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she lost to the romanian player right there, 6-2, 6-2 was it. she still did great. we re bracing for barry, the tropical storm is making its way across the area. we re looking at a downgraded storm as of an hour and a half ago. that s enough to knock out the electricity. we already have 111,000 people without power in louisiana. this is what we re looking at right now, let s take a look at where we re going to go. we re looking at six miles per hour. a fast walking pace, still, here s what the track is going to look like painfully slow at 7:00, we re not very far. it s going to move into the tennessee valley, then the ohio river valley, eventually into the northeast. this is a week long event for many of us in the u.s. i want to show you the radar, this is the main topic tonight, ....
Hours as the storms come through places like baton rouge, den man springs, lafayette, new orleans. new orleans you got to pump the water out. when it goes through lafayette, baton rouge and hammond, and denman springs, as a storm pass s and the water stops, the water is willed back through those cities as it tried to make its way out of those areas. when the rain stops, there will be a chance of flooding from the back flow that will be trying to make its way to the gulf. that s the danger i see in the coming days. a lot of people saying this is not danger. it s something that that area will be dealing with, beyond louisiana, many is miss as well as parts of alabama. you mentioned the one to two feet possible of rain. ....
Be a dangerous situation. some 40 people have died due to flooding this year alone, that said, i m fascinated by the trajectory of this storm. it wasn t in the gulf as many of the storms are, it was near the tennessee valley, take me back to the track of this particular storm. it s an interesting case. this was a case of a low pressure trough moving out of the area, some thunderstorms built around, you start to see some rotation. the history of this storm came out of the tennessee valley in georgia, and eventually we have a hurricane. ....
To my right, over that the other side of the street rather, is the mississippi river that s why this area is under mandatory evacuation, a lot of people heeded the evacuation warnings, but talking to the authorities, talking to the sheriff the president of the parish tell me, the storm has passed us, we can go out and go about our day. they re urging residents, you do not want to be caught in waters like this, we re seeing flooding and we re seeing, as you can see these winds that pick up and you get caught in one of these wind gusts, you do not want to put yourself or your family in that kind of situation. i know they had a mandatory evacuation there, and it seems as if you guys have hit a lull right now. have the authorities been out trying to survey the damage that area has sustained? ....
Them. the police and fire really say, get out. there s not much we can do for you when there is an emergency. thus far, no indications of any 911 calls made by someone who had had an unexpected health effect by maybe even unrelated to the hurricane. and that s a good thing right now, there are many forecasts saying the worst is yet to come with this storm. as you look at that radar, right there, if we can pop it up a little bit bigger, to give you a perspective of where the low is spinning off to the right and lower hand corner of that is where kerry sanders is, louisiana kind of looks like a boot in some ways, and kerry s down there at the front of that boot, the low lying area, they re getting hit by a lot of rain right now with a lot more to come. ....