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Like this. >>shepard: i have not, either, and this is the 9th hurricane since the late 80's, most of them are category one's and people party through them. the employees have gone home. >>guest: what happened is people listen to the mayor. when he says --. >>shepard: the new mayor, mayor landrieu and everyone knows that name. >>guest: he has gotten out and talked to people and explain how they need to work and prepare. he has the emergency house director talk at a press conference, if you need electricity, this is a good time to evacuate because you may need to be someplace, like if you have d...

Looking down the street, as you pan to the left you will see bourbon street. you can see the beads so the party was here. it is gone for now. it has been raining for the last hour. the worst is supposed to hit the coast when it comes ashore in louisiana tonight. new orleans is many, many miles north of it and it will get to us probably tomorrow morning or midday. we will check with janice dean in the fox extreme weather center. it seem like this is a rainmaker and not much else? >> rain, wind and surge. this storm is slow. we are going to see along the coast, tropical storm force winds for 24 ...

The sun going down until it comes up in the morning. the curfews are now in effect in the lower-lying parishes. >>shepard: we are in bourbon street in the middle of the french quarter with a good view. we do not suggest there is no partying going on, that is never the case, and the ladies are enjoying them, so, a hurricane will not get in the way of all parties but i will tell you it is as quiet as i have ever seen this place and we talked to a lot of people last night who said, yes, it will rain a lot. and it will rain a lot for a long time. if there is flooding, i don't want to be here. a lo...

Right now all the computer models agree this will be a new orleans situation, unfortunately. >>shepard: i don't know if that has ever happened. maybe with betsy back in 1965 but usually they say they come here and then they jog. what is the forward speed? >> ten miles per hour. >>shepard: that is slow. >> it is slow and it is expected to go slower. that is my concern. we could deal with a hurricane that stalls in the area of impact of this very vulnerable coastline. >>shepard: that would be awful. we are so far away from it right now as the bands come around, you get nice sunny skies. five min...

Orleans, the most vulnerable areas along the coastline, hurricane force winds with landfall tonight into overnight. but we will still feel the effects along the gulf coast, the long duringation. that is what i am afraid it, 12, to 24, even 36 hours of heavy rain, strong wind, and surge. this is a large storm. because of that, we are going do see that storm surge moving into the coastline. already seeing it in parts of the florida panhandle. winds are at 90 miles per hour according to the last advisory and up to 20" of rain. we will see the threat for tropical storm force winds and further out ...