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We seen along the mississippi river. we will take a look at this, flood warnings that are still the case along the mississippi river. the mississippi river is at around 16 feet -- the 16-foot level, around new orleans. 20 feet is where the water would start to go over the levy. so it won't take a lot of water here to cause some really significant flooding. up the center of the storm, you can see it on these little wind barbs are out there. very far apart from where you see most of the action. that's good news for us. if those things -- if we start to get most of that action right around the ce...

Looking at the wind barbs that is the motion of the wind grabbing the wind grabby night, pushing it toward san francisco where they've been battling that the wildfire but the smoke from that stretched across a large portion of the state. what ends up happening with the winds come the sierra nevada off to the east to smoke inside funneling down in the valley getting back in folks from sacramento further south battling day after day heavy smoke tough to get outside. there are some improvement in those conditions the next couple days to the rest of the weekend and into monday we will continue to ...

Hour. one. two, it's saturday. tuesday is four days away. you can think about how a saturated ground is going to have to handle all that rain that's coming with this slow-moving storm. grankted not a hurricane anymore only a tropical storm. keep that in mind with the rain still coming and with the wind still around, although not as bad but still around, when are these crews going to be getting out and fix the power. the concern is we will be without power for a while now. katie: that's always the big question. thank you. todd piro. ed: go to rick now monitoring obviously the weather. he has be...

Those little wind barbs you see right there, were probably going to have a 48 hour period of onshore winds -- it means storm surge you see go in that doesn't have any time to move back out. the wind will keep all that water piled up into shore, piled up in the inlets in the streams and then on top of that, 20-40 inches of rain. rain that falls, gravity is what takes water off of our continent, it goes down to the shore -- gravity isn't going to be able to do that because it wants to go down to a lower area and all of that water is coming from the ocean and piling it toward the land. that's why...

Around a cluster of storms or heavy rain. they should be able to make their way around that and get close to the debris field and make sense of what's going on there. >> how much do you think the progress that can be made on the search is dependent on the vagueries of weather? >> it's huge because here's the thing. all of this you're looking at, these arrows, those are wind barbs, going from west to east. these are westerlies, big area of high pressure. those westerlies are key. with the debris field here, it's likely to move closer to australia, along with that, is the researchers and investi...