million strong population is in dire need of humanitarian assistance. aid agencies can t get to them. diseases are rife. what are you and others trying to do to help them? thank you for having me. this war is entering its ten months with no end in sight. we are passing through probably the worst humanitarian crisis in the recent history of the country, with displacement, refugees, loss of life, shortage of everything food, medicine, shelter. ..destruction of infrastructure, property. ..collapse of the economy, collapse of the state. the un organisations like ocha, the who, unhcr. ..put the death toll atabout 13,000. ..which is a very conservative estimate, injuries, about 33,000. i think that this is far much higher than that. and i would like to believe we might spend years to be able to know the exact figure. as you said, there is huge displacement, over 11 million displaced refugees, around two million scattered all over the region. egypt hosting the highest number of re
starting in arkansas going into missouri and tennessee and into kentucky eventually and sliding along. some of the damage specifically from mayfield, kentucky, here is a picture of the courthouse. notice that steeple tower right there on the top. now after the storm moving through, that tower is now gone. you also have very large trees that were uprooted and knocked down not only in front of this building but even some of the surrounding buildings as well. that was just one of the over30 tornado reports from the last 24 hours. over 100 total severe wind reports and 20 large hail reports. as we mentioned, it s not done. the storm system hasn t died off completely. it s still on going. in fact, you have four states still actively looking at tornado watches at this moment. kentucky, tennessee, alabama as well as mississippi. and that s where really the focus is. even though the storm system as a whole is very large, stretching from vermont all the way back to texas, the focus point is tho
and something is on the path and almost a bulls eye, is that where new orleans is. yes, new orleans is in the area that s at risk. take a look at that graphic as well. the storm is located now down here pulling away from the florida keys, this is the large area, that s the cone. within that we have the hurricane warning up now all the way from morgan city, louisiana across to destin, florida. new orleans is it in the middle of that. other areas are at risk as well. while new orleans has a large population to prepare, everybody else should be preparing as well. in fact, monday is really the only day that we can guarantee the weather will be good enough to be outside for the entire day in preparation. tuesday, this system may deteriorating with possible landfall tuesday night. how similar is it from katrina? i m hearing we could see winds topping 100 miles per hour and katrina was not too far away from that. 111-130. there are some
sustained winds moving west-northwest at 16 miles per hour and a hurricane category 1, monday or tuesday, and tuesday 1 a.m. at 8 miles per hour and then further intensification is forecast, and right now the center is supposed to move to the new orleans or east to mississippi and cities like mobile in alabama, so we have to keep a look out for heavy rain and storm surge up to a foot possible east of the storm system and then again, we have to keep a close watch out here because isaac is also a very large system. even if the center doesn t move over here, you re going to be feeling impacts at least 200 miles out from the center of the storm. maria, i want to press in for a second review. i don t know if people have an intimate understanding how bad the storm surge is. can you explain it? yeah, basically that water moved on shore and it really is the worst on the eastern side of the storm system,
plaq plaquemines parish and maria molina is live in the weather center. isaac could hit new orleans, hard to believe. exactly to the day seven years after katrina hit. and another interesting fact in 2001, seven of the last i-named storms have been retired, due to deaths they ve caused or how much damage they ve caused, so this is something eerie and coincidences and right now we have the isaac system that s basically already moved out of the keys and now producing heavy rain across, just open water in the gulf of mexico, but the water out here is very warm. temperatures are well into the 80 s, across the gulf of mexico, so, we re forecasting that it should intensify, unfortunately before making landfall somewhere along the northern gulf of mexico, along the gulf coast, again, tropical storm isaac maximum