time a hurricane comes they come out here and just kind of enjoy the water and enjoy the scenes before things start to really really get bad again we do not recommend doing this but you can see just how far this water has started to come in already here in the harbor it's already pushed into the like the boat launch if you would this is like a Circle Drive where folks can turn around and go back up that's already starting being inundated with water it's come up a lot ever since we've been here we've been here probably an hour and a half if not 2 hours at this point we showed you a little bit earlier the water to our right you're looking right now it's already starting to Splash over and overtake a lot of the uh the sidewalks here at the harbor there's another section a little further up from us that's uh it's it's past the um the pergola the the overhang out there that's that sidewalk has already been inundated with water so it's really is starting to come up the bands are coming kind of in and out right now so we are getting a lot of heavy water at some point and then it will kind of slack off for a little bit but it's the winds that really do come in in those gust and that's one thing that Paris leaders are really concerned here about as long as the wind gusts and the wind stay about the same the storm surge should be anywhere from 4 to 6 feet and the parish leaders say they can handle that they should be fine with it and that shouldn't cause any type of Verizon uh River levels so but of course we all know that that can change the major impacts that are expected to be felt here Paris leaders say is going to be somewhere between 8:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. that mainly deals with wind and we expect gusts up to about 60 MPH of course this is just the beginning stages around here there are no shelters by the way in St Tam parish for folks who may need them but if you do need to try and get some assistance and get out of whatever conditions you're in right now you can call the parish they will try to hook you up and Link you up with some faith-based services that are trying to help people kind of last minute right now it's just you know storm a lot of a lot of wait and see at this point we did catch up with the EOC director uh the Emergency Management director here in Tam parish and he kind of talked about the the overarching concerns that they have here in St tamy Parish so take a listen to him overarchingly our biggest concern is what's going to happen with the storm surge uh and how much rainfall we get we we you know the winds are concern right because it's tropical for uh storm Forest winds but that happens with thunderstorms here pretty regularly and so we're we're pretty resilient to that uh for the most part uh the bigger concern would be that storm surge Coast little bit all of our drainage is gravity and so uh when when the rivers and creeks can't drain because the lak's backed up uh any additional rainfall we get can cause increased flooding so Parish leaders are asking folks to stay inside and stay where you are it's that shelter in place type scenario because preparation time is over at this point and they want to make sure everyone does stay off the roads of course some people as we see just kind of enjoying the weather out here on Lake Pon train here on the lakeef front couldn't be bothered with the hurricane Francine coming ashore so we'll of course keep tracking everything down here and we will going to be actually going to be heading over to tanoa Parish where the um center of the eyew wall is expected to be a little closer just to the west of us there so live from L menaville Lakefront M McDaniel WWL Louisiana we'll send you back to uh Chris now hey Mikey I tell those kids to get off the seaw wall all right I'll stop being a dad and yelling at everybody for a moment all right this is what's a little bit interesting when we get these kind of now hourly coordinates from the hurricane center but also uh with the storm now well into radar range this is where the center was just a half hour ago as you watch the loop here it does look like it's not really moving what would be kind of a forecasted North northeasterly Direction it looks almost due Northeast and that is what the Hurricane Center said was occurring uh a while ago but as you just kind of follow that Center Line and I know we don't follow it directly but it does look like it would be putting possibly the core of the storm more so over Metro New Orleans so it is very very possible the way the trend has been looking uh that we could see the core of the storm kind of the eye of the storm actually passed directly over uh New Orleans proper we are getting in or getting ready to see some of the strongest of the rainfall moving over and some of the stronger winds tip as we kind of zoom in on our single sight radar so we're just looking at the radar out of Hammond uh Morgan City the intense rainfall that band continues through uh Tibido racing cut off gallano didn't make a great deal of progress more than when we were just with you a few minutes ago but this heavy rainfall is starting to move a little bit closer to Metropolitan New Orleans so kind of now almost a a a broadly defined uh eye wall we could call it certainly not the ey wall of a category 5 storm this is not a category 5 storm to be honest it's barely a category 2 storm but I'll let that rest this is the heavier rain that is starting to move so we're getting into the River Parishes now Jean lefit moderate to heavy rainfall but it's about to get a bit heavier for you we're also getting kind of on the outer side of the eyewall itself these little pockets of heavier storms moving across belchase and most of Metro New Orleans at this moment now I say at this moment cuz these storms are moving very quickly not a bad thing we want this to move in and out of here as fast as possible but just kind of a heads up just looking at the trajectory the storm has been taking on radar here and actually we can do is um oh I got you here and um I can go to the last three hours and we can kind of take a look at the radar data from the last three hours to get kind of a rough idea of where the storm may be a little bit more projected and again there are going to be little wobbles that might move what almost seems seems to be a little bit more North and it might be a little bit more of an easterly or northeasterly Direction but as you watch this over the last 3 hours we'll go back to the first frame here kind of a very broad eyewall it's a very large broad circulation it looks to be a little bit more northeasterly which again would mean possibly getting into a little bit more of the core of the storm over Metro New Orleans in just a little while we were probably not too far away from this moving then in our Direction I say our meaning Metro New Orleans and the the greatest part of the population Northern JP River Parishes into Orleans Northern plans St Bernard so a much larger area of the population possibly getting into some of the worst of the storm now thankfully we are not seeing those 100 mph winds sustained anywhere else as the hurricane director deputy director had told us in a a video chat just a little while ago he didn't say it but I'm going to it can be a little bit more misleading that 100 mph wind was an observation from the hurricane Hunters that are estimating winds down at the surface and that is only one observation that does not really say anything else about the rest of the storm and you're not going to find 100 m per hour winds at any of our surface-based observations in fact as the storm nears a bit closer to Morgan City their winds are still at 44 M an hour still at 28 mph now again I don't want to downplay that but I also want you to understand understand we're not looking at 100 mph winds to start moving over Metro New Orleans 40 plus M an hour absolutely gusting 60 to 70 absolutely as well but I think some of the models that we had been looking at have been much more on the higher end of what was a possibility maybe a slight possibility but a possibility that's why I've said our our weather coverage as far as meteorology goes we kind of shift from the modelbased data to try and figure out what is going to happen to show you what is actually happening so we've kind of gone from the guessing and the forecasting and now just showing you the observations of what is actually happening on the ground so the winds will be picking up at kener they will be picking up elsewhere around the metro area and elsewhere as the storm continues along that northeasterly track intense rainfall though these are normally you've got intense rain and radar reflectivity the returns that you see on radar are not exactly the same as what we look at when we are looking at storms or just summertime showers and thunderstorms because you also have Within These storms very strong winds the radar sometimes has a tough time kind of differentiating what is moderate what is heavy but when those brighter Reds are showing up on what is tropical rainfall that is usually indicative of some very intense rain and as we are approaching Sunset it's going to be hard to see anything with very reduced visibility and then no lights and if we start getting more and more power outages it some becomes very very dangerous to be out on the road so this is when you want to be inside especially down toward the coast at this point you should have been indoors for quite a while but note the eye itself is starting to move more so over tabone Parish so H Lily Cummings is getting a little bit of a break and elsewhere Chau van we do have a camera out of lcom which is a Louisiana Consortium Marine observations uh research uh they have a station down there and we've been watching the water coming up gradually um all day today it looks like they're at least getting a break from the rainfall but the water is still surging up as the Storm Center is not too far away those intense storms moving across the metro area will continue to move toward the NorthShore and through the rest of the evening and the night conditions will continue to worsen do have a few at times breaks kind of brief but at least there are breaks this is not just constant Deluge of rain one thing that is interesting I did switch over from what was our infrared satellite to visible there had been some signs of a little eye trying to form as it was moving toward the coast we're starting to lose our daylight imagery but that little feature was definitely trying do something thankfully that occurred just before landfall and not yesterday or on Monday as this storm would have started to probably kind of Skyrocket and strengthening but as we had been mentioning with this it was never going to be a very hospitable environment for real intensification that wasn't out of the realm of possibilities to see it become a one or maybe even a two but that was looking less and less likely as we kind of went through time as this moved into even more hostile conditions across the northern Gulf Coast so those brighter Cloud tops that had been indicated earlier with that burst of convection right over Southern tabone Parish has started to fall apart and notice we're not seeing and we'll watch this trend we're not seeing any new bursts of thunderstorms south of the coast so maybe within the next several hours we will start to see the more intense rains wrapping up and hopefully we have a few more hours to go of those intense rains and maybe by 10:00 tonight much of the area will already start drying out as I said I think we're going to be into the worst of it shortly worst of it will move through fairly quickly and then we will already start to see improving conditions late tonight going toward midnight and through the overnight hour so the 5:00 advisory again 100 mph winds it does make it a category 2 the convection though does look to be kind of falling apart once again and hopefully that is a trend again we've got the dry air and increasing wind shear which should hopefully help to rip the storm apart moving very quickly let's see as the 6:00 advisory will come in if that forward speed has increased anymore as we get toward early tomorrow morning uh 2 3: a.m. we will likely see the center of the storm already moving into Southwestern Mississippi and conditions here dramatically improved Morgan City winds are at 52 mph so you're not too far away from the center so those strongest hurricane Forest winds are right at the center of this storm it is not a very large hurricane Windfield let alone even the strongest tropical storm Forest winds we've seen the wind gusts holding about the same in the metro area 28 30 mph thus far those numbers will be increasing again I don't really even trust the models at this point uh with the forecasted increase in our wind speeds as we go throughout the rest of the evening and night so why be better off kind of giving you an estimate of what we're expecting now as far as the rain RF fall totals go we have already picked up two plus inches of rain now we're going to add to those totals by probably another few inches but that would put us probably in the range of the four to six which while we don't want to see is is somewhat manageable especially if we can kind of keep that through the evening and into the night tonight and it's more of a steady rain that we can just allow for some normal drainage well normal being our pumping stations but just allowing that water to be able to get pumped out of the city to where hopefully uh major flooding is not an issue thankfully not going well we have not really seen the training of rain where we're getting bands of several inches of rain fall in a short period of time really have not seen that as much of a setup and it doesn't look like that really will be much of a concern because normally with a slower moving storm is when you would get those bands and kind of the training of the rainfall moving through and thankfully this is moving so quickly any kind of training of rain which we do kind of have in a sense uh down kind of from the River Parishes down toward gallana Port Fon they're moving very very rapidly so while we will see some pretty dramatic accumulations hopefully those then kind of move on and we'll see those spread out over a larger period so as of right now we kind of to uh update what we've been discussing I think they told me I was supposed to go a couple of minutes and I've talked for maybe 20 yeah the producer just confirmed that he didn't rap me so I just keep talking I'm I'm just going to keep on talking so just to kind of re reiterate what we have been saying over over again it is a category 2 little misleading you're not going to find 100 mph winds anywhere a lot of the storms themselves have been weakening but there're still fairly intense moving through the area that will still be an issue for the rest of the afternoon and into the evening so this is the time of folks in the metro area really we're looking at some of our traffic Hamas not too too many folks on the roads any longer and so hopefully at this point you're just kind of in place waiting this out hopefully the power outages are not too widespread and I think we're going to be getting through this we'll be getting through they're telling me to rrap now we'll get through this just fine you know God gave you the Gift of Gab Chris we appreciate it gift I mean for this job it is I when I was a kid when I was a kid it was not you can ask any one of my teachers no but I mean for this job you I I've always said Chris could literally talk for three hours straight and no one needed to interrupt him yeah it' be fine stop interrupting me got a lot to say I know it's so rude well we tell Tor not to rap you next time right all right we do have some important things uh that are happening elsewhere uh we've got this this is brand new coming into The Newsroom here uh this is a child who was found in the City of New Orleans and they are looking for his parents they are he was found in um around the gentilli area I believe uh wandering out near Paris Avenue and uh miru and Paris that's where um you know police found him they're searching for his family if you know where he might who he might belong to um that's the number to call on your screen 504 658 6030 Alyssa Curtis has been uh covering news in New Orleans for us today she's joining us live now with the latest on this Alyssa this is a disturbing and scary hopefully the little guy's okay yeah it seems like he is safe with NPD right now again he was found in this area of marbu in Paris Avenue N OPD says that they tried to Canvas the area to see if they can find who he belongs to but unfortunately they didn't have any luck so um they're asking you know if if you know who he belongs to if he belongs to you just please um to call to call NPD um and meet up with them and get him um you know this is unfortunate in any situation but especially in weather conditions like this and the rain conditions um it it is um extra unfortunate um it's raining over here and we're not exactly sure how long he was wandering um where he kind of wandered from so I'm not exactly sure or um you know just how long he he was out without his parents um I'm not sure if we have a p I know we have a picture of him I'm not sure if we're pulling it up right now on camera but um NPD says he is about 2 years old so fairly young very very young um they said that he was wearing a red colored shirt red shorts and red Nike shoes so if that boy looks familiar to you or you know who his parents are and his family please give them them a call it says NPD says that he was found around um 2:30 excuse me information from this email and a little bit wacky here but he was found about 2:30 again in this area of maribou and Paris Avenue and OPD says that they tried to Canvas the area on some doors to see if he belonged to anyone again they said no luck so if you do know who this boy is or um if you're getting calls from your friends or family and saying hey I can't find my son um or my grandson whoever he is um please let them know that nopd has him he he is safe with nopd um again just really unfortunate especially in these weather conditions since he was roaming around that's all the real information we have right now we're um I'm going to call NPD and see if there's any more updates again this just came in a few minutes ago um so just just check and see uh make some calls and uh give a call to NPD thank you so much Alyssa for that hopefully parents are found very soon uh this is a dangerous time for this little child well a danger right but it's always a dangerous time for a 2-year-old child to be walking around um outside by themselves so hopefully he's his parents are found quickly absolutely um we're going to go to David Hammer now he has been all over the place he has Dave has been on utility watch today talking with Entergy and the sew and waterboard keeping tabs on things that are happening in New Orleans you know the storm the worst of it is knocking on the door um so how are we looking where you are David well Katie and Devin I'm actually on Rampart Street and as soon as Chris Franklin said that we're going to start to see those bands come into the New Orleans metro area it shifted and we started getting these kind of gusts and we started getting driven rain here in New Orleans for the first time after it looked almost like the sun might come out um but there have been these band coming through and in preparation the sewage and water board has the most power that it's ever had in preparation for one of these storms and the flood Authority has closed the gates on two of the three outfall canals those are important because then they hit a certain level 3T or 4T depending on the canal and then they pump the water out to the lake to make sure that Lake water isn't coming in from storm surge that's true now at the 17th Street connect and at the L London Avenue Canal I'm told that the third Canal The Orleans Avenue Canal may not close at all that may not be necessary we shall see how that develops but I was out at the lakefront about 2 hours ago and there were still people walking around and take a listen so I'm out here at the lakefront uh Long lak Shore Drive and I'm joined by Chuck FY he's just been out here with a couple of friends I guess uh taking a walk and then look taking in the scenery here at Lake ponter train uh how many times have you been through something like this uh I grew up over in Dustin Florida my whole life so so hurricanes all the time I worked on the beach over there so just another hurricane to me I've seen a lot worse um haven't been through one in New Orleans yet so I figured Let's uh let's experience it yeah I've been out here on the lakefront for Hurricane since like 1987 and uh they you know sometimes can fill up to cover all the way up to that Levy um and not NE have a big impact but we see the water starting to come up over these walls here are you concerned at all not too concerned uh our house that we're staying at is a little bit more Inland um I know the flood system here they do a good job trying to maintain it uh so really I'm just not looking forward to losing power you know so we stocked up on food not opening the fridge keep a generator ready it's pretty much it do you have any more preparations that you need to do at this point uh flashlights potable water those are the biggest things you can not have you can not eat for a little while you can be plenty hot you run out of water you're going to have a bad time yeah now they're actually talking about starting to close the gates here we're right by the Orleans Avenue closure complex one of the three outfall canals and they're looking to close that uh when it hits 3 ft and it's about 2 and 1/2 2 to 3 ft right now um this is an improvement over what we had at Katrina are you uh feeling good about the way things are set up now yes I am uh also this storm shouldn't be anything near the level of Katrina fingers crossed right but I'm I'm pretty confident that things are going to be okay the pump systems are working the gates you know everything's going to the city has learned lessons and they're making the right decisions now plus our First Responders I know bunch of folks are standing by ready to go uh we'll just have to see how it pans out but I think we'll be pretty okay yeah and you hear that level of confidence there uh we haven't seen that in a long time uh ever since 2017 when it just started flooding all across the city during a regular rainstorm things have felt like they were not going to get better there have been improvements we have uh more power available 70 megawatts of power available to pump inside the sewage and waterboard system we have these new gates that were installed after Katrina that are working at full strength right now pumping water out from those outfall canals and you could see Chuck there he was very confident and we heard that same Confidence from mayor Latoya cantra at a press conference earlier today and from Entergy uh we talked to Diana Rodriguez the CEO of Entergy New Orleans who says that they have all systems ready to go they have realtime updates in their Emergency Operations Center and they have the New Orleans East knops P power plant ready to go and actually online already we saw during Hurricane Ida that it was supposed to Black start and when we lost power coming from the outside and it didn't work because the feeder system that it had de feed into was not working and there was so much damage to it we hope that there's nothing like that in this case uh Rodriguez said that that's nothing what we're looking at in this particular storm but it's good to know that it is available and so far all of these systems are working properly and we haven't heard any reports of any major failures all right David great information I mean we are so lucky to have you keeping tabs on that stuff I mean lots of great questions to ask and you know I you were out of the lakefront earlier those waves were rocking yeah I mean like I said when I was talking to Chuck there we have seen storms that turned out to be really a whole lot of nothing and they pushed a lot of wind-driven uh water from Lake P train into that Lakefront uh that Lakeshore Drive area all the way up to those Earth and levies and that protect that Lake Vista and Lake Shore area and there's nothing like that now uh the the wind was whipping up but you still had only a little bit of water coming onto that Breezeway that walkway area alongside the steps there at Lake Pont train so so far so good you see that right now as we speak the wind is whipping up and the rain is coming down harder so we'll see if that system continues to hold up and as we see the winds come around from that North Side they can push more of that Lake pontrain water over and toward those Earth and levies but uh it doesn't look like anything like we saw in any of those previous storms certainly not Katrina and not Ida either well that's good to hear hopefully it stays that way I know you'll be watching today thank you David we be okay uh We've also been taking some questions today some viewer questions yes viewers you guys have a lot of questions out there you asked great ones and so Whitney Miller is standing by in the studio with what you need to know at this hour Whitney I am thank you guys so much um a lot of questions have been coming into our Newsroom I wanted to first though you know talk to you about there's some questions about bridges so before I get to the weather questions I want to talk to talk to you about the question about bridges um and you should be in the house at this point we're in the thick of it uh right now but if you want to see about those bridges um if they're closed people have been asking are the bridges going to be closed DOD is doing uh live updates on the roadways and you can go to dod. la.gov and that is where you can see uh the status of those bridges but you shouldn't be on the bridges right now cuz you should be in your house right right all right so let's get into these weather questions because a lot of the viewers are are I think they're weather experts something that we've been talking about is the wind shear and um and the dry air and how it's been breaking things up or was expected to break things up this question was will that dry air and windsh start to affect the hurricane now that it's made landfall it is it is starting to do a number on the Storm I think that even though we are seeing some heavy rain coming in now of course the worst of the impacts happening now the rain The Wind and The Surge the dry air is starting to get into the storm the rain is only going to be with us through the evening into the night but as we get to closer to the midnight overnight the rain's going to be out of here so the dry air is helping to make the rain not last as long and we're also getting some breaks in the rain which is nice and also the storm kind of looks a little lopsided on satellite presentation because that sheer and the dry air working into it making it look a little different than what we usually see when a tropical system comes in and and this was a catto at at landfall right so that kind of changes things a little bit right yeah so it was um interesting to see that the um the NHC did indicate that it is a cattoo because they took a measurement one measurement in the storm and they found a wind speed at 100 mph so they said okay let's let's update this and but we're not see those where we live which is great news we don't want to see that but on the ground like the ground Truth where we're at uh for our Bou parishes and at the coast we're not seeing observations that high so sometimes when they measure these things it's it's not exactly what you see right at the ground understood okay the next question is about the brown ocean effect can you tell me what that is so it it's like when when land imitates the ocean so we know we live in a marshy area it's made up of bayus and swamps and this and that it's like when I moved here first and I looked at the map after actually being here I'm like it's mostly water a lot of water we're just surrounded by water and so when uh uh the brown ocean effect happens uh it's like when a tropical system moves Inland and it moves over like a bayou or a marshy area it's able to maintain its strength because the land mimics the ocean and and that's how tropical systems derive their energy from warm moist conditions and the warm moist conditions well they continue over bayu and marshes so when a tropical system moves Inland over those conditions um it can maintain its intensity it can strengthen so when for our intents and purpose with purposes with this storm with Francine because I know they compared it to Ida of course and this is obviously not Ida we've been saying that um at mum of course it's not Ida which is great which is wonderful yeah but um as Francine moves Inland it's not going to weaken right away so if it were moving over maybe a different um land mass that wasn't made comprised mostly of water warm water if it was moving over a different land mass then it would weaken almost right away but because it's moving in over our B it'll probably take a little bit to weaken it's not I don't think it's going to strengthen it will just take some time for it to weaken as it moves a little bit farther Inland so I think the weakening process will probably happen later tonight as it gets farther Inland yeah they also wanted to know like should we be worried about the recent rain would that add to this um this brown ocean effect I think that's just the brown ocean effect is just there just for the area yeah that just applies to our area because of the way that our Our Land our geography is made up of that's just like something we'll always have to consider when the tropical system moves Inland you know you got to really love Louisiana and fight for it okay to stay down here because that's our our slogan because it's true you got to love it because I mean there is water everywhere that's a real thing okay come on all right let me give you another question uh since the hurricane this one says since the hurricane is tracking North once it um oh no not that question I'll get to that one a lot of question yeah no no that's right one once it passes up northward of the Mississippi Valley will that help with the saltwater intrusion out of the of of the Mississippi yes because we've been dealing with salt water intrusion since last summer and then a little bit this summer right so yeah the officials I'm not an expert on the saltwater intrusion but I heard the officials say that with the increased rain for the Midwest that should actually help the saltwater intrusion a little bit help the rain come down the Mississippi and push the saltwater water a little bit farther we're looking for Silver Linings in all of this so this might be a good thing when it comes to the saltwater intrusion with all the rain expected up there from Francine and coming down the Mississippi should help push it away hopefully that will be the case now the we saw it kind of shift a little bit um headed more towards New Orleans or the greater New Orleans area does that change um the trajectory when it comes to like what will happen to slide l so I think I got a lot of people from SEL ask questions I still think of course slel they're seeing the heavy bands of rain now that's not going to change they continue to see The Heavy Rain through tonight the coming in waves um but the strong winds are going to be really focused more towards the center I still think they'll have the Gusty winds maybe up to 40 miles per hour at times for Slidel um a worst case scenario 40 40 4550 but um I think the farther east you are from the center um I think that the wind gust will potential will be a little bit lower but still planning for maybe 40 plus m per hour gusts inside I mean that's some fast moving wind yeah it can certainly you know topple weak tree I mean or or knock out some power even just for a little while more reason to stay on the inside um so would that be the same then for Bay St Louis I got a few people from Bay St Louis asking about their changes yeah same thing like farther east to go Bay St Louis still seeing the Heavy Rain through tonight and the wind gusts up to maybe 30 40 uh especially right at the coastline right at the coastline Bay St Louis right at the coast right probably seeing the 40 mph gust now now that we've made now that it has made the landfall um that doesn't mean it's made landfall in in Norther more Norther right we still have more hours to go of the storm yeah the rest of tonight the the rest of tonight people want to know you know how long can they how long should they be inside the house is what they've been asking and what what's the the safest amount of time to be inside for today's stor I'll say the rest of today the rest of today just stay inside get a book I can't believe the people in the lake with the floaty crazy and chis said said he didn't want to all right a little flicker okay we don't got time for that now Chris said he didn't want to be the dad but I'm going be the mom get out of the water I know why are they in the water I don't know yeah that's not good do not get in the water it's not necessary all right to answer your question though yet the rest of tonight just stay inside wait it out um even through tomorrow we might have some standing water the conditions like we say are going to improve overnight overnight the the rain's going to shift to the north the winds will be subsiding overnight but even through early tomorrow there might be some standing water on some of the roads and we'll be out watching to see you know where where the danger I don't want to say danger but where the where the rough stuff is happening tomorrow morning we'll let you know and there will be people trying to clean up fix everything so you want to get out of the way of those responders try to take care of it so that we can all get to going again um someone said that in lower Bayou Blue they were getting 52 mph winds okay does that sound like it's what they should be seeing I mean yeah I mean right along the coastline we were seeing those higher wind gusts for sure um I I wonder what the what they're at now now but I have to look at our our Maps but yeah that that seems about right I mean right at the coast and right near the core of the storm we're seeing those strong wind gusts up to 50 mph in a few spots and and even offshore more like a oil rig which is a little bit like off the ground so it's not right at the the surface they were reporting gust you know up to 90 M hour earlier but that's offshore away from our land areas and a little bit elevated of a surface so yeah our Coastal spots certainly seeing the the strongest of the Winds and that that checks out and earlier Chris was talking about how this you know everybody in we have such a large area and everyone is experiencing a little something different so some people think well it looks a little dry and clear outside maybe I can step out this is you have to know that it could be coming right and and so the eye passes over you know when the charact like when you watch a movie when the eye passes over you're like oh it's clear we're done no you got to stay inside because just because it looks clear for a few moments the backs out of the eye more impacts coming in around it so we got the rest of tonight to wait this out catch up on a what is it like a Netflix series or something I what if like to watch watch show H download download some sort of streaming app um but also keep us on on your other phone oh yeah yeah don't turn us off why don't I say that all right well we will be right back but thank you so much Alexa because that's really some great information if you have any questions make sure you um send them text them to that number on your screen 504 529 4444 this is a severe weather alert from WWL Weather sponsored by Egan Insurance Agency [Music] welcome back everybody it is 6:00 on Wednesday September 11th Hurricane Fran scine making its way through Louisiana at this hour after making landfall east Southeast or South southeast west sou West sou Southwest of Morgan City Morgan City uh these this is the mandaville Lakefront at this hour you can see the dark clouds and the distance looming there Francine hasn't that is the New Orleans Lakefront rather other side of the lake um you can see the dark clouds in the distance there those bands from Hurricane Francine are ripping their way through Metropolitan New Orleans it's getting rough out there and uh it has really been rough farther down the coast uh along the coast power outages are starting to climb we're seeing the numbers in the tens of thousands of people without power uh Francine really is starting to pack the worst of its Punch Yeah we're starting we we even can hear it and we are experiencing it here at the station in the French Quarter just a few minutes ago so the lights flicker our generator's on um we can hear it all the way out in the parking lot right now and we're hearing the wind and and the rain and everything um but the power outages all along the areas where Francine's path has already taken yes the as you said thousands of people without power it's almost like you can see the path of the storm as you look at ent's Power outage map uh and see just how many people I mean in lefou Parish alone 2,674 customers are without power right now that is just just lefou Parish Livingston Parish which you know is even closer to Baton Rouge 2,000 Orleans Parish 2,000 people without power right now um and the list goes on and on and on tabone perish 19,1 153 people without power uh right now at 600 p.m. so um that those outages are continuing to climb Entergy obviously cannot get into those areas um until the winds you know subside and until the storm moves out so un fortunately everyone in those areas who are in the red there on this Entergy map are just going to have to hang tight uh until the storm uh eases up what you're seeing right here this is the entire area of lville and shriever the Raceland area lots and lots of red on the map we're also seeing it again start to creep into the New Orleans metro area there are some little isolated spots in New Orleans near Elmwood um also wagaman where there is a there are a lot of people without power huge swath of hom at this hour is without power uh just most of H I would say most of the people in h do not have power right now hopefully they're able to continue uh staying up to date on uh their phones and and in other ways and through other means by you go uh you know significant power outages there as well um if you look at this right now this is a camera it's a live picture from the West Bank yeah this is uh you know again as we mentioned some of the wor of those bands from Hurricane Francine are making their way into into the City and while we're on the subject of utilities I do want to talk about uh the water issues that some parishes have been having we're now hearing plaman Jefferson Parish and the City of Kenner at a minimum do not want you to use water unnecessarily don't run your dishwasher your washing machine do not flush your toilets if you don't have to don't take a shower they're asking you to limit water so you do not overwhelm the lift stations in the sewer system and have all of that back up into your homes or into your neighbor homes yes absolutely uh there's just too much water out there and they can't process that in addition to the Wastewater um this again we're looking at the West Bank right now and you can see the water on the camera very ominous looking Cloud out there uh chief meteorologist Chris Franklin has been giving us the latest forecasts he and Alexa trisler our other meteorologist in housee uh with just some fantastic information as this storm has worked its way onto Louisiana's Coast now Chris what are we looking at there yeah I mean this is one of the heavier Vans per se also kind of basically the kind of extreme outer eyewall of the storm which is really expanded in size but is associated with some very intense rainfall uh now we can update as of the 6:00 advisory uh it is back down to a category one with Winds of 90 M an hour Forward Motion though has not changed still fairly decent clip Northeast at 17 mph but we're just looking at those low clouds very intense rains this is what we saw along the coastline and thankfully it is moving very very quickly and it is moving toward now Metro New Orleans now we do have some intense rain over New Orleans uh but even more so as you can kind of see from that camera there uh fairly heavy on both sides of the river and down the bayou Raceland really getting in on some of the more intense rain toward Tibido dissolvement uh and so that is moving from St Charles Paris that'll continue on into Jefferson and possibly continuing further into Metro New Orleans so I was trying to um shrink the size of my um my massive icon here uh just to give a better idea this is where the center of the storm is obviously but also to give you an idea of just how quickly that the storm has been moving that's a little bit better um the the center is still over tabone Parish so it is moving farther Inland but still over very marier areas south of Highway 90 so if you're familiar with tabone Parish really anything south of 90 especially in the western part of the parage is very much March but it also is a little bit closer to Morgan City and Morgan City again not really reporting 40 50 mph wind sustained so uh we're just barely at those of a a tropical storm let alone even a category 1 hurricane I think that Windfield for the hurricane is incredibly small and in a very what really is happening right now remote area so you're really at the moment only going to find some of the strongest winds out over the marshes south of 90 at the moment now those intense rains that we saw from our our Tower camera this is what we were looking at we've already got some periods of very heavy rainfall moving through Metro New Orleans these are kind of those not necessarily feeder bands per se because this is not really a typical structure of a tropical storm a very messy system not as well organized or structured it's not a symmetrical storm by any means but this is certainly some of the heaviest of the rainfall and this is what the models now not all of the models are perfect but the GFS and the Euro once they started to really come into a agreement basically had this system nailed and it really did indicate I want to kind of uh widen out with um all of our Radars that we have kind of a a a network of Radars across the Gulf South from Houston uh up toward Jackson Hammond uh when you look at the radar now this can see pretty far out into the Gulf you can see from kind of the little band of showers down here these are the intense rains where are they northern and western side eastern Southeastern especially and southern side is almost not entirely but more rainf free so as these storms continue northward I think we're going to start to see improving conditions almost immediately so these are the worst of the rain so more of the northeastern quadrant Northern section and then Northwestern and Western so kind of breaking that up like a compass it's more of the eastern Southeastern southern southwestern that really is very much rain not completely but but more so rain-free so once this storm continues along its path northward these intense rains will also continue moving northward and it doesn't appear as though we really have any at least intense storms farther south now it is still drawing moisture out of the Gulf of Mexico so I'm not going to say it's completely clear and we're done with the rainfall but at least in terms of the intense rains I think this is primarily what we are looking at and that is what the models were saying over the last couple of days and in fact kind of what they have continued to say we can kind of uh let me zip back over to our uh GFS and Euro as to what the storm is doing right now you can see where the rainfall is where the Storm Center is and I'm selecting the GFS here and that's again basically what it's indicating kind of the northeastern Northern Northwestern and Western sectors of the storm that's where we find the heav the heaviest of the rainfall and then what you see in kind of the lighter greens are more of those light moderate showers more spotty in nature and not the intense storms that will likely kind of focus more on the NorthShore so maybe at 6:00 right now next 4 hours we should see a lot of that shifting more north of the lake now the rainfall rates are extensive so we will pick up in those four hours probably several inches of rainfall that is going to lead to some flash flooding concerns and hopefully not too widespread but that will lead to those concerns more of an issue later into the night for the NorthShore as well as further along the Florida parishes then as we approach midnight 1 2 a.m. that focus is then lifted and much much weaker into Southwestern Mississippi so that's why okay the causeway bridge was just closed uh certainly as the storm is nearing the Metropolitan New Orleans area toward the River Parishes this was not the time to try and hit any of the bridges especially the causeway as we were talking uh earlier uh with winds with regard to winds uh when you have wind moving over land the land interaction with wind it's creates friction and they slow down over the water they tend to be much much stronger that includes Lake ponet Trin with those strong easterly winds so some of our wind observations that we've had on land are definitely much lighter than what you would see over the lake and I think that is why they have now closed the causeway so that just coming in Breaking uh that the causeway bridge is closed obviously at this point in the evening would not have recommended doing that but going back to the rainfall kind of structure that we've been looking at it does appear as though both the Euro and the GFS pretty much Hammer that almost perfectly one of the big reasons for that is we've got dry air incredibly dry Over Texas but that has been able to kind of feed in on the Southern and Eastern side of the storm as that occurs it evaporates a lot of that heavier rainfall which is why we're not seeing it again completely dry but certainly more of a lack of rain and a break in the rain and maybe kind of an end to the rain as we go later into the night and into early tomorrow that drier air really takes over and we see a far more significant uh uh drying Trend as we continue on through the night and into uh early Thursday morning that's what we've said by early Thursday morning conditions will be improving not that we are recommending you by any means to then start going out and uh you know seeing what there is to be seen uh just give officials some time to go out make the assessments make sure everything is clear clear roadways are clear power lines are not uh energized and lying over the road that those can all be cleared away and hopefully as we have kind of seen a lot of those higher wind uh estimates for the wind speeds and wind gusts have not really materialized thus far they have been far less than some of the higher totals that the computer models were indicating uh a moment ago I got so many Graphics here on my my show it's hard to find everything wanted to kind of so I'm jumping around here uh these are what the winds are doing right now they have increased 30 plus M an hour around the city and we are getting wind gusts up over 50 mph so that's at that as that band is kind of moving a little bit closer to the metro area so expect the winds to continue increasing sustained and gust over the course of the next several hours but as we were looking at it may be roughly a 4-Hour window before those more intense storms are then moving onto the NorthShore more of an issue for the folks north of the lake a little bit later in the night tonight and then clearing bring us out into Southwestern Mississippi after probably about 1:00 a.m. I would say at kind of a a rough estimate as to when those storms would probably more cleared of the NorthShore after midnight more toward uh 1:00 a.m. so where we would really like to see some observations are down not really reporting any data at the moment H gallano and Port fuchan where we're getting in on some of those heaviest uh strongest of the Winds also going back to our buoys if uh my remote will let me uh here we go and let's see if it'll display I didn't want to go that far see if it'll go back to the buoys okay you know Morgan City not too far away from the center of the storm 52 mph winds there uh you know you're within the lowend range of a tropical storm 34 mph winds we're not quite to tropical storm or even depression in the city so the wind field for not only the hurricane Forest but even the tropical storm Forest winds are rather small now with that being said it does happen at times with these storms moving Inland and with that dry air interaction we can see that stronger wind field spread out a bit before it begins to weaken but I think what we're going to see as it expands and then thus uh then starts to weaken is not what the computer models had been indicating of 80 mph wind gust we have not seen that yet and I don't think we're going to see anything close to that that would have been on the really high-end range of some of the uh kind of worst case scenario models and and I don't think that's going to happen as I said when the storms are moving Inland we're going more into uh observations and near-term forecast as opposed to the long-term trying to figure out what these storms are going to do and uh what they're going to do in the the long range we don't have to worry about that is in the long range the storm will be well to our North and we will be done with it so switching back over to uh weather stations and the radar itself again the winds at Morgan City out of the North 44 miles an hour they're out of the Northeast at New Orleans at 32 mph so it does look like the storm may be trying to make a little bit more of a jog closer toward the city just based upon what the winds are doing here uh this would be more indicative of what would happen in the uh Northeastern uh excuse me Northwestern or western part of the storm itself so with those winds now kind of favoring a little bit more of a northeasterly direction it may be that the storm is going to push a little bit closer to Metro New Orleans and we've already seen that Trend with some of the heaviest of the rainbands moving in the direction of Metro New Orleans already getting in on some of the heaviest of the rainfall and note we've got quite a break where we do currently have uh two active flash flood warnings while still intense from Tibido to raand and cut off anywhere South toward H and chauan you've got a bit of a break now on the southern end of the eyewall and the western side Southwestern side the rainfall hasn't been nearly as in tense is kind of the northeastern part of the storm so this is uh probably by and far the most intense part of the storm racing across the uh Bayou parishes moving toward the River Parishes and I think somewhat will be clipping Metro new orans all right thank you so much Chris we do have some breaking news we want to let everyone out there know that that toddler that NPD had found has been reunited safely with his uh home with his his parents and so uh he is safe wonderful news yes great news yeah they say the family came to the Third District station reunited that was a scary few moments for them I'm sure yes absolutely absolutely and we're so glad that he's home safe um but back to our news coverage and our coverage of hurricane Francine we are really starting to see the worst effects of this uh as as it really makes its way up the coast while the storm may be weakening it's still causing big problems in many many parts of our viewing area yeah we now that know that there are thousands of people without power all throughout our entire viewing area and tens of thousands and as we've said you can see the path of the hurricane based on the Entergy map um also in the path of the hurricane has been Lily Cummings and she has ditched the Hat um probably because of the wind down there yeah Lily how are things going I mean you really I think are through the worst of it what do you think Devin Katie I just have to say I thought we were two because we had actually gotten a chance to kind of dry out but now the wet the rain is back and yes you are correct I have let go of the hair let go of the Hat because it you can see it on my wrist here it actually has flown off three times now so we're forgetting that anyways we are out here reporting on the weather and not my fashion choices so here we go let's talk about what we see out here it is still very very windy since we last talked to you all I know that you mentioned there are more than 19,000 customers across Tbone Paris without power I think I told you all that we are kind of caddy corner here from one of the main power stations in tabone Parish in h so we have actually seen the power lines here bouncing up and down because of this wind which is never a good sign however I will tell you that when you came to us last the Civic Center here in hom did not have power and now it does so we've seen um kind of some places around us now there's a gas station even down the street that you can see still has power down the street so that's good to see that there are still some folks with power but obviously more than 19,000 customers across tabone without it at this point now I have to say we have seen a lot of debris since you last talked to us a lot of tree limbs just flying by so oh wow that's a big one out there can you see it rck show them that big one in the parking lot that's a large tree can we pan this way and show them this tree limb that's in the parking lot so that's a large tree there in the parking lot and as I mentioned we are getting a lot more rain as I'm speaking to you we had a second there a break to dry out and now it's coming down again so you can see that large tree limb this is why you don't want to be out because these tree limbs down power lines things of this nature we don't know exactly the extent of the damage at this point I've texted with folks that are at the Emergency Operations Center in gry Louisiana I've also talked to uh the tabbone Paris Sheriff's Office to try and get some updates they said that they were in a briefing about 30 minutes or or so ago so they said they would be sending us some updates about what they're looking at parishwide we continue to see Law Enforcement Officers both from tabone Paris Sheriff's Office and H police out on the roadways um kind of checking out things that are going on around here but as far as residents and folks like that they are staying clear of this staying off the roads which has been really great to see but as I mentioned the biggest concerns that we have out here right now are obviously power and then of course the debris that we've been seeing those are two big concerns for residents here um so like I said in this area near the Civic Center and H it looks like maybe there's some power but obviously thousands dealing with those power outages at this point so hopefully folks got the chance oh my goodness rickes can you spin the camera around do you see this roof this is coming off as we speak y'all we have been monitoring this roof across the way and I will figure out exactly what building this is this gray building in front of us but we have been hearing metal for the last hour or so and I and I worried I worried that that might be some roof that was coming off and it appears that it is and and it's hard to say you know when you're down here in tabone there's obviously a lot of buildings that are still dealing with damage from Hurricane Ida and are still trying to get um shored up from that storm and still try to replace their roofs so it's obviously hard to tell sometimes like is this still damage from Ida or is this new but I will say that this was not here whenever we got here several hours ago and you can see that it's starting to come off of this building so definitely worried about debris worried about folks roofs we've like I said we've been hearing a lot of metal and and kind of almost like a sheet metal clinging on the top of roofs so worried about that and then worried about power those are our top three concerns right now in tabone Parish and then obviously they're watching the storm surge very closely in the lower parts of the parish um where they issued a mandatory evacuation earlier today and I know that they were expecting anywhere between 5 to 10 feet of storm surge across the parish in those areas so those are kind of the top concerns right now in Tbone Parish obviously folks don't get out if you don't have to be out because you don't know what you're going to run into you could run into metal like this on the roadways you could run into down trees or power lines at this point we don't exactly know what's out there so we are keeping it safe staying underneath the shelter that we're under right now um and we just want to make sure that you all are staying safe as well keep those devices charged if you have power if you don't hopefully you get it restored as soon as possible and I'm hoping to get like I said some updates from Parish officials on exactly what they're dealing with across the parish um like I said they were in a briefing so I'm hoping that we get a little bit more information about what are the main things that they're focusing on right now Katie Devon all right Lily thank you so much I hope you've got somewhere to go that you will be out of the way of all of that if it starts to fly so please be careful out there yes absolutely at 23,000 now without power in that Parish also another Parish that's seeing tens of thousands without power is lefou and that's where Meg Ferris is she's been reporting from gallano for us uh throughout this storm event Meg how are things now it was getting crazy last time we saw you yeah I I have to tell you this is the absolute worst van that has come through since Russell and I have been here Russell if you could pan over to the the street to Highway one and and you can see you can see how hard the wind is blowing uh I hope the camera can pick that up how hard the wind the wind is blowing the water across the uh the roadway can y'all get a visual can you see that at home on TV I mean it just shows how fast how fast the wind is going going and Russell and I are standing behind the news van which is blocking us from the wind I mean if I step out Beyond it it it it is absolutely much worse but Russell now if you could pan to uh bu you lefo and you can see we're actually getting white caps now um we do see electricity off in some places but we see it on in a lot of places and and we left this location along the Bayou since our last live shot and we we drove up and down both sides of the Bayou and we saw some of the huge shrimp uh shrimp boats that were um tied to their docks and they all had their lights on so we went knocking on some of the uh boats and um but people weren't on them but we talked to one of the shrimpers who was in his house across the street and I said why do you have all your your motor running and everything and he said well what we do here in lefu he said when the power goes out in our house he said we walk across Highway one we get on our big shrimp boats and we have the generator running and that's the way we have power until the power comes back on so I didn't know that was a thing and he he uh didn't want to go on camera but he called a few of his other shrimping buddies who were doing the exact same thing so um I guess they know that's the routine down here you you they expect to lose power but so far in all the driving we did around in this we have not seen any down power lines or down power poles or uh you know that that type of thing we haven't seen big trees or branches down which is amazing to me but um but again the wind is just now picking up uh you know the worst that that we've we've seen it so far and and again this is the with the car blocking us down here so um I know Chris Franklin has been talking about that it's it's going to keep getting worse until uh I guess a few more hours down here but um again as I mentioned in the last live shot we have not seen one person out every single person is in their home um uh no cars on the road except an occasional police car who's checking on us again I talk to Archie shasan who's at the Emergency Operations Center in Raceland and he said that um so far they've had no reports of any problems coming in at all at this time um you know but that it was getting bad in racing too when I last talked to him so that's all the updated information we have now here from gallano we're going to uh keep looking for people um yeah but pretty much they they smartly are staying inside oh good yeah we hope you stay safe as well oh my goodness Meg uh that wind is really whipping and you can see just how high the Bayou has gotten next to you I mean it is coming up fast it's changed so much since the last time we checked in mhm and then I know it's hard to hear when you're out there and the wind is whipping it is really difficult to hear but it is amazing to see the Sheets of Rain going across the highway there it is incredible incredible and just seeing the the wind actually push the water in the bou too just it's breathtaking you don't it's really hard to describe what a storm surge is I was trying to tell my kids about it and kind of explain what a storm surge looks like and you can't really see it but it's almost like when you're in a bathtub and you put your arm through the water and you kind of push the water that's how I described it but that's kind of what that looked like when we saw Meg earlier and now you can see the water is like up over where it was um oh way over and it's still climbing it appears um so nothing seems to be calming down yet for them no not not yet and uh things are also not calm at all where Paul Murphy is um he is in uh St John Parish for us tonight and it is really coming down there Paul well if you might guess from the conditions that you see right here that eyewall from Francine is now moving over St John Parish uh we are told that uh that happened about maybe 15 minutes ago it started and uh now we've really seen the rain increase the winds in increase in fact right down the street from where we're standing there was a small tree that got blown down there are a couple trees that are down across the parish and uh we also uh heard that that the water that we were afraid was coming up a little too fast on uh Pine Road from the West shore of Lake Pon train may not be quite as bad as as they originally projected uh we did talk with Parish president jacqulyn hotard just a short while ago and she said that the impact so far have BR somewhat surprising well on the radar I mean the eyewall is you know we're in the eyewall right now that that um the right part of the storm so we're feeling some of that intensification right now we have recorded gust up to about 40 m an hour 40 45 mes an hour so we're seeing that intensification right now we expect that these conditions could continue for about 45 minutes to an hour and then you know the storm will continue to move through but anyone who's in St John or in the region right now they're definitely feeling the winds uh picking up or at least hearing them pick up you know outside what are your expectations in terms of ultimate impacts from this storm on St John we're hopeful that we don't see the flooding impact that we thought that we could have that just hasn't really presented itself a lot of the areas that are typically underwater by now are not yet so we're going to remain hopeful that that stays some of the wind impacts we saw that there were a few trees that were down some smaller trees we do have a couple of areas that don't have electricity right now some some isolated outages and energy obviously can't get out in the condition so we're looking at impacts of just maybe some some minor damage and maybe some electricity outages for a short period of time and what are your keeping what are you keeping your eyes on this evening just the wind damage and but we're still keeping our eyes on the lake levels just Water Rising we know that in these tropical storm and hurricane events there's the likeliness of flash flooding so we're just keeping our eyes on that I won't be comfortable until Francine is completely out so we're just going to stay up through the night continue to monitor everything but these worsen conditions we don't expect that to continue through the night for about another hour or so we'll see these worsen conditions and then Francine will continue to move on now that doesn't mean we're out of the clear because we can still see some effects from some of those bands but the worst of it will be over what surprises you about Francine every storm is different every storm is different you know we look at some of the storms like let's say in Isaac that was an uh underwhelming if you will storm and it flooded St John you look at a storm like Francine and you've got some other factors that are not in your favor that could contribute to a lot of flooding and then it doesn't or it takes this little you know hobble at the end so every storm is different it's Unique and and they're unpredictable so it's just important that we never get tired of preparing for a storm um and that we just continue to to remain Vigilant and we're still not out of the woods it's still not over yet I don't want to give that false sense of security but we're hopeful that the impacts we're seeing right now are the worse it's going to get but we're going to see it all the way through and we're sending our prayers out to our our neighbors on the east and west um that they make it through as well and definitely across Southeast Louisiana we are certainly not out of the woods just yet as you heard the parish president talking about the fact that we're only about uh 15 20 minutes into this uh major part of the storm here in St John we still have the whole feeder bands from the back end of this hurricane to go through as well uh so now is not the time to step out and take a look at what's going on out here because I'll tell you we're feeling those 40 mph gusts uh there are trees that that are falling down uh in the parish and as the parish president mentioned there are power scattered power outages in the area uh we saw maybe at least 1100 of them at this point and those uh energy Crews cannot get back out and and start hooking up a lot of this power until this storm passes uh so right now again the uh the eyewall is moving over St John parishes portion of the River Parishes and uh it's going to be a rough hour or so until this storm hopefully moves on out of here that's the story in St John Parish at the moment Paul Murphy WWL Louisiana right Chris is having a little problem with his microphone and now he's here now he's say he's here let's go to Chris I thought you could just use a few seconds of Silence you know that that would have been helpful we going to show me at all you told us there we go all right what Paul was talking about you kind of see the intense storms of where he is in St John parage notice on our colorized infrared satellite this little blossoming of storms these are kind of storms re-intensify right along that Northeastern Eastern eyewall that he was just talking about so where he is is really some of the most intense of the storms as they've moved through Southeast Louisiana on a wide scale of our radar Network across the region note though that once these cells now again we still got to get through them across much of the metro area once these and I don't want to say cells really complex of storms associated with what is now more of a broad circulation and not as much the eye wall per se uh but more the broad overall circulation as that that moves farther north note that there really isn't anything farther south or east or Southeast or Southwest this is that dry air taking over so what will still be intense storms moving through over the next several hours very strong winds again you you've seen uh from our reporters are generally speaking 40 to 50 sustained m per hour wind so uh when you think about wind speeds a lot of people don't think 4050 is all that strong it is very strong and it will do some damage now thankfully these will be moving through very quickly and we will continue to watch for any further development South but when we switch back over to the satellite there isn't anything I think that dry air is really going to take over and we will see most of that rainfall start wrapping up now that being said much of the metro area is only just now getting into those more intense bands winds have been gusting at ker up to 50 uh 53 mph sustained though at 32 now we're getting some breaks at least across most are much of terone Parish lower lefou as well starting to get those breaks still intense from Tibido desalmonds it is getting more and more intense throughout all of the River Parishes and this is also going to move kind of in a direction toward New Orleans especially St Charles JP we are definitely looking at some of the heaviest of that and the strongest of the Winds the heaviest of the rainfall moving toward you if there is any silver lining is the fact that it is moving very quickly still moving Northeast at 17 M an hour and hopefully that forward speed will pick up even more so because these are the more intense storm so what people are saying it's starting to get a little hairy outside this is what we're talking about these are the more intense kind of again more not exactly an eye wall per se but what had been that eyewall structure which is now starting to kind of widen out a bit as the storm is starting to lose the bit of it strength and the wind shear dry air beginning to really take over it is kind of spreading out a lot of the more intense rains and stronger winds a little bit of a zoomed in view of the storms from llas to Luling so along the River Parishes very intense rainfall and at times you get some pockets of some very intense rain here in the city as well zooming up to the NorthShore you've had some breaks but now we're getting kind of this moderate heavier rain moving across mandaville really along the entirety of the lakefront from t Parish more so intense in St Tam parish and that will continue to push to the north as well areas farther north it's been more of a light moderate range