111 measured, you know that if you know the road down from new orleans down to venice. and there was significant damage along that stretch of roadway. and there was one report of tornado. we have tornado watch out right now for parts of the florida panhandle. it s still raining across southern louisiana. they ve still got flooding issues, but most of the wind energy moved off to the east. lake charles in this last hour and a half has reported a severe thunderstorm rolling through southwest louisiana. there s your tornado watch, including pensacola, panama city, that area. and boy did it rain to beat the band last night and early this morning across atlanta. here s some lightning shots of what it looked like from our tower camera here. a lot of rain and frequent lightning. this isn t sped up. this is lightning every four to five seconds and rainfall rates at 1 to 2 inches per hour and starting to wind down.
cover working in from the south to the north and the leading edge of the storm and the moisture from the gulf of mexico that is already causing some problems to the south in places like mississippi and alabama. as a matter of fact, here s the tower camera. live shot of birmingham, alabama, where temperatures are right at the freezing mark. and the cloud cover is rolling in and in spots you have got some freezing rain. thanks for the live shot wvtm. here s the other temperatures around the region where it s trying to warm up but when you get moisture down from the gulf of mexico riding up over the cold air you have issues. it s plenty warm in jackson and new orleans. memphis and nashville, places that are going to see issues. we have seen problems in sven nor, shelby and tuscaloosa, alabama, already. here s the radar. tupelo, mississippi, highway 70 in shelby and fayette county, mississippi, we have seen a glazing of the roadways there and traffic accidents so this is
got egg on its face when they let someone on a flight when they shouldn t. right now, there s a much greater degree of awareness what s going on. after the failed bombing of christmas day, several delta, northwest airlines flights ended up being diverted, searches, because of the fact that right after, this was this sense of raised suspicious and awareness. the system has just changed, so they re kind of fine-tuning this system. there s the live picture. tower camera giving us a shot at jfk. you would imagine this kind of thing sometimes disrupts air traffic control. the other day when they pulled faisal shahzad off the plane, it was some seven hours before the flight was able to leave. might that be the case here in
but here s the question should the videotape be released to the public? this topic is heating up my facebook page. if you want to add more comments to it, please go there now. we ll talk about it onair. should it be released? don t worry, i m not releasing it, but i m asking if you should. if you are black in america, you know things are tougher for uf wh you know it s tougher for to find a job. we have some solutions that could help not only african-americans but all americans. and two surveillance videos that exist in the seaworld trainer, one camera shows awn underwater shot of the attack after she was pulled under. the other is a tower camera that was turned toward the dine with shamu pool right after the attack. just to be perfectly clear, the video we re showing as part of the segment is not the surveillance video in question. the video we re showing is home video and pictures that were shot right before the trainer was pulled under. now, let s get back to this surveillan
effect because the waves come in several different forms. we can see here again a shot this is a love shot from our tower camera on the tower, 47 stories up. we re showing you this particular reef because only a short while ago it was totally covered with water. now the water receded. and this is unusual. it s not a typical tidal action. this is more than likely, more than likely a direct result of the tsunami which was generated by that 8.8 earthquake in chile overnight. we are keeping our lines open with b.j. penn in that particular part of the state in case anything does develop. but right now we are told by the folks at the pacific tsunami warning center that they are