 7 to 14 inches of rain. locally 20 inches of rain. obviously areas where there is rain and storm surge, the combined effects will be even worse. >> shepard: i wonder about upriver, ed, before we go, vicksburg, jackson, mississippi, memphis and st. louis, there is a lot of rain in store for all those inland cities, isnt there? >> yes, there is now, we do expect that the forward speed will increase a bit. after a day or two. but, yes, were expectin...

Since katrina we have learned a lesson. we have a suite of 132 hurricanes coming in different intensities and different sizes. we put them into a model and thats how we come up with a design system like this. not one hurricane. a lot of hurricanes have had a projected track of what this one has to come in west of the city proper which is a worse case scenario for the city new orleans. everyone knows that thankfully not as strong as others have been but its moving mighty slowly. >> it is. its mov...