Now Mississippi declared a state of emergency last night ahead of expected widespread flooding and dangerous levels of storm surge along the coast. The mayor of Gulfport says he is expecting as much as 4 to 6 ft of storm surge. And in New Orleans just take a look at the difference. A few hours can make video of those heavy rains and strong winds slamming New Orleans last night. That's on your left. But taking a live look now at Bourbon Street, everything calm this morning. Now let's get out to our Matt Doherty who is live for us in Covington, Louisiana this morning. So Matt, how does this morning compare to the storm you saw yesterday? Hey, yeah, good morning. Well, it's a totally different story right now. Last night, it was pouring rain at 10 o'clock when we last saw you right now. Uh, this the roadways are dry and it stopped raining. I'll let you take a look outside right now and you can see the freeways are clear and traffic is moving and you don't see any rain anymore. We actually tried to follow the storm as it moved over New Orleans over to New Orleans, but the state as those highways still show down right now, the bridge over Lake Pontchartrain still shut down. If you take a look at some of this video, you can understand why these were the driving conditions yesterday. One driver was crossing Lake Pontchartrain leaving LA Place heading to New Orleans. You can see just how high the water level is compared to the bridge. The water just kept rising in the hours after this video was taken too. This other video further south in Houma, Francine, also large waves which caused serious trouble for barges docked at the harbor along the coastline and those winds were so strong, it took off, roofing broke a large branches, lots of large branches off the trees and knocked down some of those power lines and those power lines are still down all over coastal Louisiana right now. More than 300,000 energy customers are in the dark right now. So we're still driving around trying to take a look at some of the damage that was left behind. We're probably going to have to wait until daylight until we can really get a good perspective on all of that. But of course, we're going to continue to follow the aftermath of this storm and bring you some of those pictures live at noon back to you. All right, Matt, thank you. And