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Major hurricane all along the florida coast line. the whole state of florida under state of emergency, category for looming offshore bringing the worst effects, the major hurricane force windss, flooding rainfall in feet and storm surge that continues to pound the coastline. this could be a worst-case scenario. i will tell you a lot of uncertainty through sunday, monday, tuesday, even wednesday. even though florida is the bull's-eye we can't let our guard down in parts of georgia and the carolinas. here's the latest forecast track. we expect this to become a major hurricane, surpassing categor...

We're staying on top of the situation in manhattan where power is gradually being restored after that blackout. but of course we don't want to lose track what's happening farther south with tropical storm barry. cnn's derek van dam has the latest for us. derek, in the weather center, we're hearing the governor of louisiana is saying the worst is still to come. >> that's correct, alex. in fact it's important that people and residents of louisiana don't let their guard down, because the bands of heavy rain have not yet moved onshore for most locations. mobile, alabama, had a band of and there pr...

Feet, three five feet, in some cases as high as six feet for some of the storm surge before the system finally does make landfall. >> allison chinchar with the latest. i want to bring in gary tuchman in new orleans. there was a lot of concern early on, gary, about the waters potentially topping the levees there. as i understand, that threat officials believe has been reduced a bit. that is of course no reason for residents to let their guard down, gary. >> reporter: exactly right. everyone is still waiting for the worst of this weather to arrive. you know, this is early saturday morning in new...

Always are. >> i'm with you to know that all of the flood gates were closed, $14.6 billion spent for army corps of engineer to be flood walls and all the barriers, surge barriers in the new orleans area, the perimeter around the city, it's good to know that it's working, let's hope and pray that it keeps working. >> absolutely because, again, the national hurricane center is saying people should not let their guard down, do not wave any white flag, it's not time to go out and fight sea and things like that because, again, as i told you in the last hour, although barry has been downgraded the n...

Button that says reset and think that's going to change 500 years of russian calculation of their own national interest. so again, this isn't -- think about when actually if you use another cold war analogy, nixon reached out to china at the time which itself, a very, very bad, very dangerous government but he did so in part to divide china away from the soviet union. what i think president trump could do now is the opposite, frankly. not to let our guard down, not to reduce u.s. defenses or back off on missile defense or anything like that but to begin a dialogue with russia, not what's propo...