patti ann: another blow in what has proved to be a destructive hurricane season. i'm patti ann browne. the storm touching down near the mouth of the mississippi river near east plaquemines parish. the storm bringing intense winds. heavy rain and serious storm surges. states of emergency have been declared in alabama, mississippi and 30 counties throughout

florida and the gulf coast. 11 feet of surge is significant. 80-plus-mile-an-hour winds are significant. spin-off tornadoes are significant. this is the worst hurricane that has impacted missince hurricane katrina. patti ann: the mayor of new orleans has lifted a and tory curfew. but people are urged to shelter in place. reporter: there was a big concern in norms which is below sea level about the potential for storm surge. people are moving back on down here to bourbon street. the bars are open again and the streets are completely packed. you can see the camera lights

gets people excited. but there was a curfew in place in new orleans from 7:00 local until 8:30 local. and my crew and i were walking around the french quarter. there was very little activity. there were a handsful of shots that -- shops that were open. people were hunkered down at hotel bars. after that curfew, people did start coming out. it's a saturday night. fan from what we understand, it's still early and we expect bigger and bigger crowds to be turning out here. people listening to the curfew. but they hunkered down at the request of the mayor. but there was never that much rain. they had major problems with the drainage system. specifically some pumps that

caused flash flooding in july and august. when those pumps are failing in a non-hurricane situation, people in norms are breathing a sigh of relief and now they are coming out to the bars. patti ann: let's get the latest on the forecast to the storm. adam, what can you tell us? >> peter doocy, where we were just looking, this an area where you are looking at the tropical storm warning. it was a hurricane warning but that shift off into portions of mississippi and alabama. the worst weather has been on the eastern half of this storm. this is a satellite-radar image

of our most of recent images coming in. you are looking at some of these bands. this is -- it's hard to show here because it's not the most of defined wall. this is your center of circulation. so this would be the band running up in areas of biloxi stretching over to mobile. and as far off pensacola. we are paying attention to the most of powerful winds and heaviest rains. once that crosses up, that's when we'll say that's our second landfall. that's still probably an hour away. it looks like it's 20 miles. once that runs over land this will weaken pen more so. but we are looking at these winds hovering at 85 miles an hour as it continues to push that direction. winds likely along the coast,

50, 60-mile-an-hour winds at least forecasted at this point. here is your future radar. it's going to move fairly quickly here. by 4:00 a.m. you are looking into that center. now north of mobile. up in the atlanta area, another spots where you can see strong winds sunday. you do notice, it will be along the eastern side of the right side of this storm, that's where storms will be the strongest. that's going to be enough to take down a couple of trees and affect the power in some locations. that's probably the biggest concern at this point as that system makes its way onshore. that's when you can see the storm surge rise. fairly widespread likely 3 to 6

feet. so folks right along the coast will want to be paying attention to that. it's a quick-moving storm. by tomorrow things are clearing off along the gulf coast into your sunday forecast. this system will be moving up through the southeast into the ohio valley in -- into the ohio river valley. unlike harvey and irma. you are not seeing the rain pile up near as much because it's moving so quickly. that's one of the good things about a storm that moves that fast. not look at huge numbers as far as the rainfall total in the next 12 hours or so. kelly: hurricane nate makes landfall at the mississippi

river. waters from biloxi bay are rising. the mayor is joining us. i want to thank your staff for sending in some video. i was looking at it on the facebook page you sent me. it looks like you are having difficulties near the lighthouse. it looks like your beach area is getting pounded with the surf. >> it's expected. with the disorganization of this storm we are thankful for and it's moving as was reported earlier. 20 miles an hour or something like that. i think it minimized the amount of storm surge as well as the wave action. but, you know, we are thankful this storm will be as we just reported, closing down in. >> the couple hours. so we are fortunate that auto we are prepared for a lot worse.

it will be a minimal amount of damage, hopefully we'll experience. kelly: the water we are watching right now in this particular video. is that causing beach erosion or is it too early to determine that? >> i think it's a little bit too early. i'm not sure what video we are seeing on the beach. but we have a go good beach and sea wall that endured for a number of years. the duration of this event will minimize that amount of beach erosion. but we are thankful. i think it's a little bit early to determine exactly. but again, this is no katrina or some of these other things that we have experienced in the past, so we are hopeful for the best.

kelly: we are hoping with you as well. it's good to hear you say this won't be anything near the catastrophic storms you experienced along the gulf coast in the past. what preparations did you have to go through to prepare your citizens and get them prepared for this storm albeit a category one. but unless could pose some hazards. >> it was predicted to 11-foot storm surge. we -- it was predicted 7 to 11-foot storm surge. we had classic cars as well as the street rods, the 21st year of this event. we had 15,000 to 20,000 people more than we normally do. that event was cut short by a couple days. so we were able to give everyone

a heads up. we had 800 motorhomes and trailers we had to worry about. but it's a peninsula surrounded by three sides on water, and we had bridges these folks would have to evacuate. people drifted in over 7 to 8 days and we had 0 get our act together giving a heads up. kelly: it look like you were able to accomplish that and mother nature spared you as well. i want to read you something from one your posters. it says thank you to all the law enforcement, firefighters and first responders for all you do, which includes putting yourselves in harm's way to insure our safety. that's a tribute to you and your staff. >> these folks are dedicated and i take my hat off to them every day. by locky is friendly and

beautiful. this is one of the reasons why. these folks make it happen. >> nate may respect that. and we'll give you a parting shot. thank you. bye-bye. patti ann: emergency response is a top priority during these events. joining us is the director emergency management of baldwin county, alabama. thank you for joining us on the phone. baldwin county uncurfew and voluntary evacuations? >> we have a voluntary evacuation that went on yesterday, and during the day today. and we had quite a few visitors who have went ahead and took advantage of that and departed. we have a curfew in two of our cities down on the actual beach on the gulf coast, yes, ma'am. patti ann: what is the status

overall? >> we are getting quite a bit of rain right now, and the wind that goes along with it. but it hasn't been the intensity we thought it was going to be. we feel fortunate about that. i think everybody now is hungered down and waiting for the storm to get past us. it's moving 20 miles an hour, quite past. we hope in the next couple hours it will be moving out of our way. we did open a shelter in the county with 80 to 90 residents in the shelter there. but everybody else is off the road and i think everything has gone smooth. >> so the evacuation is voluntary, a lot of people who leave to stay with relatives instead of going to shelters. but how many people are staying in their homes? >> that hard to tell. just depend. we have been through a lot of

these storms down here. of course, it's been quit a long time since we had an event since ivan back in 2005 or 2006. so we probably didn't have had many leads as we would have liked. but i think everything is safe and everybody that lives down here know iowa to do and knows how to handle these situations. we had a lot of preparedness information going out the last few days to make sure everybody knew what to do. baldwin county is one of the fastest growing in the united states. so we have a lot of residents who never experienced a tropical event. so we target our preparedness information to those new residents so they can get as ready as they could be. >> so far not any wind damage or downed trees or power outages? >> we had a few sporadic power outages around the county.

our local utility companies and emergency responders have been able to get on those pretty quick and get everybody back to normal in short order. thank you, ma'am, appreciate it. patti ann: meteorologists say the eye of the storm came ashore near the mississippi river's mouth. kelly: coming up next, meteorologist charlie nice is going to talk to us about this live coverage and telling us how important it is to continue to be vigilant and aware of what's happening.

patti ann: another blow in what has proved to be a destructive hurricane season. i'm patti ann browne. kelly: i'm kelly wright. the storm touching down near the mouth of the mississippi river near east plaquemines parish. the storm bringing intense winds. heavy rain and serious storm surges. states of emergency have been declared in alabama, mississippi and 30 counties throughout florida and the gulf coast. 11 feet of surge is significant. 80-plus-mile-an-hour winds are significant. spin-off tornadoes are significant. this is the worst hurricane that has impacted missince hurricane katrina. pa% 3 so we target our eacklappening.

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patti ann: welcome back to our live special coverage of hurricane nate. gulfport, mississippi is no stranger to hurricanes. getting slammed over the years especially by katrina. phil keating is in gulfport now. reporter: the storm surge has materialized. right over there behind me, that is the beach in gulfport. the beach is entirely under water. the waves are crashing up to the coastal highway, highway 90, covering parts of the road. we had to abandon where we were

at the boat marina and the sea wall where the waves were splashing. the waters began rising quite rapidly, and we drove out of there in 10 inches to a foot of water. we didn't know how much faster or higher it would go. that's bent warning to all the coastal residents and low-lying areas and beach communities by emergency operations directors throughout coastal mississippi and alabama. that's why these were mandatorily evacuated. 7:00 curfew in effect tonight. take a look at this video we shot earlier of the sea wall. wig waves, big surge a lot of

wind, a lot of rain coming in. that's the worst side of it. the dirty side. so so far the emergency operations center here in harrison county telling me they are not seeing any major issues, no reports of emergencies. so at this moment everything is looking pretty good. it's a hurricane and this is what they anticipated. but it's moving fast to the north and perhaps within two hours we won't even have any more rain happening based on the weather radar we have been looking at. patti ann: phil keating, it sounds like you need a nice hot tea when you finally get inside. take care of yourself. kellyanne: many people have been

evacuated from coastal communities. others * sheltering in place. the primary priority is safety first. we are joined by severe weather safety expert charlie neese. this of course on one side of the storm that glanced, gave a parting shot to new orleans has been down grade on that side to a tropical storm. where phil keating is, it's still a category one hurricane. >> we have a storm that's different from the other storms we have seen come ashore this season. this storm not nearly as strong as irma or maria or harvey. and we have dry air wrapping in on the west side of it. now we have an asymmetric eye. and that's good.

the around pascagoula. and dolphin island. that will be your biggest danger area. back to biloxi in the 75 to 85-mile-per-hour range. we are seeing the strongest storm surge. we want people away from the coast. earlier the weather service was forecasting up to 11 feet of storm surge. that hasn't pond out. but this is a night -- it hasn't pond out sithasn't panned out s.

around tomorrow morning around 7:00, upwards moving fast at 20-25 miles an hour. tomorrow evening it's into eastern parts of tennessee. along that track the great jest threat as it continues to weaken now that it's onshore is going to be locally heavy rains with localized flash flooding. it's liningly tit's -- it's like tropical storm force winds. and by tomorrow evening we'll see several thousand people without power from this storm. kelly: what thud sh -- what shoy do to prepare for this. sometimes when you are further inland away from the coastal area, you tends to let your guard down and that could goes

problems as well. >> if you think about tropical storm force winds. they are higher than 39 miles per hour and 74 miles per hour. those are the kinds of winds, they won't completely rip apart buildings like we have seen in terrible storms like maria. but they are strong enough to blow down trees on to power lines. so if i'm anywhere from mobile up to tuscaloosa, to birmingham, alabama, rome, georgia, dalton, georgia, just because of this threat that i could be without power for a few hours and in rural areas a day or two. i'll pack down water jugs tonight. let the water freeze. so when the power does know go out. that ice will slowly melt and

keep the freezer or fridge vapor chilled for a few extra hours to keep the food from spoiling. i'll have a way to get weather information from a battery-powerrerred noaa weather wadeio. and i will have a way to charge my cell phones. and i will have standing by some gloves in case i get a tree down in the yard or down on the house where i can work to get the tree off the house with my gloves. back a few years ago we had devastating tornadoes in alabama. one of the things that happened after those storms came through on april 27 of 2011 is people would come out of their homes and they would step on to glass and also harm tree limbs.

so keep those shoes by and keep those gloves. kelly: charlie neese bringing us a lot of good advice. and so charlie we appreciate all that advice and certainly a lot of people along the coast are just breathing a sigh of relief. but as he stated, the worst is not over yet. we'll watch it throughout the night. and we'll see what happens throughout the night. so be careful where you are and watch what this storm does as it moves all the way through in parts of those areas all the way into monday. strong winds and heavy rains and serious storm surges as nate relationships across the gulf coast. mine's way better.

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and tennessee. some areas could see 10 inches of rain. the storm surge is expected to be a major problem throughout most of of these areas and people have been asked to leave their homes in some of the most of vulnerable low-lying areas. we'll pause for one moment to let our fox stations joins. this is fox news coverage of hurricane nate. i'm kelly wright in new york. it made landfall as a category 1 storm late saturday at the mouth of the mississippi river. this the fourth storm to make landfall in the past month alone. some areas could see up to 10 inches of rain. and the storm surge could become

a major issue. now for the latest on the storm, let's economic in with meteorologist adam klotz. what's the latest. adam: you mentioned initial landfall. we are waiting on a second landfall that could come at any time. it was right there. not a place that impacts a lot of folks. we have been watching it run back into mississippi. what you are looking at at the northern edge of this. i have seen seeing lots of social media video of this coming in. the heaviest part of this storm is running down and piling up on biloxi across i-10. powerful winds are a whiteout when it comes to these rains. that's happening as we speak. the back part of this system,

generally the last couple storms we have seen, harvey, irma, they have been a tight circle. this is pulling in try air on the back side of this storm. it's strong and powerful on this evening. it will weaken pretty quickly. once that happens we are waiting for it to happen entirely. biloxi stretching off to the east. all areas where we are seeing the nastiest weather. the water is rising and the winds are picking up. here are wind gusts in the last little bit. in gulfport where we are seeing water over highway 90. that pushes that water out in front of it and that's where you see the storm surge to be 3-6 feet in a lot of locations. forecast winds still at least on the eastern side of this storm

briefly running up to 60-0 miles per hour. it will be enough to knock down a couple of hour lines. those are issues we could be dealing with as what he wait for this to run onshore. again here is your storm, and part of the story besides the dry air is how fast this has been moving. currently at 20 miles an hour it will stay at that speed or even speed up as it was onshore. so once we begin to see this thing run onshore, we are about to see it in the next little bit. it will move up through portions of alabama and north georgia, a also you could be dealing with strong storms and rainy weather. future radar, there is your center of circulation as you are seeing the outer bands and heavy

rain beginning to push inland. moving across portions of northern alabama into georgia. we haven't seen storms move like this. that's sunday for you. we are completely out of that region. if i can tell you the entire path, you are running up by late monday, back out to sea, running across the ohio river valley and the mid-atlantic and northeast, heading back out to sea late monday. it's difficult to get a whole lot in the way of rain. we are getting up there to 8 inches, 10 inches. but widespread that's not an issue. you are looking at getting closer to 3 inches. it still can cause flooding. the folks probably there in the

ohio river valley getting farther south of that tennessee, kentucky, all areas where you can be seeing some of this rain. i know it seems like it's been running forever. we are getting closer to the back side of this. it should be winding down but you do notice it drops off here pretty quickly in the next couple weeks. hopefully we are getting close to the end but we are still paying attention to this one the next couple hours. maybe for the next half day or so. kelly: the end cannot come soon enough. people living outside the levee system in new orleans evacuated as this category one storm is bringing severe weather. the city's mayor is urging residents not to panic. what can you tell us about what's happening in that area?

>> we are on lake pontchartrain in northern parts of the big easy. the mayor of this city is urging people to not let their guards down. it's not raining at the moment. we are not getting pelted and the winds aren't very high. but the conditions can change pretty quickly. that's why he said we are not out of the woods just yet. locad flooding there. the storm surge sent water into residential areas of grand isle. it's on the southernmost tip of this state down in jefferson

parish. many of the homes are elevated. they are up on still its for this very reason. it floods quite often. the area was under mandatory evacuation orders because it does flood typically with storm events. we also want to talk about something that could impact virtually everyone watching tonight. gas prices and oil production. nate has been wreaking havoc on platforms and oil rigs. some of them taken off line. the bureau of safety and environmental enforcement tells us 202 offshore production platforms had to be evacuated. that's 31%. and 13 rigs were shut down and their personnel flown to safety. those rigs are work out in the gulf of mexico.

that's going to put a dent in the refinery capacity and it takes several days for those platforms and rigs to be put back online and the personnel to be flown back out to those units. there are a number of factors we are dealing with with nate. a curfew for the city of new orleans was put into effect ahead of this storm's landfall. but that has been lifted. the mayor urging people not to let their guards down. we have seen look looky loos whs not even couraged. it's still dangerous. kelly: thank you for that warning and update on what's going on near lake pontchartrain. analysis continues on fox news channel and cable and satellite.

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under evacuation. >> as these hurricanes run, they will be pounded from one side, then they will be pounded from the back side once the hurricane passes through and the kids reverse direction. patti ann: there is a storm surge warning, man tory evacuation order in places not protected by levees. what is the situation right now? >> we have over 300 residents in shelters. and many if not most of residents in the coastal areas of plaqu plaque plaqu plaquemin.

so far so good. patti ann: have they downed trees, caused power outages? >> at the emergency operations center that has been manned for 24 hours. we only had reports of 6 residences that lost power so far. it could be that that could be an anomaly though. patti ann: once the wind subsides, that danger will be over. meant main worry reverts back to that storm surge. you are encouraged by the news the storm is moving quickly? >> yes.

and we are praying the storm continues to move at the rapid pace and that will be very beneficial to us. in plaquemine's we inguests in a non federal levee system. some of plaquemine's parish is in the risk reduction area of louisiana, but most of of it is not. so we invested funds into our levee systems. a pro lodged rain event, could deteriorate the earthen levees. we are praying this continues to ramble on past us. patti ann: a big investment there putting private levees in place. which i'm sure the residents are glad they did.

>> most of certainly. the private levees are ones owned by private property owners. those will be near the big refineries. we have federal levees along the mississippi river which was put up mainly

parish. kelly: hurricane nate is expected to make a second landfall along the mississippi coast overnight.

kelly: the salvation army is

ready to provide assistance to people living along the gulf coast who need it. the people affected by hurricane katrina, irma, and harvey, and he joins us now on the phone to talk to us about what kinds of preparations the salvation army is conducting to help people who might have a need because of this storm. jeff? >> good evening. right now we are cautiously optimistic, but it's way too early to let your guard down. this storm is just coming ashore. we are ready to serve if needed. kelly: you might be needed. as you were stating, and what we have seen from adam klotz in the extreme weather center and from phil keating where we have seen the water come ashore on the beachfront area. as this storm moves northward.

it's still going to pack a punch because it will most of likely knock out power. that could be a problem for people living in areas who did not seek shelter or evacuate. what does the salvation army do in disastrous situations like that. >> we have 25 mobilized units. if goes out, they will spring into action to provide food and drink to folks who might not otherwise have it. and then long-term recovery providing financial assistance. assistance, such as food boxes for those who need it. kelly: because this storm has been a category one, and in norms where it's been downgrade

to a tropical storm, many people take a just a casual approach to this, not really realizing what kinds of impact it can have as a tropical storm. it can spawn tornadoes and other things like branches falling from trees. >> the nation is hurricane weary. people say this is just a category 1. this is a killer storm. it has already caused death in central america. it only takes one tree coming down for somebody driving through a flooded roadway. tomorrow travel can be very, very treacherous. people need to take precautions and ride this out and stay safe. >> do you think people took

precautions to evacuate. some people moved into shelters just to be safe. that would indicate they are they took heed to what emergency responders were telling them. >> they have done a good job getting the messaging out. particularly in a storm surge go to a shelter. one of the big services for the salvation army is keeping our homeless shelters open so people who would otherwise have a place to go. kelly: thank you very much for those updates.

>> you have to stay focused. you have to stay prepared. this storm is moving fast. it will hit you fast. if you are in the way, you won't be able to get out of it. kelly: that was a stern warning issues for those living in the path of hurricane nate. it's inland now. i'm kelly wright. patti ann: i'm patti ann browne. this is the fourth hurricane we have seen in a month. hurricane nate made landfall near the powt of the mississippi