that is have come in. but what is interesting now, we re seeing a different dynamic. the southern edge of hurricane irma had eroded away and lots of dryer air moving in. across this western edge you can kind of see on this water vapor imagery. here s the last frame. sara sidner is not out of danger yet. we ve got essentially lots of moisture which is aimed at georgia, and into south carolina and they are seeing storm surges there. two, three and four feet. mayport florida, daytona beech. in daytona they re saying get to higher ground because the water is rising there, not just from the rainfall but because we re seeing that wall of water push on shore along the central northeaste northern coast.
fred whitfield has the weekend off. our top story this hour, a week after hurricane irene battered the east coast, tropical storm lee is targeting the gulf coast. heavy rain falling now in mississippi and louisiana, both states under a state of emergency. mandatory evacuations are under way in parts of jefferson parish in the new orleans area and some parts could get up to 20 inches of rain. vermont is one of the states still cleaning up from irene. remember that storm? six days after irene slammed the state, nearly 700 vermont homes are still without power. and the search is still on for a man believed to have been swept away by floodwaters last sunday. take a look at this map. the green lines there show vermont roads that are now open. but many of those roads and bridges marked in red were simply washed away. the dots indicate power outages . in one minute, we re going to bring you a report from one of the hardest hit areas, new jersey. dozens of families across texas a
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once it gets to the seabed, the underwater remote control submarines will actually attach it down there and they ll attach that mile-long steel pipe so they can siphon the oil out of it. both bp, as well as the coast guard, are working under the assumption that this is not going to work. they say there are just too many varyuals variables, things like water push on the dome and oil pressure pushing up, as well as things getting clogged inside that siphon pipe. so they re working under that assumption but they ve got their fingers crossed and they should find out sometime in the next 24 hours, once this thing gets online, if it actually starts pumping out the oil and trapping it at the bottom of the sea. bill: if it doesn t work, trace, what s plan b? or is there a plan b? plan b is yeah, there is a plan b. it s called top kill. what they do is take a long pipe and tail stick it in the mouth of the leak and start shooting things like mud and concrete and debris, and when i say deb