Outer Eyewall News Today

coast of florida. 155-mile-per-hour wind speeds. thats just two miles short of a category 5 hurricane. its expected to make landfall about 100 miles south of here in the port charlotte area. rain 12 to 24 inches across much of the florida peninsula, challenge create freshwater flooding. the impact of this will be felt by millions in florida. already 200,000 people without power. thats before the storm even makes landfall. this will uproot peoples lives. its a life-threatening storm. th...

Out of fuel and go dead like they did in carina. we have a far better smart phone net wrork where we have so many ways to communicate and see whats going on. yeah. i think were better off in terms of preparation and in terms of being able to cover this and to know, at least as best as we can in realtime, whats happening. >> one bit of good news. 911 service had been interrupted in new orleans parish. were now told service has been restored in orleans parish. lets show the northern eyewall. as we...

Close to landfall, and youll see the northern eyewall now approaching grand isle. grand isle is going to be in that northern eyewall in the next couple hours. there are, i believe, a couple dozen residents who have stayed on grand isle. for more on that, lets bring in cynthia lee shang. the eyewall reaches into grand isle. cynthia, what do you know? >> we had a camera on them but we lost it. we know they lost electricity, so we hope to be in communication with them. i spoke to the mayor of grand...

Still on the island. >> all right. viewers on the screen on the left, youll see the close-up radar. that northern eyewall, the most ferocious catastrophic winds just offshore, the greater eyewall to the north, and then there is port pashon appears to be directly in the eyewall. youll see to the left, cocodrie, and people are left in that area. but you can see the eyewall is about to sweep the louisiana coastline. well go back and forth between the hurricane and the media headlines of the week. t...

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For them to be operating. some families trapped in the homes, like the family you are trying to get a hold of right now, they are doing the right thing right now. they were told to evacuate. this is why. if you are trapped in your house right now, you have to get to the higher rooms. bring your family to the higher rooms to stay safe as the water rises. chris was saying 6 feet of flooding. 10 feet in places. that is where it is right now and it could continue and get worse at different times of ...

Here something fierce. it has. what more can we expect? >> the outer eyewall is upon you. it has been to topsail and other places along the beach. are you in the -- you are in the thick of it for another hour to hour and a half before you get closer to eyewall and things begin to clear up. if you can imagine what you are seeing now is at least 3 inches of rain per hour. it rains like that for 2 or 3 more hours. all of a sudden, you are 6 to 9 inches. here is what happens. that happened in new be...

100,000 every hour as this morning approaches and the sun begins to come up. a little lighter here than it was a short time ago. thats if you can see through the rain that is just whipping past us at this moment. lets go to chad meyers in the weather center if we can. chad, give me a sense of where we are in terms of the eye of the storm, the outer eyewall over us, obviously in north carolina. what do we have ahead of us? >> now we have duration damage, because the wind has been so strong for so...

Now because all the water that falls inland back towards the inland, and we fully expect to see that with this storm. >> keith with north carolina emergency management, thank you so much for joining us, and thank you more for the work you have done and will be doing over the next few days. its so important and its just a big effort in front of you, so we appreciate it, sir. >> thank you, and stay safe out there. >> we are just getting word the north carolina governor will brief at 11:00 a.m. thi...