>> WELCOME BACK. WELL, AFTER A ROUGH DAY FOR PORTIONS OF ACADIANA, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK TO NORMAL. BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE LONGER TO GET BACK TO NORMAL FOR THE EASTERN PARISHES OF ACADIANA AS WE EXPECTED. AND AS WE WERE FORECASTING YESTERDAY, BUT AT LEAST DRIER AIR MOVING IN AND THE SAME DRIER AIR LIMITED THIS STORM, IT WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A SURPRISE WHEN IT WAS UPGRADED TO A CAT 2 JUST BEFORE LANDFALL. SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THIS AND TAKE IT FULL. GET OVER TO THE KEY WHILE AND WE SEE OUR FORMER HURRICANE NOW DOWN TO A TROPICAL STORM. FRANCINE GRADUALLY MOVING OUT AND DRIER AIR, MORE STABLE AIR MOVING IN SO DRIER WEATHER AHEAD FOR ALL OF US AND WE CAN GET BEHIND THAT AND WE HAVE A GOOD 10 DAY FORECAST AFTER THE BIG RAINS LAST WEEK AND THEN HAVING THIS STORM ON TOP OF EVERYTHING ELSE. IT'S BEEN A ROUGH COUPLE OF WEEKS WITH THAT AND TO SEE THAT MOISTURE REALLY EXACERBATING SOME OF THE FLOODING ISSUES. AND THERE WAS SOME OTHER DYNAMICS IN PLAY, ESPECIALLY AS WE GOT DOWN TOWARDS SAY, MORGAN CITY. SO AS WE LOOK AT THE INFRARED SATELLITE IMAGERY, THIS IS OVER THE LAST 12 HOURS. WE'RE STARTING OUT WITH A HURRICANE, WENT TO A CATEGORY 2 STORM AND IT OFFICIALLY MADE LANDFALL. TERREBONNE ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AROUND 5 O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON. BUT THE OUTER RAIN BANDS AND THAT EYEWALL WAS CROSSING A LITTLE BIT EARLIER THAN THAT. PRETTY MUCH ON THE SAINT MARY PARISH LINE. BUT MOST OF THE CENTER OF THE STORM WENT THE TERREBONNE PARISH. SO 70 MILE PER HOUR WINDS. NOW, THAT IS THE GOOD NEWS GUST TO 85 PRESSURE IS COMING UP. IT'S MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT A GOOD CLIP, BUT EXPECTED TO SLOW DOWN A BIT AS IT GETS CAUGHT BACK WITH THAT UPPER LEVEL TROUGH THAT'S PICKING THIS SYSTEM UP. SO THE RAINFALL THREAT NOT OVER WITH FOR MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA AND POINTS TO THE NORTH. BUT THIS IS THE CURRENT FORECAST TRACK AGAIN. YOU SEE THE RADIUS OF TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS AND A LOOK AT THE RADIUS OF HURRICANE FORCE WINDS. THEY WERE SAINT MARY TERREBONNE PARISH NOW JUST INTO NEAR THE ORLEANS AREA AND THEN MOVING OFF TO THE NORTH. BUT THESE HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS ARE PRETTY MUCH DONE WITH NOW THAT WE DO HAVE A TROPICAL STORM. AND AGAIN, THAT STORM TRACK TAKING THIS SYSTEM UP BY BETWEEN JACKSON AND MERIDIAN DOWN THE LINE. 45 MILE PER HOUR WINDS BY TOMORROW AS WE SCAN THE REGIONAL DOPPLER RADAR, AS YOU CAN SEE WHERE ALL THE BIG HEAVY RAIN IS OVER EASTERN LOUISIANA. THE LAST VESTIGES YOU COULD CALL THIS JUST NORTHERN QUADRANT SQUALL THAT'S LEFT OVER FROM THE CENTER OF CIRCULATION OF FRANCINE. STILL MOVING ACROSS LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN AND INTO THE EASTERN AND NORTHEASTERN PARISHES OF EASTERN LOUISIANA. AND STILL RENTAL DOWNPOURS BETWEEN SLIDELL AND HAMMOND. AND THERE'S GOING TO BE FLOODING HERE THROUGH MANDEVILLE AS WELL. SO ROUGH WEATHER, ROUGH WEATHER, LOW CLASS OF NEW ORLEANS FINALLY GETTING A BREAK, BUT THEY'RE UNDER A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY. AGAIN, THAT RAIN JUST COMES DOWN WAY TOO FAST FOR THE CITY PUMPS TO KEEP UP WITH SO STREET FLOODING UP TO QUITE PREVALENT THERE. AND THERE'S GOING TO BE MORE FLOODING. GULFPORT, BILOXI, OVER TO PASCAGOULA AND PASS CHRISTIAN MORE THAN LIKELY. AND BAY ST. LOUIS. AND THEN AS YOU GET FARTHER TO THE EAST, IT'S NOT SO BAD OVER BY THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. BUT YOU CAN SEE THESE HEAVY RAIN BANDS MOVING IN. SO THERE'S GOING TO BE MORE FLOODING FOR FRIENDS INTO MISSISSIPPI FOR ACADIANA OF GOODNESS. THIS LOOKS GREAT. JUST A FEW SPOTTY SHOWERS, ACADIA PARISH, AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE A FEW SHOWERS OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. BUT YOUR RAIN CHANCE DOWN TO ABOUT 40% OR LESS FOR MOST OF US. AND THEN WE STILL HAVE THOSE HEAVIER TROPICAL RAINS MAINLY OUT OF ACADIANA. BUT LINGERING RAIN SHOWER ACTIVITY ON THE WESTERN FLANK OF THE A CHAPEL. I BASIN NEAR UP PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF SAINT LANDRY PARISH BUT NOT PROBLEMATIC. STILL LINGERING RAINS, BUT THEY'RE FINALLY DYING DOWN ACROSS PORTIONS OF LOWER SAINT MARTIN PARISH AND INTO SAINT MARY PARISH AS WELL. QUICK LOOK AT THE DOPPLER VELOCITIES. AND THIS HAS BEEN REALLY KIND OF NICE TOOL. YOU CAN SEE THOSE AREAS OF BLUE COMING TOWARD THE RADAR AND BRIGHT BAND AREAS OF BLUE. THAT MEANS THOSE WINDS OVER THERE STILL IN THE 60 TO 70 MILE PER HOUR RANGE AS WE GET OVER TOWARD GONZALEZ AND THEN UP. BUT JUST EAST OF THE BATON ROUGE AREA AND WALKER AS WELL. TORNADO WATCH DROP FOR ALL OF ACADIANA STILL HOLDING ON TO IT NOW AROUND LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN, EXTREME EASTERN LOUISIANA FLOOD WATCHES. THEY'RE BEING DROPPED FROM WEST TO EAST. THEY SHOULD BE DROPPED A LAFAYETTE AS WELL. NEW FLOOD WARNING JUST COMING IN. YOU CAN SEE THAT INTO THE EAST WITH HEAVY DUTY TROPICAL RAIN BAND RAN THROUGH HERE AND NOW IS UP TOWARD THE HAMMOND SLIDELL AREA. AND THEN AS WE GET INTO SAINT MARY PARISH, WIDESPREAD FLOODING, FRANKLIN DOWN THROUGH PATERSON INTO MORGAN CITY AND THE WHITE MOST WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES. SO THIS WAS REALLY A PRETTY BAD HURRICANE, NOT ONLY FOR SAINT MARY, BUT ALSO LOWER PART OF THE LOWER SAINT MARTIN PARISH AFTER A ROUGH ONE IN LATEST WIND GUSTS. THEY'RE STARTING TO COME DOWN AND WITH THEIR DISAPPEARING, WE DON'T HAVE AGAIN. 31 IN LAFAYETTE DOWN TO 25. 33 NEW IBERIA, BUT GONZALES STILL, 49 LOOK AT THE WORLD'S 60 MILE PER HOUR WINDS AND THOSE WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DIE DOWN AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS INTO THE 30 DOWN TO THE 20 MILE PER HOUR RANGE. AND THIS STORM SYSTEM WILL GRADUALLY MOVE OUT AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE RAIN CHANCES DIMINISHING AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A PRETTY DECENT DAY ON THURSDAY THAT FLOOD THREAT STAYING WELL TO THE EAST OF US AS WELL. SO HOUR BY HOUR, WE'LL HAVE TEMPERATURES IN THE LOW TO MID 70'S. WANT BEEN ONE OF THE CHILLIEST HURRICANES WE'VE EVER SEEN. THANKS TO THAT DRY AIR WRAPPING INTO THE SYSTEM. SO TEMPERATURES MOSTLY IN THE 70'S. SO OUR REPORTERS OUT IN THE FIELD MORE COLD THAN HOT AND HUMID. THAT IS STRANGE. AND THEN TOMORROW, MIXTURE OF CLOUDS, SOME TEMPERATURES IN THE LOW TO MID 80'S, ALISE, NORTHWEST BREEZE OVERALL. AND AS WE MOVE INTO THE 10 DAY FORECAST, BOY, WE ALL DESERVE THIS. GOOD LOOKING FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY AND MUCH OF NEXT WEEK STAYS DRY, ALBEIT ON THE WARM SIDE. BUT IT'S MUCH