tropical depression. the system dishing out heavy rainfall from central louisiana to eastern mississippi, and in fact fema administrator is telling folks to stay off the roads. >> our message about water is stay out of it. 90% of all of the water-related deaths from weather systems are drown, and 50% of those deaths are people in vehicles that drive their vehicles through water. our message is clear today. turn around don't drowned and don't put yourself at risk. >> jon: we have fox team coverage on this, our meteorologist is in the fox extreme weather center and steve scalise standing by in jackson, mississippi but we begin with rick leventhal in new orleans. rick? reporter: and jon, its been rain ing on and off for the past three days and more rain is predicted for tomorrow but nowhere near the accumulations we've first been warned about which is worried about the ris ing levels of the mississippi