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ISAACOPICAL STORM
GULF.NG TOWARD
AND NENTFALL
TOPECT HAPPENS,
HURRICANE
STRENGTH.
FLOODING RAIN, POWERFUL WINDS,
AND SEVERE STORMS EXPECTED TO
LAST FOR DAYS.
FROM THE WEATHER CHANNEL STUDIOS
WATCHING
"WEATHER CENTER LIVE."
WITHGN
BRINGINGND
AS WE GE
TRACK TROPICAL STORM SISAAC.
THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HAS
DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY.
ANDERDOME
USED AS WILL NOT
HURRICANEURING
EMERGENCY.
MIAMI HAS SEEN 3900 POWER
OUTAGES.
500 OF THOSE HAVE BEEN RESTORED.
FEMA HAS ALREADY DEPLOYED TEAMS
AND IANA,
MONITORING ALABAMA
MISSISSIPPI.
VERY T
LATEST.
LIVE COVERAGE FROM OUR TEAM OF
METEOROLOGISTS, JIM CANTORE AND
JULIE MARTIN ARE IN TAMPA
ONITORING CONDITIONS AND THE
REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
OTHERE A SLEW
FLORIDA GISTS IN SOUTH
AND ERIC
FISHER.
NEXTING FOR
ADVISORY FROM THE NATIONAL
HURRICANE CENTER DUE THIS HOUR.
HURRICANE SPECIALIST BRYAN
IN OUR GL"GLOBAL
ORECAST CENTER" WITH THE
LATEST.
THE LAST HOUR WE GOT A NEW
MODEL RUN FROM THE EUROPEANS.
THIS ONE IS FROM THE EUROPEANS,
AND I HAVE SUPERIMPOSED THIS ON
HE CONE BECAUSE I WANT TO HELP
WHAT GOESTAND
WHAT CONE
MEANS.
HERE.KE
THESE LINES
REPRESENTING THE PRESSURE IN THE
ATMOSPHERE AND ESSENTIALLY THE
WIND.
SO THE WIND IS COMING AROUND
LIKE THIS, AND THIS WIND IS
SOUTHEASTING ON THE
ISAACRAND
OF INITY IS
KEY WEST AND ACTUALLY THE FAIRLY
CALM PERIOD HAS ALREADY BEGUN IN
KEY WEST, AND HERE IS THE CONE,
OF COURSE, SHOWING THE STORM
THENG OFF
WEST-NORTHWEST.
TOMORROWS
UESDAY,THE
AND HERE YOU SEE THE WAY IT KIND
SIDEAKED OVER TO THE RIGHT
OF THE CONE AND BACK TO THE
LEFT.
THE POINT IS THAT THE CONE
REPRESENTS TWO-THIRDS OF THE
TIME THE CENTER STAYING IN
THERE.
ORNSACOLAU LIVE
WOW, E, YOU'RE THINKING,
THAT EALLY LOOKS BAD
WERE TOIF THE STORM
COME EXACTLY THERE.
THAT'S A VERY BAD SITUATION FOR
THE WEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND
FOR THE MOBILE BAY AREA.
THE,ON THE OTHER
OVERCAN MODEL TAKES
OFDEEME
WOULD BE VERYTHIS
BAD FOR LOUISIANA AND INTO
MISSISSIPPI AND LESS SO HERE IN
THE PANHANDLE, ALTHOUGH THERE
WOULD STILL BE EFFECTS.
SCENARIOS ARE E
FIRM.
A MODEL IS
WHY THAT'S
CONE THAT SAYS THE
CENTER IS EXPECTED TO GO
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THERE.
WHAT THAT MEANS IS NEW ORLEANS,
MISSISSIPPITHE
ALABAMAAND THE
OAST, AND PENSACOLA AND THE
PANHANDLE SHOULD
HIGH ALERT AS THE
MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS SAID FOR
THE POSSIBILITY OF A SIGNIFICANT
HURRICANE THREAT COMING IN LATE
WEDNESDAY.TO
SAYS , THE AMERICAN
TUESDAY.
EVEN E AREA
OUTSIDE THE CONE NEEDS TO BE
REALLY LOOKING AT THIS CLOSELY
BECAUSE ODDS ARE SOME PART OF
THAT AREA IS GOING TO BE ASKED
THE T ANDE
LOW-LYING AREAS.
SERIOUSLY
SITUATION DEVELOPING, AND WE'LL
HAVE MORE FROM THE NATIONAL
HURRICANE CENTER AT 5:00.
LET'S GO BACK NOW AND LOOK AT
WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW WITH
THE TROPICAL STORM.
IT STILL IS A TROPICAL STORM
AT DSE-AN-HOUR
MOST.
HURRICANE HUNTERS HAVE BEEN OUT
FINDNG TOING,
MORE.
AINDTHEY
LITTLEE THAT WENT
BIT, DOWN TO 992 MILLIBARS AND
THERE'S THE MOVEMENT.
HERE IS THE CENTER IN HERE
SOT-NORTHWEST,
GULF OF MEXICO.
ERE,R
THE OF ALL, WHEREVER
WEATHER IS QUITE BAD IN PALM
BEACH COUNTY NOW, MOVING IN THE
WEST PALM BEACH AREA, THERE YOU
E LIGHTNING THERE OVER THE
RADAR.
HERE THAT'S UP
FT.TY SIGNIFICANT UP
PIERCE AREA.
INUTHG BETTER IN THE
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY AS ALL THIS IS
LIFTING TO THE NORTH.
ALREADY INTO FT. MYERS LIFTING
UP TOWARD TAMPA AND ORLANDO.
THE WEATHER WILL BE BAD WELL
AHEAD OF THE STORM.
KEYS. CHECK ON THE
SEE'TD WEATHER, YOU
THEY HAVE
NOW. KEYST
RAIN BUT MUCH
COMING INTO
KEY WEST.
TALKING ABOUT KEY WEST, WE HAVE
MARIA LaROSA DOWN IN KEY WEST,
THIS, SUCH AS
LOOKS LIKE THE
KEYS REALLY DID KIND OF DODGE
MUCH PART
COUNTY ADE
THAN DOWN IN THE KEYS.
MARIA, LOOKS PRETTY CALM OUT
THERE NOW.
HOW DOES IT FEEL?
DO YOU FEEL THE CALMNESS FROM
YET?CENTER OF THE STORM
>> Reporter: ABSOLUTELY.
ALMER,NDS ARE
HE RAIN HITTING YOU FEELS
ALMER, EVEN THE SCENE BEHIND
ME, THE WATER, THE WAVE ACTION
HAS EASED UP JUST A LITTLE BIT.
WHAT'S INTERESTING AS YOU
POINTED OUT, THERE ARE A LOT OF
OTHER SPOTS THAT SEEM TO HAVE
A CLUDING
FLORIDA.N
ONETADS
AND UGHND COME
IT.H BEENTTY
THAT SAID, WE STILL
HAD THE GUSTY WINDS, CLOSE TO
40, 50 MILES PER HOUR, AND YOU
CAN SEE FROM THIS VIDEO IT WAS
OF THE BOATSD ANY
THEY EREN'T TIED
SOMEBOBBING UP AND
OF THE HEAVY SURF.
I WANTG OF HEAVY SURF,
NATIONAL UT
WEATHER SERVICE OUT OF TAMPA IS
URGING PEOPLE TO STAY OUT OF THE
WATER BECAUSE THE INCREASED RIP
CURRENT RISK.
I WOULD ECHO THAT DOWN HERE
LITTLE BITNGS ARE
NOT THEHT NOW,
WATER.O GO INTO THE
MAYREEAKING OF
FLOODING IN
THE AREAS.
POWER OUTAGES
AT THIS POINT, AND KEYS ENERGY
HAD JUST PUT THAT OUT THERE.
SO THAT'S SOME GOOD NEWS FOR
SURE.
TWOEXPECT MAYBE
SURGE HERE, DAL
HIGH TIDE NEXT HERE IN KEY WEST
WILL BE ABOUT 7:28 THIS EVENING.
AND SO FAR BEHIND ME, BRIAN, YOU
CAN SEE THINGS ARE PRETTY QUIET.
BACK TO YOU.
VIV, BACKRRY, NICK AND
YOU.
MARIA.NK YOU VERY
PLATFORMS HAVE BEGUN
EVACUATING IN ADVANCE OF
TROPICAL STORM ISAAC.
>> THAT'S RIGHT, VIVIAN.
SHELL HAS ORDERED A COMPLETE
EVACUATION AND SHUT DOWN OF ITS
PLATFORMS IN THE GULF TOMORROW.
E'LL KEEP YOU INFORMED OF THE
CHANGES.
TOVE'LL ALSO
LORIDA'S WES COAST WHERE
TO BEYS
FELT.
TAMPA BECAUSE
OF THIS WEEK'S REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL CONVENTION, YOU KNOW.
SO WE'LL KEEP YOU UPDATED ON
THAT.
F COURSE, ISAAC CONTINUES TO