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Southeast louisiana and southern mississippi. you can see the eye here. we have about another two, maybe three hours until we start getting the eye and whatever intensity it's at when it gets there. the destruct i winds that will look like a tornado. let me give you a wider view of the storm. that's the inner portion of the eye. we have a dual eye wall. we have is the center eye and we have this outer ring which is about 50 to 55 miles wide. the inner one is the one that has winds that can get up to 150 to 160. you don't want to get either. the other is still the stronger

Around midday, roughly a 1:00 p.m. hour central daylight time, local time. after it makes landfall as a category 4, right at that 130 sustained wind, just barely a cat 4, you're not going to know the difference if it's a strong cat 3 or barely a cat 4, but it does lose a little strength when it makes its landfall and interacts with land. but again, still a category 2, and you keep it a tropical storm in the northern part of the state here. so again, it's that forward momentum and that surge of energy that continues to pound this region for hours. notice how the icons really spread out when you...

Prepared? where are they? what are they? how are they outfitted >>? how are they outfitted? how many residents do you think will show up there? >> the conditions have started to deteriorate earlier today. the power is starting to go out. we lost power at our emergency operations center here where i am right now. we are under generator back upright now. those power outages continue at the moment. i would say probably close to 70 -- 75% of the parish is without power. we have two shelters of last resort, but really the conditions are too unsafe right now for our residents to get on the road. we'...

Especially overnight. tell us, how worried are you about how quickly it is intensifying? what does that tell us about this hurricane? >> the rapid intensification has been notable. we were in the storm yesterday and it was only a category two winds. our partner crew was flying overnight and they were slowly ramping up to category three or four. but this morning, the storm has been tightening up. the eye wall, we're measuring about a 50 nautical mile eyewall. [inaudible] >> all right, lieutenant commander robert mitchell. it sounds like we may have lost you, we had to cut out there. we'll ask y...

Requires citizens to really help each other out. at the end of the day there are not enough first responders to save people that don't want to help themselves. the more people go out into the elements it gets more difficult for everybody else. we have been through this many times. we are battle tested. we know what to do. we're going to care for each other and even in the most difficult circumstances. we're not out of the woods yet. then this thing is going to move north up into the baton rouge donaldson area as well. these winds are persisting and that second eye wall can really h hurt you. >...