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Supposed i should ask not what are you seeing but what are people preparing for. reporter: exactly. well, poppy, it is very sunny and a bit muggy right now. a stark difference from yesterday at this time when people in their morning commutes were dealing with intense amounts of rain causing a flash flood maermgs in addition to a tornado watch. we re expecting more of that rainfall to come later today and the worst of it of course hitting on saturday. so in prep ration for that, a lot of flood gates are being closed, dozens of them including the one here at the port of new orleans by 5:00 p.m. eastern time today. this one will be closed so no vehicle traffic coming through here. they ve also been closing praed gates over by the spanish plaza, river walk, hilton hotel. these are areas frequented by tourists and we saw people who came yesterday actually for sorority convention, some of those ladies told us they re going to hunker down and have a ....

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