Hurricane barry. Moments ago the mayor of new orleans once again urging residents to stay put. Although you may not have seen rainfall as weve been discussing, it is coming our way. So, please, continue to listen and react accordingly. Weve also learned a levee in myrtle grove is overtopping, about 40 miles outside of new orleans. It is one of two levees that was not reinforced and Hurricane Katrina. Power lines snapped, more than 77,000 people without electricity in louisiana. Were covering the storm across the region now. Natasha chen is west of new orleans in morgan city. Natasha, youve been hit by bands of rain in and out. What else are people feeling and experiencing there . Reporter its a lot more wind than rain just at the moment. We ran into the Public Information officer for st. Mary parish, the parish were in right now. He was talking about some of the concerns they have. Theyve gotten a couple of medical calls, for example, in a neighboring city and there are growing concern
Many as 2,000 undocumented migrant families. Of course a lot of eyes on Tropical Storm barry right now. Heavy rain is slamming louisiana at the moment. Life threatening flooding is a big, big concern here because this storm is very slowly pushing north. Maximum sustained wind gusts are close to 45 miles an hour and the National Hurricane center says the tornadoes could pop up across louisiana, mississippi and eastern arkansas. Governor John Bel Edwards has declared a state of emergency and he says the worst is yet to come. Hundreds of people have spent the night at shelters in the area we know. And theres 122,000 people this morning who do not have power. Erica hill is in baton rouge. Erica, what are you feeling this morning . Well, good morning. We have a break right now in the rain but we actually checked in with the Weather Center at cnn before we came on the air this morning, they said, us, theres more rain to come. More heavy rain is expected to come through. Because as we have be
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