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Forecast point. the closer they are together, that means we've got a slow storm. by monday morning, arkansas, and tuesday morning, miss sour rim . this is moving northward and that means rain, along the area, tropical storm rains throughout the weekend and early next week. leland: rick was talking about a warning that was put out, i don't know whether it was by you all or the national weather service, about how confident they were that the flooding inland will be in their words, catastrophic. what does that mean? >> well, we have different categories when we talk about the potential for flash ...

Staying off the dangerous roadways. eric: the water is warmer and the air is warmer, what does that when they move so slowly, like 5 miles an hour or just come back around and sit and stay in one place? >> look at the forecast how slow this is. when you have warm atmospheric and moisture, that's one to have big problems we are having and each one of these is a forecast point and look how close they are together, we are not moving very fast, that's not going to be an entire weekend or early next week, a lot of time to put down a lot of rainfall and cause a lot of flooding, so that's what we are...

>> calling for a real slow storm each one of those stops here is actually a forecast point and the closer those are together, that means we've got to slow storm so look at this. monday morning we're in arkansas and by tuesday in missouri, so isn't it not just coastal but slow isly but surely moving northward rain along into the right side side tropical rain throughout the rest of the weekend into early next week. we have fox team coverage now tropical storm barry. meteorologist adam in extreme weather center and in bay st. louis, mississippi but we begin with senior correspondent rick leventha...

Impacts on hurricane force winds, rain and storm surge extend out of the cone. that's what we need to be careful of. let's concentrate definitely on these impacts. >> what, in your opinion, are the most dangerous aspects of the storm? wind is dangerous, flooding's dangerous, storm surge is dangerous. what are your worried about here? >> just every facets of the impacts of the system becomes a major player. each one of these is another forecast point. the closer those are together the slower the storm and areas receiving prolonged winds over saturated soil, so we're looking at prolonged power o...

Islands. the bottom line is we've already pushed forward on power teams. we're using other staff from other regions and other states coming in to be able to support irma. as far as the funding goes, i've been laser focused on the life safety mission, but it's my understanding that the white house and homeland security are working with the congress to get going on the supplemental so we should be good there. >> one final thing i'm hoping to get you to emphasize. i have no doubt there are folks on the southwest side of florida who are sitting there watching and thinking, okay, if it hits miami a...