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Biloxi Bay surges ashore in Ocean Springs

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    Steve Harrigan reports from Mississippi

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-- report severe flooding across a twenty mile stretch of coastline from Long Beach the Biloxi.

And officials there report -- storm surge of up to ten feet a significant danger but still less than a nineteen foot surge in that area during Katrina.

A live look Long Beach Mississippi we don't have control over this camera it's a shot from -- storm chaser in the region.

We do know that he's just off highway ninety which runs along the coast.

Steve -- is about twenty minutes east of air and ocean springs Mississippi outside Biloxi Steve how the how the flooding there.

-- -- this is the worst situation we've seen over the last 44 hours here the rain is coming down harder than ever before.

-- also -- try and show you.

Different levels of destruction here.

You can -- here behind me is -- to the beach is gone and now the water from Biloxi bay is coming over.

I know there are some -- we have four or five feet of water that's made it very difficult for rescuers.

At least thirty arrests today.

Carried out by both.

Shepperd back DOS.

As this is just steam a word that a gas station owner faces and charges of price -- but more interesting to me at the moment is this water's still rising this -- been going on for forty hours.

It has it's been steady for 24 hours and this is the first time.

It's really felt like a hurricane here in Mississippi -- got large these awards is breaking up and flying by.

The biggest -- so far.

And people are still labs or walk here and it's.

It's been really challenging.

For the National Guard we've seen them going around there humvees but the humvees just won't go to all the places they need to go out there are hundreds of homes now.

-- best -- here that Louisiana border which are mostly underwater right now very hard to get to those people.

Yeah I have been wondering all day about the people wind wave went -- passed for Jan in areas that we don't have reports from I've read and heard that.

Highway ninety is washed out in one place which runs right along the coast that -- road to -- when Mississippi is out.

It's like Katrina revisited for that little area.

No on nine he was out this morning it has been raining steadily since then and 23 which goes down to -- has been cut as well to.

Some real concerns about how people are getting along.

It Hancock county one of the lowest like -- and the fair past -- -- -- just said were at the mercy of nature we're surrounded by water on three sides.

And nature not really being very forgiving to Mississippi right now shepherd.

No it is not Steve Harrigan on the South Shore of the home state -- this is just been -- regret.

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