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To 15 inches of rain in the next 12 - 24 hours. >> by did you decide to add the new evacuation orders. some of the more voluntary but now you're making them voluntary mandatory. >> we have the st. bernard river and another. both are projected to be 4 - 6 feet high over the record high on its crest. it will be the third-highest crust we've ever seen on the other river. we just had flooding last year when this will be higher and worse as projected than last year. on top of that, with all of the rain in the region, our evacuation routes are very minimal.

Our rescue folks are just trying to make the rescue. were not trying to keep track of him. >> what about in terms of injuries and deaths. have you had any of that. >> none that i've heard of thus far. >> that's good. i spoke with someone earlier and we talked about tropical storm allison, that was the last time you reached record numbers of rainfall. anything like this? >> allison was a little bit north of this county, it was a little bit to the northeast, this is somewhat typical of tropical storm claudette which was in the summer of 1979 that dropped 43 inches in 24 hours in the city of alba...

Doing this. if we can keep the risk low to medium based on the ceiling and visibility, we will keep doing these things. i'm sure they are taking a look at it and will consider continuing if there are people at risk. >> thank you so much for joining us.i know you work through tropical storm allison in texas in 2001 and i was reading that the amount of rain has exceeded in almost half of the time, two or three days versus five days. that was the flooding for tropical storm allison if people want to compare. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> the national weather service cal...

The system continues to drift up the coast. as i said we've already seen 25 inches of rain. how much more could we see? here is a forecast model through the houston area. this is adding to what we've already seen. you're looking 20 - 25 more inches. it will just be a lot more rain. it's crazy that it's arty been. >> when you mention the rain circling back in the rain coming back through, what about the possibility of tornadoes. i know you talked about the tornado warnings and you mentioned there's been a couple spotted. when people are told to evacuate to the rooftop because of flooding and th...