estimated to have water top over the levee where we're standing right now. the city of new orleans, the plan for city residents is to shelter in place. they have 118 pumps that are functioning ready to go. but still this is not a situation that you can pump your way out of. that's how much water you're expecting to get. and therefore the residents here are expected to shelter in place. that being said, there are a couple of parishes where there are mandatory evacuations happening depending where they are. typically in low lying areas and other parishes where there are voluntary evacuations. the president, of course, has approved emergency declaration ahead of rainfall which, john, of course, is expected tomorrow. >> all right. stand by for us in new orleans. because we just got some new data about one hour ago from the national hurricane center. let's go to meteorologist chad myers at the weather center who is tracking this system. what do we know? >> john, it's a 50 mile-per-hour