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>> shepard: this is the fox report. it's the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. live from the heart of the french quarter on a balcony overlooking the french quarter from the royal ton esta hotel bienville and bourbon street. not a lot of wind here at the moment. 10 to 15 miles per hour. it will change. it has on lake pontchartrain that's where casey stegall will be riding out isaac. what's it like there now? >> like why said at the top of the hour we have seen wind gusts here up to 40 miles per hour. the rain is really coming down. what's happening is you are starting to seat w...

>> shepard: 21 minutes past the hour live on bourbon street. french quarter in new orleans. bands of rain are coming into new orleans. the worst of the storm will be here overnight and into tomorrow through the tomorrow and into the next day. right now we are on lake pontchartrain. surf is up. casey stegall. first to reed timmer winds have gotten strong. >> we have had intense band coming through. every times intense band comes through intense more and waters will rise. the parking lot has become part of the gulf of mexico just off the casino here waveland, mississippi. right neither louisiana...

Parking garage. as this water rises we will will keep going up in the floors of the parking garage. as we were driving out here you could see what was left over from that damage from katrina. you could see a lot of the tree damage and you could see probably at least 20, 30 feet of water easily. thankfully we won't have that. but there is enough water with this storm surge to cause foe tenelly catastrophic damage for low lying areas around here waveland and new orleans and far south of louisiana. >> >> shepard: reed timmer from mississippi. mississippi coast as well. i understand steve is up an...

To the north and so we're looking at potential for 7 to 14 inches of rain. locally 20 inches of rain. obviously areas where there is rain and storm surge, the combined effects will be even worse. >> shepard: i wonder about upriver, ed, before we go, vicksburg, jackson, mississippi, memphis and st. louis, there is a lot of rain in store for all those inland cities, isn't there? >> yes, there is now, we do expect that the forward speed will increase a bit. after a day or two. but, yes, we're expecting considerable flooding. not only up the coast, mainly from storm surge but well inland because o...

Since katrina we have learned a lesson. we have a suite of 132 hurricanes coming in different intensities and different sizes. we put them into a model and that's how we come up with a design system like this. not one hurricane. a lot of hurricanes have had a projected track of what this one has to come in west of the city proper which is a worse case scenario for the city new orleans. everyone knows that thankfully not as strong as others have been but it's moving mighty slowly. >> it is. it's moving slow. it's going to give us a lot of rain. but there is also going to be a significant amount...