here in the next 24 to 48 hours. hurricane karl pounding mexico, leftovers from that, 6 to 7 inches of rainfall already in corpus christi and brownsville, and more of those showers in texas today. dry conditions, and windy conditions that fire burning southwest of salt lake city, zero containment. red flag warnings and fire watches up for the next two days. cooler air trying to slide down across the northern tier. 79 in chicago and 75 in new york city. that s a quick check on weather. american morning is coming right back.
if it spends out there today, it will happen somewhere in mexico. if it goes to the right and has longer time over water, potentially texas dealing with a big hurricane sometime into the day on thursday. so we ll have a better idea probably by tomorrow which of these paths that goes. at this point, you split the difference somewhere here around the northern mexico coastline making a second landfall is probably a hurricane if not a major hurricane and areas of texas will see a lot of that rain. far enough away here from that oil spill so i don t think we re going to see any major effects other than some of the swells from this storm will propagate all the way to the area bringing the waves two to four feet. some of that water could wash over the booms set in place. probably the worst we ll see from this storm, jamie, next storm hopefully will be as lucky. thanks. for sure, we ll check back with you later in the day. all right. maybe a different storm. this one happening in washingto
oil well, that storm could stop the containment effort, for up to two weeks. right now, tropical storm alex is pounding mexico, and guatemala. jamie: former alaska governor sarah palin bringing her message to the lone star state, taking president obama to task. her fiery comments, you can t miss it, next. the administration is kind of. the government needs to take over more aspects of our private industry. scares the heck out of me! thanks to aarp, we can have more nights out.
there are some workers out here that just walked off the beach after cleaning up some of the oil here on the sand. but no sunbathers, no surfers, no one really enjoying this day. a day of prayer that s been declared now by four gulf states. texas, mississippi, alabama and here in louisiana. but as we mentioned, there is something to be thankful for and that is that tropical storm alex is now tropical depression alex and looks like it won t be coming here to louisiana. it is it has been slamming belise yesterday and last night. dumping heavy rain over northern guatemala and mexico s yucatan peninsula, expected to hit the gulf later this week. it will make a left turn and not a right and hit mexico again and avoid the spill zone. as you mentioned, any winds topping 46 miles per hour would force b.p. to abandon its containment efforts for up to two weeks. it would have to disconnect the two systems that are capturing up to a million gallons of oil a day and cleanup would be affected as