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Strongest winds extend out somewhat and circulate out wider and weaken somewhat. then those eye walls start to get stronger and they confine and collapse interior and it gains speed again. during that process it could weaken. we had that, we think, just before landfall. post analysis of all the data will tell us or not. it could have kept it from reaching category 5 status. what it did is not always good news. because the inner eye wall extended out wards, it took those strong winds and created a larger profile for more damage, maybe a good 7 to 10 miles to the east and west. your destruction ...

Louisiana, but also in mississippi, alabama, texas, all over the gulf coast as they prepare for potential catastrophe here. this storm is so large at this point that 15 miles out in either direction from the eye wall, 15 miles in its own right, that's how far the hurricane strength winds extend, which could potentially clip new orleans, it would encompass baton rouge where i am. we are buttoning down for what could be a turbulent hours ahead. i'm on the lsu campus in baton rouge as you were mentioning a second ago, watching people that were just doing walks around this lake. i spoke with a cou...

As it makes it was inland bringing more heavy rain. we're looking for storm surges of up to 16 feet in some section along the coast of louisiana. we're going to be looking at the dangerous winds. wind gusts of over 100 miles an hour in some sections. we're talking isolated amounts. two feet of rain. that's going to cause big problems because the ground is already saturated here. as it makes its way up into the ohio and mississippi river valley, it's going be bringing three to five inches of rain as well. we are nowhere near through this thing yet. the eye wall making its way into new orleans. ...

That. this seems to be hunkering down and staying parked over this part of louisiana. that would tell me that there's going to be some significant damage, perhaps well into the evening hours as well. >> oh, you're right. the storm is moving at a snail's pace. very, very slowly. when you talk about winds in excess of 100 miles per hour over the same area for hours on end, that's going to be catastrophic damage. the storm is weakening very, very slowly. so as we get into the overnight hours, the storm pulls to the north, we'll continue to get winds, at least hurricane force, during the overnight...

Defined. it's probably happened before but that is standing out to me. and one of the other things i wanted to ask you about is this anecdote that the mississippi river, the flow of the mississippi river was reversed by this storm. i can't imagine this is the first time that has ever happened. but how remarkable is that to you? >> it is incredibly remarkable. we know the volume of water that flows down stream in the mississippi river. about a four-hour time span where the wind and the surge was so powerful that it actually caused the mississippi river to flow upstream. it's now flowing in the ...