we were headed to mississippi this morning from new orleans to cover the damage in south mississippi when we heard about this unbelievable flooding in slidell, louisiana. so we got off the interstate, came up to what turned out to be an evacuation center. people had been picked up out of their homes in alter -- all- terrain vehicles, so they could get folks in and out. the first person we met was the lady in blue. it was raining to beat the band. >>shepard: you have been through it? >>guest: hell, yes. >>shepard: tell me what happened. >>guest: the dam water just rolled up on us. i can't do it. >>shepard: you stayed in katrina and rode it out? >>guest: yes. >>shepard: now, all that water is back. and slidell is soaked. >>guest: it was up to the 2nd step on my porch. >>shepard: that was enough? >>guest: i was ready to go. >>shepard: the rescue operations happening all day. >>guest: we rescued almost 100 people so far with about 25 still on the list. >>shepard: the police chief says here the floodwater today is worse than in katrina. >>guest: the rainfall amounts were torrential. we al

i talk about mississippi. the mississippi coast is getting it again. part of highway 90 which runs along the coast, is now washed out. they is weeks and weeks and weeks if not months, of clean up ahead. steve has been up to here in water all morning long. we will go to him live after this. breathe and what that feels like. breathe copd iludes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiva helps corol my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open a full 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that does both. and it's steroid-free spiriva does not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. tell yr doctor if you have kidy problems, glaucoma, trouble urinating, or an enlarged prostate. these may worsen with spiriva. discuss all medicines you ta, even eye drops. stop taking spiriva and seek immediate medical help if yr breathing suddenly worsens, your throat or tongue swells, you get hives, vision changes or eye pain, or problems passing ure. other side effects include dry mouth and constipa

that puts biloxi, mississippi, in a world hurt. steve harrigan is now along the mississippi coast. how are they doing? >>reporter: we are seeing gradual steady preparation with people pulling in boats and leaving their homes. hotels are quickly filling up across mississippi. in pearl, mississippi, the holiday inn is booked solid for eight nights. evacuation is urged but not mandatory. the governor telling people along the low-lying coast, if you have relatives in northern mississippi, now is the a time game to visit. i know it is difficult to leave your home. believe me, we will have 1,500 soldiers and airmen, we will have highway patrol, the sheriff's department, the police departments responding. we are going to make sure that if you leave this is going to an safe environment. the shelters are not open but it could change, we could seashell materials opening this evening thank you. you mention the troops will be here in new orleans activating 4,100 members of the louisiana national guard to be here just in case the situations necessity their coverage. you may remember a national

maybe you missed it the governor of mississippi, we changed it back to mississippi, weather channel. more than a thousand national group troops and air men are there to aid in the land mass known as mississippi regardless where isaac makes landfall. and as folks board up their homes in preparation for isaac. casinos in hancock county about a hour outside of the coast will close others along the gulf including those in biloxi are staying open. they take in 10s of millions for the state each month. steve is in biloxi. describe the reparations? >> the major casinos will stay open but not allow gamblers. it is it getting quiet here before the storm as people continue to leave and especially after the governor gave a warning that the most intense part. the northeast quad rant may hit mississippi. are upon you national guard expected and they will help with computer and rescue operations . the real trouble may come after landfall. and one-two days thank you very much deadly. >> they have been through so much for the mississippi coast. gatered for a doze knows of mimes. they are doing what

, rather, mississippi, before louisiana, far left hand side of mississippi there, when can tran came ashore they got 37.5' of water and everything on the coast including the foundations, the concrete foundations of homes, was washed away. it was down to sand. nothing else. people popped up tents and lived in army-style tents for months and in some cases years. this town is still hurting. the storm chaser is there now. how does it look? >> well, we got a storm surge coming on. i am on the land of a mill here. (inaudible) >>shepard: they are, sir, i see a stop sign with the windshield wipers. it looks wet. >>guest: i am having a hard time hearing you. the storm surge is coming in and it probably went up a foot since we have been here and people are just still moving down the road. >>shepard: that doesn't surprise me. it's a hardy bunch there on the western end of the lower half of mississippi. they have been through lots of hurricanes, many survived hurricane katrina. many were taken out by police at the last minute. their lives were saved by their neighbors. that was a great thing to

it's been a rough morning across southeast louisiana, coastal mississippi. karen brown with cbs has the latest. >> reporter: the town outside new orleans is under as much as 12 feet of water after flooding topped an 18-mile stretch of levee. shrimp boat operators are rescuing some residents from their rooftops in plaquemines parish. the massive storm is turning slowly over land and showing no signings of losing strength. it's dumping almost an inch of rain an hour and pounding the gulf coast with steady 80 mile per hour winds. >> it will gradually weaken but that will take well into today or tonight to come down from hurricane status. >> reporter: some of the most intense weather hit new orleans at daybreak and they have about 3,000 of these police officers cruising the streets. they have the national guard actually embedded with the local police officers. you see part of the convoy going by right now. they are determining to keep law and order in this city as isaac moves through. long time new orleans resident ellis is glad to see the show of first. >> i th

the shrinking mississippi river. pictures of the sand shorelines showing just how bad this drought is for america's heartland. you will only see these pictures here and hear from the governor of mississippi himself after his flyover just yesterday. caught between a rock and a hard place, this man, the mayor of tampa florida, a democrat says he's ready to pull the plug on the republican national convention if the weather down there gets worse. stocks now and every 15 minutes. lauren has it for us on the floor of the new york stock exchange with a big loser hp. >> yes, hewlett-packard is a big loser today, leading the dow jones down lower. i also want to talk about facebook because we're seeing a green arrow for facebook today. the news is ubs has joined citigroup right now in criticism of the 62 million dollars compensation fund for those who lost money in that botched ipo back in may. citi has said that, you know, this fund should really be hundreds of millions of dollars more, and they are calling everything the nas

this is the end of the mississippi. that squall was right there and put down ap a wind gust at an oil platform of 106.9 miles per hour. that was the wind gust there. and then that cell rotated right in to plaquemines parish. he got hit by cat 2 winds for sure. >> piers morgan is also joining us from tampa. piers? >> anderson, this has really taken over from events here. what is it like -- where you are now, i think i heard you say three inches of rain so far. i think you're expecting 20. how have you seen in the last hour the atmosphere changing around you? >> reporter: and let me bring in rob mars yan know for that. piers morgan is asking how we see the atmosphere changing in the location that we are in. let's give you a little tour, piers. right now we are under an outdoor patio that's been protecting us from the rain. let's just step outside here for a little bit. and you get a sense of the kind of wind we're seeing. the mississippi river is off to our left. new orleans itself is more -- downtown new orleans, the fre

much of that misery is being felt in mississippi and southern louisiana. evacuations have been ordered as a dam threatens to break at park lake near the louisiana- mississippi border. a lot of respect denltsdzs lost their homes -- residents lost their homes, and that storm is dumping more rain on areas that are already under water. karen brown is in laplace, louisiana. >> reporter: a flash flood emergency has been declared in slidell outside of new orleans. 50 people had to be rescued from their flooded homes yesterday. today entire neighborhoods are being evacuated. storm surge is causing a bayou to overflow. up to 5 feet of flooding is expected. in plaquemines parish, plans were put on hold till saturday to cut holes in a levee that overflowed causing homes to flood to their rooftops. the holes would relieve the pressure and allow the water to drain back into the mississippi and nearby marshes. 30 miles west of new orleans in laplace, entire subdivisions were evacuated when isaac's flood waters rushed in. >> a nightmare. >> reporter: the sudden tidal sur

also video this morning from gulf port, mississippi, not gulf port but biloxi, mississippi. a lot of street flooding there and the casinos were closed ahead of the storm by order of officials there, but you can see the street flooding there and similar street flooding here in gulf port, but also here in gulf port there was a confirmed tornado touching down, damaging at least one home here in the gulf port area. right now the story of all across the mississippi gulf coast of course is the rain. right here in gulf port we have seen 9-3/4 inches rain so far with this storm that is 3-1/2 inches more than on new orleans. >> meteorologist karen mcginnis is tracking isaac and it is definitely not going away. the question everybody wants to know is when is it going to finally move out? >> i think we'll start to see the rainfall diminish later on this afternoon. it is pulling away some of that deep core convection. it really seems to be evolving into a rain shield now with less intense precipitation. look how much of the rainfall we have seen since the storm made its way on shore in

if that dam bursts up in mississippi. it's going to send flood waters racing down this already swollen river and you have people that are living along the river that are really, really worried and they are keeping a close eye on it. that is why up to 60,000 people from the areas of kentwood, down here to robert. it's about a 41-mile stretch dotted with communities here in louisiana, along this river and all of them are keeping their eyes on this tonight. >> casey, i know they're looking at this dam from the air. have they found out anything? >> yeah, they are. the army corps of engineers has been going up in helicopters. sometimes the helicopters have to get grounded because as you know all too well, a band will come through bringing a lot of rain and some wind with it. it's unsafe for them to fly. but the corp. of engineers have been up in the air. governor, bobby jindal, went up in the air. listen to someone from the army corps of engineers, the way they characterize what they were able to ascertain from up above. liste

the western banks of the mississippi river. the governor of this state, bobby jindal stopped by that nursing home a little bit earlier as those residents were being taken out. about 120 residents. they were sitting in wheelchairs some hooked up to oxygen tanks. they were being transported with the help of the louisiana national guard to a nearby naval station where they could be cared for and where they can be kept dry because, shepard, it feels like isaac is sitting right over my head at the moment. the wind is blowing. a gust of up to 40 miles per hour here on the banks the rain is literally blowing sideways. a very very dire situation as the president of plaquemines parish is putting it tonight. es shepard. >> shepard: casey only a few thousand residents in plaquemines parish. significant damage according to the governor to 800 homes yeah, the majority of them are over across the river on the eastern side of the mississippi. you see that tower back there? that's the community of braids weight. that's where some very dramatic

this is video from gulfport, mississippi. residents there say a twister tore the roofs off their homes yesterday. the national weather service is looking into reports that at least two tornadoes went through that region. meteorologists say more tornadoes are possible today. now, this will give you a sense of just how massive isaac is. the international space station captured this video of the storm, which is about the size of texas. look at that. >>> we are all feeling the effects of isaac, too, when we fuel up this week. the storm sparked the biggest one-day jump in gas prices in a year and a half. the national average for a gallon of regular gas jumped almost 5 cents yesterday. it is now $3.80. isaac shut down several refin y refineries along the gulf coast. economists don't think this storm will have the same dramatic impact of katrina seven years ago. >> looks like isaac is weakening, but it's not moving much. >> no. it's still staying right there in the gulf coast region. our storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein with m

the mississippi river comes right down into the gulf of mexico. iron and steel, grain, rubber, paper, wood, coffee, coal. i mentioned the chemicals. all of these things are going inned a oin ed a and out of those ports. those ports completely shut down. six huge ships are weathering this inside the port of new orleans. they've done this before. they have been very ready. nothing is moving in and out right now. >> i'm happy to hear about all the safety measures that are in place because you worry about that. >> the guy who runs to the port says we've seen this rodeo and we know exactly what to do. >> that is good news. thank you very much. and next on "early start," they got out during katrina, but decided to ride it out this time around. we have two live looks at new orleans right here. we're talking to a new orleans recent department w department department broke is staying put. and some ireporters hit the river front. this was a few hours before landfall. he described it as pretty gusty with trees swaying and signs blowing off the buildings. the

the mississippi river drying up. we have a live report from the banks of the mississippi river. bob is here on where your money should be right now. oil, how is it faring today, it is still above that $97 a barrel mark. ♪ if you have copd like i do, you know how hard it can be to breathe and what that feels like. copd iludes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiva helps corol my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open a full 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that does both. and it's steroid-free spiriva does not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. tell yr doctor if you have kidy problems, glaucoma, trouble urinating, or an enlarged prostate. these may worsen with spiriva. discuss all medicines you ta, even eye drops. stop taking spiriva and seek immediate medical help if yr breathing suddenly worsens, your throat or tongue swells, you get hives, vision changes or eye pain, or problems passing ure. other side effects include dry mouth and constipation. nothing can reverse copd. spiriva hel

your experience, lot of chicken in mississippi. and lion's club or rotary club, but we also rely on lawyers. lawyers generally -- they appear before us. they are the ones with cases and watch the decisions of the court. i relied on friends or lawyers because lawyers serve as leaders in local communities and a lot of folks look at guidance for judicial elections. that system is antiquated. when you have got television ads coming in in my race the u.s. chamber of commerce came in, paid for by the u.s. chamber of commerce. they don't do that anymore. they learned they were getting a bad reputation by spending money in their names so they started these other groups but when you get $1 million as they did in my campaign, influences the election and the traditional support of meeting folks in the community and relying on recommendations and things of that nature. >> as long as you did -- not easy. my wife knows -- >> thanks. the american bar association. give them the situation now at the elections going on and the money going into campa

mississippi still burning. that is next. >> tonight on cnn presents, is mississippi still burning? a shocking crime. accusations of a sinister motive. >> there's no doubt they were looking for a victim to asault and even kill, in this instance. i just showed him with the bat and i reached for the gun. this new york city cop says he fired to save his father's life. >> i was con vikted of second-degree murder. >> but he would walk free after that conviction was overturned. how did he end up back in prison? >> you must have been crushed, crushed when they told you you had to go back. >> prescription for cheating. they read our x-raies, but a cnn investigation reveals a disturbing question over the certification of many radiologists. >> isn't that cheating? >> fascinating characters. stories with impact. this is "cnn presents" with tonight's host, randy kaye and drew griffin. >> tonight, racism, cheating and injustice. we begin with a murder in mississippi. we broke the shocking story here orn cnn of a young, white teenager accused of killing a black man just because of the color of hi

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governor how are you preparing in the state of mississippi for the storm? >> what we are now working with emergency management, the experts. unfortunately because of katrina 7 years ago this coming wednesday, mississippi is experts in emergency management. we are working with state eocs and mississippi management agency, fema will be sending what we call the i-mat team, the advance team. we are moving forward with personnel, materials particularly warning our citizens to prepare for their own emergency kits in the event that we would be the center for landfall. certainly have water prepared, have batteries. know where your evacuation route will be and where your destination for evacuation for be. it still remains a tropical storm but we have 4 counties in mississippi that have been placed under hurricane watch. so as we begin to stand up to eoc, not only here in jackson that i will be at 4:00 this afternoon but standing up the eocs in those counties and making sure we have necessary supplies have sandbags, tarps, fuel, generators. yesterday at our briefing

the coast line of mississippi has been raked overnight. a few tornadoes. we're not completely done with the storm. as the day progresses today things will slowly get better. we've had a ton of rain. all the bright red are flash flood warnings through much of southern mississippi. as the storm pushes up towards the border of louisiana/mississippi, winds are gusting 40, 45 miles an hour. new orleans has gusts of 36 miles per hour. breezy, windy morning. power crews will try to get out there during the day to get over some of the half million people power. as far as rainfall went, so far we're up to almost ten inches. wide area throughout the storm. now as the storm progresses we'll change the tone of the storm. up to this point it's been destructive. it's knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people. now we'll try to give you some benefits to isaac. arkansas, missouri, portions of kentucky, illinois, indiana, even ohio willie. this storm will rain some people's plans out over labor day. this is the heart of the drought zone. we'll get beneficial rain

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right near the louisiana/mississippi border. especially storm surge prone area because the way that the coast line is shaped. it's kind of concave here. we have very very strong easterly winds. probably gusting to hurricane force. probably at least strong tropical storm force winds. flooding here. beach boulevard is totally under water. probably a couple feet of water at least. we have had the parking lot here at the casino in waveland basically become a part of the gulf of mexico. it's really bad in terms of storm surge here and the hurricane is still well offshore. >> shepard: reed tim member -- timmer. also go to rick leventhal in alabama. we will go to our correspondent steve harrigan who is live in south mississippi as well. we'll have further coverage from the new orleans area. there is a big deal going on at the republic national convention in tampa. greg jarrett going to take you through that greg, good evening. >> good evening, shep it is a big night. let's take a live look inside the tampa bay times forum right now. th

there are -- and mississippi and seven reports of tornados mostly in mississippi and it looks like it's taking its time through arkansas. it will take all day tomorrow and into ess miss. after going through st. louis, looks like it makes a hard right turn and goes to places like cincinnati and into west virginia. that might begin sunday afternoon or evening and we meet get some of the rain from hurricane isaac and now a tropical depression isaac and that is going to do a lot to ease drought conditions, by the way, in many parts of the country and that is going to create major issues with -- inland flooding and especially anyone living along a big river and more in a minute, brian, and that includes a closer look at the forecast. >> coming up, we have a high wind in new orleans and how people are dealing with the big flooding down there. >>> and in a few hours from now, mitt romney will officially accept his nominee for the presidency. and there is a lot of talk of a big surprise speaker. do we know who it is in. >> reporter: fox news is confirming the so-called mystery speaker will be a

it has on several tornadoes in mississippi and alabama. e new levy system in new created after hurricane katrina has. collected was not we thought it was be.g to it was still pretty bad. >> we just received word that slidell may have to evaluate people soon because of a that could burst in mississippi. abc news is working to confirm those reports. g live in new orleans, abc news. back to you. >> thank you. ofhave a team coverage isaac's impact being felt across the country. coming in the form of rising gas prices. john gonzalez is in bethesda with more for us. >> gas is about 20 cents higher ago.a month area, a little bit above the national average. is it really to blame? to blame? the biggest one day jump in years.two the storm has shut down refineries along the gulf coast have been forced to run at reduced prices. largest refinery in venezuela is dealing with a massive fire. gas station owners say they choice.ve a >> they have put the prices up us, so we have to raise the prices. and we don't make much money on the gas. some drivers don'

resources available now for the mississippi national guard, we got up to 80 mississippi highway patrol. search and rescue. and utility workers standing by, and air force base, water, we feel as if we are prepared for a storm that could be a category 2. it is category 1 now and could move to category 1, we always step up to a tattoo that have resources available to take this form under the current circumstances. cheryl: many viewers know that many of these category 1 storms can be just as deadly. history has shown that. here we are the exact week seven years tomorrow to the day the anniversary of hurricane katrina. do you feel you and your states are more prepared after what you have been through over the last several years? >> absolutely. unfortunately we are experts at this. the director was here during katrina. we are as prepared as humanly possible. we know how to move in and leaned forward into these forms and to move resources and personnel forward. we have asked people particularly in low-lying areas to evacuate. i am standing on beach boulevard highway 9. you see -- cheryl: look

on this sunday morning, most of mississippi was still asleep. but for a group of teenagers, white teenagers barrelling west on interstate 20, a mission was already under way. they were headed to jackson, because in their segregated world, jackson is where the black people live. >> they were looking for black people. they were looking for a black person to assault. >> mississippi's district attorney, robert shuller smith says evidence shows those white mississippi teens had just one thing in mind. >> they discussed, let's go get, let's be honest, let's go get a -- right? >> that's exactly right. >> it was still dark when james craig anderson walked out of a motel towards his car in a parking lot of jackson's ellis avenue. smith says that's when the white teenager saw him, james, a black man, alone. it is hard to imagine what happened next without using the term "hate." the teenagers were mostly right in the county were being led by an 18-year-old, darrell edmond, who had a history of harassing teens at his high school by certainly accounts from p

at least three twisters were reported to have touched down in mississippi. the high floodwaters trapped many residents in their homes. in plaquemines parish, the national guard had to knock out a window. officials say a levee there is under so much pressure, pun parish in louisiana will be flooded to relieve it. bigad shaban is in new orleans this morning with more. >> reporter: good morning to you. although strong winds and bands of rain have let up -- here in the state as well as mississippi, it's also sending storm surges of up to 12 feet high, which has caused severe flooding in communities not far from here. neighbors stood in bunches, huddled together in the wind and rain waiting to be rescued. just before noon when isaac's high winds pushed a tidal surge of water out of lake pontchartrain and into the town of la plas. 30 miles west of new orleans. >> all of a sudden the water started rising. >> the flooding caught nearly everyone off guard. >> it looked like it came all at once, just all at once. woke up, it was fine. next minute it was like all over

at the mouth of the mississippi in boothville, louisiana. now, that's important to know because that's near hurricane-force winds and that means that isaac is creeping closer to the coastline. also, the waves in the center of that storm are being reported at 30 feet high. this is a storm even though a category 1. what amazes me, you've got tropical winds and rains runs into the america's heartland, attack into the great lakes. from the gulf to the great lakes. this is a very, very interesting storm. it's say long-running storm also. people who are there will be more than a day with the winds and shredding wind, diane. >> sam will be minute by minute. don't forget to tune in at 10:00 p.m. eastern for the whole political team covering the convention. and yahoo! by the way, is streaming live, starting right now. we'll see you tonight in a moment. good night. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. this is the "jeopardy!" teachers tournament. here is our second group of semi-finalists--

he is 100 miles away in gulf port mississippi. he is geth hit from squalls there in new orleans, john, how is it for you? >> well, our squalls are not as intense as what we are experiencing in new orleans. being as far away from the center of circulation as we are. but we have been talking, natalie, every hour that this has been relentless, what we are getting, tropical storm forces and sustained winds, relentless since before midnight. longer than three hours, you can see the rain coming in heavy, heavy drops. and they are big heavy drops. so, a lot of this accumulation of rainfall, we drove around this afternoon, before all this began and there were areas low lying areas where just from the high tide coming in with the storm off shore, some low lying areas were already starting to show some flooding. so, imagine what it will be like once you add on top of that, all of this rain probably 20 plus inches of rainfall. and high tide coming in a few hours from now. you can really see now, take a look up there. peter is going pan over.

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in portions of louisiana, mississippi. thousands of people are still being a back to witted west of new orleans. the in--evacuated. also significant damage to these homes even worse than hurricane katrina. >> when i think all is said and done we will have water where we did not have water from katrina. >> this is a very slow- moving storm is going to be moving and we're going to be dealing with us until early friday morning. >> federal states of our emergency were declared for mississippi and louisiana. >> isaac impacting gas prices because the gulf area refineries are closed. the biggest one price day jump. $3.82 a. california, $4.15 take a look san francisco, $4.22. oakland, $4.16. stay with kron 4 morning news. we will have the latest on the gulf coast guard and also the late latest on a isaac could cost insurance. coming up beat louisiana native that is living in the bay area and how he is hoping his home state. continuing to bring you live updates of louisiana, mississippi. it is slowly making its way through. right n

not so for the night they're having along the mississippi gulf coast. new orleans is in for a time of it. isaac has made landfall officially south of new orleans. let's go to meteorologist jim cantore in new orleans tonight. jim, you keep reporting this is a very slow mover carrying so much rain and water. >> reporter: yes, brian, so much so, that by tomorrow night at this time by the time we talk to you the, the form will be off to our west. it's going to pinwheel around, we're in that intense yellow and orange band which is producing rainfall rates at over an inch an hour. what are we going to wind up with, could we get as much as 12 to 20 inches of rain before this is all said and done. power outages continue to mount, not too far from me, i can see the transformers already blowing in the sky. back to you. >> jim cantore in new orleans. we're thinking about the folks tonight in new orleans, alabama, mississippi. and in the city of new orleans, we're about to see what $14 billion worth of improvements has paid for there. that is our broadcast on a tue

also mississippi. david mattingly is in gulfport, mississippi, for us, experiencing much the same thing we are having here. heavy rain and heavy winds as well, right, david? >> reporter: that's right, soledad. and as this storm continues to park on the gulf coast, everyone here having to change their plans. they thought they might be out of it before now, but still we are seeing very strong tropical storm force conditions. there was a curfew in effect until 7:00 a.m. that's been extended here in the gulfport area. just to show you because this storm has been relentless all morning long. conditions like this ever since midnight. we're also now that the sun has come up looking back behind me at the ocean. there is beach back there. but the beach is completely covered right now by the waves that are coming in. and to show you the stark contrast of what we're looking at, those waves usually aren't there. this is a very calm part of the gulf of mexico on a very peaceful day. that might look like a lake back

plaquemines parish, coastal mississippi. now the rain is going to flood many areas for days as the rivers will crest and take some time. we're looking at a big area of 3 to 6, locally 8 inches of rain in southern mississippi into arkansas and southern missouri as well. it will help those areas. they have terrible drought conditions as isaac lifts north into arkansas tomorrow, missouri on saturday. then it's going to make the turn toward the east. i think some of isaac's moisture could get here as we head toward later in the weekend and labor day. looking at the bus stop forecast, it's pretty nice outside. mainly clear, pleasant. temperatures running from the low 60s to low 70s. it is in the 50s in a few spots right now. our day planner a nice day. moagly sunny. by lunch time 83. again like yesterday. not humid. 87 at 3:00. 4:00 we poke up to # 9 for the high. by 6:0085. it is 57 in frederick. gaitestburg 61. cumberland is 55. southern maryland looking at 69. the pax river naval air station. saw some lower 60s in charles coun