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Time it accelerates by the time we head to the weekend. heather, patti ann? >> people of new orleans bracing for the brunt of the storm. we are live with the latest from louisiana. >> gulf states have declared a state of emergency. we think it will make land fall tonight or early tomorrow morning. the biggest trend of the storm is the fact that it is going to be a rain maker. this is a low lying part of the united states. so what are people doing? well if traffic is any indication there are thousands of people that booked it out of town yesterday. there was a mandatory evacuation a number of a...

Should go, they're both going up. >> bret: so the sense is the unemployment rate here is better than the national average. >> absolutely. it is. >> 7.2 as of june. a huge decrease. >> we peaked at 10.6% in 2009. so we have really come down. that is another reason. auto bail-out aside, the president says the economy is on track and recovery is underway, you buy it in ohio more easily than in other states where they haven't seen the gains we have seen. >> the latest poll shows obama over romney. that's the following of the unemployment rate in ohio. >> bret: agriculture is a big issue. how does ...

United states, where on friday it still was a flip of a coin if it could turn north or not, but now the storm continues to be rather disorganized making its way toward nicaragua and honduras. you can see louisiana and texas here. this storm is going to be down towards belize, making landfall probably in 48 hours. may never make it to hurricane status. ernesto's just going to be a rain-maker in central america, so that's fantastic. as far as what we're dealing with here, we had a cold front slicing through the east and how grossry humid has it been ahead of that front for much of the eastern se...

That. plus this -- >> oh, man it's a rain maker to center field toward the mountains, darn. martha: 28 homers, even managing to land a few in the right field fountain. the tiger's first baseman becomes only the second player ever to win multiple home run titles. good for him. he joins ken griffey jr. watch the all-star game tonight on the fox business network.

40 or 50 boats stored inside, clearly some of them are damaged and th the sail boats are rocking and rolling out there all day the biggest threat is rain, rain, rain, right now. we are in a bit of a holding pattern. the fire department is sending us out, jaime. jamie: all right. i want to ask you how close debby is to making landfall at this point. i know everyone is getting ready? >> reporter: yeah, it's about 90 miles now southwest of the big bend of the state of florida, it makes a geographical bend like an elbow up there. a lot of swamps up there. it's not really too heavily densely popula...