Storm Sitting News Today

Flooding. there is one road that gets you from here to there. you could be stranded and i drove that road starting early yesterday morning. came back in the early evening yesterday. there were parts of it that had already gotten water on them. it was difficult to drive where sand had been washed over that road as well. so as bill said, i know were not out of the woods here at least where im standing. but folks here worried about a storm sitting on us and inundating us. >> david, give us a sense ...

>> have you ever seen a storm thats gone on this long with this much strength for that period? >> im trying to think. weve had flood events like on the mississippi river that have lasted a week, week and a half, but thats because its so long, and it takes a long time to go down. the storm sitting in a location this long? not that i remember. i mean, theres some historic blizzards that have lingered in new england for many days, but thats a different ballgame brsh. >> i think the word you are hea...

When you have a storm sitting like this on an area. lets go back to politics. the white house is saying the president met with his cabinet and other administration staffers to talk about the response to hurricane harvey. the statement issued earlier saying the president held a videoconference from camp david where he instructed the relevant agencies fully engaged in position to support this number one priority of saving lives. it says the president reminded his department heads the full impact o...

When you have a storm sitting like this on an area. lets go back to politics. the white house is saying the president met with his cabinet and other administration staffers to talk about the response to hurricane harvey. the statement issued earlier saying the president held a videoconference from camp david where he instructed the relevant agencies fully engaged in position to support this number one priority of saving lives. it says the president reminded his department heads the full impact o...

Family a short while ago, and they said theyre starting to receive some rain. what are the conditions in norlnew orleans is? what are you seeing? >> caller: theyre okay now. but what that gentleman just said is ominous. if you look at the diagram he had up and you saw the colored bands that rang around the center. those are the things that could potentially flow into louisiana, because that storm is likely to stay there for a bit. and the longer it stays there, the more rain will fall and more p...

where a manhunt by nato forces, muammar gadhafi keeps surfacing and taunting the world. earlier today nato bombed the barracks in baun knee wall lead where some reports say gadhafi may be hiding. if he is they didnt get him. a few hours later, gadhafi or presumably his voice turned up on a sympathetic tv network, al rae. >> translator: give up ourselves to them? were not stupid. we are not cowards. the libyan people are brave. >> a few hours ago, the voice was back, this time gadhafi c...

Bands of rain began soaking the coast until the i have reached land almost twelve hours had passed for its was and remains a giants lot of a storm sitting on the coast half of florence churning up warm ocean waters the other half dumping torrential rain some places recording more precipitation last night than they usually receive in an entire year and that translates into flooding and when you add the storm surge caused by the hurricane you have the recipe for devastating flooding. and here are ...