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>> all right, is we are watching this any idea from john bel edwards governor and others what they are seeking on time line for rest of flooding you and i covered enough storms together to know the storm makes landfall can be two or three days before we start in on major inland flooding the water rescues, et cetera, do they feel think of evacuated feel they have evacuated enough in baton rouge and into northern louisiana there? those towns. >> that is hard to say, i can tell that you there haven't been coast guard rescues since this afternoon as far as we know, and rear admiral said that tonig...

Way out into this band that's probably about 150 miles per hour away winds gussing in the 60 mile-per-hour range. this band will continue to rotate on shore across parts of maybe mississippi and then see all of these rotate in across areas like new orleans and eventually the center of the storm go southern louisiana. that's where we will see the worst of the winds. winds won't be the worst of the story this bulls eye right here green. flood warnings going on right now. heaviest of the rainfalls. not just along the coast. extends way further inland. these are the two most reliable models. you n...

Situation here with the city preparing for a lot of water, right now a lot of wind as well. erica, i'm going to send it back to you. we'll see how this place fares later today. >> we'll continue to check in with you, natasha, thank you. not too far from where i'm standing is where we find cnn's nick wats. he's in youngsville. you're focussed in that area because of the river that's here in lafayette but also makes its way down to youngsville, the vermilion river which is actually below its normal levels for this time of year. that doesn't mean that this region, nick, is totally out of the wo...

Baton rouge, 61 miles per hour. jackson, 28. hattiesburg, 39. biloxi, 24. not humongous numbers. with the sun setting in the next couple of hours, that's bad news once we turn dark throughout the night. we're going to continue to watch this as we go throughout the next couple hours. the flash flooding threat in parts of louisiana, even through the panhandle of florida, southwestern mississippi and up through parts of tennessee. richard? >> so michelle, one of the things that i was looking at just doing bad math was looking at -- you said close to three feet of water in some places all said aft...

Many wake up without power. these storms have weakened and are still tracking in northern georgia. we have about 50 million people with all the big cities included in this. seeing scattered severe storms. you could get hit. a 50/50 shot of being hit. the concentration of the severe storms could be a little higher. maybe an isolated tornado. wind damage and especially large hail which is rare for the east coast but we could see some baseball sized hail. we had a lot of rain in the philadelphia area. streams and creeks in flood stage. we'll have to keep an eye on that. 40 million people still at...