Tracking Francine: The latest on the storm track, winds and rain expected

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] continue for tabone lefou and lower Jefferson so hurricane force winds are going to be most likely in here that's the new Center Line taking it right up through St Mary Parish and up through the River Parishes and I still want to say that there are several of our highresolution models that bring this storm further into tabone Parish with the core closer to the City of New Orleans and up through the NorthShore that would bring a bigger wind impact to the metro area so this latest update does bring stronger winds across our area let me show you one of our high resolution models that is showing that scenario very similar to what the Hurricane Center is forecasting here we go tomorrow or rather this evening and tonight we still just have passing showers there is a tornado risk with all this we'll be here tracking that risk through tonight with some of these outer bands here we are at 3:00 a.m. some heavy tropical rains moving in and then once we get into tomorrow morning tropical storm conditions moving into the coastal areas fairly early on and then tropical storm conditions approaching the Metro once we get into the early afternoon so this model has the center coming on Shore right around St Mary Parish maybe into tabone Parish this would bring the core of those winds over the area very heavy rain on the north side of the storm very dry on the back side of the storm now while it's dry on the back side of the storm we still think there's going to be some fairly impressive wind gust even if it's not raining so one of those weird lopsided systems that comes in but it's got wind wrapping all the way around it by tomorrow night it's moving on out so once again we're watching this storm to see how it intensifies today how quickly it intensifies today will determine how strong it is once it gets to our Coast so the wind sheer in dry air today are not a huge factor it's running over warm Gulf Waters we think it's under fairly decent conditions to intensify all day and even in two tonight that's why we think it could make a run at Category 2 storm now once it gets close to our Coast watch the intensity of these winds start to come down because of wind shear and dry air and so as that storm sweeps over the area yes it's still packing a very very heavy punch with strong winds hopefully it is weakening I want to slow this down and give you a very detailed look at some of these wind gusts so here we are tomorrow afternoon the storm begins to make landfall this is pretty in line with what the Hurricanes Center is saying right now you can see there winds hurricane Force right off the coast this is at 1 to 2:00 this is when conditions will probably be at their worst in tabone and this has the storm coming in more into terone Parish so winds will start to be Gusty in the early afternoon the worst winds will be moving in during the afternoon noon hours and into your evening now this shows you a scenario where the core of this hurricane coming in around tabone as a category one strong category one at that we could have those wind gusts approaching 90 mph for areas around H maybe in Grand is and if this plays out you have that core right over the City of New Orleans bringing in those winds gusting you can see there there's that potential for 50 to 70 mph winds across the New Orleans Metro by Wednesday afternoon into Wednesday evening and then once again it's moving on out fairly quickly now this specific model is a little bit further to the east than some of the others either way though I do see a scenario where we see that Coreal winds traveling over the area whether it's New Orleans or the River Parishes or maybe closer up to the NorthShore we got to wait and see how this plays out and how it exactly approaches the coast but it shows you that this trend brings in a bigger wind problem for our area meaning more power outages and a 70 mph wind is going to cause power outages now this is not an Ida I know a lot of people down in the bayou par are getting a little nervous with this I do hope you're taking it serious but this is not 150 to 200 mph winds it is far far off from that with that being said we are likely going to see power outages if you are in a trailer I know some people are still recovering from Ida in a FEMA trailer maybe you're in temporary housing you don't want to stay in those for this storm these types of winds Will Roll those things it's very very dangerous so find somewhere else to be hopefully there's some shelters you can go to if you need to now one of the upgrades we do have storm surge warnings now for the entire area this includes around the lake this includes our entire coast and over into south Mississippi updating our storm surge numbers really the only change we're seeing with these are 3 to 5 feet now for Coastal Mississippi into Eastern St Bernard Parish we're expecting 3 to 5 feet in the lake especially for parts of the NorthShore and then you can see bar Terry Bay still hanging on to 4 to 7 feet 5 to 10 feet though into tabone Bay and so our biggest stormm surge problems are likely going to be right here near Morgan City into St Mary Parish where the achaia dumps into the Gulf also down into tabone Bay cadry chauan could see 5 to 10 ft of inundation and Grand is and up into lefit 4 to 7 feet I was just talking to our Meg Ferris and we were talking about the mayor of lefit talking about how everything is so saturated and we have so much water left over from last week's rainfall that the water is already elevated and so this is only going to exacerbate the problem with more water coming in so a big concern down there please be taking this seriously in leit I know it says only a category one 7 ft of inundation is a possibility and that is something we want you to take seriously so that's what we're looking at with storm surge now this is something interesting this is our latest high resolution model that just came in and it is showing a corridor and it's been showing this for several model runs so this has got our attention there is likely going to be a core of very very prolonged heavy tropical rains it's not going to take up much real estate but where that core of that storm moves over we will likely see 8 to 12 inches of rain if you were watching earlier this morning we have that corridor closer to Baton Rouge and down through Morgan City because it had the storm coming in a little further to the West now that it has the storm coming in more right here we could see that access of very heavy rain over parts of Southeast Louisiana so a very close call with not a whole lot of rain and a lot of rain so there is that flood potential that we will need to keep a very close eye on and with all that wrapped in a bow there is a tornado risk it's a landfalling system some dry airs wrapping into it wouldn't be shocking to see a couple of tornadoes form with this uh iCal system approaching our area so if you are just joining us I want to do a really quick recap just show you the cone with the latest track before we get back to Brandon and we've got some reporters out in the field uh getting you prepared for this as well the impacts are mostly felt tomorrow but we do have rain today the impact will be mostly during the afternoon on Wednesday for New Orleans and the NorthShore it will start in the morning hours down here on the Southshore and excuse me along the coast that's where we're expecting the winds to pick up faster could be a category to at landfall there's a center moving into parts of our area and then sweeping over us as we go in through the afternoon and luckily it is moving so we'll have it out of here by late Wednesday night and probably more so out of here by early Thursday that is the latest as of 10 o'cl Brandon all right pton thank you for breaking that down with us and with that Eastern movement there low-lying areas of terone Parish there's a mandatory evacuation call there they're urging residents to get out as Francine makes its way through the gulf schools are closed tomorrow and Thursday in tabone a lot to get get to with our Leah mcneel she joins us live with how officials are preparing she's joining us now with the Paris president Leah hey Brandon that's right yeah we do have some pretty major updates from Parish president ban right now I'm just going to bring him right in to just give us those update you mentioned that uh with the latest update from the National Weather Service you guys are now moving up um the time for that mandatory evacuation making it earlier to open up the shelter right yes because when it comes to Us closing our system the last thing we can close is the roller Gates on the road food and so the levy district has decided to do that at 7:00 p.m. so that means we're going to push our evacuation up to 6:00 p.m. and we're actually Opening Our shelter at mporium at 6 p.m. also and this is Zone one correct so everywhere that is south of the levy correct yes ma'am everything south of the levy system because we're looking at a 5 to 10 foot surge you know you look at 10 foot that's above your head you know we want to make sure that our residents are not in the path of that storm surge and know you all have 17 different sandbag locations out there including one or folks can get pre-aged sand bags for the elderly and those who are um not able to bag that correct are those will those be open throughout the duration of the evening yes we're going to we're going to shut that down at some point tonight uh we're still looking at that but yeah you got up at the uh South Campus on gr cayen Road residents that have issues and need assistant can get up to 15 bags gotcha and we're talking about again Zone one that applies to those folks for that mandatory evacuation um if anyone has issues finding out where exactly they are in those zones what should they do if they go to our Facebook page and our web page we have have a map you can enter your address and it'll tell you exactly what zone you live in gotcha so you were we were talking guys a little bit earlier he's been Parish president for eight months now you've really made an emphasis for technology uh making sure people have access to this information at their fingertips tell me uh what have you all been doing here I know we've seen a lot of officials coming in and out of the emergency prepar this building here what have those talks been looking at with you all still making sure you're getting out that information to everyone yeah we're tracking it you know we're getting information to those that you know as again we're adjusting our Sheltering so to make sure that everything flows with that uh what it looks like for if people need food or any other supplies as we go to close the roller Gates and put sandbags in the road in monteu we're going to go down those bias we're going to get let residents know hey you know this is final call we need to really get moving uh but just really you know communication transparency and give information out as soon as we get it in absolutely and lastly anything people need to know who are going to go to that shelter of Last Resort that will be opening earlier tonight instead of tomorrow morning yeah they need to bring their own supplies and everything you know everything they would want to sleep with or everything that we need to be out of their house at least a day maybe more just make sure they bring all that in and if you need assistance getting uh to that we can we have transportation that's going to happen once our brush routes finished with our normal transit system and so we want to make sure that everybody cleans up debris you know not only from it flying around but also getting caught up in a drainage system so you should be tidying that up uh get get your property tied up and then get your family safe that's the most important thing absolutely it always is thank you so much for joining us I know you all are busy so I will let you go um as you heard it guys right here they are moving up the time for that mandatory evacuation for Zone one so you want to make sure you are out of your homes if you are in that area south of the levy uh by 7:00 tonight correct 6 p.m. tonight so 6 p.m. tonight if you are in zone one in that mandatory evacuation Zone you need to be out of your home if you do need assistance you will find more information about the numbers to call over on the parish's Facebook page for now reporting live and terone Parish leam mcneel WWL Louisiana Leah real quick while you're there and the parish president is still with you I do want to ask you if you can pass on to him a couple weeks ago we ran a story just about concerns regarding the Integrity of the power grid the power station there partially inoperational because of damage from Ida what is President berson hearing about the Integrity of the grid there with power being brought in from the New Orleans area are they okay with everything yeah Brandon I mean you know energy the power grid is always a concern we were actually just talking about that before we came to you all live uh Paris president tell me uh what's the status of the grid right now I know we've had some issues in the past um where do that stand now so we're about 25% of our systemwide repairs we had about 847 repairs post Ida uh just getting through that with FEMA because we had to get through Insurance to get the funding from FEMA to get it done uh so that's you know that's something we're concerned about but we are making sure we have crew extra Crews available so as soon as we're able to get out and about we're going to be repairing lines and and getting trees out of Road and everything as soon as we can and as far as this storm coming in right now do you think it'll hold off are you so worried about uh the potential for power going out I think there's always that potential you know we have a feeder line that feeds teral Parish through energy so if that goes down we do stand a chance of having no power in our Parish we do have some temporary generators that we're going to make sure we use for essential services and then get things repaired as soon as possible all right perfect thank you so much again for joining us again guys we'll have all the information for you over on our website wwltv.com back to you'all in the studio all right great reporting Leo we do thank you for the update and ter parish as Leah mentioned some 17 locations for you to get sandbags self-served also other parishes across our area there are opportunities multiple choices in New Orleans for you mention Tabo and also lefo St tamon St John and plaman Paris go to our website wwltv.com got a full list of sandbag locations it's an active list that we continue to update also have a list of locations in Hancock County Mississippi as well you are being asked in most of these situations however to bring your own shovel as these locations are self-served and all the rain that we have received over the last couple of weeks appears to have contributed to a sinkhole a sinkhole opening up right now in Lake View Winston Reed he's live for us near the corner of Filmore in Lewisville with the details on this Wiston we can see Crews working behind you we can also see a pretty gaping hole Brandon it's really hard to miss this massive hole that sits at the corner of Phil more and Louisville uh you can see how deep it is it's the top of that hole almost reaching the top of the heads of those crew members that are standing right inside of it and what I'm told is that a leak and a pipe failure caused this sinkhole to form or earlier today Crews right there working to uh fix that leak get that issue resolved and I'm told that it'll take about a couple of hours for that sinkhole uh to complete sewage and water board here on scene and sewage and water board also said that they have extra staff and crew members uh prepared for the tropical storm Fran scine this week so that's really coming in handy having these crew members here really ready to mitigate and resolve this issue again take a couple of hours for this leak and pipe failure to be resolved however long it takes the uh sink hole itself to be filled probably a little longer than that so if you're driving in the area you might want to reroute yourself if you're near Lewisville Street uh you're definitely not going to make it down this way but as you can see here massive hole Crews working on that sinkhole and should be a couple of hours before it's all resolved and taken care of and we're going to work to see how long it takes for the hole itself to be filled reporting live in Lake View Winston Reed WWL Louisiana all right Winston thank you this just in Governor Jeff Landry issuing a mandatory evacuation order for those low-lying areas of Jefferson Parish we're talking about those who live outside of the levy and grandial leit other low-lying areas there again that word just coming in from Governor Jeff Landry a mandatory call to evacuate for those on those low-lying unprotected areas of Jefferson Paris so we're beginning to see that as the storm system and the forecast has moved a little more East with that let's get back over to pton who's got the very latest yeah you know you're talking about evacuations this is why we are expecting up to 10t of surge for areas around tabone Bay 4 to 7 fet for those areas in lower Jefferson that includes Grand dial but remember that also includes getting up into uh the lefit area it comes up into the bararia bay there and you get water rising and we saw that during Ida with significant water rise elsewhere 3 to 5T for the Mississippi Coast and over into the lake so surge worse the Clos you get to the center uh just a debrief here on if you missed it off the top our 10 a.m. update we still have a tropical storm what's interesting about this storm though and it's a very fun looking you've got your Center here and all this display storms the pressure dropped to 988 remember when the pressure is dropping the storm is strengthening it usually takes a little bit for the winds to respond so the lower the pressure the faster the winds I think with the next update our winds will be stronger therefore because of the pressure has been dropping so overall the storm continues to show signs of strengthening and you can see that on satellite here with showers and storms continuing to flare up now will this rapidly intensify that's to be seen we do think there's a chance of that happening for today and with that we have it becoming a hurricane at some point today and then making landfall in our area tomorrow around the middle of the day as a hurricane now right now the National Hurricane Center says it could very well be a category one I mean excuse me a category two and its track right in here so that means the category 2 is a possibility in our area that cone now centered more over St Mary Parish putting us all on the East Side in Southeast Louisiana and then by Wednesday night it's moving on out I want to show you a couple of things what you're looking at here is the chance of seeing tropical storm force winds as Francine moves in based on the current track and also the timing of the most what is most likely when you start to see tropical stormforce winds along our Coast the most likely scenario is probably close to 8 to 10: a.m. or so this little line here is the 8: a.m. tropical wind location and then spreading out over the area for the Metro it'll probably be around the lunchtime to 2:00 hour when we start to see tropical storm force winds that's the most likely scenario but if the storm moves faster this is the earliest reasonable time that tropical storm force winds could start so this is if the storm speeds up we could start to see tropical storm force winds along our Coast maybe between 2 and 300 a.m. with it spreading into the New Orleans area before lunchtime so this would be if the storm speeds up but right now the most likely scenario is morning hours along the coast around lunchtime in the city that's when tropical storms winds in increase and then they'll continue to grow and get stronger as we go throughout the afternoon overall our Parish by Parish impacts here we have been watching this very closely and we may update these numbers but right now we're still thinking widespread 50 to 60 mph winds gusting on the NorthShore we may change at the 60 to 70 mph winds rain 3 to 6 in with isolated 8 to 12 in The Surge is going to be slightly higher up here on the NorthShore as well at 3 to 5 ft so we're going to go in and work on these numbers and get them updated for you but right now certainly some strong winds that is likely going to lead to some power outages and that is you know just something you have to deal with when you've got a landfalling storm at least a category one it's still going to cause power outages across the area we do still have that storm surge warning it is now includes a big chunk of the area including around the lake has a storm surge warning this is going to be for outside any Levy protection areas we have a storm surge warning now for the Mississippi Coast storm surge warning continues down here in the bayou parishes as your water will likely grow um and get higher and higher as that storm makes landfall the highest storm surge is likely going to happen around the early afternoon as the storm makes landfall now the good news is is that we do expect this storm surge and at least the tides when storm surge happens will be at low tide so hopefully that helps us out but I want to give you a closer look on some of the inundation we could see based on the current track and once again the track is currently centered over Morgan City and up into the uh assumption Parish area we could still see this track slide further to the east that would not surprise me based on some of the high resolution models I've been looking at but either way water is going to be quite high you can see there in the orange over 7 feet is a possibility right down here in lower tabone in the marshy areas also into tabone Bay you start to get some high water and then you can see it starts to drop off as you get into barit teria Bay but we could still see up to 7 ft of inundation for some areas around barit teria Bay and maybe going up into parts of lefit there once you get into parts of Eastern St Bernard you can see there are some hot spots there these low-lying areas could see water rise as high as 5 feet around Lake Bourne Venetian Isles you're likely going to have water over the roads over in south Mississippi Waveland Bay St Louis back into the bay there you're going to have some higher water and then your winds are going to pile water up onto the East Bank of plans now I don't want to overlook the lake because what's going to happen here is with a storm coming in your winds uh let's say the storm's currently it'll be sitting about right here so your winds are going to be doing this across the area the winds will be pushing water up into the Western and Northwest side of Lake Poncha Trin specifically talking about the um the Tango River the chauna these Rivers leading into that water is going to be up to about 5et higher than normal at its height so if you live along the mandville lakefront if you live down here in Tango Parish the water will be higher than normal as that surge comes in Wednesday uh probably start to rise Wednesday morning but Wednesday afternoon into Wednesday evening we do think the water is going to be quite high and then as the storm lifts away you're still going to have a south wind there so the surge is going to be slow to go down on the NorthShore so if you do live in those flood prone areas in St Tam or in Tang poo Parish the waters are likely to be high all the way into Thursday it's not going to go down very very quickly but certainly some nuisance flooding there for the lakefront on the NorthShore as well we're going to be watching for that Heavy Rain potential this is what's got my attention now widespread we think we're probably going to see closer to 3 to six for everyone at least I can say we can guarantee about 3 to 6 in but we do think there's going to be this Corridor a very very heavy rainfall and what's Happening Here is as that storm moves Inland the track of this model takes it right over the right over the area the northern side is going to just have a constant area of heavy rain the southern side is going to be drier that's why the totals are lower down here but as that North Side streams across area you're going to have hours and hours of tropical downpours and that's going to add up maybe up to a foot or so and this model is being very aggressive showing some up to 15 in so take this with a grain of salt the actual numbers where they're placed out on the town what this shows you is that the storm is capable of producing very heavy rain up to these totals in certain areas if you flip back to the model run before this we had higher totals out here but it shows you that it's models picking up on something if it's showing it every single time it's just in a slightly different spot every single time and that's what we expect with models we expect them to jump around some but when they show a consistent area of a foot of rainfall that is something that grabs your attention and something you certainly want to watch out for so our 10 a.m. update here we don't have a hurricane yet we will probably have a hurricane at some point today the way it looks like it's strengthening right now the core of the storm is really starting to get its act together it's still fairly far away I mean it's over 425 miles away from Morgan City but here's the deal it's speeding up it's making that North Northeast turn and so it was traveling Northwest yesterday slowed down this morning and here we go we've got a Northeast movement and that takes it up to the Louisiana coast with landfall expected into tomorrow morning and into tomorrow afternoon is when landfall is expected and we do think during its time right here over the gulf it's going to be strengthening at least for today and then that windsh and dry a kick in tomorrow afternoon and hopefully start to weaken it as it makes L andf falling moves Inland Brandon all right thank you with that while we have you up pton I just want to ask you real quick you know looking at the storm path looking at the 10:00 numbers you had forecast during the morning show that the storm was looking to move a little further east so it seems to be in line with what you forecast here uh as we do await the next update a little later today do you anticipate more of an Eastern movement you know what was so interesting that caught our attention this morning not only the models but let me zoom in here do you see where the track went from there to it did the weird little spinny thing so what happened here the storm weakened considerably last night the Hurricane Center was thinking okay the center might be here well then the plane flew through and found no the center is further east okay and so when you plug that into all of our models they say wait a minute the center somewhere else so this is going to have a compounding effect down the road and that's why we saw the E shift now there are there are several high resolution models and these are important these high resolution models we use nowadays they're amazing and we've only been using them a couple years now they're very new and they have shown that this core of this hurricane could come closer than what the actual Hurricane Center Line is showing right now so it's a great reminder that that line the chance of that hurricane following that line exactly that's not very high I mean it's simply not how it works it's going to wobble around some and you get a little wobble into the metro area then you've got the higher winds coming into the Metro we think this is going to probably be a category one most likely scenario is a category one at landfall but we always just say prepare for a category higher and category two is certainly possibility yeah most definitely you also mentioned that Corridor there of like potentially heavy rainfall depending on where the storm makes landfall you had mentioned a couple days ago levels of river levels Mississippi River are pretty low how does that look other rivers around the area you know our Rivers they were swollen last week because of the rainfall we were seeing a lot of these Rivers they respond fairly quickly so hope we've got them all drained out uh Tim carner down in lefit mag Ferris was talking about that um from all the rain the bayus and the marshy areas they are swollen right now meaning they already have water water and his concern was you're adding on to maybe 4 to 7t of what is already some minor flooding and that only causes more flooding in those areas down into lower Jefferson these are areas outside the levies and so that's a compounding problem with our rain we saw last week the ground is saturated and leads to more flooded and not to stoke people's anxiety because as you've mentioned repeatedly this is no Ida however you know low-lying areas you do need to be prepared you do need to be ready in the event you do and you know how easily it floods down here in East Louisiana our geography is just primed for uh storm surge flooding and yes this is not going to be an Ida I know a lot of people down there some people still don't have roofs they've been trying to get roofs on the house some people are still in FEMA trailers and this is not going to be a 150 180 m per hour wind event but we could see if this thing comes in as a strong cat one we could see 100 m per hour wind gust right there along the coast you're talking catry showan some of the hardest hit areas de in Ida and so you need to be thinking about where you're going to be if the winds get up to 100 and the water starts to come up too I will say one difference between this storm this storm's storm surge and Ida storm surge for tabone parish is where the storm is coming in I don't know if we can take my Graphics full very really quickly when you look at this path here Ida came in from the southwest okay and tabone Parish specifically had a North Wind most of the time which was pushing the water out of tabone bay in this case the storm is probably going to come in just to the west of tabone bay which means water is going to be pushed inward Inland into tabone Bay so if you didn't see storm surge and Ida in uh cadri and Chau van you will likely see that storm surge here so that was a bit of a difference here with our storm surge I wouldn't gauge your your values off of Ida if you're down there because this is going to be a completely different ball game not with wins but the path that it's coming in the trajectory that it's coming into the area it'll lead to more surge in those areas around tabone Bay and this really isn't that important but looking at this map here and seeing how storm initially had to hug the coastline there along the gulf what did that do in terms of its formation I know that it was a bit slower and developing earlier well that's what helped us out last night with the dry air so you had all that dry air coming off of Texas and the mountainous regions of Mexico right there that got ingested Into the Storm weakened it now what's interesting is that may be the reason that the storm took the East jog at the end of the day kind of so it's this weird double-edged sword if the storm would have maintained its intensity last night we very well could have had a hurricane this morning going probably more to Central or Western Louisiana so it weekend overnight it had the weird jogs around the center trying to form here and there and that's probably why we're seeing that easterly jog so it's weakening not necessarily a good thing for our local area uh with its formation last night all right pton thank you I know you've got to get to the very latest Payton's been very busy throughout the morning here as we continue to bring you updated coverage on Francine with the latest uh forecast map out in the 10:00 hour as pton mentioned showing the storm move further east pton had forecast that during the WWL Louisiana Morning News suspecting that which overnight as he told you those winds had weakened the system but he does say that it has moved a little more eastbound there so all eyes are on the storm's track again what he also says emphasizing that don't think because you see that line that the storm is going to follow that direct path as you see in the map that he just showed us last night it hobbled a little bit and he says it will hobble again as it does make its way toward landfall sometime tomorrow afternoon with that as far as preparations are concerned a lot of people talking about trash pickup in the City of New Orleans this just in from Ivy waste they're saying that trash and recycling service for the City of New Orleans has been suspended tomorrow that is for New Orleans only normal Wednesday service they say will be on Thursday Thursday service on Friday Friday service on Saturday and so on also they tell us that they are suspending all commercial uh uh service Wednesday too that is the word from IV way but it's probably safe to say utilities throughout the area particularly uh uh trash service providers and whatnot are modifying their plans ahead of this storm and ahead of a forecast that has it moving uh a little more East here with that there are calls for you to get your sandbags if that's what you need in fact on the front page of our website for you wwltv.com we've got all you need to know links to get to sandbag locations throughout Southeast Louisiana but also potential Parish by Parish in impacts from pton who's been tracking this storm all morning long we do have a live blog too as we uh continue to watch the storm's path again 10:00 hour has it moving closer East as we do keep an eye out on that as officials in multiple parishes throughout our area urge residents to be prepared ahead of the storm a mandatory evacuation order along Coastal communities particularly in areas without any Levy protection Governor Jeff Landry issuing that emergency calling for folks who do live in unprotected areas to get out depending on where your parish is there's a specific time for that our website will walk you through it as well again in Orleans and Jefferson parishes however again areas that are protected by levies the call is to shelter in place tomorrow as officials do brace for uh a wind and rain event here as we do continue to look and see what Francine is going to do with that let's get back over to pton who's got the very latest thanks Brandon the uh update with that 10 a.m. advisory not only looking at our track update but we have had some updates to our advisories our watches and warnings uh most of the area is now under at least some type of warning in the orange here are tropical storm warnings where we are expecting tropical storm conditions tomorrow uh this includes the City of New Orleans it includes the River Parishes St Charles and St John now St James Parish you're currently under a hurricane warning because you are closer to where that core of the storm could impact your area we've got hurricane warnings in lefou tabone St Mary Parish up into assumption and Ascension par Parish we've got lower Jefferson now under a hurricane warning too and so this is the area where we're likely going to see our stronger winds right here on the east side of the storm now something else have note if you are watching us and I know we have viewers all across Louisiana that watch us outside of our technical viewing area if you're watching us up in mome right now you're also under a um tropical storm warning because as a storm moves up there tomorrow evening you could see those stronger winds start to blow in what's interesting about Francine is that it is going to be moving so the winds will translate further Inland when you have a slow moving storm and it's winding down often times the winds can weaken and they don't ever really make it Inland but in this case the winds are going to be coming on through at a steady rate and we will likely see those winds penetrate far enough Inland that's why Baton Rouge is under a hurricane warning now if I'm evacuating and I don't have a Graphic for this yet but we can talk about this if you're evacuating if you want to get out of town just to be safe if you live in those areas where you're being told to evacuate the best place to go is east or west I would not go north up into Mississippi because well the tropical system is likely going to travel to the north you can still have power outages there now it's not going to be as extreme up here but still maybe not the best so if I'm evacuating West is always your best case right you don't want to be on the east side of a storm but if you're going west I think once you get to Lafayette and Beyond you're looking okay it's one of those things where if the storm does come to more our area then the impacts will drop off quite dramatically the further west that you go so if you do want to get out of town heading to Lafayette and really Beyond Lafayette Lake Charles I think that would be your best bet Alexandria would probably be a good bet as well now excuse me Baton Rouge probably not a good bet because they're going to be close enough to where they may have power outages and so that is something you'll certainly want to Monitor and then if you're heading to the east you probably want to at least go to Mo bill or Beyond because we are expecting tropical storm conditions for the Mississippi Coast here now you could go to the Mississippi Coast go to the casinos you know hang out there but it's not going to be pretty weather but once you get into the Florida Panhandle things do improve quite dramatically just because the storm is likely going to be heading more to excuse me I gotta get rid of this cough going to be moving more to the north as we head into your Wednesday night and into Thursday and then once we get into your Thursday time frame uh the storm is going to be wet to our North Brandon we'll get back to you and I'm going to go drink water get you a sip of water pton thank you you've been working hard we do want to continue to check in with area parishes let's go to lefo Parish now where Captain Brennan murn from the lefo Parish Sheriff's Office is standing by on phone good morning to you and how are you doing all right good sir we do appreciate you spending time with us as you all work to get things ready we do know now that there is a mandatory evacuation that's going to begin tonight at 5: for those low-lying areas anyone in a FEMA or state housing units what is the latest you can tell us about that yeah we we announced uh just recently that those residents as you mentioned we still have residents in FEMA and state housing from Hurricane Ida three years ago uh and they're going to have to evacuate again uh being forced to do so if you're in those FEMA or state housing units and everyone south of the Le onario lock in golden medal that includes all of port fusha and obviously that is something that we do not like to see and we want to get them back up as quickly as possible how however uh based on this trajectory and and everything this really resembles Zeta in a lot of ways for us and of course no two storms are the same but we remember how fast Zeta came through it was a quick punch of a category 2 three and uh ultimately put a lot of water on the road in that area below the lock in Golden Meadow so we expect that we could have a situation very much like that uh with that said we're also uh We've also ordered a voluntary evacuation of for lower lower by Blue excuse me all residents of eagle Island Road and that's just up some drainage concerns in those area as well as residents in mobile homes in low-lying areas and basically anyone that feels vulnerable so uh just to you know kind of save some phone calls into the parish if you're unsure of whether these specific areas include you bottom line is if you feel unsafe or vulnerable we we encourage you to evacuate and get to a safe place uh a shelter will be opening at 5:00 p.m. this afternoon at the Lock Port Community Center 5610 Highway 1 in Lockport uh and that is the main message to Residents right now at this time you should be completing your hurricane preparations by this evening and be ready to ride out the storm uh as you know Brandon we we've seen kind of the timeline move up for this and so we believe people should beware uh they're going to be to ride out the storm uh at some point early Wednesday morning most certainly you know also the call for those who may not have a voluntary or involuntary call to get out is to prepare make sure your property's safe get things from around your house that may be outside that can be carried by the wind and used as a projectile with deputies out and about what are they seeing in terms of people getting ready for that that's what we're seeing uh thankfully people have been heating the warnings uh you know LEF Parish uh just like all of your viewers in the New Orleans area no stranger to storms and we sort of know the drill at this point uh so over the last uh two days we've been seeing uh you know lines long at at gas stations and and the grocery store is everybody preparing and taking it seriously for the most part though everybody or most people rather ready to ride out the storm uh sort of a shelter in place uh mentality here for this storm as we've seen far worse uh in in the future but uh obviously we have a lot of people in mobile homes and and in uh you know housing that maybe is substandard and and it may be something that you want to consider uh going to a substantial shelter like that Lockport office uh our deputies we're going to be increasing our uh presence on the roads beginning this evening at five o'clock just to as out of an abundance of caution to make sure everybody's safe we'll be going to our typical system during a storm and we're going to increase visibility as far as our deputies go uh through the duration of the storm all right Captain Brennan Mur from the lefou Parish Sheriff's Office sir we greatly thank you for updating us on efforts being done there this morning thank youall all right and with that again just to reiterate evacuations will begin there at 5:00 this evening mandatory evacuations for residents in FEMA or state housing units South of the Le onario locks a voluntary evacuation order has been issued for lower Bayou Blue Community Eagle Island Road and anyone in a mobile home low-lying area and anyone feeling vulnerable so with that the parish is offering again lefo Parish offering a shelter at the Lockport Community Center that address 5610 Highway 1 in Lockport if you're going they're urging you to bring at least two days worth of food water medicine and bed also bring charging cables to take care of your devices there that's the story right now in lefou Parish where folks are preparing we are also looking at conditions in plaman Paris where Parish officials are holding a press conference right now let's listen in live at the multi-purpose Center that's it's opened up at 12:00 noon or will be open up at 12:00 noon today uh this is for shelter and water only please bring all of your Essentials uh and any type of food that you want uh to to carry you through the uh the evening should you need in uh Transportation you need to call a contact Community Action that number is 504 934 694 small pets are welcome only if as a resident that you are staying at the facility we ask that you don't bring the pets and use the facility for your pets to be sheltered there uh Animal Control will transport the the animals to the facility if you're needing to come need a ride to the facility so that needs to be said and established when you make contact with with Community Action uh please take your animal to the shelter if you are driving yourself fairy update fairy tolls will be suspended at this time and operational until uh further notice pump stations will be manned and operational trash pickup normal pickup today no trash pickup on Wednesday or Thursday weather permitting uh trash pickup will start back on Friday medical facilities the port sulur medical facility is 247 uh the bus will be located here at the government uh complex at the multi-purpose Center should there be any medical needs needed uh while the residents are staying here and the they will have a a physician and a nurse on site as well uh the bellchase PMC will be operational from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. the plans Parish government will be closed tomorrow and Thursday only for and only essential employees are asked to come in tomorrow and Thursday as well and we've established that and your your directors and your uh supervisors will inform you of who the essential uh employees are uh we also ask that you register for emergency med uh notifications uh if you've already registered please make sure that the information that you've given us is correct and we ask that you watch your local news and Community web pages for updates listen and we ask that you do listen to your local leaders and stay safe and Vigilant we will continue to Monitor and provide updates as they uh come into to us and at this time I'd like to uh bring up sheriff turich and let him give you up his his updates Sheriff thank you president good morning just a couple tidbits I have um the plug Parish Sheriff's Office Incident Command Center will open at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow um The Incident Command Center phone number is 504 934 6782 so if you have any concerns please call that number um we have activated our hurricane uh emergency roster and in regards to traffic um a couple couple things I want you to know um the bridge is curfew is From 3:35 to 7:05 p.m. uh Venture Global has they're working today till 4:30 once they get off at 4:30 today they'll be reduced to essential personnel only um the East Bank Floodgate closes at 700 p.m. tonight I'll have my guys there making sure our eastbank community is safe and get out and in at in a safely uh fashion um the Empire drawbridge it closed at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow so everyone down the road be be aware and make plans for accordingly The Floodgate at Captain Larry's will not close me and the parish president have had extensive talks about this and that is only closed as a last resort so that will not close and that's all I have thank you thank you sheriff and I want to thank all of you for coming here today to give us the opportunity for these updates I don't if you have any questions can you go over the um evacuation one more time please the evacuation uh the areas uh this morning at 700 a.m. it's areas that are outside of flood protection that would be Lake Hermitage Happy Jack Myrtle Grove Tidewater Road at Venice white ditch to Phoenix Wood Park and Grand Bayou in areas that are our inside Levy protection we're asking for an an voluntary evacuation that would be from uh La seat um uh to Venice in the entire East Bank for the mandatory evacuation do you know if people have been heating the warnings yes they have uh Mr Newsome gave me a report this morning and quite a I think we were down to what maybe two or three two trailers left in a in an area where they had like maybe 40 50 trailers so they're they're taking the warning which I can truly appreciate that what they're doing realistically what are you expecting the impacts to be on platinus Parish both the East and West Bank realistically I'm hoping you know it's wishful thinking we're I'm I'm feeling comfortable that you know we may have minimum if it stays the course that it it's in right now but at the same time as we speak we're also getting uh updates that it keeps pushing a little bit further east uh we did have an update on title surge for the East Bank it it went from two to four to four to three to five so it Rose a foot and surge on that side do you have any water on the road right now no do you expect water on the road LA 23 I believe we were talking with the chief this morning and at six feet uh you will have some potential of water on the road on that'd be on Highway 39 from White ditch to Phoenix it's an area that is not protected by any type of back Levy system we should be comfortable at that you know the 3 to 5 foot height it'll probably approach the fog line of the highway but it should not uh impact travel on the on the highway sheriff's office will be monitoring as well as Parish government employees monitoring that portion of the highway on the East Bank as well and also on the West Bank uh if storm surge comes in at the 4 to 7 foot uh we expect probably some over toping in the Myrtle Grove to Alliance area uh but you got a lot of cow pure area to fill up before it hits Highway 23 and we feel comfortable right now that 23 will be passable uh during the storms but just out of precaution that's why we issued the voluntary evacuation for those that got any type of special medical needs and stuff that's not comfortable staying down south on the East Bank uh in trailers and so forth just you know have need medical attention so forth just to you know come up north to Northern in of Parish if necessary if possible and we've also delivered some light carts I believe this morning for the Sheriff's Office uh to station them at the the white ditch and the Phoenix area so that you you you have some lights in those areas cuz that's very rural and and uh so yeah is there a curfew declar no we haven't declared any kind of curfew so right now is it just kind of more of a waiting game to see what's what we're going to get we're we that's what we're doing uh we're going to gather up as a government at 4:00 this afternoon and take another look at some of the new uh that at 4:00 uh the new models new models and all to see where we are at that time again thank you for being and thank you for coming and you know giving us this opportunity have a good day thank you call me some more Trails again we do thank you for staying with us here those are officials there in plaman Parish just wrapping up a press briefing updating us on their plan with the latest track record or latest tracking map I should say from Francine in the Gulf of Mexico officials telling us that they have opened a shelter in plaman Parish in belchase the Parish government building there on um f Edward abar Boulevard the multi-purpose center that is open and uh they're saying that small pets are welcome there but you have to be there with them you can't just drop off your pet another note about garbage we talked about trash in Orleans Parish from IV waste officials in Jefferson Parish say that their garbage pickup is normal today however there will not be trash pickup on Wednesday and Thursday right now things do seem to be normal for Friday but of course that all depends on what Fred seen is going to do as far as that is concerned they're telling us that they're keeping the medical facility the hospital there in Port sulfur open 24/7 throughout this storm system here and if you do need a way to get to shelter if you do not have access to Transportation officials say call this number 504 934 6940 again that is if you need transportation to a shelter 5049 34 6940 in plaman Paris to be specific now they also tell us that a a mandatory evacuation order has been issued in the parish for low-lying areas unprotected areas throughout the parish also on the East Bank of the river The Floodgate there is going to close at 7 tonight so if you on the other side of that flood Floodgate there you don't have any protection you got to get out and they're closing the gate at 7:00 tonight also the drawbridge and Empire on the other side of the the river that's going to close tomorrow morning for people on the low-lying areas there on the uh West Bank side of the river in plaman Parish um also other communities there again those low-lying areas if you do not have Levy protection you have a mandatory order to get out of plaman Parish incident command number officials say if you have any emergencies that you need to to to share with them uh that number is 504 934 6782 again they're saying that they do expect see the potential for some over topping potentially in plaman Parish particularly low-lying areas with that storm surge but they also say areas where that may happen are cow pastures and whatnot so they do think that they have enough land to sustain any flooding so that Highway 23 will not have any significant water coverage there right now despite the rain that we're seeing officials saying that they're not seeing any water on Highway 23 and they're hoping to keep it that way with those evacuation orders being put in place there if you are in plaman Parish and you need to shore up your place with sandbags you do have an opportunity to do so began this morning at 10:00 a.m. several options for you in fact at the Port sua YMCA the buus YMCA the Leroy Harvey Park in Boothville devant Community Center braith weight Auditorium and beginning at 12:00 the bellchase government complex again sand and bags are provided but you've got to bring your own shovel as these are self- serve opportunities here in plaman Parish where officials are issuing the call to get out if you are in an unprotected area of the parish without Levy protection in fact if you're on the East Bank of the river again those floodgates are going to close at 7:00 tonight and as for the other side of the river the drawbridge and Empire it's going to close first thing tomorrow morning as officials there begin the call to get residents to get out as we do rate for Francine to make landfall here along the Louisiana Coastline with that Eastern moving path line there that pton just showed us uh when the updated forecast map came out uh just almost an hour ago right now with that being said let's check in with pton let's get the very latest from him thanks Brandon um I wanted to do a parish by Parish breakdown starting with our Northshore parishes we'll work our way across the area for the NorthShore we do expect um we have tropical storm mornings all across the NorthShore your timing is really all day on Wednesday into Wednesday evening rain 3 to 6 in isolated totals 8 to 12 in there's going to be a narrow Corridor in our area that sees a lot more when wind gust we'll say 50 to 70 mph I think the further west you go off towards Tang B Parish your wind gusts do increase your surge is 3 to 5T now I was just looking at our River Parishes excuse me our rivers on the NorthShore and we do have flood watches for all of our Rivers two things we're going to get some rainfall 3 to 6 in we had a lot of rain last week things are swollen so Rivers will fill up from rain but also our rivers are going to back up because of storm surge that's going to be pushing up onto the North Northshore so 3 to 5 ft of surge coming up your Rivers also rain coming down and that's going to lead to some flooding right now the Tang pooa river is forecasted and this is at the RO the Robert location it's forecasted to rise up to about 18 ft by Thursday and Friday as that water slowly drains in to the lake that is just shy of moderate flood stage our other rivers the Boga Faya is forecasted to Crest uh just under moderate flood stage at around 9 ft that would be into Thursday as well is when we'll see that Boga falaya be at its highest the bogala near Covington is a forecasted rise up to about 45 ft that's minor flood stage so we're not seeing any major flood stage statuses with any of these but the rivers will likely rise and if you live along those do expect minor to maybe moderate flooding up along your rivers on the NorthShore all right let's go down south to the metro area tropical storm warnings in effect for Orleans Jefferson and into St Bernard here this is uh for Wednesday tomorrow our impacts will be felt much of the day 3 to six inches of rain winds gust 50 to 70 miles hour across the metro area probably the further west you go the higher the wind gust maybe less the further east but either way some damaging wind gust if that core of that storm moves close enough now as you get out into the River Parishes this is where we're likely going to see even stronger winds you have tropical storm warnings for St Charles and St John but that red there is a hurricane warning for St James Paris and then you have hurricane warnings for Ascension and assumption and hurricane warnings up into Baton Rouge winds gusting 60 to 80 mph it's possible if the storm comes in strong enough we may have to bump those numbers up but some damaging wind gust out in the River Parishes is certainly a possibility rain averaging 3 to 6 in but I do think there's that chance we see isolated 8 to 12 Ines of rain your surge coming in off the lake will be coming this way initially as a storm is to your South Winds wrapping in pushing water into St John Parish we'll say average 3 to 5 ft of surge there for the River Parishes now the Bayou parishes is likely where we see our biggest impacts these are going to be uh our hurricane warnings in Red so hurricane warning for tabone Hurricane Warning all of lefou lower Jefferson is what you're seeing here in Red so that includes lefit and down into Grand Isle under a hurricane morning winds gusting 70 to 90 milph now the closer you get to the coast and where that storm comes on sure right now on Shore right now it's centered around St Mary Parish here we could have wind gust approaching 100 milph if it is a category 2 might even be higher so some fairly significant winds possible in our coastal areas down here in tabone Parish now I think for Tibido and H your most likely scenario is that 70 to 90 m per hour wind gust and also your surge is nothing to uh to avoid down here I mean you're talking 5 to 10 feet down here in tabone Bay that's cadry chauan and you're talking 5 to 10 feet down here in St Mary Parish where the acha dumps into the Gulf right in there that water comes up just south of Morgan City You've Got 5 to 10 ft of inundation all right we're going to go over to our coastal areas talking more specifically for plaman parish and down into Eastern St Bernard I think Grand dial where you have a hurricane morning 60 to 80 m per hour wind gusts are possible you're talking about 4 to 7 feet west of the river so the West Bank side of the river that's bararia Bay that water gets piled into that bay there and you're talking 4 to 7 ft rise all the way up to lefit Jean LEF the East Bank of plans I need to update that that should be 3 to 5T of surge so that's going to be the East bank and over into Shell Beach 3 to 5 feet of water rise and you know that's pretty normal for those areas that is nothing that you haven't seen many many times you're not talking about catastrophic storm surge there but definitely some nuisance flooding along those roads now over in south Mississippi tropical storm wars here as well our winds 40 to 50 miles an hour along the Mississippi Coast you're talking about 3 to 5et of surge across the Mississippi Coast and 2 to four inches of rain with isolated higher totals so that's what we're looking at with our Parish by Parish impacts if you are just joining us just before 11:00 a.m. our 10: a.m. track came in expecting it to shift to the East and it did shift to the east we are now seeing the center of the track move more into St Mary Parish and you can see there the tropical storm force winds in yellow expected to reach our our Coast by tomorrow morning we'll say by 9 or 10:00 conditions will probably start to go downhill along the the coastal areas as winds approach you know 35 to 40 mil an hour and then those strong winds will continue to build in throughout the afternoon and then once we get into Thursday morning here we are Thursday at 9:00 the storm is north of Jackson and heading up to Memphis so that's why I've been saying don't travel North if you're trying to evacuate we will likely see some power outages scattered all across the path of this so if you are going to evacuate go West or go east get outside the path of the storm go to Lake Charles they're looking okay this type of path is going to be a close call for laugh yet so I would certainly go over towards Lake Charles and if you're going to get out of town and go east maybe to Florida you'll be good once you probably get to Mobile and go over into portions of uh the Florida pan handle they're not expecting any major impacts across that area so that is the latest with the 10: a.m. track once again that surge it's something to certainly watch out for especially in our parishes we're talking down into tabone and lefou that 5 to 10 feet are possible 4 to 7 feet down in tabone or excuse me bararia Bay and then that 3 to 5 feet as we get into Eastern St Bernard south Mississippi and over into Lake Poncha train if you live along the NorthShore the water will likely start to come up as the storm passes to your West so as the storm travels here remember the winds are going around it counterclockwise so your winds are being pushed to the north with the storm to your West that will keep water high as long as the storm is to your West and it looks like that's going to be the case for about two days so the water St going to stay elevated on the NorthShore for several days more than likely and if you live right there on the lakefront I know you flood very easily you will see flooding so you need to take those precautions make sure your cars are out of the way uh get your perro tied to your house if that's what you use it for I know some people have little boats that they tied to their sides of their house so they can get to their cars up the street you're likely going to have some water inundation of at least 3 to 5T there as the storm passes somewhat quickly but still passes by uh to the West the next track update if you're curious about that that's going to happen around uh four o'clock this afternoon um Chris Franklin will be in with that one the track as of 10:00 a.m. showing right in line with what our models were depicting uh if you were watching yesterday this was all further to the West so that jog to the east happened overnight it'll be interesting to see does this trend continue our next batch of models won't come in for several more hours but we could continue to see maybe that cone shift further east if we think it's going to come more in line with parts of St Mary Parish and more so into tabone parish as we head into your Wednesday so that's what it's looking like as we get into uh your track Brandon pton thank you for that let's go live now joining us on the phone is uh M David carmadelle from Grand is Sir good morning to you thank you for joining us yes sir good morning out of the protected area so there is that evacuation call how are conditions currently well we got to First a little look like a I don't think it's too much to do with the storm but uh it's it's what's happening it's the first little purple stuff's coming around we just get some sharers rain but our people still moving in and out they uh they calling stuff as we speak um I mean they've been coming all night long all day long yesterday and um I just wanted to let them know that the road's still open and uh we just uh keeping an eye on things just got out of conference call with go St and and like you said earlier about the water come up in our area so we're just making sure that our people get everything higher up you know to make sure that they don't leave that downstairs you know yeah most certainly uh making sure that in Highway one is still open is there has there been any word yet on what time one will close getting out of Grand Isle or will that happen do we know yet no not we still still early stages I'm just traveling right now just got off the leville bridge and uh there probably and it's it's it's a real real low to TI as we speak I'm looking on both sides of the bu right now oh that's good you know so look like it's going to um you know it look like it's going to uh you know hopefully that this thing pass fast like y'all were saying you know get it out the way you know yeah most definitely and it is forecast to move quickly once it makes landfall but with that uh Eastern trajectory there there is you know just some concern from what we may see here it's Grand Isles so of course you know how to deal with a storm be it a hurricane be it heavy rain but I'm just curious what is the move what is the mood rather what's the ten or the tone on the island with residents there in anticipation of this storm yeah we talking with a few of the old times you know some of the locals in there you know we think we taking a head count later on the season but you know all of us know that we probably going to get a lot of water you know yeah that's something that uh they never forgot hurricane Juan everybody thought it was going to be okay and the storm came in and you know put 10 ft of water so you know we just look at it as natives down here we keep an eye on that and and you never want a coldfront to go down in September the gulf cuz things are going to change quick you know yeah and that's the way we're raising you know so in the meantime that's one of our fear is is the war you know yeah most definitely sir and for folks there who may need help with anything any numbers about which they need to know or where they can go yes sir the grand out Police Department uh 9 95 uh 787 2204 and the policeman's uh all my policemen's going to be there my fireman's going to be there and we're going to be there elected officials and anybody that's in need you know we we're makeing sure that we're going be service but when Once once all hell breaks loose you know we can't get to you but we know where you at you know we just don't keep an eye on than J yeah most definitely sir and I'm going to let you go in a second I'm just curious I mean talk about lefit and that Community um still rebuilding after Ida some 3 years later parts of grandial that were hit by the storm I mean how are they doing yeah well what's happening right now we got about 10 FEMA trailers well State trailers and they comeing to pick him up so what we did we opened the Multiplex Center we put a few people in there and Lush Parish talking to AR shasso he has something in lock board uh in the in the center of there in case want to all people up there so you know uh most of the trailers are out you know and uh we just making sure the boats in the trailer so you know the people feel and and they they coming to get their stuff you know summer's over but we had a great summer we want to thank all the people for coming in sure they love the a they love the beach so and then the cor Engineers still left a lot in the meantime uh we we just we got to protect it and you you know they was hoping to finish by the end of the year but uh with this storm coming uh at least I got a good bit of protection you know with the with the the the burrito Levy with the clay on top I'm a Rockman a burrito Levy but I want Clay on top happen in for sand you got to put it for the birds but in the meantime that's going to be washing back on my highway hopefully not but in the meantime we are we got a little more protection that we had you know from the last storm all right well that is the Good News Mayor happy to hear that y'all are all all collected there and ready to go for this storm and what it may do once it makes landfall thank you to you our best wishes to the community of Grand Isle I'll do a good job thank you so much let's go live now to our Paul Murphy where officials in plaman Parish just wrapped a press conference briefing us on what they've got going on Paul what can you tell us well like most areas uh here in in the New Orleans area we have a lot of folks that are keeping their eye out on the tropical storm hurricane uh Francine uh there was a meeting here at uh the Parish government building in Bel Chase uh a little while ago where there was a conference call with the governor's office of emergency preparedness and uh with that jog to the east there have been a few changes in the potential impacts here in pament Parish and joining us is Patrick Harvey he's the Emergency Management director here in plans uh talk about some of those changes that you just learned about okay uh on the East Bank of the parish a storm surge has risen from 3 to 5 feet West Bank stayed the same at 4 to 7 feet uh we still don't see any potential impacts to Highway 39 on the East Bank we're going to continue to monitor that as the you know storm moves closer to us uh we feel the need that uh Highway 39 will be passable on East Bank West Bank I said 4 to 7 foot storm surge uh there are some low low areas on the alliance to uh West Point lash back Levy system we expect that to get over top some uh but it's got a ways before it'd have to reach Highway 23 uh we don't expect Highway 23 to be under uh water you know during France scene but you know we issued a a voluntary evacu uation to the residents that's living inside the levy protection system on the West Bank from Alliance to Venice and the entire East Bank of the parish as as a precaution for those that have medical needs and stuff that don't feel safe staying in their in their uh homes and all to seek sha safe shelter during uh Francine also a mandatory that the voluntary is effective at 2 p.m. this afternoon a mandatory evacuation was issued this morning for 78 a.m. for those living outside the levy protection system syst those areas include uh the Myrtle Grove Estates area Wood Park Lake Hermitage Happy Jack Grand valou and tiw water area in Venice those are on the West Bank and then on the East Bank from the white ditch area to the Phoenix split on uh on the East Bank those are evacuations at this time what's your biggest area of concern right now uh it's going to be you know potential flooding of you know both 23 and 39 like I said we going to be monitoring that you know those areas if they get impacted by storm surge and you know flood then it cuts us off from both you know the southern end of our East bank and Southern in our West Bank of the parish and what type of wind speed are you looking at right now tropical storm force winds will you know looking the impact plaas Parish but if the storm if Francine continues to jog to the east uh those will those chances will increase higher to you know for a stronger tropical storm force winds or potential you know hurricane Forest winds for the parish so what are you telling your folks right now go ahead and start you know continue preparations uh securing items around your residents you make a plan you know prepare for power outages you know that's one of the uh issues that you know we all tend to have nowadays uh if you have a generator make sure you have fuel for that generator uh then the 202020 plan is you know if for safety measures with a generator make sure the generator is 20 ft from your residence uh if you got to refuel it wait 20 minutes to refuel it where you know for any types of fires or what have you and also invest $20 for a carbon monoxide detector for your house in case you know you get carbon dioxide poison and you know it could alert you because those those led to many deaths post storms uh in the recent uh years you know one of the things that we talk about a lot when we see these storms that seem to bounce here and there is is uh when you see it jog one way uh and you have a projected track then people sort of let down their guard but there's a danger in doing that particularly uh when you just don't know where this storm is going to make landfall until it actually makes landfall right that's correct you know whe the storm jogs a little bit to left or right we're still going to have some type of impacts you know a storm could be 200 miles away in pla's Parish as we stick out in the middle of Gulf of Mexico we get storm surge we get winds you know we get impacted some kind of way you can't just focus on the The Cone that the storm is in you got to look outside the cone that's where you know you're going to get impact from a storm uh so be prepared prepared you know for these little jogs east and west and all we going to you know have these issues throughout you know for the next couple days here also uh we got Floodgate closures going on here in the parish the hero Canal Floodgate uh that'll be closed uh this afternoon the Empire Floodgate for the Empire Safe Harbor will be closing that at 2:00 this afternoon on a low tide so anybody that has uh vessels that's seeking Safe Harbor in the southern part of the parish please get to the Empire safe Harbor by 2:00 this afternoon the flood protection authority East will be closing the braith weight Floodgate that's a highway 39 Floodgate at 700 p.m. tonight that's at the Parish line between plans and St Bernard and we will not be closing the highway 23 Floodgate in uh jees bin and Oakville by Captain Larry that will remain open we're going to be closing any uh un you know minor floodgates throughout the parish but you know the highways will be passable at this time and you and I were talking before we came on the air about uh the saltwater uh in the Mississippi that's working its way up um will this storm have any uh effect on the arrival time of the saltwater will it help dilute some of that and and and push it back uh towards the gulf uh we anticipate some salt you know ex you know with the surge now pushing salt water up further but with the amount of rainfall that's predicted with the storm and the you know upper Miss Mississippi River Valley and stuff as it travels you know Thursday Friday into Saturday should drop a bunch of rainfall down south and will'll help us out to push salt waterer out that's that's what we're hoping for with uh Francine and so when is the next time the parish is going to meet I know that they were talking about um the um the command center uh activating uh and uh you were going to meet uh I guess at four o'clock today we're looking to meet again at four o'clock to just go over our plans and what we had accomplished today and what uh left to be accomplished tomorrow and stuff as we you know start to prepare and hunker down as everyone says for you know Francine coming you know tomorrow afternoon to our Parish also we have you know shelter here on the Parish government complex in bellchase that's opening up at noon today for those residents that you know feel unsafe that are seeking a shelter we'll have that open up please bring your uh food we'll provide water and stuff and your Essentials also for pets uh L you know small dogs and cats those could be brought and sent they'll be stage at the uh animal shelter but uh if you're evacuating and you don't bring your you know out of town and you not bringing your pet we we cannot accept the pets your pets have to go go with you you know one of the things we also say a lot when it comes to these storms is uh when a storm is approaching and when the storm is hitting that's no time to go joy riding no time to go sightseeing uh stay in your home homes if you're going to shelter in place that's correct stay stay indoors you know don't go sighty and all cuz you come across down power lines down trees and everything you're impeding uh us the First Responders and all to evaluate the situation After the Storm passes let us get out there make sure roadways are cleared and stuff and it's safe for everybody to travel and you know listen to your local leaders and your local news for the most accurate information from us and you have your Crews already standing by to help clear those streets yes sir yes sir we we be out 24/7 uh making sure highways are uh cleared and you know our Pump Station operators will be on site at the pumps you know as WEA uh is able to allow right thank you very much Patrick Harvey is the pla Min Paris Emergency Management director so like most of us the parish is is waiting and watching to see where Storm Fran scene ends up uh but there are a lot of things that people need to consider if you're going to uh evacuate um make your plans now uh if you're going to shelter in place make sure there no objects loose objects in your yard that might become flying projectiles even in tropical storm strength winds also check those uh um branches out that may be close to your house uh and some trees that uh may also cause a problem uh in in the event of the storm hitting this area so that's uh where we are here in plans and Bell Chase Paul Murphy WWL Louisiana great reporting thank you sir again the word from officials in plaman Paris they are ready for the storm where to to make landfall there are some mandatory evacuation orders in place in plaman Parish particularly those low-lying unprotected areas again we've been telling you that The Floodgate there on the East Bank of the river will close at 7:00 mean tonight meantime the drawbridge and Empire is set to close tomorrow morning for unprotected areas of plaman parish as far as roads concerned in plaman Paris two major highways if you're on the East Bank of the River on the east side of plaman Paris you're talking about Highway 39 Westside Highway 23 let's start with the East Bank of the river officials say that they do believe that Highway 39 will remain passible throughout this weather event they are concerned though about the West Bank side of highway 23 right now the potential they say for some over topping of the levy protection system over at the West Point of laash area but they also say that that's mainly a grassy area cow pasture and whatnot so they do believe that there is enough land to catch that water in the event there is some over topping so not as to compromise Highway 23 that is the word right now out of plaman Parish another note from Paul Murphy you know we've talked a lot of late about that saltwater intrusion and it returning this year like last year although some safeguards have been put in place by Parish officials they do think that when this makes landfall and The Surge pushes water in that there could be potential for more saltwater to push up River however what they are also looking at with this forecast there is rain and they do say that they expect there to be enough rain so as to push out what is pushed in that is the word from plaman Parish our Paul Murphy joining us live let's get over to pton who's got the very latest on the storm track thanks Brandon and if you're just joining us here on this um Tuesday Morning September the 10th as we're tracking Francine the storm is still a trop iCal storm so it is not rapidly intensifying just yet there is a chance that maybe it does today but the biggest inhibitor that we've looked at the past 12 hours has been dry air it looks like the storm though is finally wrapping itself off from that dry air you can see a little fetch of it here and this is when we may start to see it actually intensify into a hurricane so the good news is it's not doing anything rapidly as of this morning but that could change depending on how this evolves you can see these burst of thunderstorms they're trying and they may do it but this is what we're going to be watching the Northeast movement now pressure's down to 988 so the pressure has dropped that's a sign that the storm is trying to strengthen the winds just haven't responded just yet but they probably will so we do think this will be a hurricane at some point today now right now the National Hurricane Center is saying a category one as we go through today strengthening is possible all day long that could bring it up to a category two now when you look at these forecast tracks you have to be careful because they only forecast every 12 to 24 hours they don't forecast every single point on the map and if you go read the hurricane discussion they do mention that there is a chance that maybe this still makes a run at a category two I don't necessarily want you to get hung up on a category one or category two at this point I would say be preparing for a category 2 better safe than sorry but if the storm can battle off that dry a and wind shear there is that chance that maybe it does become that category to right before landfall that is still a possibility so I know you look at this and think okay they've decreased the intensity not really they said that it's probably going to happen if it will happen it'll happen in between those two forecast points either way you look at it we're on the east side of a landfalling category one storm that's going to be moving that's great news that means it's not going to hang around for days and days but at the same time a faster moving storm can help those winds penetrate further Inland so there will be that R wind risk all across uh the area I want to briefly talk about storm surge in great detail now luckily we have this thing called the SLO model this is how the National Hurricane Center comes up with their forecast and what this is excuse me is a very detailed look on where the storm surge will be and it's a more detailed look compared to that graphic where we just show you the the colors of 5 to 10 feet all across the coast in reality it's not going to be that high every single location and based on this current track if it comes in around Morgan City St Mary Parish that's the official track your highest surge will be right there on the east side of the the storm that's the achapa right there and so that's tabone Parish there's Morgan City that's where you'd see your water back up the most now admittedly I'm not extremely 100% familiar with the Geographics around Morgan City on the south side of town but that water would get pushed up now if this track is a little further this way and the storm comes in maybe right here instead of here well then you've got a north of the wind over here in St Mary and it's pushing the water out into the Gulf so this is a very minor track detail that has big implications on where the storm surge will be its highest now currently with that track and intensity of a strong category one weak Category 2 here moving Inland we are forecasting in the red there closer to 10 ft of surge here in tabone Parish of course a lot of this goes underwater fairly easily as it's Marsh you're going to see anywhere from 7 to 9 ft of inundation here that includes cadry that includes getting up to portions of chauan so if you're down here in tabone Bay I can really zoom in and show you that you could see inundation of around seven to we'll say up to seven feet around cadry and up to we'll say five to seven feet around chauan so that's water above your head that's pretty tall and so if you are down here obviously no big levies down here to protect you so that's going to come into tabone Bay and it gets funneled in there too so that adds on to it now down in lower lefou Paris once you get outside the gates talking towards um Port Fon and into Grand is the I think maybe the models are underdoing this just a little bit we're currently calling for four to 7t in this Zone and um models are sort of split on what they do with this but generally barit teria Bay you're going to see water funneling in here you'll see water coming up through the barrier Barrier Island Port fuson leeville just outside of Golden Meadow water is probably going to come up near la1 it may even get up to it depending on how high it can get but you can see there worse surge the further you get into tabone Bay a little bit less once you get into bar bararia Bay now over here on the east side of plaman and over into Eastern St nard you're probably still going to see around 3 to 5 ft of surge other areas it will be slightly higher but that water gets funneled into Lake Bourne it gets funneled in right here and you see water funneled in up towards the Venetian Isles area we're probably going to see at least 3 to 5 feet of surge out here for unprotected areas in New Orleans Parish or in Orleans Parish so a closer look out here in Orleans Parish this is where you're outside the levies inside the levies we're going to be just fine but um you'll see 3 to 5T of water rise that'll get up on Highway 90 in parts of those areas as well and then if you're watching us over in Bay St Louis um we all know Bay St Louis it floods if there's a slight breeze out of any direction so you are seeing some water pile up down here by the Silver Slipper in Hancock County the Bay of Bay St Louis back in here over towards Pass Christian where you got the Jordan and Wolf River coming in water will begin to back up and then here is uh the Jordan River you can see water does get up maybe quite High getting piled up into the bay there models are showing maybe closer to 5 to 7t for a couple spots in here so it's these minor Minor Details and if you live in these neighborhoods I hope you know them well enough but you may need to move your cars if you live in any low-lying areas Shoreline Park those areas around Bay St Louis so while you're not really in the core of this storm the water is still going to be quite high and it's just a reminder how susceptible we are all right one more area I want to talk about with storm surge it's the NorthShore so as the storm is sitting to your West which the current track is out here to the West let's say the storm's got rotation or a spin like this you're piling water mainly north of the lake you notice down here on the Southshore we don't have any significant water rise that's because the way it looks right now the winds are generally going to be out of the South pushing water this direction which would help out now the seas are going to be choppy there's going to be some splashing on the the ri the lakefront there but I think the North Shore is where we're going to see some higher water 3 to 5 feet seems like a good bet for these area so if you do live along the lakefront there in St Tam or if you live along the lakefront over in tangible whole Parish you're going to see some water rise and we're talking about those typical spots I can zoom all the way into Madisonville and mandville and you can see water getting splashed up right there it doesn't penetrate very far inland but where you live right there it's a nuisance same thing back through Madisonville and in the marshy areas of these areas once you get back down towards lower Tangi and south of Le's landing and back towards manshack rudo you got three to five feet of water getting piled up in here too and that uh will be funneled into Lake marpa as well with only about two to four 4 ft in Lake morpa is what I'm thinking with that current Outlook and then over here in LL um once you get outside those protected areas you know the spots where you see water coming in that's the spillway this is over the spillway area water will come in there and you'll have some water trying to get in probably about 2 to four feet or so right here just outside of I55 with those marshy areas getting backed up too and this is a reminder storm surge flooding is only one component of course we watched the rain we watch the rivers now all this surge is going to be pushing up on those Rivers so the water that's draining into the rivers on the NorthShore it's not going to have anywhere to really go so it'll add up faster and we do have River flood watches for all of our big rivers on the North Shore the balaya the Tangipahoa and every other river that we've got going on up here so the rivers will likely see some backing up as we get into more so Thursday I think Thursday is when our Rivers will probably be cresting before they begin to drop and those winds will eventually switch out of a different direction and help that water drain out so that's a debrief on what we're looking at with storm surge the overall message is storm surge is going to be worse the close you get to the center as of 10: a.m. the center is currently tracking right here but looking at our latest high resolution models I still think not and you know I'm not even looking at some of the high resolution models I'm talking about some of our big Global models they show a core of the storm moving closer to Southeast Louisiana in fact I want to show you one that many of our models are showing something similar this is the tropical Fran scene you can see it down here model show showing that it's getting close to becoming a hurricane at some point later this morning next update is 1: p.m. by the way it continues to show it strengthening into today and tonight and then once we get into tomorrow this is when our windsh and dry a really are going to be working on this thing and that's what we're hoping happens because it'll help at least level off the intensity may even try to weaken it some now here we go this is at 1 and 2:00 tropical storm conditions expected in the bayou parishes by tomorrow afternoon early early afternoon even in maybe late morning this is where your core of stronger winds are going to be and you can see this model brings it in more into tabone Parish the hurricane center line is over here so this is another Trend we'll be watching to see if we have an update of 4:00 this afternoon now once I put this in motion you can see this model brings it in further east a lot further east and brings that Corridor of stronger winds right over the Metro you've probably heard several people reference Zeta and if you were here for Zeta it was a very quick storm it happened right before Halloween remember it was deges afterwards and you know it wasn't great but at least it wasn't too hot but this is a similar setup where we're got about a category 2 storm category one storm or so moving Inland and racing across the area but as it does Race Across the area it brings some strong winds so we're certainly going to watch this trend if you end up getting in the core of this storm winds gusting 70 80 even 90 mph are a possibility down along the coast now in the metro area Orleans Paris and Jefferson Parish you can see there the winds gusting 50 60 maybe 70 and this is if the core moves over the city I mean if it stays to the West Winds won't be as strong but they'll still be quite strong across the area so this is just one of those scenarios that is a possibility and I don't want you to get hung up on that forast line because I was telling Brandon earlier the chance that this storm follows that forecast line exactly as it's written on the map it's not a very high chance of it happening so you have to expect that there's going to be some minor wobbles here in there and there's going to be some differences in what is actually on that forecast line so do expect there to be some subtle changes here and there and a lot of this you can't really forecast until it's happening so this is why we're just kind of getting everyone ready in Southeast Louisiana and even south Mississippi for those tropical storm force winds and close you get to the coast maybe even hurricane force winds this is uh the timing just to give you a guesstimate this is late afternoon into the evening storms still nearby and then once we get into the early morning hour on Thursday this model is a little further East curane Center has it up here at that time it's over here but things will gradually improve into the early morning hours on Thursday and it will be completely out of here as we head into your Thursday afternoon so once again Brandon this is going to be a quick event relatively speaking it's not going to be with us for two days but overall still could be a very impactful storm for parts of the area we're talking power outages most definitely pton thank you with that and I also want to get to a note here from lcmc they are announcing some closures ahead of Francine they are closely monitoring the storm as many are here all lcmc Health hospitals they've activated their hurricane plan and they're going to go into lockdown mode beginning Wednesday at 7 a.m. in anticipation for the storm making landfall so with that they're saying that all clinics and Urgent Cares are going to be closed and elective surgery procedures will be cancelled for Wednesday at the moment they do expect normal operations to resume first thing Thursday morning but that all depends on what the storm does so we mentioned hospitals will be on lockdown beginning tomorrow at at 11:00 a.m. um we uh have a list of that too but I also want to move on to trash real quick and I'll Circle back to the list of hospitals that will be on lockdown mode this just in though from Ivy waste as you see here on their screen they are suspending service for uh residents in Orleans Parish today is the word from them in Ivy waste right now normal Wednesday service will occur on Thursday Thursday service on Friday Friday service on Saturday doing a bit of a Paris by Parish check there IV way says over in St Bernard Parish garbage collection is going to be suspended Wednesday too uh regular pickup they're expecting hopefully to have back up and running Thursday again all fluid depends on what the storm does here same story in St Charles Parish garbage Su is suspended on Wednesday they're asking folks to secure their trash cans and whatnot be ready clean up debris if there's anything there or any potential for projectiles they want you to be aware of that trash pickup is normal today there though in plaman Parish uh no trash uh scheduled for Wednesday or Thursday weather permitting officials in plaman Paris say that uh trash is expected to be resumed a pickup I should say is expected to resume on Friday morning this of course is all conditional depending on what that storm does and the trajectory that path moving further east at least at the 10:00 update that Payton has been walking us through again the next update is going to be made available to at 4:00 our team is on top of that right now we are also on top of a press conference that we are expecting to start any minute right now Governor Jeff Landry and state Emergency Management officials in Baton Rouge you can see the podium there empty but officials are expected to take the podium any moment you can see they're getting ready right now we're standing by we're watching and we will join it live as soon as they start talking but the call for everyone here is to be prepared let's this in line U I'm going to turn it over real quick we're going to just jump jump jump straight into the weather with Jay groms is going to give you a quick update and then we're going to go through some of the cabinet secretaries to give them give you an update on where we where we stand as a state and then we'll turn it over to the governor in the end so Jay can you please kind of Step Up all right folks well uh the first story here is to be aware that you still have today to prepare we are going to start to get some rain in the area but the real action doesn't start to kick in until Wednesday look for tropical storm force winds to start making their way along the coast and move moving Inland by the midm morning hours uh landfall looks to be during the afternoon or early evening but probably mid afternoon on Wednesday so tropical storm force winds begin tomorrow morning you need to have everything completed by that time could be looking at storm surge anywhere of six to even 10 feet over portions of Vermilion and a Chapala Bay depending on the track of the storm now if you've been watching the storm tracks over the last 2 4 hours they've been ever so slightly easing a bit to the east so now the ban Rouge metro area is under the gun in terms of a tropical threat but I'm not convinced that that Eastward shift is over just yet uh the storm has already begun its movement to the Northeast and so that's a little earlier than we thought it would and that at least in part explains some of the Eastward shift of the track we need to keep our eyes on this one it won't be Lara it won't be Ida but it is still going to be an extensive impact in terms of the roll of that storm as it rolls into South Central and Southeastern Louisiana the good news here is it comes in at about 15 miles per hour should push through relatively quickly we're looking at rain totals of anywhere from 4 to 8 Ines of rain widespread across south Louisiana that's going to push a number of rivers up to and even above flood stage so that's going to be a problem and also because of that forward speed while the storm will get out relatively quickly it's also going to drive those tropical storm and hurricane force winds up two and north of the I 1012 Corridor all of South Central and Southeastern Louisiana under the gun with this storm again keeping an eye on whether we see another slight shift in the track over the next 6 to 12 hours well done Jay uh now we're going to get a quick update from the attorney general thank you good morning everybody hope everybody's prepared or getting prepared for the storm today um you know while we usually see the best in people during a storm sometimes we also see the worst in people and so I want to talk to you for a minute about price gouging price gouging occurs when someone or a business charges prices that are extraordinarily disproportionate to the ordinary prices that would be charged right before the storm or during the storm um we will have some information some detailed information we're going to put it out on the get a game plan app we'll also have that information available at our website at www. ais.com if you suspect that someone is price gouging or has already been a victim while preparing for the storm there's a few things that you can do one you can contact your local law enforcement it it can be a crime um so the first place you can go is to local law enforcement you can also file a complaint at our website The Details Matter so when you do that I would urge you to use as much detail as you can when you file that complaint you can call the consumer hotline which is that number is800 351 4889 so I just want to remind everybody that price gouging is illegal and we can we are monitoring that we will enforce the law and we will make sure that no one is taken advantage of during the storm it's not only wrong it is illegal and we will enforce the law thank you okay now we're going to get doc Abraham to give us a quick update with LDH doc overall the medical and water structures are intact in uh cooperation with lnh LH has almost constant Communications with our nursing homes more dedicated resources right now to Regions three and four if the storm should shift we will move appropriately and accordingly uh and follow that as far as what regions become more involved right now most nursing homes plan to shelter in place as of this minute only one has had a partial evacuation in a vermillian parish moved eight patients to Mansfield up into soda parish and that went very seamlessly there are no report reported issues from any hospitals right now region 6 the mega Center stands ready it's not open but it it's a need shelter and if it needs to open then the governor has that discretion as far as our Medicaid patients guidance has gone out to the pharmacies to F prescriptions early that does not incl include control substances but other substances that other prescriptions and that no par authorizations are going to be required during this event thank you okay now we're going to get a dual update between the Louisiana Public Service Commission and the DEQ on the utility infrastructure ladies good morning the commission is mobilizing and in Communications with our electric utilities they are currently all activating their emergency response plans we have about 7500 additional crewmen including linemen and vitation management Personnel ready and waiting to assess the storm damage and then respond as soon as they are safely able to do so power outages can be found on our website which is www.psc.gov.np all of the licensed and permit facilities to make sure that they had their assets protected and secured um we will and have been coordinating with the parishes and the municipalities to ensure that the emergency debris sites are ready um for the nuclear power plants which are Riverbend and Waterford we are in contact with them to make sure that they are ready for the storm and then also uh for the Public's awareness we have our single point of contact that is if there are spills we also have our debris hotline so if there's any of those questions um that information will be available on our site um and we will keep that information updated thank you okay I'm going to turn it over to the governor let me shift everybody down a little bit if y'all don't mind shift everybody this way and I'm going to turn it over to Governor because it's important that you can see the app right there yeah good morning as you can see the cabinet's been bu busy we had a a great ucg meeting everybody seems to be working uh in unison uh I feel very confident that the all of the agencies uh or or have activated their emergency response plans and prepositioning assets needed uh for this storm I want to thank Jay again uh for the continual forecasting that he's giving us I think that that adding that uh Dynamic and element uh to GOP has been extremely useful at yesterday's press conference um at some of the questions that I got from the media I wanted to take an opportunity to again inform the citizens of Louisiana about the resources that we have put that are basically you can place in your hands and that is The geta Game Plan app and you can go to your app store on your mobile device and if you search get a game plan Louisiana it will populate first and you should download that app when you download that app it will ask you if you want the app to be able to track you you may want to do that so that the app can then push out information in your area because the next um the next notification that you get when you download the app is whether or not you want push notifications sent to you this app will continuously keep you informed okay about information in real time that is happening right here in goap so this app it first serves as a preparation app inside the app you can find hurricane preparation list a family plan A business plan um it has information where you can uh like let's just say you're a single mother with three kids and a cat you can put that information inside the app and the app will tell you the things that you should populate in your hurricane prepare list right and then and then we know what you have in your household as far as pets and children and and and Personnel so it's a preparation app then secondly during the storm it can serve as an information app it gives upto-date content that's managed right here by goep you can literally get information as quickly as I can through that particular app it also and then if you end up in an area under which you lose communication keeping that app on your phone has location based uh um push notifications and the data inside for very uh important information will be housed inside app so even if you lose communication there are VI there Vital Information that will stay in the app that you can access and then finally it serves as a post storm information center and so again so after the storm information that you're looking for will be available on that app so I give you an example resources Disaster Recovery assistance dot information such as road closures evacuation plans weather information as I said earlier emergency preparedness guide uh are all things that you can find on this particular app in addition to the public service announcements that we will push to you while utilizing this app so again again I highly encourage the citizens of the state to take a look at this app if you do not have a mobile phone you can access this on a desktop as well again as you can see by the information that was reported today we are continuingly preparing for this storm uh we will keep our citizens informed again I'm confident that all of our agencies and our federal Partners seem to be working very seamlessly we are pre-positioning assets uh so that they will be available to the public on a needed basis with that I am happy to take any questions yes so with the wobbling of the storm is that causing any challenges with the prepositioning of any resources no I don't I I don't I I mean look and Jake can can further confirm this storms wobble it's what they do it's the it's a normal track of wobbling that happens as hurricanes uh um approach the coasts and so I I I'm very confident that the the um the pre-positioning asset map that we have um is going to be adequate for the storm that we're getting ready to face and has the National Guard been deployed and where absolutely look I'll tell you what we'll have General freu give you an update on um on um on some of the Commodities and and Personnel that he has look I have it right here General yes sir yeah thank you so yes the the National Guard is mobilizing right now we are deploying across uh the coastal par parishes and and throughout Louisiana again just like the governor said we have contingency no matter where the storm wobbles uh we place our forces where they can they can react go go north go south east or west and react to where we need those service members right now we have um we're focusing on uh uh high water vehicles and boats we have 87 boats 387 high water vehicles and over 50 helicopters to uh to work that what we think is the most probable Mission post storm which would be search and rescue so those assets are out there right now we're also pre-positioning Commodities uh those uh meals water and tarps and those are stage as well right now we have 1 million plus meals 1.1 million lers of water and over 55,000 tarps thank you and we hope we don't have to use all of them right okay any other questions uh yep Julie um okay the app I I understand you guys are modernizing I think all the information on the app is great I can't help but think about my family my mother barely uses her phone for anything that's not a phone call my father has glaucoma he can't see anything on his phone uh I think that there are a lot of people in this state who can't read very well we've had many discussions about that in the legislature or who can't read at all so what are we doing for people who can't and post storm I mean I remember Ida sitting in this room no one had cell phone service there was someone that was sitting with us that Governor you and I both know really well couldn't get in contact with their family for 16 hours because no one had cell phone service so what are we doing if a lot of people for people who don't have cell Home Service potentially after a storm and people who just like can't use this very easily what is a couple of things I would say Julie um again we're doing the same things we did before all this technology became available right all right so that nothing that we've been doing in the past has changed just because we have this technology this technology has an additional layer however we do know that the vast majority of people in this state use social media use their phones access the internet and guess what they should take an opportunity to help those who can't as well so that we get that information in addition we have consistently since hurricane season has began informed our citizens is in a state of what to do in order to prepare the list and information that are that that are out there can be used can be printed out and can be handed to those that may not have an opportunity to be able to access um a mobile device or the internet so again we have tried to push this out to our community- based Partners to NOS to our nonprofits that's the job that they can do to help us and to help those citizens who are in that that type of position again on the communication side I spoke to AT&T earlier this morning I know we instructed the PSC uh to reach out to the other network Partners to ensure that they are pre-positioning assets so we try to um uh address some of the communication disruptions of the past and so as we get those we will inform you in press conferences just like this as well again we are welcome to take any type of of comments or or or constructive criticism that we can to try to reach as many people as we can however I will tell you that as I travel to State the vast majority of people are walking around with a phone just like you in your hand in addition to that as I said earlier I think this is important even if you lose communication the app is designed to keep Vital Information on there that you can access we're not going to have it all but again it's better than nothing so thank but thank you for your question govern it's my understanding that in the past there have been some state run shelters especially for medically vulnerable people can you tell us what has been opened for the storm or what you are prepared to open for the storm J sure it's it's a combination our Sheltering process is a combination it's run by DCFS as well as LDH when you're talking special needs there's this joint Mission between the two of them all of it starts at the local level and it goes back to the understanding of the AP itself all Emergency Management starts at that local level then goes to the parish level where the parishes have their shelters responsible in there then there's a state plan where we absorb once a parish does not have a capability or they're exceeded their capability we have a state Mega shelter that we have in Alexandria and we have a sh State shelter plan right now DCFS currently is prepared for 500 people as a back flow if the parishes run out we have not received any requests from the parishes for assist from the state most of the parishes do it so often and they're so good at it they do Sheltering on their own through the community centers and the churches and the schools is the first stage but we're always there and we never leave anyone in behind it's particularly the ones with special needs and medical is that does that mean the medical the medically vulnerable shelter is open and where is it open okay it all depends on by the parish and all of this is on our app it's all listed on there as an element of DCFS is linked into that as well as LDH uh the doc's probably better to talk about the medical need shelter than myself um we've got three already that are opened Julie in uh veran you got a couple more U opened here in Assumption and lefou Tbone they're going to open one shelter St John's going to open two uh region four you can to have two opened uh region five have not opened the shelter and the region two have not opened the shelter New Orleans and the region one area area uh two shelters are opening so these things are Works in progress as the storm moves closer uh people are getting things in place and uh you know they can the citizens can access it certainly on our website as to where these shelters are and when they're going to be functional is shelter and alexand ready to go it's ready okay yes sir absolutely yes ma'am uh in terms of medically vulnerable shelters are those all going to be locally run or is the state Mega shelter going to be prepared to take some of those people go ahead got they generally will do what they can do at the beginning and most of the kind of time they can handle it themselves but if they certainly need us or go St we're a phone call away and the local that's right absolutely Governor I know the situation is not the same as Ida but there was a lot of hard learned lessons uh in emergency response and for evacuations and everything what is something that you observed after Ida or a lesson that you learned that you want folks to keep in mind as we wait for this storm to come yeah look it's a great question I think that every storm that we get gives us a greater uh opportunity to see where are deficiencies inside the system uh I would tell you that I think that if if there is an area that we can we we've worked on with and and to my satisfaction is keeping people AB breast of utilities right of of the number of linemen and Crews that we're bringing in there's a virtual map now that that people can go to uh so that they can understand how power is getting to them or how close that power is um the communication side we're going to work very closely with our Communications Partners to make sure that we keep the lines of communications open I think that we can we've learned that we have to be able to respond to making sure that people have lines of communication so if AT&T is down how does Verizon lay over that or vice versa or any of the other networks as well I think that the the the closer and Tighter you um uh you basically tether the local state and federal Partners together and then as the cabinet Works in conjunction with each other we keep our communication lines um open I think that those are things that help us to me the biggest where where we end up failing in all these storms is in communication um which is why we're doing it which is why y'all are so important as well um being able to help us push that information out um and if you hear if you have questions or you think see things on social media that we're not answering if you let our com's team know we will try to respond to those as well one one more question yes ma'am what's the um fastest way for people to learn about evacuation orders get aam plan.org I I mean I think that look we will you know GOP is putting information out as it happens as we get them as those evacuation orders happen we put them out to y'all in the Press we we immediately as we are sending them to y'all it gets posted on the app as well again think about this the app will tell you about those evacuation notices immediately because we push it out and when can we expect the next press conference that's that's what I was going to address we do not want to put anyone at risk okay so we we will have a press conference tomorrow however we will most likely let the storm activity subside and we don't want to put anyone at RIS trying to get here in all likelihood it be be sometime in the PM you will see an invite and we'll let you know when it's going to be so we're not having another one today we there will probably not be another press conference today correct we want everybody to go home and be safe and prepare for the storm effects that will begin tomorrow so the next press conference again will be tomorrow again everyone out there please be safe stay Louisiana strong and all the Louisiana agencies always have you back always and again I'd like to Governor Jeff Landry wrapping a press conference right now the headline from the governor who says he is confident All State agencies have activated their plan he's also urging residents throughout the state of Louisiana to get the get a game plan app he says that everything you need to know about the storm as it happens will be delivered to you there the governor saying that this will be the last press conference today but they do plan to give an update tomorrow this of course depends on what the storm is doing pretty wide ranging conversation there from State emergency leader State climatologist Jay Grim said that he's not convinced that that Eastern movement that we've seen thus far is done just yet so that's something that they're watching but the good news as far as he sees it again Jay Grimes the State climate uh climatologist is that the storm is a quick mover as Payton's been telling us too and also looking to see if there is another shift in the track again they're waiting to see that that's something that they'll get to um when we see the next map at 400 p.m. price gouging another concern Liz Merl is something uh attorney general looking into that right now a number to call if you need if you see that 1 800 351-4880 she also says call your local law enforcement agency if you suspect that now as far as preparations are concerned want to get to some video from our Mike McDaniel who is in lefit reporting as crews are working to fill some three some 30,000 sandbag particularly talking about low-lying areas of lefit in Jefferson Parish going to be seeing this throughout the day today and into tomorrow as the governor has called for mandatory evacuation in unprotected areas Grand ale lefit bararia and Crown Point folks who live in those areas know the drill however it is something that is uh little uneasy Whenever there is a storm there so let's get over to pton who's got the very latest on the track thank you Brandon ya we continue to watch it as you were saying that East Trend not necessarily our friend over the past 12 12 hours or so I do want to mention we have a large batch of rain sitting just off the Gulf some of this is going to try to work in so we will have rain already although the winds are not going to be anything extreme today and I use the word extreme the winds overall we're not expecting this to be a category three category four category 5 now what it will probably be is a hurricane so we are planning for that and here is the latest as of 10:00 the pressure is down to 988 but it's looking a little ragged I'll be honest with you it is not a storm that looks like it's going to rapidly intensify right now overall the center it's fairly Broad in nature it's looking a little ragged it's still battling some dry air and the hurricane Hunters are in there now it has started to turn Northeast so after jogging Northwest slowing down a little bit it is now moving Northeast and that will be its path all the way up until landfall as I mentioned the hurricane Hunters are in there and I have noticed that the pressure it's not dropping very quickly their first pass was at 988 their second pass was about 988 mbars as well so we're not seeing this thing rapidly deepen I was just looking at our high res ution models though and many of them do show this thing steadily increasing in intensity as we go through today and into tonight so hopefully it won't be anything too fast hopefully this thing just remains a category one storm but there is an off chance that maybe it jumps up to a category 2 later tomorrow morning before it makes landfall so while you don't see a category 2 in the forecast track if you look into the description they type out they type out these paragraphs they do mention that this could still briefly get to around a a category two before landfall landfall is still expected to be later tomorrow afternoon with impacts being felt throughout the afternoon and into tomorrow evening and then it is moving uh Jay Grimes was just talking about there that this thing will be moving on through so it's not going to stall out in the region but that track it has us all on the east side and that means impacts hurricane warnings are currently in effect for the Bayou parishes and lower Jefferson Parish we have a hurricane warning also for St James Parish could these be extended it is possible right now that current track is Center lined right through St Mary perish but I'm telling you these high resolution models they don't like the idea of this going to the north they like the idea of this thing coming across right across our area and that is certainly a possibility we're going to have much more coverage on our storm alerts here we're talking about storm surge values we'll go over that track more we'll talk about how much rain we get that's all coming up here afternoon Brandon all right thank you as pton mentioned we've got a lot more to bring to you crw station throughout Southeast Louisiana quick two-minute break we're back live right here at noon as we continue to track [Music] Francine an important message for America