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Taking them to alexandria so people can get air conditioning, food, water, medical services that they need. >> let me ask you this. i know how hot it is there. my entire family is still there. they're in baton rouge and alive and safe so i'm happy. they will lose the food in the refri refrigerator or freezer, fine. it stifling heat there. if you don't have a place to go and tell people not to come back and others to leave, look, i don't want to be hyperbolic. any death is tragic. we're not going to get back to the police where there are fema trailers for folks. are we going to reach that point...

To a place where there are fema trailers for folks. are we going to reach that point with this? >> if you don't have a house, you have to stay somewhere to rebuild. so i mean, yeah, that's what it will look like certainly on grand isle. people will need, you know, these resources. they have to be close to their home to rebuild. so i think i got disconnected -- >> no, you're here. you're there. we can hear you and see you. >> my skreent screen went blank. okay. >> you're good. >> okay. so yeah, i mean, we probably will get to that level of this. you know, we don't have gas. there is long, long ...

Tom, what's the latest forecast? this thing is strengthening, no doubt about it? >> no doubt about it, jim. what we've been watching is a well-defined eye popping up. inside the eye, columns of warm air are shooting up and cooling at the top. we got a lot of lightning activity, so it's strengthening. we'll get a 5:00 p.m. update from the national weather service, but we'll see the pressure drop. when the pressure drops, the winds respond and they really pick up. so, again, we're at 100-mile-an-hour sustained storm. we're about 290 miles from the mouth of the mississippi. four out of five hurri...

But the rain is certainly kicking up and i was texting with my contact at the national guard and he said don't get overly confident because the storm is still strong and it's on its way and brace yourself for a lot of heavy rain coming your way, but i can show you what's going on right here right now and as we said we're on the banks of the mississippi and we're at the belle casino which is pretty quiet out there today. the water is kicking around a bit and the trees are dipping into the water, at least the edges of them and it's certainly coming up here and lapping on the lower step here so w...

And it's stagnant, you get the problems with contamination, or it makes its way to the extremesextreme streams, creeks, and rivers. roads being washed away. you have to think of baton rouge in 2016 where they received 15 inches of rain, 10 to $15 billion had to be poured into the cleanup. some people are still sitting in fema trailers three years later and going through the same process all over again. so lots of prayers going on. our heart breaks for them. that's what we'll be watching over the next several days. >> storm surge, you're saying we still should be concerned about it. but you loo...