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Are providing the assistance they need, i need to hear from them and see for myself. i was able to do that over the last two days working with the governor, traveling with the governor to assess the impacts and hear from people that really are going to have a long road to recovery. >> how far it doesn't work as far as pre-positioning assets? you know the storm is coming there's a number of states to try to get ready for print how did that work in this case is in a playing out in the aftermath as you hoped? what's it absolutely is, shannon. i talked to the governor on friday before it landfall ...

Landfall it was category four and is still that it has weekend about one —- of it 130 miles per hour this will move fairly slowly and we can slowly so this is a forecast of the track across the louisiana but that is now 1:00 a.m. still category one places this far inland do not typically deal with hurricanes a hit landfall then we can more quickly than we are seeing with this one what does this look like it is a future forecast model you can see moisture and on the eastern side of this eventually getting up into mississippi or even into alabama all of that moisture will mean flooding or the ...

Engineers that with hundreds of high clearance vehicles that can go in and assist with search and rescue and engineers that can help clean roads. those on top of what's already in the state in florida, georgia, south carolina, north carolina who are working hand in hand with the county officials. these are federal backups as well as that ship at sea that's about to go in and help our friends in the bahamas. a lot of planning has been going on, a lot of positioning of resources. we'll see how that gets reset tomorrow depending on the storm. at the end of the day, the storm has a vote. and it ca...

The rain is going to be tremendous and the storm sourge is going to be 12 feet. we're not telling anybody to evacuate yet because we don't know if it's going to be fort lauderdale or west wpalm. 20 inches of rain over a lot of the state. that's going to cause flooding. the wind will take roofs off, blow windows out of high-rises, certainly. and 12 feet of water, some places in some towns, that will flood entire villages right along the coast of florida. we know that's happening, we just don't know where just yet. >> it's looking daunting. chad myers, thanks very much. every time we've spoken y...

Currently around 120 kilometers an hour this is a category one hurricane now but as you mentioned it is also it is always the water that is of particular worry him in new orleans and we could see hoffa meta dumps on the city over the course all of the weekend the good news is that once hurricane barry does hit landfall it can lose some all of its strength by leaving the gulf of mexico from where it takes its power from but then of course there is the storm surge which it dumps on the city and we have seen one levee states banks about an hour and a half away from here unleashing a flood surge t...