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Out last night, vehicles drove into that area that was flooded. two fatalities, ten injuries, three of those injuries are critical. so highway 26 is both lanes washed out, that was overnight in mississippi. we still have flash flood warnings in areas from biloxi to gulf port to mobile. we were talking obviously about a million people still without power, yesterday it was hot and humid, it is still that way today. the heat index this afternoon will feel like 100 in new orleans and that's not going to change. that's not going to change any time soon it's not until the end of september where it b...

For weeks. to our meteorologist adam klotz in fox weather center. reporter: well, the thing this continues to change it is such a powerful windstorm we're focusing more and more on the rain. grand isle it was close to 1 50s miles per hour, we had high wind totals enough to do wide spread damage. as it lifts closer inland and further inland, new orleans with 83 mile hour gusts, they are peak gusts, recent gusts in 40 to 50 miles per hour. still enough to do damage. as we continue overnight it appears we're more and more of a rain maker. still very heavy bands of rain in portions of eastern loui...

Per hours, gusting to 160, moving to northwest at 10 miles per hour, you see the center of circulation falling apart a little bit, maybe it will disintegrate more in coming hours but still packing a punch, you have wind gusts in new orleans area to 71 miles per hour, close to 50 miles per hour in baton wrong -- baton rouge and a lot of rain. as a category 3, is no the not often you see hurricane warnings this far inland. this is the case because the winds will stick with it until 1:00 a.m., despite the winds it is a rainmaker, look at deep reds on eastern side of the storm, an area we'll talk ...

And the path of the storm, should be a tropical depression by later today. but then this is a huge rain maker through tennessee which has had epic flooding the past summer. then the rain is going to go through washington d.c., through philadelphia and new york city. the least thing we need after what we dealt with with henri last weekend is another flood event. 58 million people from philadelphia, jersey, down to new orleans are under flash flood watches we have the warnings from the rain we're seeing with the storm currently. here's the expected rainfall, this is in addition to what's already...

Powerful and how devastating hurricane ida is and continues to be. back to you. jillian: jeff paul live for us on the ground there. thank you very much. let's bring in fox news senior meteorologist janice dean, live in the weather center. what's the latest? >> it's moving up towards mississippi, alabama and tennessee is going to get part of this as well with several inches of rain. last week, historic rain for tennessee, because of a frontal boundary that brought over 17 inches of rain so i am concerned as the storm continues to move north and east, weakening, we're going to see this as a trem...