would expect at this time of the day, high tide is coming. not as bad as many expected it would have been if irma passed to the west over the gulf here. or rather than passing to the east. but we know that many of the 2 will,000 people in those shelters across hillsboro county are there bhauz of mandatory evacuations. those were put into effect before the storm came. especially for mobile homes and low-lie airingas. power is out for about half million people across this part of the state. huge tree branches fell he. the fear is instead of just hitting power lines, which would be for most people a temporary inconvenience after loss of power, it could mean a also of life when they fall on to the mobi mobile. when the rough winds come at the back half of the storm could move mobile homes. again, along side hillsboro rif which goes out to tampa pay and
what the concern is today, new orleans is labeled on the map right there. that s always the concern in the northcentral gulf along with our friends in biloxi and gulf port and mobile and panama city. the storm has taken a more westward trend. the intensity to this point until tuesday morning only supposed to be a category 1 hurricane. so don t write that in stone as just a category 1. after that, we re going to take the storm in the landfall late tuesday night, early, early wednesday morning, and the hurricane thinks it could be a category 2 hurricane at landfall. they re pin pointing the mississippi coast. the yellow area now includes the south central portions of louisiana coast, new orleans is kind of in the middle of that cone. along with gulfport, biloxi, mobi mobile. and now panama city is out of the cone and pensacola is on the edge. when storms make landfall, the
alex, thank you. water surrounding the broken well in the gulf remain calm again today. they re increasingly confident about the new well cap. after days of watching, still no signs of any leaks. even with the flow of crude apparently stopped for now, a tremendous clean-up lies ahead. nbc s mark potter has the latest from the recovery efforts from pensacola beach, florida. it s almost as if they ve now figured out what seems to be a good stop gap in terms of the leaking oil. now the attention can go full board on the clean-up. reporter: the truth is with the well cap holding, no new oil is going into the gulf of mexico but there s old oil floating out there for miles and miles. we were able to get a fresh look at that on our flight with the u.s. coast guard. on a coast guard flight from mobi mobile, palm, to the deepwater