hour with gusts to about 90. katrina was a category three hurricane. still eerie that it is happening the same day. still very strong. there is a live look at your radar. still a category one hurricane. maximum winds, 80 miles per hour. the storm is keeping its strength together and it is now moving. that is good news. an hour ago, it was stationary. see the darker yellows and even the reds you see over new orleans, that is an extremely heavy band of rain likely dumping a couple of inches of run an hour across parts of the city as we speak. inside that particular part of the storm, the wind are gusting 70 miles per hour. so they are in the worst of it right now. slow-moving storm off to the north and west right now at eight miles per hour. check back in in several hours. i think even in the next eight, 10, 12 hours, they will be dealing with the same amount of rain and very gusty conditions down there. they are not done with the danger yet. let s switch and go to local we
outsued right now on august 28th at the washington monument as we get things started. a lot to talk b lots of plirk to talk about. the republican national convention as we as what is happening on the gulf and in new orleans with the storm. a lot to talk about. lots of politics to talk about. the storm made landfall near the mouth of the mississippi river just before 7:00 last night. this is a first major test of new orleans new levee system since hurricane katrina struck seven years ago today. emergency officials are now reporting at least one levee breach this morning. isaac is a slow-moving large storm and flooding is a big concern this morning and already becoming an issue as we have checked in with reporters throughout the morning. let s check in with tucker barnes. we are in the worst of it as we speak. extremely heavy rain in the past couple of hours since i got to work here during the 3:00 a.m. hour. the rain has picked up across new orleans. they had a wind gus
minutes. first tucker barnes has what s going on in our area at 7:00. good morning. let s get right to isaac quickly with the latest. it s still a tropical storm. trying to develop an eye there. notice on the north side of the storm, the eye feature trying to develop there. you can see it go and then disappear. if that can get going, this storm will likely intensify into a strong category hurricane before making landfall as mentioned in about 12 to 24 hours time so conditions of very heavy rains and storm surge like we re dealing with winds gusting 80, 90 miles per hour as it moves onshore here later tonight. all right. let s do some local weather. we have more on isaac in a few minutes. we have rain showers moving through, clouds and light rain showers moving through the district at this hour. north and west here, out rain showers. good news, we ll have morning clouds, a few showers for the next hour or two and then once the showers get south and east of us, we should b
the sun is not up yet. it has been all summer long. sun gets up early and now it is coming up later. good morning. i m sarah simmons i m wisdom martin. tropical storm isaac is expected to make lapped fall somewhere on the gulf coast later tonight or early wednesday possibly as a category two hurricane packing winds around 100 miles per hour. as we just mentioned, new orleans is in its path right now and isaac could strike seven years to the day the city was hit by hurricane katrina. this may be the first major test of the city s levees since they were rebuilt after katrina. there is? good news in this. isaac could bring much-needed relief to the drought stricken mississippi river area. lets acheck in with tucker and get the latest on that. and about one year to the date that irene impacted our area. oh, wow. i think they re going to get hit worse down there than we were. certainly the potential for a big storm down there. still a tropical storm. maximum winds, 70 mi
miles per hour as we go back to vipir, we can take a look at isaac and show you that the forward speed is just 12 miles per hour. it will be a slow mover. it will churn there in the northern gulf right into the city of new orleans over the next couple of days and they will get unbelievable amounts of rain. they are forecasting 7 to 14 inches of rain. i think flooding will become a big issue. a six-foot storm surge. six to 12 feet with the storm surge. still likely to become a hurricane. still maximum winds of 70 miles per hour show that makes it a very strong tropical storm t will likely cross the throash held to hurricane status later today. let s do local weather. we ve got a cold front moving through as we speak. it will likely cross the threshold to hurricane status later today. you can see the showers moving in from the north and west. parts of our viewing area getting some light showers. they will be moving through during the next several hours. you will wake up with