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saluting the class of 2022 from the president to the fonz. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >> good evening. i'm tom llamas in for lester tonight, a dangerous tropical threat taking aim at florida, parts of the southern coast getting pounded by heavy rains. the tropical cyclone with warnings issued for a large part of the state, including south florida and the keys also on alert, parts of the bahamas and cuba where at leas one person already died dangerous rains expected to continue overnight, causing torrential downpours and possible tornadoes. just this wee...

There. now with social media, frankly, twitter came around in 2006 and revolutionized how response agencies gather information. this all happened on the 16th anniversary of katrina which still haunts all of us here in the u.s. was ida a test of the improvements that were made since katrina and based on what we're seeing right now, does it give you confidence that our infrastructure is in a much better place? >> it was a best, but then again, fema and response agencies have been tested basically every year since 2005. there's been devastating hurricanes and wildfires, tornadoes, floods, you nam...

Aimed think there might be some isolated areas, 15 feet as it makes landfall. we expect anywhere from eight to 12 inches of rains in areas we get a lot of fresh water flooding. like i say, they've done years with the flood control systems and the big thing with this will be the wind and the storm surge, but i think we'll -- it's going to be category 3 here momentarily and we're going to go up to category 4 before landfall and technically the new models are coming out. bring it with this up to five miles an hour, cat 5. maybe a high cat 4 when we see it unfold. it's intensifying. >> yeah. that ...

Distance-- what you can't see is that the lock and dam is actually right there. but that's totally underwater and that's of course interfering with commerce because you have barges and traffic up and down the arkansas river delivering goods and things like that. clearly they're not out there now, but we want to talk about in the distance on the other side of the river, that's where you have homes underwater and one of our journalists just got back from a boat ride and we are going to show you some of that video coming up in the next hour. it's only reachable by boat. a lot of folks, mandatory ...

The florida department of education is in contact with school districts, state colleges and universities. they will receive updates before, during and after the storm. to find out if your local school district is closing please vit the website. at this point all school distincts are monitoring the path. for any questions on school closure, call your superintendent. >> i've been in touch with the army corps of engineers to zus the lake okay a choeb by. the u.s. core of the engineers have begun lowering water levels in the lake as well as sour rounding canals and moving as much water as possible...