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Is different than katrina, it's fast. the speed of the storm is fast. 15 miles an hour. katrina was in the low single digits, which is problematic because it spends more time over all of these places creating damage and dumping rain. the disadvantage of the storm is the power of the storm. the speed of the storm. 145 miles per hour sustained winds which is hard to imagine for anybody who does sustained winds. 25-mile-per-hour wind feels like a lot, imagine 145 miles at the same time. the situation in new orleans is different from a lot of other areas because new orleans biggest problem is belo...

Whether we call it a tropical storm or hurricane, still a big impact for a lot of folks. >> ken, thank you very much. again, you used a key word there, stalling. a big deal. there's a part of that happening over new york city. we saw the rain last night. one of the outer boroughs of new york, brooklyn, got over six inches of water. that can change a community quickly. we're going to see that in different pockets of rhode island depending on how long different aspects of this storm stay in the same place dumping rain. even if you don't have the winds, you can have six, eight hours of rain. the ...

Tremendous flooding for the carolinas. a lot can still happen. it could still make landfall in florida. we're not out of the woods on that just yet. >> that's what we heard from the governor as well, prepare for that to happen and heed those evacuation orders. tom sater, thank you, you're going to continue to let us know if anything changes in the forecast. let's get to the bahamas where hurricane dorian has already made landfall. in freeport, patrick oppmann. patrick, forecasters really have no good news for the people there. they say this storm could park itself over the islands where you ar...

Have been very worried about how much rain is coming in, and then for 48 hours, nothing really has happened. but now because the center is on shore, the center is going to move to the north. and all of that rain that was south of the storm, fred, now it's going to be on land, because the low is going to move to the north. so all the rain that's down here is going to be here. then it's going to move up and it's only going to move up at 6 miles per hour. that is too slow for my liking. that's the speed almost where harvey was when it was meandering west of houston. we don't have this stor storm ...

Of the coastal parishes, as we were traveling around today. we did see guards, men and women, they were out helping to get these communities protected and working with the parishes to ensure they are prepared for the storm. to speak with comes a point where it is too late to evacuat. when will that point be reached? >> it really depends on which community you are in. some of the communities in south louisiana, the coastal communities right on the water, a few of them have probably already reached that point. as you noted in your videos, you have areas where unless you have a y water vehicle, y...