not to put too fine a point on it, siegel material in the wat water. not just from humans but from animals. take a look at this map and we will show you the worst beaches in america at least four high bacteria counts. one in your home state, a bad one is gulfport east in mississippi. 67% of the days they tested, the water wasn t safe. a beach in california not too far from los angeles, half the time the water was unsafe. and the one i m standing on here in chicago. and it s likely not today because this is normally calm
the mississippi river, on the outskirtds of the french water. the great fear this would be over 20-foot stage. it started off and allison was talking about this. it started off before the storm came in if 15-foot vicinity. that s high. right now, it s closing in on 17 feet. when it gets over 17.1, you have a problem. there s flood walls all over the new orleans metropolitan area. it separates us from the french quarter here, the major tourist area in new orleans. this is the flood wall right here. it contains up to 20 feet of water. where i m standing, there s no wat water whatsoever. and floodgates. we call them the storm gates.
people saying i m going to ride the storm out here. water coming into their homes. you re seeing the smaller signs topple over. they can t compete with this wind. power lines that are down. we have a camera in the back of our suv. you can just see how fragile everything becomes with the kind of windgusts that we re seeing. ly step away from this sign here. trees falling. i see a tree that is fallen to my right. ly ask peter to drive faster so i can show that to you. i have never seen anything like this on collins avenue. look at this right here, ali. this is a treat that had families taking photos yesterday, we saw a kite surfer trying to catch some waves. clearly a totally different
are. for people who felt that water wasn t going to rise, there is real sea water there in parts of miami beach. miguel what happened behind you? what did you look at? reporter: there s definitely fronds from palm trees. look at this big would you know right here. this came down a few seconds ago. i saw another one fly behind me. this is about as strong as we have felt the wind all day long. it s been picking up here over the last 20 to 30 minutes. we expect to see more debris flying down the street in the hours to come. i want you to just make sure you re safe. check out where the wind is coming from. i ll come back to you. we ll take one more look at miami beach. show people what we re looking at right now. this is parts of miami beach. i want to listen in. this is the weather channel.