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expedia. everything you need to go. griff: we are back with a fox news alert will storm bracing for bashy along the shoreline. jedediah: very first storm of the season. officials sounding the alarm as 56,000 people are without power across the state of louisiana. it is a dangerous and life threatening storm. it will be probably hurricane when it makes landfall on the louisiana coast line. every rainfall will be possible, major to near or even record flooding will be possible. a strong storm surge
here. give you a closer look at this. this was built back in the 80s by the army corps of eption nears. i just got nailed by wind right there. 20-foot high concrete wall. this river can get really high. this storm hasn t even hit yet and it s already this high. you look over here and the town of morgan city. this is what keeps so many communities here in southern louisiana dry. are levee systems like this. without it, you have so many people in this area that live at or sometimes below sea level and water comes from so many different places. comes from gulf and whichever son with you will. it s a wet area. a swamp land down here. if when you live below sea level can you get needed out so fast like we saw in hurricane katrina. the conditions, we re getting gusts in the 30 s i believe is what we are feeling right now. the storm itself is still at tropical storm out in the gulf maybe 40, 50 miles out on the coast. maybe a little closer at this point. once it gets to 74
down here as well as it empties out into the gulf. water is going to be the big story with this storm arrests the sky starts to brighten here on this saturday morning. the storm has slowed down a little bit. we were expecting that they would be in the brunt of it right now and feeling hurricane force winds potentially right now. at this point we are still a little bit ahead of it and looking like it will move on later this morning and into the afternoon, guys. we will send it back to you. griff: we have seen your live shot it. looks like some power in morgan city behind you which is a good sign for folks riding it out. rob: a little bit of power, griff. we have been seeing transformers popping like crazy. it s like fireworks. the blue sky pops up every once in a while. we have seen at least four or five of them at this point. power is dicey. there are i think about 50,000 customers without power in louisiana at this point. so it depends on where you are. todd: as you guys all know when
it s parked right off the coast line. you want to get it overland. don t give it any more time where it could strengthen. moving so slowly. national hurricane center still expect it to get to hurricane-strength before making landfall. it is a strengthening storm yet. pressure down to 9 millibars. that just means strengthening storm compared to where the pressure had been 12 hours ago. you will notice the last couple of days all of the action of this storm has been way off center from where the center of the storm is if you look at these last couple images a lot of that action which you can see dark reds there are really blooming at the center of the storm. so, that isn t good news, at least for the strongest of the winds. you will also notice, go all the way two days from now towards monday, and the storm is right around the arkansas, louisiana line. that s the slow movement of the storm. and that s where all that moisture that s contained there is eventually going to drop in across