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Here in the gulf is a setback in the containment process. a bp spokesman saying today, confirming that high winds are accounting for that wobble that we are currently seeing on the underwater pictures. the wave height is expected to decrease through the weekend but officials do say that they are now capturing slightly less oil than before the waves and the rough water made that cap wobble or jiggle. campbell? >> randi, in his briefing today admiral thad allen talked about the governments use of ...

Hit a very unpopulated area of the world for that matter. theres a place called punta de pietra, a small community, fishing community, they were battening down and heres the convention, tony. still across parts of new orleans, thats going to be the case. even though the winds have slowed for many spots, this is a map of the buoy, heres the buoy thats the closest to the horizon right there. and the waves are still 7.2 feet. thats well above, thats significant wave height that they could put these...

There are showers and storms up into new orleans, all the way to houston. right there, that would be lake charles and all the way back down toward harris county, there are showers and storms on the other side of florida over here. there are storms into georgia, all part of the same spin that is bringing up tropical moisture. tropical moisture, follow my arrows, follow my arrows. what is that doing to the oil thats parked right here? its pushing it on land. theres no question about it that at thi...

That come together and what type of movement they actually create. this animation will show you what will typically happen in order to create a tsunami. you have one plate which subducts underneath the other and you can see that the plate or the crust in the ocean floor thrusts upward. when that happens, that displaces the water and then you can see, as i put that back into play is that pushes up the water up, the tsunami is created and moves on. we think this type of earthquake happened, but th...

On tuesday. bonnie schneider now joining us here in the cnn center severe weather center. its been a long 24 hours after the quake with all the tsunami warnings up and down the coastlines of the americas and, of course, over to tokyo. they are just now canceling the tsunami warnings for japan, but the japanese agencies havent dropped their advisories. >> well, the japanese meteorological agency, the local agency governing the country knows their weather best, just like a lot of places have new...

And what happens to the earth to what happens in the atmosphere. we use a lot of forecast maps in the atmosphere, but this shows you the number of where the wave was headed tall way to areas in the pacific and further to the south in australia. this is where there were so many warnings posted, but the good news is the energy is tapering off. we could still see some sloshing effect in japan where we could still see the water level rise and fall a little bit, especially on the shoreline. >> thats ...

While ago. he said we got a reading. we got a reading. then we called our producers and thats why were putting this stuff on the air now. so jackie, let us know. >> these are the detection which are out there in the pacific ocean. you can see the flashing ones. these are active. these are the ones that were watching. and theres hawaii right from there. about 140 miles away from the hawaiian island, we have a bouie out there. this is what it is showing there. you can see the line. notice this big...

Between tomorrow night, thursday night and sunday morning, florence may move only 150 miles. that is slower than a walking pace. two to three miles an hour. like harvey. the tropical storm force winds, youre starting to see how its broad eng out. a wave height was reported at 83 feet. is that -- thats mind boggling. so this system as it moves in you can see how far out 300 miles of tropical storm force winds. this is a relentless rainfall and believe it or not, willie m see more rain than washin...

Bring us up to speed. >> the latest updates have come in. the storm system has come down to category 2. one miles per hour wind would make it category 3. its been about the sheer size the last several days the amount of energy behind it and of course storm surge the number one weather killer is the biggest threat with the system. nothing changed as far as the amount of storm surge expected. rainfall amounts. number two killer. still expecting winds and rainfall in order of feet. were talking abo...

Thats port of the problem now. you look at the hurricane force winds. the tropical storm force winds, youre starting to see how its broad eng out. this is an amazing storm. early in the morning on the northeast quadrant a wave height was reported at 83 feet. is that -- thats mind boggling. so this system as it moves in you can see how far out 300 miles of tropical storm force winds. its day in and day out of storm surge. this is a relentless rainfall and believe it or not, we may see more rain t...