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Levees are... ifeel addition of some dates, and the levees are... i feel much levees are... ifeel much more confident about the levees. that doesn't mean we can be complacent in this substantial rain event. new orleans has to be pumped out, and if we are seeing up to 2a inches of rain and power outages at any major pumps, i believe we will seek flooding as a result of that. so i'm concerned for that flooding, but not as concerned for catastrophic weather. thank ou ve for catastrophic weather. thank you very much _ for catastrophic weather. thank you very much for _ for catastrophic weather. th...

Houma, shifting a little bit to the east. that will actually bring it a little closer to new orleans, too, which is not what anyone in new orleans wants to hear. then that storm will rain itself out and it will be a painful rain event for mississippi and louisiana. our computer models, we continue to get these new mo models in every six hours. a bunch of them still port towards morgan city, houma, but, again, these did not take into account the jog the storm is taking to the northeast. they will likely shift closer instead of morgan city to houma going throughout the afternoon. the storm surge...

Up to two inches an hour in some areas and with wind gusts over 45 miles per hour knocking down some tree limbs. these utility crews are standing by ready to respond as power outages are already impacting thousands here and this storm far from over. more than an additional six inches of rain or more possible over the next 24 hours as this storm continues to move through. linsey. >> janai, stay safe. let's go straight to senior meteorologist rob marciano who is in westerly, rhode island. rob, what is next in store for henri? >> reporter: well, the wind and the waves are still up where henri cam...

Carley: good morning. jillian: now to this, tropical storm henri weakening to a tropical depression overnight. the slow moving storm battering the northeast with dangerous storm surge and severe flooding after making landfall in rhode island yesterday. carley: fox weather correspondent steve bender is live at smith point beach in long island, new york with the latest. good morning, steve. >> reporter: good morning, jillian and carley. a much better scene here this morning where we're seeing the skies start to clear, a beautiful sunrise in the background. we still do have a rough surf and dange...

Branches, that will cause power outages. you get the idea, areas of eastern pennsylvania, up across parts of vermont and new hampshire in some sort of flood warnings right now. that's going to be the immediate concern. the storm surge will subside over the next couple hours and we turn into a prolonged rain event. new york city in one hour got more rain than ever recorded in any one hour period, brooklyn saw six inches of rain already from this storm. more of that ahead. the winds are now down to 60 miles an hour, that is certainly helpful, especially for some of the trees and maybe that dimin...