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Mike, what is going on with this storm system? >> well, the storm, chris, is basically a life support like with bonnie, like with cauline, the systems have had a tough time remaining organized and this one may degenerate into an area of low pressure. hurricane hunter aircraft will go back out there early this afternoon. we had rain across southeast louisiana and parts of new orleans has been hit by heavy rain. that is going to be the real impact at this point. some heavy rain, three to five inches along the gulf coast and on the satellite loop, you can see a large, broad circulation but the lo...

Breaking up, falling apart over the gulf. winds remain at about 30 miles per hour. forecasters say the storm is not going to be gaining strength. mike siedel is in dolphin island, alabama. good morning, mike. explain to us what caused it to fall apart. >> reporter: it didn't have much going for it. you know, it's never looked like your classic, you know, when you look at the satellite loop and see a big blob spinning around, we never had that. it was all asymetrical. all the storms were on the north and east side. wind shear, that is not something you want to see if you want tropical weather. ...

An hour and several hours of heavy rain. more of basically a nuisance, veronica. it moved across the coast and weakened to a depression by 5:00 eastern yesterday. satellite loop this morning shows you what's left. a lot of wind sheer, a lot of wind aloft, there's dry air thrown in there. two big factors keeping the tropical system, bonnie from intensifying and also keeping it from being a hurricane. that was never the forecast. but it was a forecast of a tropical storm going over the oil spill, thus unlike alex, which was 500 miles away about a month ago, they brought everyone inland. we're st...

Walking to the room. following a -- except her. following a search, police consider this a criminal case and have not called the stepmother a person of interest. reports say the hormans are separated and he's moved out of the house with his daughter. >> tropical storm alex poised to become the first atlantic hurricane. the national weather service reports the storm is 300 miles off the coast of texas. you see it there. can we go back to that? notice the difference in the satellite loop. now that thing looks like a hurricane. see it swirling? you don't see the eye yet but it's clearly coming to...

The thunderstorm activity and a little bit more organization. as the satellite loop plays you can see the thunderstorms fire up into the caribbean. and right now the national hurricane center says that 70%, 70% chance of this developing into a tropical cyclone, depression possibly, within the next 48 hours, that the numbers for the percentage have been going up. they started yesterday this time at 30%. now we are up to 70%. it seems even more likely that this will develop and hurricane hunter aircraft is set to fly into the system at 1:00 today. and we will see whether or not they find a close...