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Already getting the flooding from the levees. >> reporter: and going into this, we talked about the storm surge. thats of great concern when were looking at plaquemines parish and the lower lying areas, as well. >> thats right. you know, the storm surge has shifted around earlier when the winds were out of the east. we had the storm surge at shell beach. now na isaac has moved further on, the wind direction has changed. were seeing the north shore here getting it. and the west bank here. and als...

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Hey, ricky. >> rick: hey, yeah, big morning, a 5 k race and about a hundred of the twins are going to be running in the race of 4,000 twins descended on the town. lets talk about the weather, there isnt a lot going on. the fires obviously in oklahoma and the tropics that are heating up and the heat that weve been dealing with and severe weather again. and now youre seeing some of the rain showers here on the map. and thats good. you see the rain showers in towards parts of oklahoma and missouri ...

up in the last just couple of hours. a fire official told me less than an hour ago if he told me an acreage amount, it would be wrong in ten minutes. this fire is advancing at least at 2,000 feet every hour. the last four days this has been burning, they counted on the wind to at least burn it in towards the interior of the forest and away from populated areas. just within the last half hour, that has completely changed. the smoke is now coming towards us, towards the city of colorado ...

>> reporter: hi, soledad. yeah, this fire has really amped up in the last just couple of hours. a fire official told me less than an hour ago if he told me an acreage amount, it would be wrong in ten minutes. its advancing 10,000 feet every hour. the last four days this has been burning, they counted on the wind to at least burn it in towards the interior of the forest and away from populated areas. just within the last half hour, that has completely changed. the smoke is now coming to...

lines with the fire fighters who is battling the waldo canyon fire right near pikes peak. hey, jim. >> reporter: hi, soledad. yeah, this fire has really amped up in the last just couple of hours. a fire official told me less than an hour ago if he told me an acreage amount, it would be wrong in ten minutes. this fire is advancing at least at 2,000 feet every hour. the last four days this has been burning, they counted on the wind to at least burn it in towards the interior of the fores...

yeah, this fire has really amped up in the last just couple of hours. a fire official told me less than an hour ago if he told me an acreage amount, it would be wrong in ten minutes. this fire is advancing at least at 2,000 feet every hour. the last four days this has been burning, they counted on the wind to at least burn it in towards the interior of the forest and away from populated areas. just within the last half hour, that has completely changed. the smoke is now coming towards ...

to stop. >> its not stopping. the peace keeping spokesman says countries that are supporting them needs to stop. the peace keeping department and the u.n. saying more u.n. unarmed observers turned back and three vehicles were fired upon by a source unknown when departing the scene. a very bad deteriorating situation. >> based upon what we heard, he said nearly all parts of the country in civil war. are we to assume its nationwide now? >> it certainly is spread. these unarmed observers,...

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Area. the shear values are high enough that what youre getting is not only storms building up to the atmosphere but because of the change in wind direction and wind speed, that is creating a rotation in the atmosphere, much the way it would if you were to roll a pencil in between your two hands. that rotation then gets tilted into the vertical and gets these storms rotating. so thats the environment that were at today. again, it is not the most extreme environment with a tremendous amount of win...