let's bring in meteorologist karen maginnis, karen, horrific pictures that we were seeing talking tour guest there but the good news is it is, you know, getting a bit weaker, what's the latest? >> even weaker than when we last spoke. it's still a tropical storm intensity, but it is really dropping off very rapidly. so, we'll start to see some of those really strong winds that we saw over the last six hours or so. they there weaken considerably. but now, it looks as if that tornado 38 is still going to be impactful across the deep south. earlier, we were looking at tornado warnings issued across the panhandle of florida. those have since dropped off. i want to show you what's on the western edge of the system. it's not clearly defined, doesn't have a clearly defined eye. it's a broad shield of wet weather that is still capable of producing significant flooding as it trucks off to the north and northeast fairly rapidly. as you saw, we have just about 720,000 give or take without power. the bulk of those being in louisiana. the other states mississippi and texas, but louisiana's been hi

should happen viz of the their seat relevant to the process i think that the larger risk frankly i'm maginnis an area where president trump waited to appoint someone and then didn't win and then didn't have that opportunity to fill the seat. look obviously the fates decide when these vacancies become available not politics and these are the cards that have been dealt given the extremely high tension right now because we're about to have a presidential election it's certainly more dramatic and some of that is ramped up but i really don't think the president and the members of the senate have a choice but to proceed to fill the vacancy and his we don't know the name it looks like gaming baron is that what you hear and i have certainly heard her name a lot there are others that i've heard on that short list but all indications are that i've seen it maybe a shortlist of one at this point trump says he needs 9 justices to be seated so they can rule on things like mail and ballots is that and put me. isn't that a slight reason. well we need 9 justices because there are supposed to be 9 justices in