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The gulf on track to reach baton rouge. nbc meteorologist bill karins is back with one more update for us. bill, i understand we have more advisories related to flash flooding to worry about. >> for the first time under a flash flood emergency for the national weather service. they put that out for the new orleans area. immediately, you're like uh-oh, new orleans under flash flood emergency. the levees are fine. it's because of the heavy rainfall and the pumps are struggling in a few areas to keep up. that was expected. they said that leading up to this, if we get the anticipated foot of rain ...

And bill, we just got the latest update from the national hurricane center, right? >> yeah, a tick lower. that's all we have been doing all day long. landfall was 150-mile-per-hour winds. we're now at 115. which is the lowest end of a category 3. so it's really incredible to think that landfall was at 1:00 eastern time. and now we're at 9:00 eastern time, eight hours later, it's still a major hurricane. that's incredible. that rarely ever happens. a lot of it is because it was stalled a little bit over the warm swampy waters of southern louisiana and it didn't weaken quickly because of that. n...

The winds will pick up in new orleans. the peak winds expected late this afternoon into the evening. here is the new forecast track from the hurricane center. notice the red line is the center path. almost over the top of -- holloman. it's the biggest population in southeast louisiana about 32,000 people live there. hopefully almost all are gone. they're protected bay levy but we're not positive that the water will hold back from that levy. i was hearing the levy is at 12 feet high. the storm surge is supposed to be 10 to 15 feet. they're getting hit by the equivalent of a powerful tornado and...

The other two were 1856 and laura last year at cameron parrish. the storm is already over the top and almost heading to baton rouge. baton rouge, 10:00 p.m. this evening, you could have hurricane gusts even in baton rouge. extreme power outages. new orleans, your peak winds are expected 80 to 90, right around 6:00 p.m. this evening and then the storm heads north wards and a huge rain threat. covering flooding the next three to four days because of the storm through mississippi and eventually some of the mess into areas of the tennessee valley and the mid-atlantic. right now the life threatenin...

Follow-up procedure that june. it leaves him out of the competition with rafael nadal and novak djokovic for aimen's record 21st grand slam singles title. feel better, roger. he is my favorite for that group. let's go to the meteorologist bill karins keeping an eye on tropical storm fred. bill, what's going on? >> yeah, we're expecting that landfall later today. we just got the new information in from the national hurricane center. and we have a tropical storm warning for panama city. we expect about 8:00 p.m. today that potential landfall there right along the coastal area. here's the new upd...