capital. all of this happening 16 years to the day, since the devastating hurricane katrina, came ashore. joining us now for the very latest on this storm is nbc meteorologist jen a so. up jessica, would you, have wears the storm headed? you know chris. we re still dealing with a deadly and destructive storm system that continues to race in. then the problem that is now for the last 11 hours, it has dramatically slowed down. so this is going to be a prolonged moisture, and the problem, is it s not just impacting southeast louisiana right now. now it is starting to see going into parts of mississippi, the panhandle of florida, into alabama as well. these bands are allowing severe weather as well to spark up, we ve had tornado warnings now in place across central mississippi, and that is going to last for at least ten more minutes. yes it has been downgraded, the impacts are still the same.
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i m ana cabrera with breaking news. a dozen tornadoes reported across alabama and georgia. this is in lee county, alabama, right now. you can see people just taking in all of the damage there. houses torn apart. we re learning at least two separate tornadoes hit within one hour. initial reports where at least two people dead. the sheriff now saying there are a number of fatalities and many more people still unaccounted for. let s get right over to cnn meteorologist tom sater in the cnn weather center. tom, fill us in on what is the latest, where is this storm headed, what threat still remains? ana, looks like march is coming in like a roaring lion. this storm just yesterday entered the country in california. it s moving extremely fast. we knew we would have severe weather to the south, but the outbreak of tornadoes is much more than we bargained for. and then you ve got your blizzard conditions up to the north. more on this in a moment. earlier today, when thousands were in montgomer
significant storm surge. 9 to 12 feet above what is dry ground. 20 2 fe 2 feet moves your car. up to 12 feet, keep in mind the turks and caicos do not have 12 feet to work with around the coastline. so that is complete sub emergence of the island in parts across the region. where is wr is the storm headed. look at tropical storm jose, it is the longest storm we ve had, going on 19 days. i say that because the steering environment for jose could be where maria ends up. look at our models. this is for this time next week. the system could be with us as marie maria parks off the coastline. we think in the immediate future this will get stronger over the warm waters approaching turks