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Grossman. so michelle, we have another advisory coming at 5:00. and what are the concerns you are watching when that advisory does come out? >> so we'll have that advisory at 5:00. it won't mean much in terms of what we're expecting of rainfall, life-threatening rainfall. really this is a rainmaker. where you saw morgan, that will be a very different picture over the next 24 hours. the winds may decrease, but the winds haven't been the big headline with this storm. right now we are seeing 70 miles an hour machine windwinds. so it will bring down power lines and additional trees. lots of people...

Some people are still in fema trailers, the river forecasts in that region are supposed to equal or exceed what they just did three years ago when all of that happened. that's what the residents around baton rouge are facing. talk about heartbreaking? they're sitting there on pins and needles looking at the skies, just praying that rainfall predictions don't come true. here's the forecast right now. it's making landfall shortly. along the coast now. it may be a hurricane, it may be a strong tropical storm. that's not the headline. the headline is this, the high-risk of flash flooding in this r...

Are still in fema trailers from three years ago that they were given and they now could be facing something like this again. again, it's louisiana tonight and tomorrow. that's the concern. central portions of the state from baton rouge to about halfway to new orleans. new orleans is looking much better. if they didn't get hit by the horrific storm from the levees, the river crested about three feet below the levees. that was fantastic news last night. we're still waiting to see if the pumps can hold up today in new orleans, but that's with any big storm. the main concern is shifting in central...

President say, it is a significant storm and there will be potentially a lot of damage. >> harris: what's interesting is people are taking for the most part more seriously because they have seen harvey and sandy in recent years. one thing that fema is tasked with doing and i don't know if people know this, sometimes your commitment, used to be years and i assume it still is where people are in fema trailers for a long time waiting, can you talk about that? how long term the government effort has to expect to be with a storm like this? >> the trailers are really designed for short-term stay, no...

They going to open their supermarkets? >> isn't it true fema has a presence in new orleans for several years? people were living in fema trailers for years. >> we were in new orleans just two years ago and we left 5,000 mobile homes there. and we were there for seven or eight months, and we flooded that. we're going to be in puerto rico and now virgin islands also for as long as it takes. >> despite what the president says? >> you know what? we don't follow -- i don't see tv. i don't even pay attention to them. i pay attention to the mission i have, which is fixing puerto rico. >> reporter: in...