of the hurricane ida.on saturday. now, they are part of the national oceanic and atmosphere administration or noaa. and are gathering data that helps forecasters know what's going on inside the storm, in real-time. so meteorologists can make predictions. the plane, by the way, is a wp 3 d orion named ms. piggy. now right now, hurricane ida is barreling toward the u.s. gulf coast expected to rapidly gain strength. louisiana's governor says ida will be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit louisiana in nearly 170 years. now, it could make landfall as a category 4 along the louisiana coast in the coming hours. and on the exact same date as hurricane katrina 16 years ago. now, ida's already forced some evacuations. and the governors of louisiana, alabama, and mississippi have each declared a state of emergency. forecasters say a storm surge of up to 15 feet is expected in some areas. winds, perhaps, as high as 150 m miles an hour. now, the storm could leave some locations uninhabitable for weeks or even month

hurricane "ida" strengthens into a category 4 hurricane. it's taking direct aim at louisiana.ory, the major weather service is warning of life threatening storm surge and catastrophic damage. >>> also, developing this morning, the u.s. embassy in kabul warning of a, quote, "specific credible

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on hurricane ida. made landfall moments ago as a category 4 storm with 150 miles per hour winds. >> my weather vane registered at 160 miles per hour winds and broke. >> it feels like someone with giant hands has taken the wind and water from behind me and is pushing it towards the city of new orleans. >> this is the time to stay inside. do not venture out. >> there is flying debris all over the place. you will see my eyes dart back and forth because i have to constantly watch out for me and my team. >> you can see the bands of wind and rain steadily coming through here and makes it very difficult at this point to stand up. >> just wow. >> let the visuals play out. >> unbelievable. >> the reason i can stand here is only because of the concrete wall to my left. >> you have to be prepared to stay for the first 72 hours on your own. nobody should be expecting that tonight a first responder is going to be able to answer a call for help. >> we are praying for the best and planning and preparing for the worst

yes. could just update us please on the latest with hurricane ida.- latest with hurricane ida. hurricane ida. yes, so the storm made _ latest with hurricane ida. yes, so the storm made landfall- latest with hurricane ida. yes, so the storm made landfall a - latest with hurricane ida. yes, so the storm made landfall a little i the storm made landfall a little over an hour ago. the storm made landfall a little overan hourago. i the storm made landfall a little over an hour ago. i came on short with winds of 150 mph and basically made landfall in south—eastern louisiana near a town called port fouchon, an area centred on the oil and gas industry. fortunately that region is not highly populated, but there obviously a lot of oil and gas infrastructure in this area. but we are expecting a pretty sizeable storm surge to be piling up, especially to the right side of the track, which includes south—eastern louisiana and new orleans metropolitan area. again, this is all unfolding, the storm itjust made landfall, we are still piecing it together and seeing what is happening because i am i

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at the moment hurricane ida is a category 2 hurricane, 105-mile-per-hour max wind sustained and gusts up about to 125 miles per hour. you can also notice, too, see the purple areas on the satellite image? that indicates potent thunderstorms. you didn't have a lot. now that it's getting a little closer to the present, you can see, boom, those storms, that purple's wrapping around the center, that indicates to me that this is becoming a be better -- a more -- a stronger hurricane and it's starting to get a better structure to it, too. sew i would not be surprised if the hurricane center starts increasing the wind speeds with the 2:00 a.m. update here in an hour or maybe by 5:00 a.m. we could be dealing with a major hurricane, all right. we're going to look at 130-mile-per-hour hurricane once we get to sunrise on sunday. it makes landfall near grand isle, houma, louisiana, as a major hurricane. it then rains itself out into the tennessee valley going up to the mid loichblgt last year, 2020 was the busiest hurricane season on record. we had four landfalls in the state of he's. l louisiana

some say i have been through hurricanes before i will ride this out.ot at this time. i'm sure we did but we have not heard of anybody so far. we have had no rescue so that is a good sign. jon: what is the biggest challenge? wind or water quick. >> we started with more wind than expected but the water is a great challenge. jon: the storm surge as well as 15 or 20 inches of rain quick. >> yes sir. jon: we are already looking at footage of places where people left their cars in the parking lot in biloxi and that car appears to be stranded there will be a lot of that in the days and weeks ahead just a lot of insurance damage. >> absolutely. jon: cars can be replaced but human lives cannot. we appreciate you spending time with us we know you have to get back to the phones. emergency management agency director from hancock mississippi. thank you. we will be right back. >> you know what. you got sponge. spunk . i hate spunk . jon: ed asner in his best known role, as lou grant, 91-year-old actor and activist has died. he won emmys and he played santa in the mo

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in the hurricane protected areas. in this area where we're protected by our levee system. >> listen, we wish you and everyone there all the best in what will probably be a very challenging time. so really appreciate you taking the time to speak with us. again, bests of luck, from the jefferson parish of louisiana. once again, we wish you the bet. >>> time is running out for those hoping to leave louisiana by plane. new orleans luouis armstrong international airport, all flights canceled. we spoke to a young couple visiting louisiana, stranded and looking for bus routes out of the city. early sunday morning flights on american airlines are still scheduled to operate, but all flights after 10:00 a.m. local time are canceled. passengers are advised to contact their airline for the latest flight information. >>> all right. ahead on cnn, more on hurricane ida as it barrels towards the u.s. gulf coast. we'll take a closer look where the storm is expected to make landfall and other areas that will feel its wrath. >>> plus, w

hurricane ida making landfall in louisiana. a catastrophic hurricane. violent winds reaching 150 miles per hour. one of the most powerful storms on record to strike the u.s., and 16 years to the day since katrina. tonight, the scenes of destruction coming in now. rooftops ripped off buildings. massive waves of water crashing into homes. relentless rain and flooding. in new orleans tonight, the roaring storm surge testing the levee system that went in after katrina. hundreds of thousands in louisiana without power tonight. reports of dozens trapped on a hard-hit barrier island. and the stunning video from a hurricane hunter flying into the eye of the storm, 17 miles across. tonight, hospitals already overwhelmed with patients with covid now sheltering in place. my interview with the doctor in chief of children's hospital of new orleans. hurricane ida now carving a path of destruction as it tracks north. chief meteorologist ginger zee, victor oquendo, and matt gutman all reporting from the storm zone tonight. >>> the other major story this sunday night. n

hurricanes last year.e is a system professor of civil and economic efrnlgi ig engineering at louisiana state university. comes to me now from baton rouge, louisiana. have to do it on the phone because of the storm. professor, five named storms in fact struck louisiana in 2020. what is the toll that these back-to-back storms have taken not just on the residents of the region but the infrastructure? >> on the infrastructure side we have had severe damage because of these hurricanes, especially the power infrastructure. we had parts of -- they lost power for several weeks. now in new orleans the transmission lines are down. so we expect the power to be out for a lot of time. so this not only has specific damage to the infrastructure but also it affects people and their livelihoods. that's the bigger part of the picture here is that the livelihoods are completely affected and it will take a while for people to get back their lives to normal at this point. >> i'm curious your thoughts. as weather patterns chang

the president _ hurricane katrina. the president has - hurricane katrina.st couple of hours declared a state of emergency and presumably that then frees up federal funds to help with rescue efforts and so on. that is critical _ rescue efforts and so on. that is critical because _ rescue efforts and so on. that is critical because as - rescue efforts and so on. that is critical because as we - rescue efforts and so on. trisgf is critical because as we know from katrina, it is going to take days, weeks, months, to repair the damage from a storm like this. it will take a lot of funds and a lot of resources will stop not only does that free up money to help with the relief efforts here, and they will need a lot of relief in the coming days, it also allows them to mobilise national guard troops, aid from other states that can be brought in in the coming days and weeks, especially because with the power out to this entire community here, a lot of folks are going to be trying to recover from flood damage without having critical utilities and power going so even ju

based on the hurricane prak and the wind rain and surge forecast for the remainder of the hurricane, the cpra is anticipating some over topping of the southeast portions of the la rose to golden meadow levy system. nonfederal backed and alliance and nonfederal levies in lower st. bernard perish as well. obviously overtopping is concerning but i want to make sure that everybody understands, overtopping and levy failure are not the same thing. a levy failure can be more catastrophic. they're not the same thing. obviously we're going to continue to monitor the flood protection system. i can tell you right now we do not anticipate any overtopping of the mississippi river levies or overtopping of the levies in the hurricane risk reduction system around the greater new orleans area. clearly you've seen the reports and up until a short while ago, i was able to look at live video feeds. there are significant storm surge storm surges around port fourchon and grand isle. cpra is prestaged pumps across louisiana and will deploy flood fighting in need of dewatering as soon as it is safe to do so

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hurricane harvey, hurricane florence, hurricane irma.egular pattern where we see these monster category 4 and category 5 storms striking the east coast or the gulf coast of the united states. this is, make no mistake, this is an expression of the impacts of climate change. warmer oceans, more heat content. that's very important, with this latest storm, there was a very deep layer of warm water that fed the rapid intensification of that storm. it's a pattern we have seen in recent years, and we would not be seeing this in the absence of human caused climate change. the warming of the planet, the record temperatures of our oceans in recent years, has fueled these monster storms. >> yes, they have. craig, let me ask you this. you mentioned that these storms are different this time around. and they are. not everything is exactly the same as came before. but what's different this time around, which wasn't there in 2005 with katrina, is of course, covid. as someone who ran fema, how hard a task has it been for the federal government, for local

as you know, jim, i've been through two hurricanes. category 5 hurricanes in the past.is it's because the eye of the storm is moving to the east so we're just getting the edge of it. constant battering with this wind. and it doesn't look like it's going to be letting up any time soon. >> jason, we're seeing some activity among weather experts who were discussing this. the experts discussing this talking about the nature of the eye wall. and it sounds like the intense nature of this eye wall is what's contributing to what you are seeing in houma. you'll not get a break as the eye does not appear to be on track to pass over houma which means your area in houma, louisiana, will continue to get battered until this storm starts moving to points north. places like where ed lavandera is in baton rouge. not really seeing the effects of it right now and our viewers should know as we're talking to jason, he has been there for hours and hours in these kind of conditions. jason, what is happening in the area around where you are? i see a hotel behind you with cars. it looks like th

hurricane ida is still a category 4 hurricane.lot of these roads are not going to be passable. especially out there on highway 56, where there's a massive flood gate that's in place out there. but there are a number of homes on stilts that are dotting that highway along highway 56 that looked precarious even before this storm got under way. so their goal is going to be to head out there, see what sort of damage is out there, do what they can. but, again, he said they're going to be able to do of that this evening. most of that, he predicts, they won't be able to do until tomorrow morning. jim. >> all right. jason carroll, you stay safe. it's going to be a long night for jason and his crew. we appreciate those updates all day long. thanks so much. a slow-moving hurricane of historic proportions is pounding louisiana with relentless intensity. hurricane ida is now punishing the state on the 16th anniversary of hurricane katrina. we're now seeing some flooding in the new orleans french quarter and southeast of the city, water is now

two major stories, starting with hurricane ida strengthening into a dangerous category 4 hurricane taking direct aim at louisiana. the national weather service is warning of life-threatening storm surge and catastrophic damage. meteorologist allison chinchar is standing by with the latest. >> also developing this morning, the u.s. embassy in kabul is warning of a, quote, specific credible threat to u.s. citizens near the airport. president biden is warning another attack is highly likely. this special edition of "new day weekend" starts right now. ♪ >>> we're so grateful to have you with us on this sunday. it is august 29. thank you for keeping us company here. hi, phil. >> hey, christi. >> alrighty. so let's talk about hurricane hunters right now. they are doing hourly updates at this point as hurricane ida zeros in on communities on the gulf coast. >> ida is already a powerful category 4 storm and it's still gaining strength. now, it will make landfall today bringing as much as 20 inches of rain to some areas with the potential for destructive storm surge and strong winds. now, yesterda

on hurricane ida. monster storm is slowly moving north through louisiana, leaving behind widespread damage, power outages and life threatening floods. ida made landfall sunday as one of the strongest storms ever to hit the state. now one of the concerns is how well the state's levies will hold up. one levy has failed leading to flash flooding. and this is what it looked like when this deadly storm moveda, shore. the storm surge and winds were so strong it partially reversed the flow of the mississippi river, something experts say is extremely uncommon. right now all of orleans parish, including the city of new orleans is without power. state wide more than a million homes and businesses have no electricity and at least one person has died so far. people that evacuated are staying in shelters and many decided to ride it out at home and the louisiana governor says rescue efforts will begin soon. >> we are better prepared now. but when you have mother nature throw at you a storm this strong with the surge

fatality for hurricane ida. city, and the power being out is a problem on multiple levels, one being the pumps that keep them moving out of the city, there's no power to the puplz. and entergy is trying to get the power back connected. but in new orleans, you are not getting power back at all. the utility is assessing the damage and identifying a path forward to restore power, and according to a release power will not be restored this evening, but we will continue to work to remedy. the issue is that when this happened the demand for power and generation of power imbalance, and that's what knocks the power out and the power is most urgently needed to pump the water out of the city so that's where the energy is going to go right now, so unfortunately, if you are in new orleans it's rather unlikely you will be getting power back tonight. also if you are in the city, the hotline for the sewage water board is down. 504-864-8266 is the number to call. people in much of louisiana and mississippi are feeling much of hu

this historic hurricane comes on the 16th anniversary of another historic hurricane, katrina. thankfully, officials expect the levees in the new orleans area to hold this time. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i'm joshua johnson continuing our special coverage of hurricane ida. welcome to the week. >> let us begin with the latest on hurricane ida's path. meteorologist bill karins joins us now after a very long day, and bill, we just got the latest update from the national hurricane center, right? >> yeah, a tick lower. that's all we have been doing all day long. landfall was 150-mile-per-hour winds. we're now at 115. which is the lowest end of a category 3. so it's really incredible to think that landfall was at 1:00 eastern time. and now we're at 9:00 eastern time, eight hours later, it's still a major hurricane. that's incredible. that rarely ever happens. a lot of it is because it was stalled a little bit over the warm swampy waters of southern louisiana and it didn't weaken quickly because of that. now it's starting to weaken more quickly as its away from the

hurricane ida has been downgraded to category one hurricane, with maximum security winds of 95 milestrong enough to do some serious damage. and it continues to make its way inland. item made landfall near the 12 hours ago, as the strongest storm to hit louisiana and more than 150 years. just last, hour president biden approved a major disaster declaration for the state. let's go back to nbc news meteorologist janessa webbed. janessa, update us on what the national weather service is saying now. and the national hurricane center. >> yeah chris, we actually just had some breaking news coming in from the national weather service, new orleans. i'm going to go ahead and read this statement. we do have a flash emergency for lafitte, and jean lafitte. what they are saying right now, we've had a levee breach. local law enforcement re-reports levy following it over 200 people are in danger, currently we are dealing with a breach in the area, because heavy rain is coming, down we have seen about five inches just in the last hour. even though the system is being downgraded to a category one, th

landfall as a category 4 hurricane.rnoon to early-evening hours of sunday. in its path are these oil rigs. thousands of oil rigs are here in the gulf of mexico. so, you could see an impact at the pump because of this. um, we -- we see the -- the damage -- um -- ahead of these -- with these oil rigs and these hurricanes go up exponentially. a category 4 hurricane can cause about $8.2 billion of damage to these oil rigs. now, as this thing approaches, what it's going do is it's going to sling all of this rain, which we are going to see the conditions go downhill starting basically right now from south to north. and we're going to see the storm surge really pile up with those onshore winds. some areas could see storm surge up to 10 to 15 feet. you have been hearing a lot of comparisons between katrina and ida. but really, the only comparison that you can make to them is the fact that today, sunday, is the 16th anniversary of -- of katrina and ida's going to make landfall on the 16th anniversary. the two systems are totally

we're in the middle of a hurricane. to get these folks off the road and in safe shelter right now because it is going to continue to go downhill. >> eric: that old saying turn around don't drown. will, thank you very much. >> without a doubt. >> arthel: thank you. for more on the storm's impact, we will bring in the president of st. charles parish, louisiana, and matthew, i understand that you ordered a mandatory evacuation. you still have some of the residents stayed, nonetheless, and i understand that you have two shelters of last resort prepared? where are they? what are they? how are they outfitted >>? how are they outfitted? how many residents do you think will show up there? >> the conditions have started to deteriorate earlier today. the power is starting to go out. we lost power at our emergency operations center here where i am right now. we are under generator back upright now. those power outages continue at the moment. i would say probably close to 70 -- 75% of the parish is without power. we have two shelte

jacqui: 16 years to the day after hurricane katrina made landfall in louisiana, hurricane ida is slamming same communities. retired army lieutenant general russell oderey was responsible for coordinating military relief efforts after katrina in 2005. he joins us with more. thank you for joining us. appreciate your time. >> good to be with you. jacqui: in your view, has there been enough preparation for a storm of this kind of magnitude to mitigate its impact? has there been enough evacuation efforts, structural improvement, resiliency efforts, things like that? >> well, we have made a lot of progress in resilience. i don't think we are ever really ever ready for a category 4 or 5 storm or the wind and damage that it can provide. we are a lot better than they were before katrina as you indicated in the he question. we're never really ready. we will have exposure. it's something i remember learning, on any given date mother nature can break anything built by man. while a lot of preparations happened with the federal government and the state and a lot of our parish leadership, we're going to

we had a hurricane barry when we had a high river and a hurricane threatening us. this time the river is much lower, custom is a good thing. but, yes, this is a very intense storm. it is unique. every storm is different with you we are confident with the performance of the system. >> with regard to beyond just the rebuilding of the levees when you talk about a storm like this, experts said ida could be one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the louisiana cost, in over a century, you have to go back to the 1850s to find a storm to compare it to. >> katrina taught us a lot, when the corps designed the system that we have today, they modelled after hundreds of previous storms to complete the design. they reviewed historical events. they improved their engineering design. now it's one of the most technologically advanced systems in the world today. >> well, that is good. with regard to this being the 16th anniversary of hurricane katrina, how is this particular storm different? do you think also because of experience nag and the tragic aftermath of that, are peopl

orleans after hurricane katrina.ember when the storm came through, it was a category 3. katrina came through as a category 3 and we walked outside in french quarter seemed that everything was fine, maybe an hour and a half or two hours we got reports that the levees had broke, when they broke, you know as we look back, you know what happened after that. it was disastrous. it went on for weeks and months and years the stay of new orleans, and surrounding parishes trying to get their leaving back together. today the storm is significantly different. katrina came in as a category 5. right before it hit land it dropped to a category 3. but because it was a cat 5, it pushed all that water in. you know pressure was low and water came in toward new orleans. and from the gulf, and then, you had this push of water coming in. so even though it was a cat 3 and did not do damage, the water was pushing in and broke the levees. let's go to fox weather journalist robert ray, live for us in new orleans. with what he sees from his pe

hurricane. the governor urged people to evacuate. some parishes issued eva evacwaevacwuation orders but still some stayed. i spoke to a houma resident holly that is sorry she didn't follow those evacuation orders. >> oh my gosh, i wish i would have evacuated. i kid you not. it's not worth it. it's very scary. i can't tell people enough when you have the opportunity to evacuate, you should do it and, you know, especially here in louisiana because, you know, when i first moved here 11 years ago, hurricane season ended in october and now it ends in november. so i mean, it's just one thing after another. and this is very, very scary. very scary. >> we hope to check back in with her to see how she's doing but in the meantime, many louisiana hospitals are already over run with covid patients and one of the least covid vaccinated states in the country. earlier i talked with a baton rouge critical care physician about handling this new wave of medical emergencies. >> we will use every bed available that

i can tell you, i've been through some category 5 hurricanes. hurricane rita and hurricane wilma. and even though this is not a category 5, it's a category 4, as we all well know, when you're standing out here, it pretty much all feels the same. so everyone here in houma hunkering down and preparing as the eye wall now is just about upon us. jim? >> hunkering down in houma is right. jason, you to that as well. we'll get back to you. you can really see the winds picking up. i've been in one of those eyes before. and it can be eerie. it can be very calm but make no mistake. there's no nastiness to come. jason carroll, thank you. >>> let's go to the cnn weather center where jennifer gray is tracking this storm. one of the things that is just really apparent as we look at how things have gone downhill and brian todd's live shot, jason carroll's live shot is, you know, when ida was making landfall, it was sort of hitting some of those parts of louisiana where maybe we didn't have cameras because it wasn't a densely populated area. now it's hitting areas like houma, those tough bands of

the national hurricane center is reporting catastrophic storm surge and hurricane-force winds moving onshore right now. >>> also happening right now, president biden is at dover air force base where he'll attend the dignified transfer for the 13 american servicemen and women killed in kabul on thursday. we'll bring you those moments when they happen. stand by for that. >>> also this morning, the pentagon says a u.s. drone strike took out a suspected isis-k car bomb which was targeting kabul's airport. full reporting on that as well. we have a team of reporters standing by, first of all, in louisiana, ready to take you inside the storm as it makes landfall in the next hour or so. let's get right to cnn meteorologist chad myers. where is the storm now and what's the latest projection? when can we expect landfall along the louisiana coast? >> sure. we call landfall when the center of the eye crosses over a beach or anywhere. right now we're getting the eye making landfall, but that doesn't count for landfall. that just means that the worst of the wind is now coming onshore for grand isl

, a dangerous hurricane.where the eye will hit when it makes land full. we are making the forecast able land across the south—east of louisiana. the bright colours is the centre of the rainfall which will then move inland. a few things we need to take note of here, these are the main headlines. we have landfall during the afternoon, sunday afternoon local time, so a few hours away. it is expected to be a category for so stronger than katrina was on landfall. the storm surge is the most worrying element of this. you have sustained winds but the storm surge could be four metres above sea level. if it coincides with high tide that makes it even more dangerous. it is the north—eastern quadrant of the storm that you really need to watch. if you think about the wind rotating around the hurricane, pushing a wall of water on the track that hurricane, where you have landfall it is areas to the east of landfall which includes mississippi which will see the largest storm surge. £31 mississippi which will see the largest

which has been downgraded from hurricane for to a hurricane two, nonetheless, president biden has nowts in the areas worst effect did by the areas worst effect did by the hurricane. and in fact the slower it goes, the more rainfall it is dumping on cities along its route. we will keep across that for you on bbc news. hello there. sunday was a day of contrast — cool in the cloud, warm in the sunshine — and in actual fact, across southwest england, we saw temperatures into the mid—20s. a beautiful sunday afternoon for many. the next few days look likely to stay quite quiet across the whole of the country. quite a lot of dry weather around as well, but it will be mostly cloudy, and i suspect the temperatures easing away just a touch, around average if we're very lucky. high pressure still dominates the story. it's a blocking high that's preventing weather fronts from moving in off the atlantic. but a little bit more of a breeze always down towards the south, and that's going to continue to push this cloud in off the north sea, which could be thick enough on monday morning for a spot or t

it was still a devastating hurricane. and this hurricane looks like it could be potentially even more severe. all right. tom's mic is not hot right now. let's go to derrick van dam who's in homa, louisiana. derrick, talk to us about what's happening on your end. >> reporter: yeah, okay, people are leaving this area and rightly so because they know what is looming. they know what is 250 miles off the coast of where i'm located. just hearing these very ominous words from the louisiana governor really just perked my ears and my crew's ears up but it certainly perked up anybody who decided to stay and ride out this storm's ears as well. take a listen. >> this will be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit anywhere in louisiana since at least the 1850s. we can also tell you that your window of time is closing. it is rapidly closing. and just like we said yesterday, by the time you go to bed tonight, you need to be where you intend to ride this storm out. >> so it's still questionable whether or not the individuals behind me, w

. 16 years since hurrican katrina, hurricane ida is battering the state with winds reaching 200kmp/h.his is a live picture overlooking new orleans. tens of thousands of people have been evacuated, and meteorologists say the slow pace of the hurricane — now a category three — has increased its destructive potential. president biden described the storm as life—threatening. nada tawfik sent this report from new orleans. well, conditions are deteriorating rapidly now that hurricane ida has made landfall, the wind gusts are clocking in at about 60 mph here in new orleans where the storm is, but this is just a tiny preview of what is expected and this is on the day 16 years to the day that hurricane katrina devastated new orleans, a day filled with so much trauma for the residents here. the storm could one of the strongest to hit the united states. the mayor has already warned residents that emergency services won't be able to reach them, to stay inside, and complicating all the efforts of recovery of course is a surge of covid cases here. it is a dangerous mix here in louisiana. dangerous

>>> as hurricane ida intensifies by the hour, verging on a category 5 hurricane, on its way to the louisiana is facing three historic events at once. >> hurricane ida, which could be the strongest hurricane to ever make landfall in louisiana, credible isis threats in kabul and deadly fourth covid surge in the south. joining us from the white house is nbc news correspondent heidi press bela. a very busy morning and day for the president monitoring a hurricane, getting the briefing from his national security team. how is he handling and prioritizing these crises? >> the moment that he is in right now can only be described as bracing for impact, bracing for impact from a potentially lethal storm as well as a potentially imminent terrorist attack on our troops in afghanistan. we've all seen those images of the chaos outside the airport there in kabul. now the president and our national security team telling all individuals to leave the airport, do not come anymore. we have an update from overnight, lindsey, on the evac kwags attempts before this warning came out. we got about 2,000 individuals o

hurricane ida and covid-19. our health care system, our hospitals are hunkering down. they are caring for the patient that's are within their walls. our first responders will be unable to get to you. >> president biden yesterday reminding americans to wear a mask and social distance as they seek shelter from the storm. joining me now, the chief operating officer children's hospital of new orleans. thank you for being with us. the louisiana department of health reports more than 100,000 covid cases among children statewide. how many patients is your hospital treating? >> we've treated hundreds of children with covid-19 disease over the past weeks and months. currently there are nine children at children's hospital new orleans hospitalized with covid-19 and another two who are hospitalized with multisystem inflammatory disease. >> how have you been preparing for this hurricane and what we keep hearing about the potential loss of power? >> we this morning locked the hospital down about 7:00 a.m. we have about 400 t

you still have those hurricane-force winds. as longz as that stays strong you are piling the water up still. the storm surge isn't done in many of these areas. >> as your map shows, the most vulnerable area of the united states when it comes to storm surge. ken graham thank so much over there at noaa with the latest. rev. >>> joining me now, the former new orleans mayor, president of the national urban league. thank you, mark, for being with us. >> thank you, reverend. >> i know that obviously you still have family there in new orleans, and you were there just a day or so ago for a funeral of one of our former trusted aides, which is why you weren't at the voter rights march. you were represented ably, though. what can you tell us about what is going on in terms of the people in new orleans, the reaction, this being anniversary of hurricane katrina, it must have special memories, haunting memories to be within the range, even if they are not getting the direct hit of this hurricane. >> reverend, thank you for having me. ask peo

hurricanes don't like to be moving that fast. that will probably help it, help it not strengthen that much more. in addition, the water is right off of new york and new england are below 75 degrees. hurricanes like water that is like bathtub hot. all right. 78 degrees fahrenheit or hotter. so, that is also going to help it lose its punch as it starts to approach. it will still be either a strong category, a strong tropical storm or low-end category one hurricane when it makes landfall somewhere around montalk to rhode island or connecticut. we do have a hurricane warning still in effect for long island, connecticut, also rhode island. and the surrounding areas in blue here new york city, province, nantucket tropical storm warning. conditions and hazards are going to be felt way far out from the center of the system and those cones of concern that we show you where the track is going to go, it's only telling you where the center of the storm is going to be felt. impact felt far away from the center. stormern warnings up for the c

hurricane. so we are feeling the conditions go downhill rather quickly here, and we know the threats going forward. this is a monster storm that is potentially life threatening in this particular area with storm surge and catastrophic winds already approaching the louisiana coastline. brian? >> it's going to be a long day for you. welcome back to you, darren. let's go to new orleans where there is an alert about the 911 system. nadia is in new orleans. where in new orleans are you, nadia? >> reporter: i am on iconic bourbon street. we are starting to feel that extreme wind you heard derek just talking about as the wind starts to pick up and the rain starts to pick up waiting for the biggest impact of hurricane ida. these shops all along bourbon street along the french quarter have all been shut down over the weekend. there are a few shops open. they say they stayed open for katrina, they are not shutting down for ida. there are people all along here as people brace for the storm. this is a touri

we did it last year with hurricane delta.we are prepared to be there and take care of clients until they have someplace to return home to. >> you were active in red cross response to katrina that made landfall in louisiana 16 years ago tomorrow. that was a category three storm. we have been pointing it out. are you worried a category four storm could be just as devastating, maybe worse? >> wolf, i will tell you, i was a volunteer when hurricane katrina made raffle in raleigh, north carolina. it was heartbreaking to see folks get off planes that had no place to go, knew their homes were no longer going to be there. this is a serious storm. people need to take protective actions now. a forecast category for landfall is nothing to try to consider riding out. i highly recommend if people can evacuate areas, they should take those actions now. >> i second that notion indeed. if you can get out, get out now. jennifer pippa, thanks for joining us. once again, thanks for the critically important work the red cross does. we're all gra

when hurricane katrina hit, and a poignant anniversary, 16 years ago, hurricane katrina hit new orleans hit as a category 3. this hit as a category 4. now as you mentioned downgraded to a 3. the thing about katrina, it stuck for a while, it was slow. the flooding inundated new orleans because the levees did not hold. a lot of improvement has been made in that area. to the levee system, by army corps of engineers and others, a lot of changes, however there is a lot of danger there, hopefully people have been heeding the warnings, and hopefully the storm moves quickly, it ha slowed wore told to about 10 miles per hour, that is not fast. trey: brett, move from weather to war. you covered the pentagon also. two issues, the with withdraw from afghanistan, the substance and manner in which it is communicated by the administration, your assessment of both? >> listen, i think there are a lot of critics in pentagon and on capitol hill about how the evacuation happened. not strong man argument that either we'll leave to knows of troops there --tons of troops there forever it was how it happened.

dangerous winds with new orleans as hurricane ida 0rleans as hurricane ida continues its destructive the streets all around the city and its famous french quarter sit empty. from this point on, residents are on their own for the duration of the storm. earlier, masses rushed to the airport to evacuate before it shut down. many others took to the road. we shut down. many others took to the road. ~ ., ., ~ , the road. we have two kids in the road. we have two kids in the car, both _ the road. we have two kids in the car, both 12 _ the road. we have two kids in the car, both 12 months. - the road. we have two kids in the car, both 12 months. we. the car, both 12 months. we really wanted to evacuate for them. , , u, , really wanted to evacuate for them. ,, ,. ., ., them. light, best case scenario is ower them. light, best case scenario is power outages, _ them. light, best case scenario is power outages, minor - is power outages, minor flooding. worst case, i don't even — flooding. worst case, i don't even want to think about. eight feet of water _ even want to think about. eight feet of

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but even as it has been downgraded from a hurricane for two hurricane one, over those 12 hours ida isreaking havoc, especially from the storm surge it's leaving in its wake. authorities the last hour reported a levee failing about lafitte just south of new orleans and officials warn that more than 200 people are in intimate danger there and need to seek higher ground. one death has been confirmed elsewhere in the states, a 60-year-old man was killed when his house was hit by a fallen tree near baton rouge. and the entire city of new orleans is in the dark tonight's, the power companies say it's catastrophic transmission damage. the number of people without power throughout louisiana, is now more than 1 million, and rising. and there are fears that some of those people could remain without power for weeks. one area of particular concern tonight is louis knit louisiana's hospitals, we've seen harrowing video of two different hospitals, that have portions of their roofs blown off. at least to louisiana hospitals that have been damaged or hope to evacuate dozens of patients as soon as the

the hurricane hunters have taken off about 4:30. they are getting ready to enter the center of ida so we'll get a lot more information in the next couple of hours. but this is the american model. we like to compare it to the european. this is at 1:00 p.m. local time and we have our landfall. it looks pretty close to grand isle. this one is a little further offshore which means the timing is a little slower with. this but each and every change, pamela, and where that center is could change that track as mentioned. earlier this morning it was 50 miles from new orleans. if it continues that movement and that trend to the east, we could see this move closer to a higher populated area. why is that important? because those east winds. and if new orleans gets into the eye wall and those strong winds, widespread power outages. not just to the east, wrapping around to lake charles, which has tens of thousands of homes still with tarps. still moving up to central tennessee. it's going to drop a lot of rainfall. hour by hour now we'll be watch

hurricanes? are really researching at the moment, that link between our warming world and hurricanes is still a little bit uncertain, but what we can say for sure is warmer air holds more moisture and warmer sea surfaces do create some more intense hurricanes. there is not necessarily going to be more hurricanes in terms of the number that we see per season, but more intense hurricanes and certainly we are likely to see more category four and category five hurricanes developing. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre here's olly foster. hello and thanks forjoining us. something had to give at anfield with liverpool and chelsea both looking to maintain their winning starts to the season. it finished 1—1, chelsea took the lead through a kai havertz header butjust before half—time, blues defender reece james was sent off for handling on the line and mo salah equalised from the penalty spot. chelsea hung on for the draw against the odds but their manager didn't agree with the red ca

we have continuing coverage of hurricane ida. which continues to pummel louisiana tonight. 11 hours after making landfall, as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the united states. in the last hour president biden approved a major disaster declaration for louisiana. i came to shore as a category four storm with maximum stints over 150 miles per hour. it has been weakening as it's moved inland but slowly. and it is now down to a category two but the natural hurricane center says that it is still bringing catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding, to southeastern louisiana. and that has brought scenes like this in the city of houma. >> the extraordinary power of those high winds, meanwhile the entire city of new orleans is in the dark, without power tonight. except for those with generators. the power company says ida caused quote, catastrophic transmission damage. across louisiana more than 930,000 people have lost power. we have also had our first confirmed death caused by this hurricane a 60 year old man

still a ways to go >>> let's take a look at hurricane ida's impact in louisiana. this is before and after security camera video from a fire station in a parish east of new orleans. it's only an hour time span between the before and after shots. ida caused a serious amount of flooding in just a short amount of time. >> we've got plenty more ahead on the storm plus the latest on wildfires in california >> and remembering the 13 d women who made the ultimate sacrifice in the race to evacuate afghanistan is having healthy gums. keep yours healthy with crest advanced gum restore. it's clinically proven to detoxify below the gumline. and, it restores by helping heal gums in as little as 7 days. because you cant have a healthy smile, without healthy gums. advanced gum restore, from crest. the #1 toothpaste brand in america. feel the cool rush of claritin cool mint chewables. powerful 24-hour, non-drowsy, allergy relief plus an immediate cooling sensation for your throat. feel the clarity, and live claritin clear. i wonder where froot loops come from? follow me! ♪♪ just f

we have continuing coverage of hurricane ida. one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the united