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Situation because you can see with the intensity right now there are some cars on the road but they shouldn't. the emergency crews are not coming to get people right now because conditions are too bad. the bad news is i still don't think we have seen the worst of it with all of the intensity coming through the seven. jon: we heard people say they would stick it out because they had been through hurricanes before bed every hurricane is different and 16 feet of storm surges a lot of water to survive. reporter: it certainly is. but what is different with new orleans is that they had time to prepa...

Federal resources. >> with respect to the president we also very much appreciate the fact that last evening he signed a prelandfall declaration for the 17 parishes in south louisiana that we had requested a declaration for. this will remain a night event. it is critical that everyone who has been told to evacuate or would like to do so that they do it now. molly: casey stegall is live on the ground in lake pontchartrain. casey, why is the storm surge such a concern where you are? >> well, molly, we are in the northern part of new orleans and lake pontchartrain is right back here. and the reaso...

>> most of the water that we're going to see will be because of storm surge. and obviously no one should take this storm lightly. it has proven to be very deadly. in honduras, and anything rawg i can't annicaragua.we have not taking it lightly. we are still very concerned and no one should be complacent. >> eric: this is a familiar message, something we have seen the past few weeks. casey stegall live at lake pontchartrain in new orleans. is he talking about the storm surge, casey. i mean, you have the lake behind you. those counterclockwise winds that they come from the north over. get hit in...

Update on the storm where they believe it's going and what things are going to be like over the next 12 to 48 hours. what you can tell us? >> recent observations which unfortunately starting to confirm what we were expecting for wind and storm surge. if i point out new orleans right here. there is elevated platform offshore which had a wind gust to 106 miles per hour. the reason that's important, they are at 280 feet is that the upper floors of high rises in new orleans and other places getting close to 280 feet will receive some of those similar winds. so, gusts to 100 miles per hour could oc...