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Low lying area. this is above sea level. and our winds are really picking up now, alex. so this is a very dangerous situation. plus, you also got to figure out we're talking about a lot of rain with this system. we're talking about upwards of 20 inches of rain in areas that have already seen the top july either first, second, or third wettest julys on record. and so with all this rain, all this water -- [ no audio ] situation, alex. that's why people have been evacuated. people have heeded the evacuations. when we flew in, people were waiting in droves to get out. now, of course, airlines canc...

The national hurricane center did a really excellent job with the track, with the winds, with the message of how powerful this is going to be. if it makes landfall at this wind speed, it will tie the record for the strongest hurricane ever to hit louisiana. but if it does make it at the predicted 155 miles per hour, it's going to be the strongest hurricane to cross louisiana's land. so this is really dangerous and we're going to be watching it very, very closely. >> for which we thank you so much, michelle grossman. it's important to be well informed what is heading their way. we appreciate th...

Hours. winds starting to customer. we saw that also in al's shot with that water rising and it was hard to talk at some points. winds at 40e miles per hour. we're going to see them going up from there. so let's track this for you. much it's a category 4 storm. a category 4 storm, a very strong category 4 storm. that's at the upper threshold. you only need 157 mile per hour winds for it to be a category 5 storm. the expectation right now, we will see landfall at 155 mile per hour. we could say cat 5. we're going to watch that. right now 150. it's moving north county west at 15 miles per hour. i...

Level, a bathroom where you could be protected from those winds. and then it's going to move ever so slowly as we go throughout the next four to five days. so by monday, still in mississippi. still dropping a lot of rain. we're going to include parts of tennessee in this, and remember just a week ago they had 17 inches of rain in just four hours. we're going to add to those totals today. and then by thursday it's in the mid-atlantic. we could see severe weather with ida thursday. this is going to be a week long story we're talking about. let's talk about the storm surge. that's that wall of wa...

It closes in on louisiana. ken graham is joining us, of course, director of the national hurricane center. ken, where is it now? how fast is it moving? where is it going to hit? >> we've got aircraft in there now with the hurricane hunters. i'm listening to the conferences. 150 miles per hour winds. right now looks like we're about 50 miles south-southeast of grand isle, louisiana. getting closer and closer to the coastline. already seeing some of those impacts with some of the high ones reaching the mouth of the mississippi river. but alex, look at these rain bands. anywhere in these areas on...