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You can see the load medium impacts expected into wales and ireland. gusts over 100 miles per hour in of the coastal areas. inland, 70 to in the miles per hour causing disruptions, perhaps take down poles as well as tree limbs. do be careful as you travel around the rege. this is a swlor moving storm than of that ophelia of five days ago, especially the over high country of england. you can see western ireland, the brunt of the heavy rainfall is located 50 to 100 millimeters before the time the ...

New orleans is on the weak side of the storm. they didnt get a lot of rain from this system, didnt get a lot of strong winds. right now winds are at 24 miles per hour. new orleans area south to louisiana coast is doing just fine. there is some high water from the mississippi river where it comes out here north wards up in eastern louisiana, some of that water piling up on the back side of the storm. notice were only at 37 wind gusts in mobile. theres that gust in biloxi. this is the highest weve...

The past but this one a lot of people are saying since it is moving fast and its a category one will cause catastrophic damage that weve seen from some of the others. >> it will bring down tree limbs and power outages but there will be flooding in low-lying areas along the coast with 3 inches of rainfall expected in certain areas and tornadoes will occur but it will be catastrophic. patti ann: louisiana, mississippi, florida, the main areas in the crosshairs and what is your biggest concern in t...

Keep the freezer or fridge vapor chilled for a few extra hours to keep the food from spoiling. ill have a way to get weather information from a battery-powerrerred noaa weather wadeio. and i will have a way to charge my cell phones. and i will have standing by some gloves in case i get a tree down in the yard or down on the house where i can work to get the tree off the house with my gloves. back a few years ago we had devastating tornadoes in alabama. one of the things that happened after those...

How would you describe overall the level of damage? and how long would you predict it would take to get life back to normal there? >> it looks like a war zone, like i said, when you fly over or see just the downed tree limbs. the storm did havoc on all of our beautiful palm landscaping. my yard, just had it finished. all the trees have no leaves. my structure of my house, im not going to put a claim into insurance. the structure of my house is fine. the only thing i have down is a ceiling fan. t...

Obviously, there were some concerns about that devastating floods that didnt happen. but what are your immediate concerns? what are your immediate jobs this morning? >> well, good morning. the job right now is to handle the power outage we have in our cities. we have a lot of people trying to get back on the road and causing some traffic issues. we have about 90 people now without power. >> is your advice to people just stay home right now? >> were actually doing a press conference telling peopl...

As the winds picked up, we started to see some tree limbs down. so far again its just a wind event. if you see the bridge behind me, this is the flint river. it goes right through downtown. in big storm also in the past, it has flooded. but most of the area along the riverbanks are parkland so were going to keep an eye on that. the big concern here will be high winds and power outages. but, again, things really just starting for the experience of tropical storm irma as it gets here. into souther...

They will be checking out making sure people survived the storm. its tree limbs and power lins s out here, we got a sense it was 850,000 people. i wonder what it is in the area are you in right now. >> reporter: right, so state wide, its millions, the county where we are, 234,000 customers without power out of only 2 swrien,000 pow 59,000 people. the majority is without and that givers you some idea of just how much work is ahead for those power crews. >> >> do we have any timing how long they w...

Damage this storm possesses. nearly 200 miles south west of tampa, over night, appears calm but more certainly on the way as well. lets go live and get the latest from cnns stephanie elam. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: good morning, dave. i kw tell you i checked in this with the police department in tampa and they did confirm they do have tampa police and fire kesk out here responding to calls now. theyre saying the most theyre seeing most of what theyre seeing is downed tree limbs whi...

Surge. but now its your turn as the center of the storm passes up to the north. even on the eastern side of this, the winds still gusting, roaring at 70 miles per hour. you saw thomas live shot out there in the tampa/saint pete area. its just a roaring, relentless wind. that will continue here for tonight. with that, you get these power outages. you get the tree limbs coming down instantaneously, the transformers blowing on you. again, its not a friendly night to be out. you want to be hunkered ...