is critical to forecasting the path of the storm. i could talk to you for hours about this. just fascinating in terms of scientific perspective. appreciate your time. stay safe up there. well, yeah, i just do want to emphasize to your audience. don t pay too much attention to whether it s a category 1 or category 2 storm. this storm is generating a very large wind field. the wave height at buoys south of new orleans are very, very high. and all that energy is going to hit the coast and so you re looking at storm surges of up to nine feet in mobile bay. and along the mississippi and alabama coast. and up to six feet all the way east to okaloosa island in the florida panhandle. that s a very significant surge event. people who live in the barrier islands really need to pay
something reiterated by new orleans city officials, who upgraded the storm surge forecast. it s going to cover from 7:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. bonnie schneider, thank you for the update. to get now perspective of what the conditions are going to be like, not just in new orleans, we re going to cross over and speak to kristen dahlgren who joins us now from mobile, alabama, as the hurricane there, not just going to impact one city or one state, but in fact, the entire gulf coast. talk to us about the preparations there that are under way. reporter: hi there, well, a lot of sandbagging earlier today and that s a good thing, because i want to show you this. we are already seeing that storm surge. this is mobile bay. it s already coming over its banks here. take a look at this. this is just after the initial outer bands. right now, you can see it s clear, and this water still here, four, five, six inches deep in places. it s expected to get much, much higher. the national weather service is
he says one thing will work, an ominous sign, perhaps. could this be a continuation of what he was talking about earlier in the week, when we talked about the calm before the storm? it s really anyone s guess. i think the safest bet is, that drump likes to give this perception that he s sort of a wild card and could at any point in time decide to launch a military attack against north korea. he likes to have that perception out there. most people who are familiar with the situation with north korea, think that s an ill-advised strategy and could ramp up tensions in a way that s not helpful. is this the calm before the storm? it s hard to know what he means with that. but this new tweet does suggest that he does not see this pattern of containment that s happened over the past few decades as being something that has any future at all whatsoever, which is a pretty dramatic shift. and he s also beliedialing w the iran certification coming up next week.
fully automatic machine guns illegal. i understand that your daughter was wounded in the 2006 seattle jewish federation shooting. did that have an influence on your decision in terms of the way you view gun-control issues in this country? yes, it certainly did. how so? i saw i saw the inaction that was taking place in the nra and after my daughter was shot and my granddaughter was abducted. i expected some action on their part and support for what are called common sense gun regulations, but i never saw that. sir, the nra tries to position itself, or certainly positions itself as a defender of the second amendment of the constitution. do you believe that it is no longer beholden to that interest of protecting the second amendment? and do you believe the nra
part of the science these days. but flying into these storms, this may sound old-fashioned, but it s still the best way to get the highest quality data to feed into those computer models. that s what it s all about. to get this data. we transmit it off this airplane by sat coma and it goes directl into the computers. we ve been flying missions into the storm now for over three days. it s this high altitude aircraft dropping 36 of those dropsondes yesterday and last night. and all that data got fed into the computer models. so far the hurricane center has done a really good job of forecasting the track. again, the data that we gather