and joining us now from new orleans is dubious correspondent helena humphrey helena barry it was a hurricane it's now weakened to a tropical storm but how big of a threat is that still pose to the region where it's made landfall. make no mistake my it is still very much a threat meteorologist say it is normal for a storm to be downgraded once it hit lands and once it hits land because then it is not over the water where it sucks its energy up so this is rather normal but at the same time of course the warre with barry has always been the water in a flood plain prone area where we are now for example in new orleans we worried about that long slow epic drench of water in the coming days and i will say that one levee one river has already overflown and levee not here by the mississippi river the river but about an hour and a hoff away from here and there we saw a flash flooding triggered i've already sold and ground in another part of the state we saw 12 people have to be rescued by helicopter today and even if this storm has been downgraded we normally see the 1st hurricane of the year on the

joining me now from new orleans is utopias correspondent helena humphrey on the ground braving the weather for us helena we have heard that hurricane barry just made landfall what's the situation on the ground like right now. well as you can see my are the winds have picked up there are currently around 120 kilometers an hour this is a category one hurricane now but as you mentioned it is also it is always the water that is of particular worry him in new orleans and we could see hoffa meta dumps on the city over the course all of the weekend the good news is that once hurricane barry does hit landfall it can lose some all of its strength by leaving the gulf of mexico from where it takes its power from but then of course there is the storm surge which it dumps on the city and we have seen one levee states banks about an hour and a half away from here unleashing a flood surge there on posture is that we have also seen 12 people in the state of louisiana need to be rescued by helicopter the good news is it was a timely release of funds through the declaration of a state wide emergency in louisiana which meant at least relief efforts and mon