harris: i m harris faulkner. this is the fox report. it s the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. all eyes on tropical storm lee. turning now to louisiana where new orleans is meeting lee firsthand. thousands of people evacuated in the bayou towns where water is now lapping at some front doors. a lot of concern about flash flooding and you can understand because take a look at this video that s coming in. more power outages to come and twisters. we ve learned in recent weeks with these storms that oftentimes in the tropical storm moves in, it spawns twisters. craig is live in new orleans. craig? harris, good evening to you. i was speaking to the chief of emf a few moments ago and said the tornado watches and warnings will remain in place for quite some time. as for those power outages, around 38,000 earlier today, then got it down to 22,000. that was a little more than an hour ago. they re working on those as well. as for that flooding threat, that is likely to be the
effects where you are? incredible. all the way from the port of mobile in alabama to louisiana, everyone is really starting to feel the effects of tropical storm lee and conditions here are deteriorating fairly quickly. perfect example, this storm drain, water is coming up through this storm drain in the wrong direction. there was no water here earlier. another indicator of how hard the water is coming down, there was about a foot, foot and a half of the water s line up to the dock, and now that water is coming up into the dock and it s going to be filling up this parking lot. tomorrow morning we anticipate the water to be up to my calfs. that s because not only has the rain not stopped, it s not going to stop. we re going to experience storm surge overnight and also we re going to have high tide. so people here are very wary of the flooding. it s a huge concern. the rainfall is falling north of us and here, which means that water basically has nowhere to go. harris? harris: it s i
harris? harris: elizabeth prann, thank you very much. i want to go back to maria molina briefly to kind of give us the picture on the map at the fox extreme weather center of how the storm is really working cause we were just in new orleans. now you compare that to mississippi and clearly they re getting hit a little bit worse than the city of new orleans. what s happening with the storm? that s right. the earlier in the hour we pointed out that there is dry air over texas because of the drought and that s working eastward into the storm system. so the heavier precipitation is across the eastern half of the storm. we know the center is just to the south of the coast of louisiana. so you can look here on water vapor, all of that batch of moisture really across the eastern half of the storm system. so you re feeling its effects in the florida panhandle, west of destin, through the coast of mississippi, alabama, and also across extreme portions of louisiana. but safe to say the worst
we really need the rain in texas. unfortunately, we will not be seeing a lot of it over that state. some of the dry air from the drought in texas actually makes its way into the center of lee. so that s what we re looking at here. there is also concern for tornadoes. so we have a tornado watch in effect until 10:00 p.m. tonight. there have been a number of warnings. we don t think we have a tornado currently on the ground. but the big story is the amount of rainfall. locally up to 20 inches of rain and guess where it s headed in towards the northeast. we re looking at rainfall over the next several days over tennessee, the ohio valley, and also late in the week as we head into the northeast. here is a look at tropical storm lee s forecast, again, sustained winds of 60 miles per hour. by monday, 2:00 a.m., still centered over southern mississippi. an extremely slow mover. there has been reports of a storm surge in parts of louisiana. the coastal areas of up to four feet. not a huge conc
people hurting most. young americans. and a suspect in four killings, living among them. can t believe it. nothing like that happens here in a small area. far enough away from florida that he would move to texas. harris: what led to his arrest 1300 miles away and months after police say he brutally murdered his family. new orleans taking lee head on. our gulf states already seeing flooding and major power outages. lee pelting louisiana and mississippi. the storm s center moving very slowerly, fiercely and highly unpredictably. forecasters expect lee to dump some 20 inches of rain on a city submerged by hurricane katrina six years ago. this time there is no holding back in the big easy. the mayor with this warning earlier. we are not out of the woods. notwithstanding the fact that