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To about 100 miles per hour. so if we're focusing on an area or region, if you're with your family and you haven't lost power yet and you're still listening, you want to get to your safe area. again, that's this area. there is the northern eye. and when we see these magenta colors in here, that's when we get to the extreme rainfall. and that actually helps bring down some of the stronger winds from aloft. and that's when you can get -- that's when we saw our reporters in naples gust to 142. we shouldn't get that anymore. but the hurricane center still has us at 105, gusts to 130. so it is poss...

Rain. spotty in different areas. handle that? were comfortable with the preparations. execution mode right now. happy with the way things are going at this point. >> shepard: colonel, what is still on the drawing board? what is yet to be done. i know the levee right across the water here still needs some attention. just got a bunch of money. that's going to be years away. >> shep, at this point the post katrina work the $14.6 billion that we were appropriated. we are about $10 billion into that. the perimeter system is just about intact and complete. so, there are lots of other things that we ...

I have never seen it this shut down, ever. and 40 years of coming here and 9 hurricanes covered here. this is the most boarded up, shutdown and evacuated i have ever seen the french quarter. our friends at the local fox station tell us they have never seen it either. folks who live here day in and day out say the level of evacuation here, he is especially no mandatory evacuation. only when the storm is a category 3. pleased how many people have some things are. some people carrying on life and the rest. these clouds coming in whipping in over these buildings, in fact with the buildings in the ...

>> yeah. shep. we had to reteeth a little bit. we were standing there on the edge. and you saw all the spray that we were getting off the lake and it was really getting all of our gear wet. as you said. we have got a long ways to go. we are going to be live here on fox news channel all throughout the night so why obviously had to protect our cameras so that we can bring you reports. you can see behind us, this is just right at the shore. again, the eastern shore and the grass is pretty much just flat there. as you see the wind is blowing from the east. it's blowing westward and bringing all of...

Water, of rain in jefferson parish, louisiana. and they had a lot of flooding. they have done a lot of work since then and they think things will be better. as you look. this is beinville street. everything on that level is closed. if you look down here past our satellite truck. this is perpendicular to bourbon street. nothing and nobody on the streets. extremely rare for this city at hurricane time for everybody to just get the heck out. but it appears they have either done that or they are at home and watching it on television. i want to go to a storm chaser. i got word that we have somebody...