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Arena near ft. myers, we saw thousands of people gathered outside, trying to get in. in is exactly what officials want to see. no one on the roads and people trying to get into shelters, they want people to stay in place or get out as soon as possible. chris? >> from here were still having difficulty communicating with chris cuomo in miami beach. the major concern obviously as chad myers mentioned is that that part of the state was looking at a much weaker storm obviously overnight irma shifted ...

Image, it almost looks like there are four separate eyes to the beast. >> this is going to end up being the central core and eye. then we have the bands around it. we have the one here then we wraparound and central dense overcast, cdo, this area here. then on the outside, this will be the outside feeder bands to the storm and thats the first one. tomorrow during the morning, this is when this band will come through and that will be the first squalls that will go in south texas. you can actually...

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Its kind of a broader technology question they need to be on top of everything. >> do you think this is a good way to go you think it will work? >> the key thing is how you use social media. they had plenty of events warning there was going to be trouble. they didnt act properly on it. two, you have to be very careful. there are a lot of figures of speech. you see a bad ball game. oh id like to kill that pitcher. you dont really mean it. most of the time they dont act on it. if you have useful i...

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It was the weather, so many things. not just the weather, the jelly fish, the hypothermia, sunburn, she battled everything. but as t.j. winick reports she has no regrets. good morning to you, t.j. >> reporter: good morning, rob, paula. for the third time in a year, diana nyad tried to swim from cuba to the florida keys and for the third time she came up short. [ applause ]. >> reporter: sharks, squalls, and jellyfish doomed her attempt on a record 103-mile swim from cuba to the florida keys. her...

So far, so good here in new orleans with tropical storm lee. the problem, though, is lee is not move, its hovering around the louisiana coast. as a result the weather doesnt change a whole lot. that band of rain that hit us yesterday when we were talking to you yesterday morning has rotated all the way into western louisiana, some of the rain got as far west as houston, a spot that needs the rain, all of those areas in exceptional drought. that blob of tropical moisture has come back over the gu...

Said could be a prolific rainmaker. tropical storm lee has been upgraded to a depression, and it is threatening to dump 20 inches of rain across the region and lee could hit new orleans this weekend. louisiana governor bobby jindal has declared a state of emergency ahead of the storm because of the threat of flash flooding. mississippi governor haley barbour is following suit to declare a state of emergency for seven counties. mike seidel from the weather channel has more. >> well, we have had s...