isaac expected to become a hurricane later today. its outer edge is approaching the coast by tonight. isaac is a massive, slow-moving storm with sustained winds of 70 miles per hour, tropical storm winds extend more than 200 miles from the storm s center. besides potentially destructive winds, a dangerous storm surge and extreme rainfall pose a threat. a hurricane warning is in effect from morgan city, louisiana, to the alabama/florida border, including new orleans. evacuations have been ordered in some low-lying areas. meteorologist david bernard of our miami station wfor has the latest. as it continues to move through the gulf of mexico, and all indications are that isaac will continue to make landfall on wednesday, potentially as a category 1 hurricane and it will slowly move across the mississippi river valley late wednesday into thursday before finally weakening. the satellite picture is indicating that isaac is very close to becoming a hurricane, and that should happe
which brings the storm inland over the next 6 to 12 hours right over new orleans, potentially as a category 1 hurricane. we re talking about temperatures or winds upwards of 80 to even 90 mile per hour right around the city of new orleans. we re watching this one very, very closely but a long duration event, biggest threat is going to be the wind and, veronica, we re talking about the winds out there right now, not just the wind, but the biggest threat, the rain and slow-moving storm system and, again, that water with that easterly fetch that will be making its way, giving a huge storm surge of about 6 to 12 feet for the diration of this storm system. again, you heard doug say more landfall right around louisiana to new iberia. doug? yeah, again, the bigger threat here, the other big threat is going to be tornadoes. tornado watch in effect until 7:00 local time here. we have already seen a couple tornado warnings still in effect towards the western portion of the florida pa
the sun is not up yet. it has been all summer long. sun gets up early and now it is coming up later. good morning. i m sarah simmons i m wisdom martin. tropical storm isaac is expected to make lapped fall somewhere on the gulf coast later tonight or early wednesday possibly as a category two hurricane packing winds around 100 miles per hour. as we just mentioned, new orleans is in its path right now and isaac could strike seven years to the day the city was hit by hurricane katrina. this may be the first major test of the city s levees since they were rebuilt after katrina. there is? good news in this. isaac could bring much-needed relief to the drought stricken mississippi river area. lets acheck in with tucker and get the latest on that. and about one year to the date that irene impacted our area. oh, wow. i think they re going to get hit worse down there than we were. certainly the potential for a big storm down there. still a tropical storm. maximum winds, 70 mi
not believe that we are prepared to handle. some new orleans residents left their homes anyway. they don t want to take my chances. should isaac deliver the same devastation that katrina did seven years ago. meanwhile, dominion power is sending more crews to the gulf r region to help restore electricity. they will help with relief efforts. dominion already sent about 80 crews to the region over the weekend. pepco also has more than 200 crews in the gulf ready to help restore power. storm4 meteorologist tom kierein is tracking isaac this morning. what s the latest on the storm? here is the latest on isaac. the information coming in within the last hour, here s the great circulation of isaac over the gulf of mexico. here s new orleans. a few rain bands out ahead of that are just about to move into the new orleans area but they re light right now. most of the rain is south of the center of circulation, which is moving at northwest at about 12 miles an hour. winds are at
makes landfall sometime later today or early tomorrow. there are mandatory evacuations to people living in low-lying areas outside of the levee system. good morning. i m sarah simmons. i m wisdom martin. welcome to fox 5 morning news. time to see what is happening here in the weather as well as with the hurricane. the pressure continues to fall with isaac and we ll get you a further update here momentarily. still a strong tropical storm moving very slowly t will be a big rainmaker down there as well. we ve got a little rain moving in from the north and west. you can see the rain showers. these are very light, frederick out chards win chest are and front royal pushing up into western howard county getting some light showers. frederick out towards winchester and front royal pushing up into western howard county getting some light showers. it will be warm with highs in the upper 80s to about 90. a really nice looking afternoon. more details on the forecast and give you a