session with mueller s deputies also up in the air, martha. martha: catherine herridge bid for that, we are continuing to watch live as this storm movs to new orleans for a tropical storm barry hours for making landfall and one of the main concerns is flash flooding in river flooding expected in areas of south mississippi. steve harrigan is live in mississippi with the latest this evening. martha, really starting to feel it over the last hour. the wind has picked up. we are seeing the rain come in sideways, rain is going to be the threat for mississippi more than a window problem. expecting 5-12 inches of rain in mississippi. that could lead to flash flooding that along the coast but england as well. when you drive around, and a number covered by water even an alligator short distance away on one causeway. a truck got the alligator away in the marsh but shows what
extended special live coverage of hurricane florence is at rolls on, battering the carolina coast. team coverage. leland vittert live in morehead city. senior correspondence rick leventhal and steve harrington. let s begin with steve in north topsail. it sounds like you continue to see deteriorating conditions there. as you have been on the scene for well over ten hours at this point. it is, shannon. that bridge behind me there that i was standing on has now collapsed. the back end of it. just as laura ingraham predicted it would about an hour ago. we are seeing the rain come in sideways, the wind is strong enough to snap branches, pull tiles off of houses, but not the overall destructive wind that we have seen in some major hurricanes. hard enough to do some damage but we are not seeing buildings or trees in snap, just really branches at this point. the real concern is going to be