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Going on with the people of slidell. we have a mayor with us. thank you for being in focus. >> thank you. good to be with you today. >> harris: first of all let's talk about what's most important here the safety of your people. how is everybody doing? >> we still have probably 3/4s of our community without power. we have both hospitals powered up at this time and working to get our nursing homes and elder care centers back up as quickly as possible. there is a little commerce. a few of the major stores have brought in generators and we're starting to open up a few grocery stores today. gas sta...

>> with no electricity you have to think there are no businesses operating and with no people here to be inside these businesses the concern for looting is only elevated. the mayor addressing that saying simply that if you are caught we'll lock you up. police are also out here doing patrols to make sure that doesn't happen. if they catch anyone they say it is a felony. harris. >> harris: thank you very much. we head northeast of new orleans to slidell, louisiana. boats are making water rescues still. the flooding brought a surprising guest to the area. have you seen this video? it is a dolphin...

Could see the trains just breezing in the wind. not hurricane-like winds so you welcome those with a little reprise from the hot weather. four to feet feet of water in every neighborhood and 100,000, slidell area is a pretty good size. some parts of new orleans are not allowing people to go back to their homes. what's the situation where you are? that's a lot of water. >> we encourage people to get into their homes and start the cleanup process. if you did have flooding, you know, we want you to get in and sanitize those facilities, pull out the wet carpeting, the wet sheetrock, insulation, th...

Storm. and then it slowed down. that has created all problems. now to the fox extreme weather center. john -- janice, this has to be move on or everyone will be waterlogged. no, this is rick? rick: it will move faster tomorrow but we still have rain, another 4" to 8" across mississippi and toward arkansas. here is what happened. we had such a long wind coming out of the east and it funneled the water into lake pontchartrain. now the wind has shifted. we have the lake that is full from the surge and now the winds are shifting from the southwest pummeling all the water from the lake pontchartrai...