floodwaters. authorities are concerned with trying to keep those waters out of people s homes and working hard with utility crews, of course, to restore power to everyone. in franklin, louisiana, natasha chen. interesting to see that in franklin. my wife s uncle is from franklin. talking about the floods there, they dread this time of year. just the floods can be problematic. of course. he s saying things are right now then. not as bad as they could have been, even though we saw from natasha s report that things are pretty horrible. our meteorologist pedram javaheri is here to tell us what s going on in franklin and around the area. this is one of the most interesting tropical storms we ve tracked in a long time. a lot of that has to do with where the convection or the thunderstorm activity is. the center of circulation works its cross away portions of southern arkansas at this hour, but all the thunderstorm activity sits to its east and some to its south. really not around whe