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we've got a lot of power lines that are down and we want them to call 911 to report it. don't try to move it or anything else like that. >> reporter: so jon, like you said, yes, the worst is over, but the storm is not finished here. we know we've got an inch and a half of rain so far but meteorologists predict we could have rain today, tomorrow and even into wednesday morning, so tropical depression barrel isn't going anywhere, very fast. jon. jon: we heard there were a lot of rescues there over the weekend. i'm guessing nobody is venturing back into the water today? >> reporter: wel...

29-mile per hour winds on the peach, paling in comparison to what we saw between midnight and 2:00 a.m. where we had 70-mile per hour gusts. that's very close to hurricane winds. we spoke with the mayor and he said yes we did luck out in jacksonville because we are seeing minimal damage, a lot of downed power lines, 20,000 folks without power but working to thet power as soon as possible. the roads, very slick, a lot of debris and we spoke to the mayor and he says he knows it's memorial day weekend, people are going to head out and if you don't need to travel, stay indoors. here is w...

To learn more, contact an amway independent business owner. >>. >> arthel: a battle over equal rights on the front lines, two family officers are suing the defense officers, suing. it's brought by major jane baldwin and one others they accuse them are violating rights of service woman because of denying them roles because their gender. >> ellen ratner, viewer chief of talk radio news service and fox news contributor and deneen borelli which is columnist for the daily call every and also a fox news contributor. okay, let's get to it.

and then curving back out here. take a look exactly where it is. parts of georgia and north florida. then take a look where we have some of the worst drought. darkest colors are exceptional drought. this area desperately needs a lot of rain and we're going to get it over the next couple of days. take a look at this. a lot of areas right where the drought is, maybe two to three inches of rain and ice the pockets, four to six inches. it's not going to get rid of the drought and is going to make a dent in it. unfortunately for this weekend, memorial day we'll be dealing with wind, this ...

which is kind of good but a big bummer, a lot of beaches go there this and starting summer. unfortunately rough weekend all across that northern half of florida into the georgia coastline and into south carolina. at times getting to 30-40 miles an hour. you might see stimd that 40-45 miles an hour. right now the official winds, up to 65 miles an hour. throw the radar on top of that, it has made a conversion to tropical storm. strongest winds are at the center of the storm and not outside of it. rainbands were moving onshore moving around 10 miles an hour. it will be making a trip rig...