a much later time but it goes to show there is still a lot much guessing involved with this, at least in the long term of exactly when this storm makes landfall. it was exactly 14 years ago today that hurricane katrina made landfall in louisiana. a category 3, 127 miles per hour. we know the destruction, the damage, the death that that created. allison, we ll get back to you. you re continuing to monitor the latest developments. also tonight, president trump is trying to show that he s taking the hurricane threat to florida very, very seriously. it s in stark contrast with reaction to puerto rico was potentially in serious danger from dorian. let s go to jim acosta. jim, you were there in the rose garden a little while ago when the president spoke. reporter: that s right, wolf. president trump announced in the rose garden that he s not going to poland, a trip he planned in the coming days, so he can stay in washington and keep tabs on dorian. vice president pence will be
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surge i urgency. right now in the immediate crisis. no small irony the u.n. global climate change report comes out talking about these conditions, how 100 year storms are every year storms. we re dealing with this. tom, pick up on sam s point and one of the things we re watching. on my screen what we re watching in different areas, we see obviously what is the hurricane threat in this area. but tropical storm which everybody always mitigates its intensity, it s not that bad. it s horrible, especially in the areas that are already saturated. what is the additional risk there, tom? in 2003 hurricane isabel moved into the outer banks and went into the washington, d.c. area. it wasn t that strong a storm but it dropped over 10,000 trees. this is pine country, heavy, tall trees, weak shallow root systems. they go down very easily across the entire southeast. so tropical storm force winds easily in this area. we lost the storm. even though it lost its center, you have to take the circula