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Essentially disorganized. i was joking with the governor earlier saying oh, its like government. so what were seeing is the tides are starting to hit against the sea wall, hit our highway 90. were seeing some low points of highway 90, where the water is covering the highway. we have some storm surge on the northern side of the biloxi peninsula. but other than weve been able to keep our police officers out on the roads. theyre making sure that our cu curfew is being respected by the citizenry. we...

That threat will continue over the next several hours. at this point, well start transitioning from a wind event to a rain event that will encompass the eastern u.s., upwards of 2 -- half a foot of rainfall in the next couple of days with flood watches in effect with that. >> all right. >> ivan, thank you very much. well check back with you throughout the show. talked about what happened in mississippi, how it is lingering a little bit. flooding, there are power outages and he mentioned martin...

There are many sights, sounds and smells that you experience here. were not experiencing any of that right now because as you mentioned, that curfew expected to kick in in about an hour and the mayor of this city, mayor mitch landrue, asking them not to panic but to prepare, saying and advising that this could be our rain event, a wind event and also a surge event. now, what youre seeing is probably a wedding. we have seen many of those today here in new orleans, but i want to show you around a ...

Rainfalling, it is new video of like to show you some rainfalling in and around new orleans, shot by one of our photographers not too long ago. it has been falling steadily last go hours or so. the mayor of new orleans just holding a press conference. the worst of it hits 7:00 tonight local time, through 7:00 tomorrow morning. now the army corps of engineers today closed two giant floodgates on two of the citys canals. this infrastructure was put in post-katrina to help keep storm surge out of t...

Heres the advisory from the hurricane center. takes dead aim at cancun. 60-mile-per-hour winds in cancun. theyre used to seeing big hurricanes. so they should have some minor damage to trees and shingles flying, but thats about it. then into the gulf. saturday over the water during the daylight hours. saturday evening it gets closer to the coast. this line shows you the cone op of uncertainty from 1:00 a.m. on sunday. that could be anywhere from central louisiana to the florida/alabama border. t...

Tone than he did during hurricane irma. the tone of anxiety and nervousness among those local officials here, giving those warnings that they need to evacuate or face death. one of the things that he was reiterating was the concern about flooding, and how that is the cause of death after storms make impact here on an island territory like puerto rico. the last time they felt a storm like this was nearly 100 years ago. theres certainly a lot more people here on the island, causing concern for off...

Worse by the hour, and reminded people that flood something a major problem. one of the locals told us we are in a flood zone, and on the inside of a lagoon. this area floods during a normal rain event and thats not expected to be the case tomorrow but expected to be a category 5. shelters have been put in place, about 500 across the island. we understand its being reported that some food is being rationed, including baby formula. they want to make sure everybody has resources at their disposal ...

Sea levels are rising. storm surges are the most deadly part of any kind of catastrophic storm. sea level rise is adding to that. its about a foot up in south florida and going to get much higher. we know thats there. we know the water is warmer because ocean temperatures have been rising, theyre at the hottest theyve ever been right now and warmer water produces stronger storms. we also snow, third, this connects to harvey. we have seen more rain event. a lot of times the focus is on the hurric...

To believe, but the real part of the eye wall thats going to go over naples that has already effected marco island with a wind of 130 miles per hour is still coming. what youve received there is about 105 to 110 gusting back and forth but you still have another possible 20 miles per hour added to that event and you can see it appears to me like -- all of the rain pellets or the rain drops are just broken up into spray. its no longer a rain event, it is a misting, blowing event. so what chris is ...

Jacksonville on the east side and making its way up to the panhandle, into early tuesday morning when it makes its way past the panhandle and gets into georgia chris. still as a tropical storm or even a category 1 hurricane. they have tropical storm watches up right now for parts of central and southern georgia, including atlanta, which is the first time theyve had a tropical storm watch since the national hurricane center started issuing inland tropical advisories since 2000. >> al roker whos b...