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And that's something the mayor and i also spoke to the police chief, they said that's something they're watching for because that's something that can come about that doesn't give much warning. if people think they're not dealing with something serious, where they see the sunshine and you don't have the winds coming that can give people a false sense security. from one moment to the other it's time to hunker down, time to take those precautions and just wait out the storm. the benefit compared to what the city saw during hurricane katrina, this storm is expected to be a pretty fast moving stor...

Next couple of hours and through this evening. and there's also levees that protect morgan city, that protects houma, louisiana. we'll see if those levees hold up over the next 12 hours because that's the test for anyone that stayed behind hoping their levees hold. and then the rainfall forecast, as we've been saying, up to 20 inches possible in new orleans or the southeastern portions of louisiana. and then the winds, this is that extreme wind ban, the core of the storm moving onshore, we think that barely misses new orleans but this extreme amount of power outages. at this point, alex, with ...

Category 5 status as we give you a look at new orleans, one of many areas in the state where forecasters are warning of life-threatening storm surge, catastrophic wind damage, major flooding and even tornadoes. the new orleans mayor will be giving us an update in a few minutes. we'll bring that to you live. earlier today here on msnbc the mayor of baton rouge expressed the serious nature of this threat for the 14 million people in its path. we have become more resilient, but my greatest concern is making sure that people are safe and sound and listening to the messages that we've been commun...

Terrebonne bay. grand isle had that 146-mile-per-hour wind gust. one thing that's interesting with the structure of the storm, we're now seeing dual eye walls. the storm had been about 20 miles wide. that's the clear eye here. then another ring on the outside of that. so that's what we call a double eye wall that is 50 miles wide. the max winds will come down with the storm a little bit so you think that's great but the problem is then the wind field expands so the damage path could be even wider so instead of just an extreme damage path of 20 miles now we're talking about maybe not quite as e...

The things folks have to worry about, these signs and different things on lampposts can become projectiles. we obviously are keeping an eye on that as well as we report to you. we are worried about the heavy rains, the winds picking up. it is going to be a while, as bill karins said. and the good news is our hotel is close by. we can hunker down. in fact, last night, and we've seen a number of the local utilities, the entergy folks, are staying at our hotel. we feel pretty good about that. that probably means we're going to have power. you always want to stay where the linemen are. that and cl...