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this morning. and i think one of the things that the national weather service and officials want us to get out there is that, look, the majority of this precipitation is still over the gulf, but it is coming. yes, a shg, erica? yes, it s coming. it s going to be heavy in baton rouge. the latest estimates are 5 to 10 inches. we re sort of in a waiting mode here. the rain, we re told, is want very far off. when it comes, christi, to your point, there will be a lot of it. this will last for some time. and so that s the important message that, a, this storm is not yet done with the region. the other important message is that there will be lingering effects, specifically in terms of flooding. you mentioned the flash flood warnings we re talking about for millions of people in much of this area. there has been a flood issue for months. the mississippi river behind me has been at flood stage since february. that s 30 feet. it s expected to crest at 43. in this state, in this region,
that was a lesson learned. i m concerned, however, that they ve gotten complacent. already states of emergency in st. bernard, saint charles, jefferson and plaquemines parish. now tropical storm barry is moving very slowly. that slow movement is one reason the weather service has issued an excessive rainfall notice. it s only been used two other times for hurricanes florence and harvey. let s get out to meteorologist derek van dam live in the weather center. derek, this thing is moving at a snail s pace. we can walk faster than it s moving now, boris. in fact, the flooding is the point that we are trying to drive home. we don t want people lost in the minutia of whether it will make landfall. 24 is a potential flood issue and in fact the weather prediction center has a high
state of arkansas, more could eventually be added as a situation could potentially deteriorate with another round of storms and bad weather headed this way. thank you casey. our fox team coverage continues with meteorologist. hey there john, such as widespread problem at this point, we do so casey right along the arkansas river, everywhere the icons, that s a river flood gauge, the purple ones or the pink color, that is arkansas river. that is a major flood issue right across the entire ever. settling down into the mississippi and the problem to misery. there will be more rain on the way. it s been dry in that region and a couple various, everything in the mid atlantic strategic then youstretching.went up to 60 mild
have seen this epic flooding. see all of the showers and thunderstorms here in georgia and florida panhandle this afternoon, that s the same system that we saw push through last night across texas, however we have another one on the heels. what you ll notice is that there are just a couple of these, see these little blips here on radar. these thunderstorms don t move and very deep layer tropical air mass dump a tremendous amount of rain on houston. we ll see the same flood issue. dfw could see winds that could be pretty significant along with that rain and all of this filters on down. houston kind of a filter spot from rivers and streams from central texas. the flood threat continues there in the coming days even though we re starting to see waters recede. kate parker meteorologist for the weather channel. thank you so much. more from texas as we discuss the houston area. this is completely different. a houston area man has been charged with planning to travel to syria to wage jihad