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Tomorrow afternoon will just be 40 miles offshore. the hurricane-force winds just about 10 miles offshore. so we'll, watching this closely as the day wears on as that pushes through. wind speeds will be an issue. we'll be looking at storm surge and as the winds wrap around that -- wrap around dorian, the winds push the ocean waters up against the shoreline. so as the day progresses today, we'll watch that as the system slowly makes its way up the co-. a coast and then continues to push to the northeast. what we expect as far as rainfall forecast, upwards of 15 inches of rain possible stretchin...

All of our computers were pinpointing baton rouge with the possibility of 15, 20 inches of rain. what happened is, see the jog the storm took. barry is much closer to the texas/louisiana border than it was supposed to be. that has taken the heavy band of rain that was going to be narrow and it shifted it towards lafayette, louisiana. if there's one city i'm concerned with and the surrounding areas, it's laugh yechlt you can see the heavy band of rain off the coast and centered over the top of lafayette. that's the area of greatest concern and we have a high risk of flash flooding. doesn't mean...

In red are where we have current flash flood warnings. one spot in mississippi just passed 10 inches of rain. that's the highest total i've seen. baton rouge, over the last hour or two you've seen the worst weather of the storm. numerous tornado warnings. a good one east of the town. now the heavy rain is starting to shift a little bit to the east. you'll get a little bit of a break. probably maybe another hour or so of heavy rain. and then a couple more bands later today. as far as the flood risk goes again, it's all areas of mississippi, louisiana, and arkansas. that's the greatest concern o...

Up a little bit, especially in southern portions of missouri. the rainfall forecast, the heaviest totals will be further to the south. widespread 5 to 10. a chance of isolated 15 to 20 inches. so far so good. we're not done yet. >> bill karins staying on top of it for us. thank you so much. joining us from plaque mans parish is mariana atencio. it looks like new orleans escaped a direct hit like bill was saying. what have you experienced there? >> reporter: jo, a lot of people breathing a sigh of relief this morning because the worst of the forecast with the tropical storm did not materializ...

Of the state. that's why we have watches going from memphis southward, little rock, alexandria, and biloxi. we have no red. this map will be filled right here in the southern portion of the state because that's where we think the flash flooding will occur. the big question is, how much rainfall are we going to get? you notice not much in lafayette. look where the bull's eye is from morgan city, and the computer is saying baton rouge has a chance of getting 18 inches of rain. that's why we're so concerned with the baton rouge area. new orleans even with five or six inches could have problems wi...