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minutes ago we were being hit with pelting rain and with heavy winds. and then it dies down. and that is because this comes in waves. it comes in bands if you will. a band after band starting to come on shore. and that is also this huge storm pushing the waters up on to shore and that is what will cause the catastrophic damage and the flooding. but now that we re at a category 4 storm, derek van dam is in a place that is already seeing that storm surge, that is already flooding. and it isn t even near the eye of the storm. you are in tampa, derek, tell us what you are seeing. and we can certainly see how crazy it is and how inundated it is already where you are. reporter: sara, we re 125 miles southeast of the center of major hurricane idalia. and that over to your right, over my left shoulder, is an angry tampa bay. downtown tampa over my right shoulder behind me, this is bay
student jumping into action when the school bus driver suddenly passes out behind the wheel. and, the big moment at the nfl draft. the 13-year-old jets fan who is now everyone s topic. from abc news world headquarters in new york, this is world news tonight with david muir. david: good evening, it is great to have you with us on friday night. i am wayne johnson in for david tonight. as we come in the air, we are watching the new tornado warnings in east texas. one of two systems tracking across the goal plan to the northeast. 30 million americans on alert through tomorrow for large hail, damaging winds and some triggering our tornado watch in bell county texas at this hour. ominous clouds of pelting rain the first system delivering blinding wind and rain in the
orleans. ali velshi, i will start with you. what is the latest in new orleans and what are you seeing? power is completely hot in new orleans and in a lot of louisiana. the vast majority of them was because of a transmission, a transmission failure. that happened a four hours after dark. one of the things we could tell about it is while new orleans missed the brunt of the storm we still got a lot of it. the winds were very, very high. 150 miles per hour. not here, we re getting gusts of 100 miles per hour or more in new orleans along with that pelting rain for hours and hours and hours. this was the type of damage that
the winds, they ve been around 30 toee 40 miles per hour but t biggest difference is definitely the rainfall. if you can see out there, as i turn my tback, you can see the pelting rain across this area, but the seas, they are starting to pick up. we ll continue to watch that storm surge as high tide cycle is expected to come in. kendis. janessa, we ll continue to watch t. be safe out there. bill karins, thank you. let s bring in ken grant. what are you going to be looking for over the next few hours? yeah, we re getting that rainfall already producing some flooding in some areas. i ve seen some of those flash flood warnings. we re looking at that with time. 40-mile-an-hour winds at narragansett. winds at block island, 50-mile-an-hour gusts. pretty significant winds associated with this already. thatth heavy rainfall, it s so