bay st. louis today is still rebuilding. gulfport, mississippi. ocean front destroyed.y. sea side lots still vacant and for sale. the scars of katrina are subtle but plentiful as isaac bears down the same path, due to hit the same day. mississippians acting on tough lessons of seven years ago stand ready. >> look at what's happened the last 200 years, this house should be high enough to sustain anything we've seen in the last 200 years. >> corky had the home on bay st. louis was stripped down to the foundation by katrina. like others, he rebuilt stronger and higher. >> 24 feet? >> it's 24 feet above sea level. >> more than enough it is believed to handle isaac. nowhere are the changes to bay st. louis more obvious than right here on the waterfront. when katrina hit, the sea wall stood at about eight feet high. that wasn't nearly enough to stop the storm surge. when they rebuilt, this is what they put in its place. in some places a pile of cement and steel more than double what it used to be. the u.s. 90 bridge on the mississippi gulf coast, broken into pieces by katrina

this thoroughfare now shut down from bay st. louis bridge to biloxi bay bridge. so a long stretch all because of flooding that's been one of the big issues here in gulfport. now wind gusts not as much. we took a drive. it's not pretty. it's not something you want to drive through. there's a mandatory curfew in effect here, especially at the beaches. it's completely ghosttowns. i want to talk wind speed. we haven't seen many more gusts of 40-plus. really, the place that has it is just in plaquemines parish. you've been mentioning that. 80-mile-an-hour gusts there. and there's a reason for it. the plaquemines parish president actually had parts of his roof taken off and that is because, as that eye wall crossed over plaquemines parish it carries 80-mile-an-hour winds. but it's also on the right side of the storm. as the counterclockwise rotation going to the left, a little science here, just to the northeast of the center of the hurricane is where you'll get that extra, added higher winds. it's because you're adding the speed of the wind itself plus the eye wall. o

bay st. louis, mississippi is battered and splinted. bay st. louis today is still rebuilding.cean front destroyed. gulfport today. sea side lots are vacant and for sale. the scars are subtle, but plentiful. isaac bears down the same path due to hit the same day. mississippi ans acting on tough lessons and they stand rate. >> you look at what's happening, this should be high enough to sustain anything you we have seen in 200 years. >> the home was stripped to the foundation by katrina and so like others, he rebuilt stronger and higher. >> 24 feet. >> it's 24 feet above sea level. >> more than enough, it is believed to handle isaac. >> no more are the ranges obvious than right here on the waterfront. when katrina hit, the city's old sea wall stood about eight feet high. that wasn't nearly enough to stop the storm surge. when they rebuilt, this is what they put in its place. some places a pile of cement and steel more than double what it used to be. >> the u.s. 90 bridge, a line on the coast broken into pieces by katrina and also restored stronger and higher. gulfport's new $42 m

looking like this will be a big problem with storm surge somewhere here from the mobile bay to bay st. louis, biloxi, gulfport and new orleans area. a storm track is worst case scenario for storm surge in new orleans. as of now the hurricane center putting landfall, category 2. the rule of thumb is to prepare for a category higher in case. right now is when everyone should be preparing for a category 3. if it's a category 1shgs we'll all be happy. here's a look at the weather outside your window. slight chance of a few storms today in areas like philadelphia. what a weekend it was in the mid-atlantic as that storm system spun itself ever so slowly with the flooding in virginia and then up through delaware and maryland. so with isaac, the good news is, it has yet to strengthen. bad news is it looks like it will be an ugly scene in the north central gulf. >> thanks for the update. >>> you get what you pay for. or you don't. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, like it or not, believe it or not, she is a mom. >>> the jets continue to struggle. a 15-year-old makes

ashley rodry is with our sister station in bay st. louisssissippi, now, tell me, the storm may be a hurricane and it is coming -- most people there have been through it before. how have they reacted in. >> reporter: well, the weather behind me is not helping with the situation. people have been fishing. they are on the beach, they are walking beach boulevard here, and it's no big deal. and that can provide a false sense of security. and they want people to realize, you might be used to this. but pay attention and start at least considering making preparations. >> we got word that governor there declared a state of emergency. does that make a difference? at least the response teams and the state are revving up. but people are not really paying attention right now, you believe. >> i'm not sure they are not paying attention. they are just not responding. like you said, people here are used to this. they know what to look for. and right now w this storm being so fickle and not really picking a spot, people are just kind of waiting still. i mean

katrina was a direct hit on bay st. louis, mississippi. wall of water 25 feet tall went into bay st. louis. yes, if the storm continues to track off to the left, right here on new orleans like it is, that would be bad because all of that water would pile into lake pontchartrain and probably fill up and go up the mississippi river. if it's farther off to the left, in fact, this wobble continues, it would be over here toward new iberia or lake charles. that would take a lot of the bad part away. maybe 60 or 50 miles to the west of new orleans. that would be enough. right now the forecast is right through the center of the city. >> we'll have you back as soon as we get a new forecast. thanks very much. >>> more than 5,600 national guard members are being called up for active duty in preparation for isaac. states of emergency are in effect for mississippi, alabama and louisiana. perhaps nowhere are they monitoring storm developments as closely as they are in new orleans given the history of what happened there seven years ago. brian todd is joi

highway 90, a major thoroughfare along the beach here from the biloxi bay bridge all the way to bay st. louis bridge. it's shut down completely. only emergency vehicles can pass. we took a drive out earlier. you can see the flooding. big intersections completely flooded over, 1 to 2 feet of water at times. this is only the start of the storm. so flooding will be the lasting headline certainly throughout parts of the gulf coast. now, the storm is far from over, you can hear it here. but it was huge when it made landfall in plaque mines parish. plaquemines parish had an 80-mile-per-hour guster take off parts of his roof. why does one place get a 40-mile-per-hour gust, another 80? take the storm speed to the northwest, this whole thing moves counterclockwise. on the right side of the storm you'll have the storm speed plus that inner wall speed. therefore you'll have it a little higher up in what we call that right quadrant. >> ginger, we'll take extreme weather lessons from you any night. thank you, be safe. matt gutman is in gautier with the latest. >> 100 miles east of you, the rain and wind s

this could go anywhere from biloxi to bay st. louis. dozens today. >> dozens of tornadoes on top of this rain. don't go too far. we'll keep this conversation going. >>> we've just gotten word some of the rescue boats have turned back because of the rising water. we'll talk with solidad, next. [ male announcer ] this is sheldon, whose long dy setting up the news starts with arthritis pain and a choice. take tylenol or take aleve, the #1 recommended pain reliever by orthopedic doctors. just two aleve can keep pain away all day. back to the news. they're whole grain good... and yummy good. real fruit pieces. 12 grams of whole grains and a creamy yogurt flavored coating. quaker yogurt granola bars. treat yourself good. what ? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it ? hello ? hello ?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello ? ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense. >>> i want to take you back to louisiana here as this story continues to move, change. we're now hearing some of the rescue eff

. >> and in bay st. louis, national guard troops navigated roads turned into rivers as the gulf coast marked the anniversary of katrina in the worst possible way. >> i'm a survivor of katrina, too. i lost everything again. i don't think i'm going to stay anymore. >> as you can see, it's not over yet. lots of rain and more flooding potential. tomorrow, though, officials hope to get out and assess the damage. meantime, for many residents, this will be their last hurricane. they say they are done and will permanently seek higher ground. >> lester holt, long day's journey into another night in new orleans. lester, thanks. all of this brings us back to weather channel meteorologist jim cantore. he's on canal street in new orleans. jim, i'm watching the coverage seeing a lot of streets and neighborhoods, even structures that i'm familiar with there. i'm surprised in some spots how tough this storm was. >> yeah, it's just the longevity of it. brian, it has been raining hard and horizontal for more than 24 hours here

officials in bay st. louis say they won't know the extent of the damage until daylight. >>> this video from the international space station shows you the size of the storm when it hit the coast. the storm was the size of texas with tropical storm force winds extending 175 miles from its center. >>> paul ryan took center stage at the republican national convention. just a few moments ago he accepted the vice presidential nomination. aaron gilchrist in tampa now more on paul ryan's calls for change tonight. aaron? >> reporter: vince, just wrapping up the convention for the night tonight. paul ryan's job was to fire up the republican base to reach out to swing voters and help them understand what he and mitt romney are bringing to the table and to bring contrast between mitt romney and president obama. >> these past four years we have suffered no shortage of words in the white house. what is missing is leadership in the white house. and the story -- and the story that barack obama does tell forever shifting blame

mobile, biloxi, gulfport, all the way through seidel, bay st. louis, all those areas including new orleans, today is your last day to prepare for this storm. tomorrow morning at this time your winds will be increasing along with the bands of rain. so willie, i guess the bottom line is, we have 36 hours to really cross our fingers, pray and hope that this storm does not intensify more than expected. when it does arrive in coastal louisiana, it's going to slow down significantly. willie, we're looking at possibly 36 hours of tropical storm-force winds in areas along the north-central gulf, including new orleans. and that's not going to allow the water to flow out. we've got the rain, the storm surge, we're going to have significant water problems even if it's just a category 1. >> as you say, bill, whether it's a 1 or 2, you're still going to have huge storm surge either way along the gulf coast. thanks so much, we'll check back in with you all morning. >>> business at today's convention will be brief and symbolic. rnc chairman will gavel the convention

waveland, bay st. louis, every storm that comes off the gulf of mexico now has a potential to be a spinner. as the spinners come onshore, you can get small waterspout size storms. even a couple showers as far east as the florida panhandle earlier. calming down. by tomorrow this will be a bad memory. but it's not done tonight. there are still many many hours of what you're feeling right now in store for you, wolf. >> we'll watch it together with you, chad. thanks very much. by the way, one of the levees south of new orleans couldn't hold back the water. stranded residents in plaquemines parish had to be rescued. we're going to hear from residents who made it out safely. and the other huge story we're following today, this republican convention. among the guests he's warned his party to "stop acting stupid" about attracting latino voters. i'll speak live with former florida governor jeb bush about the challenges facing republicans. stay with us. you're in "the situation room." questions. when you're caring for

. ♪ >>> this video is from bay st. louis, missouri.everal people have been rescued from the water and this frightening video is from plaquemines parish. the plaquemines parish president says his area, isaac has been worse than katrina. for what it has lacked in power, it is making up in the intensity of the rain that is falling and the slowness at which the storm is moving. meteorologist todd gross is tracking the story. >> brian, you took the words right out of my mouth. the storm is changing now. the winds are down to tropical storm force. blowing up from the south, but it's the rain as we take a look at the radar, that's become the issue. the eastern part of the storm if you look carefully here, is where all the rain is now falling and it's coming up from the south even though new orleans is getting close to the edge of that. so far, they're still under the gun, rainfall that could amount to local 20 to 25 inch amounts. we'll have more to say about that and the levee breach and so much more when we come back. >> thank you. well, the

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. >> reporter: bay st. louis, mississippi, battered and destroyed by katrina. today still rebuilding. gulfport, mississippi, ocean front destroyed. gulfport today, seaside lots still vacant and for sale. the scars of katrina are subtle but plentiful, as isaac now bears down the same path, due to hit the same day. but mississippians stand ready. >> you look at what's happened the past 200 years this house should be high enough to sustain anything we have seen in the past 200 years. >> reporter: his home was stripped to the foundations by katrina. so like others, he rebuilt stronger and higher. >> 24 feet? >> it's 24 feet above sea level. >> reporter: more than enough, it's believed, to handle isaac. but nowhere are the changes to bay st. louis more obvious than right here on the water front. when katrina hit, the city's old seawall stood at about eight feet high. that wasn't nearly enough to stop the storm surge. so when they rebuilt, this is what they put in its place. in some places, a pile of cement and steel more than double what it used to be. the u.s. 90 b

in bay st. louis, mississippi, floodwaters washed out devastat coastal mississippi. this tree did survive but, still, there's a lot of shaking branches going on here. that's probably going to be okay. ever since then, a lot of trees have been replanted because this area was wiped out. this is a fairly newly planted tree and it's been buffeted by the winds all morning along. i can see the root bulb start to wobble here. winds gusting over 55 at times. we're seeing a lot of heavy rain. 3 1/2 inches and counting. here's the thing. we're in for a marathon here. this is not just a couple of hours of really strong winds like katrina was. consider katrina like usain bolt. this is more like a marathon here. we'll be here for the entire 26.2 miles which might take perhaps two days here dealing with tropical storm force gusts blowing through. relentless rain will start to saturate the ground and combine that with a constant wind. no major damage just flooding along the highway. that's why it's closed and already trees and limbs down. expect that to continue to increase as we h

and that bubble of water stayed with katrina as it washed right into bay st. louis way to biloxi, knocked down basically the entire town. i was in biloxi last saturday. about half of those buildings still right along the ocean front are still not back. all those lots are for sale. can't even get an insurance policy to build something back there. i don't know. but what was a beautiful town is now still scarred and that's seven years later. >> absolutely. hopefully that won't happen this time. we're -- >> i know. >> i have to ask you a question. where are the storm chasers -- where are the lady storm chasers? every one i speak to is a guy. >> there's one. >> just one. >> her name is nicole. you can jo go online and type i weather channel and nicole and see some controversy, too. she's been on our air. just to have to get her phone number. she doesn't give it out to most guys. >> thank you, chad. little levity. ireporters are getting up close and personal with tropical storm isaac. nick valencia in the cnn newsroom a couple floors below me is tracking the latest videos

in bay st. louis, mississippi, floodwaters washed out homes near the coast. more than 2,000 people are in shelters and this morning, about 4,000 homes are without power in that state. and then over in alabama, an eight-foot storm surge is threatening mobile bay. also still a possibility for tornadoes spinning off from this storm. we said it isn't going anywhere this storm. let's go to paul goodloe who is in gulfport, mississippi. what are we looking at? >> hours and hours of rain that's been blowing on 30, 40, 50-mile-per-hour wind gusts blowing through here. i'm getting whipped right now. i'm actually standing about 30 yards from u.s. 90 which has been shut down. by the way, there's a curfew here through noon. supposed to expire this morning but extended to noon here in harrison, hancock and jackson counties. the reason i'm standing in the road, it's a lot safer. a big live oak tree. seven years ago right now there was a 29 to 32-foot storm surge which devastated this area of coastal mississippi. this tree did survive but, still, there's a lot of shaking bra

the worst of the storm surge is to the right, lake pontchartrain and in bay st. louis, the areas around mississippi gulfport biloxi and mobile, even though you're not in the cone you're going to have a water surge in the bay. six to 12 foot storm surge in the right center of that path. six to 12 feet for only a category 1 hurricane. just shows you the size of the storm is what's going to move all this water, thomas. we have rain bands not only on florida still, the east coast, but off the east florida coast about 390 miles from the center. this is a huge storm, not intensity wise, but a huge storm and why its impacts will be felt for two days in the north central gulf starting tomorrow morning. >> we appreciate it. this is the havoc that hurricane katrina wreekds in new orleans when it came ashore as a category 3 storm seven years ago on wednesday. severe flooding when levees failed leaving 80% of new orleans under water. katrina killed more than 1800 people, although the final death toll in new orleans was never determined. officials this time around they say they are

back into bay st. louis, back into lake pontchartrain and certainly into new orleans proper. hopefully all of those things that they put together to stop this surge, another surge coming into new orleans, hope it all goes well. it's only as strong as the weakest link. we'll have to see if there is a weak link. >> reporter: want to bring in rob marciano who's been here all day. water is the biggest concern, where the storm surge could go and the amount of rain, right? >> exactly. you've got water coming in on one side and you have the rainfall that's going to be piling up on the other side. what you've been talking about behind you, this is one of many structures that have been built since 2005. >> reporter: it's a huge structure. >> and there's more than this. there's so much more. $11 billion spent on this. i got the opportunity earlier today to go up with the u.s. coast guard helicopter to get an aerial view and the video is striking. what you see behind us is certainly big and impressive up close. but when you see it from the air, the enormity of the project is really impr

thing we do have an update for about the gulf situation, airports that have closed down in biloxi, bay st. louis, new orleans, of course, pensacola. so this is affecting major travel for the area, as well as we know that over 500,000 people in and around the gulf area are without power as they are riding out this storm. our kate snow just recently interviewed the mayor of new orleans, mitch landrieu. he's been at the emergency operations center all night long. he says he hasn't heard of many major problems within the city of new orleans itself. however, power is out in much of the city. about 60% of the city considered to be without power. the levee system, though, is doing what it's supposed to do for new orleans. and that is good news for that city. we'll keep you posted on that. >>> but president obama as we get back to the campaign trail is on it and in virginia right now while the republicans are holding their convention in florida. we're going to speak with ben labolt, the national press secretary for the obama campaign. he is in tampa as well. ben, i know you were watching last night. pay

in bay st. louis, mississippi, they navigated parts of streets that had been turned into rivers.ts of biloxi and gulfport underwater. later tornadoes tore down this pair of homes. this man made it out alive. now comes the hard part. >> start all over again. >> and to the north of new orleans communities around lake pontchartrain now still feeling rising floodwaters. they brought in buses to move people out of their homes there that are starting to see water gather around. you can probably tell still pretty windy around here. they're hoping to get wind to a level they can get the cherry pickers out and start strengthistrengtinging the miles and miles of power lines. >> al is in new orleans. good morning to you. >> reporter: we're on the shores of lake pontchartrain, savannah. the banks are back that way. in fact, the city of slidel, louisiana, we're getting reports that there's as much as eight feet of water in old town slidel, that's just to the north here of lake pontchartrain. the latest on tropical storm isaac right now, it currently is dumping more rein so far, audubon park,

gulfport and biloxi all back to bay st. louis, they were hit so hard with katrina, eight to 12 feet. many areas did build back up their sea wall protection and everything since katrina. eight to 12 feet may not be devastating like the 25-foot wall of water. i say wall of water. it's not a sue nam my like getting higher -- it keeps going until the water is literally coming in on shore and knocking people's homes down. five to eight feet in lake pontchartrain. six to nine from grand isle. we have reporters across the coast literally we are covering the entire event one side to the ore and up through new orleans as well. we're not seeing winds 100 miles per hour like maybe forecast, what we're watching right now, wolf, we're watching for the center of the eye to get smaller. think about an ice skater as she skates on one skate with arms out. that's what we have right now. a 70-mill-around eye. when that eye gets to be 20 miles around, that ice skater bringing her arms in, that angular momentum gets stronger, wind speeds will pick up

bay st. louis right there, we actually have a camera we'll show you in a little bit.ve where it should be. and we're just getting started. here's the camera i was talking about. this is actually a parking lot. this is a dock. all you can see right now are the tops of the docks. i know you will talk to that storm chaser in a little bit. this storm is intensifying because the eye is beginning to get smaller. think about an ice skater. one foot on the ground bringing her arms in, she skates or spins faster. so the smaller the eye gets in here, the faster it's going to go. if we get down to a 20-mile-per-hour wide eye, people in mobile, gulfport, they're getting slammed by the first outer bands. winds there 60 miles per hour already, wolf. >> all right. it's pretty amazing just how wide it is when you think about it, chad. they're already getting hit and it's still hours away. could be a category 2. let's get to ed lavandera now in grand isle, louisiana. ed. >> reporter: here within the last 30 to 35 minutes or so we've seen the most intense parts of this storm begin to m

as you move along toward bay st. louismore intense damage there. the simple truth here is that -- it says it wrong here. it says missouri. this is mississippi. there was a 30 to 33 foot wall of storm water, storm surge that came in here. this has made a huge emphasis in those communities as they've rebuilt to move a limb bttle bi more away from the coast to build up higher, either on pilings or higher ground. that's also helped them get a little more prepared. let's take one final flight from this area. if we move all the way down to new orleans, ninth ward, areas like that, where the levees broke and massive, massive damage followed. people wound up trapped. they were stranded. they couldn't get out. huge problems. if you fly over there and look at that, you can see what happened as all this water converged. there have been massive improvements. this is the ninth ward down in here. the levee broke around here. these flood waters coming in here, the simple truth is there have been massive improvements like this storm surge

length of the mississippi coast lined and has been shut down from the biloxi bay bridge to the bay st. louis bridge. it may not reopen again until friday. by the time they got to a house fire by boat, the vacant house had burned down to the stilts. so today, right now the real worry going to be storm surge and nearby towns reported storm surge. high time is not until 10:00 a.m. local time. norah, and charlie, is could get worse. >> mark strassmann, thank you. we want to check on the southern louisiana coast where isaac made landfall last night. manuel bojorquez is in houma, louisiana, northwest of new orleans. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. here in houma, 55 miles southwest of new orleans, strong winds of 80 miles per hour have left nearly 10,000 people without power and in surrounding parishes nearly 300,000 homes without electricity this morning. already, there are reports of damage coming in from the coastal communities of terrebonne parish. at one point it stalled out over louisiana with no chance of relief from the pounding rain and wind storms. at the fastest point, it was tr

you're going to see pictures from bay st. louis. mark is on the phone from gulf port. looking at your pictures here, talk to me about what it looks like. what it sounds like where you are right now. >> we are actually on the move. we got a lot to do today. we finished up our work in mississippi and heading to new orleans to put up another one of those cameras. not any rain yet. definitely some gusty wind. the thing that's really astonishing to me is see all the people that are out checking everything out. it's not a quote, scary hurricane to them and they're staying behind. there's a lot of onlookers this time. quite the contrast from seven years ago. >> why do you think that is? why are those folks just watching and waiting? why not take shelter just yet? >> i think that a lot of people are fixated on wind speed and category and don't fully understand the true nature of tropical storms and hurricanes and the effects they can bring. they look at the category. we saw that with ike. only a category 2 yet it brought nearly 20 feet of water. they have more than just wind.

mississippi and alabama, and we do have a tornado warning, this is very recent, just heading towards the bay st. louise in this area across mississippi you want to take shelter immediately. and some of these can be rain-wrapped tornadoes, make sure you have your noaa weather radios on battery opted of course. we did get a new advisory moments ago. they are updating us every hour. still a hurricane, as you can still see very slow moving across the state of louisiana for the next few days, and then it's eventually going to move into the midwest where it will bring some beneficial moisture. we have to get through really the next several days across portions of the gulf coast. here is what we're dealing with in terms of impacts today. hurricane winds will continue throughout the day today. it's going to be a long duration event. that is the main point i want to bring home here, wind and rain for a very long period of time, major flooding up to 20 inches of rain, they've already received over 9 inches of rain in the new orleans area. still looking at a 6 to 12-foot storm surge for mississippi and southeast

and cities like chicago, green bay, and st. louis, all in the heart of it here today. indianapolis and detroit, i need you to be on high alert, as well. watch your local abc stations, especially this afternoon and evening. there's a big contrast of hot and cold coming through. maybe you want to hear that cooler weather's coming. with it will come severe storms. speaking of heating up, the tropics and ernesto will become a hurricane by late sunday, into early monday. by thursday, it slips through the yucatan. and will it hit the u.s.? that's the next big question. this is pretty far out. some of the computer models take it into south texas. we'll be watching this like hawks. we're also watching like hawks, this storm, tropical depression number six, will likely become tropical storm florence. we have so much to look forward to and look at. we'll be covering this throughout the weekend and going into the work week. sam will be on with us. i'll leave you with the heat sticking around in the plains and the southwest. >> until this weekend, seattle and parts of the pacific

we have seen here in mississippi, the biggest problems with flooding we've seen, have been in bay st. louisnity was hit very hard by hurricane katrina. the flooding they saw this time, you know, they expected to see flooding there. but because the storm just stalled and parked here and kept dumping rain, they got a lot more flooding than they were prepared for. so a lot of high water there that they are dealing with. over in biloxi, on the other side of us, they had a lot of street flooding. this is why state officials closed the casinos there before this storm came in, because for a while their streets in some places were almost impassable with the high water there. in waveland, mississippi, we heard about this from the governor of mississippi, he was telling us about how there were a number of people who had to be rescued, got caught by surprise when those floodwaters came up suddenly. they had to be brought out by boat. but here in gulfport, you see what the story is. just continued rain, wave after wave after wave. and we've also had reports of tornadoes in the area. one small tornado c