tropical storm to hit the u.s. this year. that system wreaking havoc knocking down the play house in texas. tropical storm barry will form today and make landfall as a hurricane by saturday. barry is expected to make landfall along the louisiana or upper texas coast. now current watches do not include the new orleans area which was inundated for hours as you can see. governor john edwards issued a state of emergency. right now we believe that any overtopping of the levies would be relatively short duration of 12 hours, but that is still a very, very significant hazard. we re asking everyone to take this very seriously. local media reports more than 200 flood gates are being closed, many around the mississippi river. residents are starting to lay down sand bags to try to prevent
christian after he was left for dead with his father s body in mexico. photos obtained by cnn show the boy lying in the curve of his dead father s arm. they had been brutally attacked. he was taken to a hospital in the city of quatla where he is getting psychological and medical care now. just weeks after that shot of a drowned little girl and her father horrified the nation. turning to the storms tearing across the gulf coast. hurricane watches have been issued ahead of the first tropical system to hit the u.s. this year. that system already wreaking havoc knocking down this play house in weatherford, texas. the national hurricane center predicting tropical storm barry will form today and then make landfall as a hurricane by saturday. it s expected to make landfall
searching is a family member of one of our suspects. so that s kind of what brought us here before and that s why we are back here again. our hope is to bring closure to know what happened and to be able to answer a lot of questions. so investigators have been working throughout the night and as i mentioned things are moving pretty fast. we might have a development to share with you in the next couple of hours. we will let you know. steve: all right, aishah, thank you very much. meanwhile we start this with fox news extreme weather alert. the state of louisiana currently under a state of emergency as severe flooding has stunned new orleans and a major storm now bearing down on the gulf coast potentially could become a tropical storm or, perhaps, a hurricane by saturday. ainsley: flash flooding turning the streets into rivers, forcing some of the residents to cut across town in coul kayaks. dark clouds and waterspout touching down on a local lake there.
a program for americans to share their stories of how they are affected by bias online. weather now. louisiana under a state of emergency, severe flooding stuns new orleans. a major storm is bearing down on the gulf coast potentially becoming a hurricane by saturday. flash flooding turning street into rivers forcing some residents to cut across town in kayaks and look at this, this has gone everywhere, dark clouds and water spout touching down on a local lake. adam klotz tracking big storms. we are seeing that video. this is a couple days making landfall, likely this is a situation that is only going to get worse, this is the set up and the potential path behind me, still a low-pressure system, winds at 45 miles an hour. will be on the move and strengthen into a tropical storm later today and eventually for now forecast to become a hurricane before making landfall.
they have been stuck underground, can you imagine, for more than two months. and otto is upgraded now to a tropical storm, winds about 60 miles per hour right now. otto is north of puerto rico. you can see the radar moving slowly northeast. it could be a hurricane by saturday. but it s not expected to threaten laland. the forecast calls for auto to just keep on moving, keeping on moving, otto, out into the atlantic. here is a story i have lots and lots of tweets on this one. this is a scandal that started on duke s campus. it s an apparent e-mail, just a few friends on the internet. and you guessed it. it has gone viral. it is no wonder why. it is a detailed account of a grad s sex life. i m talking names, pictures, rankings of these guys. harmless fun or perhaps a frightening sign of the times? that is ahead. and looking ahead to tonight, bill mahr, never short of opinions. tonight eek talking politics tonight at 7:00. and at the o clock eastern on