floodwaters are receding. we ll wait and see when the president gets there. kristen welker, things. slow moving tropical storm lee has triggered tornado warnings for parts of the east coast. now, lee has forced some to evacuate while others are dealing with power outages. want to go live it new orleans. charles hadlock is joining us. how is the city handling the situation? how has the weather changed since the last time you were on? reporter: well, this is the mississippi river behind me at the boardwalk. between morgan city and new iberia, it s going to become a tropical depression later today and then drift across louisiana,
good morning. winds are at 45 miles per hour and it s about 30 miles south of lafayette. the problem today is that now it is on shore, it s lost its energy and pumping moisture with winds out of the south into louisiana, into mississippi, into alabama. we re going to see a heavy rain concern out ofly and the circulation from lee. we have two things going on. is going to be a tango going on. we have this front tracking into the northeast and it s going to bring rain and storms there, independent of what is happening with this tropical storm. however, you ve got the remnants of lee by monday that is still down here. you can see it hasn t moved very much at all. moving into mississippi at best. and that moisture is going to combine with the front. so in the southern appalachians, we re going to see heavy rainfall. on the order of two to six inches of rainfall. flooding will be a concern for us. perhaps around virginia, north carolina, right along the tar river where after irene we had
lee ai will cross the coast and warn that the heavy rains from lee could cause extensive flooding or flash floods and a tornado watch is currently in effect for parts of louisiana, mississippi, alabama, and the florida pan handle. mike side dell is live in new orleans. bring us up to speed. the weather is different than when we had a chance to see you yesterday. reporter: yeah, it s improved. we re still going to get some rain. so far, we ve had ten inches. it s been spread out over enough time that we haven t had a major issue with flooding in the streets. remember, it s like a big bathtub. pumping the water out of the canal over the floodgates and back into lake and this morning, over in the florida pan handle thrk is a wide storm. it s sending out bands farther east and north and some of those bands will produce brief
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