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Out last night, vehicles drove into that area that was flooded. two fatalities, ten injuries, three of those injuries are critical. so highway 26 is both lanes washed out, that was overnight in mississippi. we still have flash flood warnings in areas from biloxi to gulf port to mobile. we were talking obviously about a million people still without power, yesterday it was hot and humid, it is still that way today. the heat index this afternoon will feel like 100 in new orleans and thats not going...

For weeks. to our meteorologist adam klotz in fox weather center. reporter: well, the thing this continues to change it is such a powerful windstorm were focusing more and more on the rain. grand isle it was close to 1 50s miles per hour, we had high wind totals enough to do wide spread damage. as it lifts closer inland and further inland, new orleans with 83 mile hour gusts, they are peak gusts, recent gusts in 40 to 50 miles per hour. still enough to do damage. as we continue overnight it appe...

Per hours, gusting to 160, moving to northwest at 10 miles per hour, you see the center of circulation falling apart a little bit, maybe it will disintegrate more in coming hours but still packing a punch, you have wind gusts in new orleans area to 71 miles per hour, close to 50 miles per hour in baton wrong -- baton rouge and a lot of rain. as a category 3, is no the not often you see hurricane warnings this far inland. this is the case because the winds will stick with it until 1:00 a.m., desp...

And the path of the storm, should be a tropical depression by later today. but then this is a huge rain maker through tennessee which has had epic flooding the past summer. then the rain is going to go through washington d.c., through philadelphia and new york city. the least thing we need after what we dealt with with henri last weekend is another flood event. 58 million people from philadelphia, jersey, down to new orleans are under flash flood watches we have the warnings from the rain were s...

Powerful and how devastating hurricane ida is and continues to be. back to you. jillian: jeff paul live for us on the ground there. thank you very much. lets bring in fox news senior meteorologist janice dean, live in the weather center. whats the latest? >> its moving up towards mississippi, alabama and tennessee is going to get part of this as well with several inches of rain. last week, historic rain for tennessee, because of a frontal boundary that brought over 17 inches of rain so i am conc...

Number of them run it into long island and perhaps drift little eastern and many southern new england, but we have a pretty good idea where the storm is ultimately going to go and where that is, we see the hurricane warnings now in place over a good stretch in long island and portions of southern new england. the concerns with this hurricane or perhaps very strong tropical storm, we will see where it is and the original yellow band is going to be at least tropical storm force winds that are not ...

Situation. and this is a quick one. this is a huge rain maker, but some areas will get four to five inches of rain and when you talk about the other water pulled in, that will be a problem and well be watching as it makes the move. griff: adam klotz, the weather center. its a long time since the hamptons got hit. well keep you posted. >> well, griff, our -- well, griff, our fox flight alive drone, okay, is showing us what is expected to be another day where the u.s. border patrol ap henderson ma...

Apalachicola, certainly not until monday. this slowed down in a really big way, but its not the only storm were paying attention to. this is the one that the folks in the caribbean have to be concerned about as you see over the next couple of days, its running over the islands as a tropical storm, winds, 30, 40 miles per hour, could be a rain maker, also, so this is the next one to pay attention to. likely a bigger storm than fred. these are tropical and they take it haiti, over the dominican re...

Adam? >> jon, you said it up there, the island nation of haiti and that earthquake epicenter kind of right in between two tropical systems were currently tracking. one, fred, now moving up into the gulf of mexico. the other grace, one that could be impacting the island in the next few days. i will begin with fred. its been a bit of a disorganized weakening system, winds at 35 miles-an-hour. you can tell not a whole lot of organization there. its far enough away that haiti is not dealing with thi...

Natural hurricane center, acting director. jamie, good to have you back, just when we were enduring this brief lull in the hurricane activity, it seems to be building up again. what can you tell us? >> yeah, i mean, it is august and so its probably going to be for, you know, the next four to six weeks and this is the meat of hurricane season and you know, it will be pretty much one after the other here for the next several weeks. so were looking at the remnants of fred and which, it looks to be ...