we have reporters fanned out along with meteorologist bill karins who is watching the radar for us here in studio. welcome to all of you. bill, we'll start with you. so bring us up to speed. where is it? how strong is it? and how long do you think until landfall? >> up to this point we've been watchin periphery. we now have the eye, the northern eye wall, going over land for the first time. and that's just to the south of grand isle around port fourchon. that's the first land area now going into that eye. to get landfall it has to go through the center of the storm. we may get that. we may not. if we don't at that location the storm has to cross over the bay and then come onshore here on the west side of the bay and heading up to homa and that will be about three to four hours from now. we may get one landfall and a second after it crosses the bay. in grand isle, we had 146-mile-per-hour wind gusts reported. it's amazing the instrument even held up. the gauge just told us it's up to five feet and is increasing rapidly. the storm surge is coming on into louisiana. now is the scary time f

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 swampy water and over the land to the west of new orleans and lake pontchartrain. the back side of the storm is starting to fall apart, but all of these feeder bands in the east will be a huge issue. the winds are going to start to come down. new orleans, you had your peak winds. they were in the 80-mile-per-hour range for most indicates. one news station they had a gust over

bill karins, thank you for the analysis and update. we'll check back with you later this hour. >> let me bring in richard lui who is checking in with team coverage. >> let's go straight to our reporters in the area and the field. only 7:00 local time. our team is spread out across the gulf today. ali velshi is in new orleans. morgan chesky in houma, louisiana. shaquille brewster in gulfport, mississippi. let's start with ali velshi, who is standing right in the middle of everything. as i was watching the reporting over the last couple hours in new orleans, you were noting that the power was going out in your location. it comes and goes. looks like also maybe wind and rain has gone down a little bit, too. >> yeah. yeah, in fact, an hour ago when bill karins was saying he thought he saw a gust at new orleans airport of 95 miles per hour and he thought i might be getting about 75-mile-per-hour winds, things have changed dramatically. the rain is generally speaking falling straight down right now. winds are lower. i will say there's poolin

i'll keep you with me, bill karins. thank you. >>> today, louisiana's governor urging those at home to stay in place long after the storm passes through. >> once the storm has passed, you need to be prepared to shelter in place for the first 72 hours. we have every possible resource ready to go to help you. we'll get there sooner than 72 hours if at all possible in order to rescue people across the state of louisiana. but this is the window of time that it may take in order to get first responders to you

. >> let's go right to meteorologist bill karins. bill, you've been tracking this thing relentlessly. i know you got an update from the national hurricane center. >> as expected, downgraded to a tropical storm. so it made landfall, 150-mile-per-hour category 4 yesterday, 1:00 local time, and it's taken all the way until now to become a tropical storm. so it's finally weakened down. in other words, about 99.5% of the wind damage has already been done, so that's not going to be a big concern going forward with the storm. will will be some minor tree damage in possible areas, mississippi with power outages. let me give you an update. 60-mile-per-hour winds, 90, 95 miles south of jackson, mississippi, and it it's heading to north around 8 miles per hour. i ee moving pretty slowly. it's kept rain in the southern areas of mississippi and in through alabama. exclusively the rule of thumb is the winds have to be above 40, 45 miles an hour to get a power outage. macomb, hattiesburg, you could see that. the winds are still barreling high enough

bill karins, thank you. let's bring in ken grant. what are you going to be looking for over the next few hours? >> yeah, we're getting that rainfall already producing some flooding in some areas. i've seen some of those flash flood warnings. we're looking at that with time. 40-mile-an-hour winds at narragansett. winds at block island, 50-mile-an-hour gusts. pretty significant winds associated with this already. thatth heavy rainfall, it's so important we remind everybody. no such thing as a tropical storm. we only adjusted the winds by 5 miles an hour. >> what areas are you most concerned t about? we did hear from bill, it won't necessarily be like superstorm sandy, but what concerns you the most as you're watching this? >> i mean, look at this radar. just seeing this intense rainfall. we havese rainfall headed for boston which had so much rain as far away as new jersey. it's the intense rain. looking at the rain that can fall. it will make landfall. some areas will get 4 to 6 to 10 inches of rain. small gusts could knock down trees.

. >>> let's bring in bill karins who is tracking henri very closely. i watched you all day and you downgraded the official down grade from hurricane to tropical storm but that in no way means, oh, we're fine. we're out of the woods. >> no, it means less wind damage, less power outages and less storm surge. when the winds are lower, those are the impacts, nothing to do with what the rainfall impacts can be and that's the concern. as soon as this thing started weakening with the winds, i was thinking we could have millions without power by the end of the storm. now probably hundreds of thousands. right now 90,000 people are without power. 72,000 in rhode island and 13,000 in connecticut right now mostly confined to right where the storm is making land faum as we speak. i keep hitting fresh on my computer. it's near watch hill or stonington if they want to say it made landfall. it's windy. it's gusty but it's not the type that will do a lot of damage. we'll get trees and limbs and that will cause power outages but not a lot of structural damage which is f

. >> i want to bring in nbc news meteorologist bill karins with the latest on ida's path and when people along the gulf coast will really begin to feel the impact of this storm. bill, we are talking potential ocean surges of up to 15 feet above normally dry land. what does it mean for people in the direct path? >> that means it is historic. that means know your elevation. if you are in southeastern louisiana, the coast of mississippi, one of the most important things you need to know is what the elevation of your house is. if you are above that 15 feet, you don't have to worry about wave action on top it, likely you will be okay. your emergency managers know all of this information. if they're telling you to evacuate, evacuate. this is not a storm to pool around with. we do not know exactly how intense it is going to get in the next 24 hours. right now it is a category 2. it could try to make it all the way up to category 4 right up until landfall and push the wall of water into the swampy, low-lying areas of southeastern louisiana. you can already see where the storm is. it is just comi

i want to bring bill karins into the conversation. we were e-mailing yesterday, because i was on the ground covering sandy and saw the devastation. a lot of folks were worried this was going to do what in fact sandy did. so far, so good, it seems like, but combining of what we heard from ron and kathy, we're not yet out of the woods yet. it seems as though at this point it slowed down. so where are we? >> a sigh of relief. we predict what storms will be like, but this storm is an underperforming one. three to five had the foot surge was the potential. i didn't see anything over a foot, i didn't see in surge damages. power outages, we now have 125,000 people without power, much less than predicted. it's horrible for the people who have lost power, mostly areas of rhode island and western connecticut. and the last wild card, will it overperform or underperform with the flooding? we think there's potential for significant flooding through tonight. so you already see where the center of the storm is. there's no rain on the east side of th

i believe we might have bill karins on standby. is bill with us? >> yes. you got me? >> hi, bill. talk us through what it is we're seeing, the ways in which this storm is moving. i know that you are doing the hard work of actually tracking the storm. so i'm going to pull you away from your monitor, move you over here where you can explain it to me and explain to the audience. >> a little break. i can get out and look at the data. and the big story that's going on right now is that the storm stopped going west. the storm was heading towards houma. it stalled out for almost like an hour or two, and now it's going due north. that's huge implications for the new orleans area. notice the winds. these are pretty strong now. new orleans international airport, 74-mile-per-hour gusts. reserve up to 74. baton rouge up to 47. my rule of thumb is like 45 and above, 50 and above, that's when tree limbs start coming down and power outages start. that's going to begin shortly in baton rouge and for our folks in slidell. the extreme wind warning is issued when the center of the storm comes onshor

first let's go right to meteorologist bill karins for the very latest forecast. bill. >> yeah, good morning. with every storm, there's kind of like a fog you have especially right after a landfall. if you go through overnight, people don't have power and we can't tell what's going on in a lot of the areas. that's kind of what we're in right now. we know southeast louisiana was hit hard. we did get some video from the area that made landfall by some of the storm chasers out there. we won't get a real good scope of how bad the damage was until the sun comes up and we get helicopters in the air to show us what some of that looks like. in the new orleans area, we know the biggest issue is power, the power for sewage, the power for people in their houses. it's new orleans. it's hot. it's humid. everyone's had one very uncomfortable night and everyone is wondering how long that's going to continue. the majority of louisiana's power outages are right there? downtown new orleans. as far as the latest on the storm, it's still barreling just barely. it's approaching areas t

bill karins is tracking where it is heading next.cy, is that more of what we can expect? >> no. this was one of the first times that we heard that one of the levees was being overtopped by water. this is not in new orleans. overtopping means, pretend this was the levee. the water has built up high enough, the water is coming over it. sometime that can weaken a levee and lead to a failure. if the structure is fine, that overstopping a temporary problem until the water level begins to lower. because it is going to that area, they issued a flash flood emergency. they're telling the residents to get to safety immediately. we're going to get more information on that. we're not sure how populated of an area that is. that is the first time i've heard anywhere throughout the storm that we've had any problems with any levees. we know we've had unprotected areas from storm surge but this was a protected area. so we'll get more details. extreme wind warning, it looks like that has been canceled. the winds are low enough. in the last two minutes

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bill karins, we appreciate it. by the way, bill, thank you very much by the way before we let bill go, i want to say thanks i was driving east on i-80 from, you know, pittsburgh to stroudsburg yesterday or this weekend and i passed -- these are pictures i took, trying to keep all safety laws by the way, while driving, hundreds of utility trucks, pac power, res, many others i forgot to name, from missouri, indiana, ohio, colorado, all driving east to go to new jersey in the northeast to help out with the storm damage, bring our power back on. these are literally people leaving their families to go help out strangers and these are pictures i took and i just want to say thanks to everybody this is really a lot of negative stuff out there, this is america at its best. people driving thousands of miles in some cases to help out strangers, shoutout to all of them >>> all right, on deck, grace capitals is back to lay out the trading week ahead and stock names you may have never heard about before >>> and your morning rbi,

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let's get to meteorologist bill karins. we rarely see tropical storms hit the northeast. what can we expect? >> good morning. we're going to still see -- just because it got downgraded from 5 miles per hour, that's it. it's really not much of a difference. low category 1 and a strong tropical storm. still deal with the same storm surge. maybe slightly less wind damage and then we're still going to have epic amounts of rainfall. we've already seen that in some areas of new york city. some areas reported six inches of rain overnight. to the latest on the storm, see where it's located just south now of about new bedford and newport, rhode island. the storm is starting to bend to the left. we are going to have this heading up towards the connecticut/rhode island border. doesn't look like we'll get that island landfall, but it does look like it should be happening near westerly, rhode island. winds are starting to pick up along the twin forks of long island. a wind gust on block island up to 50 miles per hour. slowly the winds are moving onshore and we'll begin to have power o

let's go to meteorologist bill karins for the forecast. bill, any break from the heat?ot day and then we'll trend back to what it typically should be like. the pacific northwest, you have today and a little bit tomorrow, the dangerous heat, of course, the fires are still going in many of the areas. we don't want to see them spreading rapidly. it's not windy, but it's hot. in the northeast we're seeing mostly the i-95 corridor that's impacted. we still have heat warnings. philadelphia, hartford, boston, d.c., it will be hot but not as sticky. it won't be refreshing until saturday or sunday. for new york ;uócity, it will f like 104. same for washington, d.c. same for raleigh. the relief is coming from the great lakes and midwest. what a beautiful day it will be in minneapolis. chicago will feel better and detroit with highs in the mid-80s. notice on sunday, d.c. high of only 80. boston only in the upper 70s. so saturday, pretty warm. sunday and monday should be very nice. it should be a great sunday, by the way. we still have to watch what happens with what should be trop

oil has been on the move it's up another percent this morning and let's get to nbc meteorologist bill karins with the latest bill >> good morning, seema this is as about as serious as it gets for the northern gulf coast and unbelievable we're targeting louisiana, again last year they were hit by four, kind of five storms in one season this time we're not targeting lake charles, this could be a close one for new orleans. pretty weak storm and it has to travel over the very warm waters over the gulf of mexico and it looks ideal for strengthening conditions we may get rapid intensification over the next 60 hours and this storm will be intensifying right up until landfall the hurricane center has a category 2 with 1 100-mile-per-hour winds come sunday at 1:00 a.m. and then landfall sunday late afternoon or during the evening as a category 3 with 1 115-mile-per-hour winds. if this thing can get its act together fast today, it's not out of the question, could be a category 4 at landfall or down to maybe a category 2 if we're lucky enough and it doesn't get its act together the hurricane center is

we'll go to meteorologist bill karins for the forecast. bill, any chance that the yankees can bet rained out tonight? >> a slight chance. maybe we can get that sweep in tonight. >> no, no. >> if it happens, it's over. >>> all right. let's get into all of these tropics. we have three storms out there, fred, henri and grace. fred produced tornados in south carolina and north carolina flash flooding. now the storm is over west virginia and heading for pittsburgh this morning. it will drag storms and heavy rains into the northeast. 24 million people have flash flood watches from richmond to baltimore to harrisburg. as far as the wet weather, 1 to 3 inches from pennsylvania, all the way into interior sections of new york. watch out, isolated tornados from d.c. to baltimore. finally, i'll end with this, we have to watch tropical storm henri. this one is trying to inch closer to the new england coastline while it goes for the upcoming weekend. that includes nantucket and a portion of cape cod. one model brings it into the picture on sundaying into

we turn to meteorologist bill karins. what's going on? >> we've got a lot going on. fires in the west, and the biggest of them all, the dixie fire, continues to expand as we went throughout the weekend. new evacuation orders. this is now the second biggest fire in terms of action rectangle burned in california history. it's incredible. devastating. the houses, there's nothing left. just apocalyptic. it's crazy. >>> let's get into the forecast for the dixie fire. that's a big one. it's still warm, a hot week ahead. no rain in sight. what it will depend on is if it's humid or not. the worst problem with the dixie fire, the air quality has been horrendous, especially in colorado over the last couple of weeks some of as far as today goes, the story in the middle of the country is the heat. hot. it's humid. we're still at the peak of the heat season. one of the stories toward the end of this week, another record-breaking heatwave is under way for the northwest. this will be wednesday to saturday with the peak being thursday to friday. we could be 105 in portland, oregon.

let's go to meteorologist bill karins for the forecast. hey, bill. >> hey, good morning, alicia. so much going on between heat waves. we could have a tropical storm over florida this weekend, not to mention we're going to deal with severe weather today too. let's get to the first big headline, and that's the heat. we have 91 million people at risk for the heat advisories and warnings. philadelphia is under a heat warning, the midwest and deep south. this is the dog days of summer. some of the hottest days will be today through thursday, getting a little cooler o every the weekend. to the northwest, we'll get a high of 112. the hottest, thursday and friday. this is the second-most shattering heave wave. how hot will it be? >> the heat indices, when you combine the temperature and feels-like temperature with the humidity in the air will be between 105 raleigh will feel like 95. the heat is on in the midwest. if you're not dealing with heat, you'll have severe weather to deal with. yesterday we had big storms and a couple of tornadoes in the areas. the southern plains into the midwe

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. >>> we want to go ahead and bring in meteorologist bill karins to talk about how long of a night we're talking about. the last we heard, this was really baseballing towards houma, baton rouge in a few hours, is it still tracking that way? landfall, threw hours ago, it was so swampy. and so it hasn't really gone over significant land yet. that's where it will, dulac is posting some extreme wind damage there. morgan chessty is not -- they're hungered now. when this eye goes through, the inner eye goes through shortly, that's when they'll get their extreme winds. the west side will have the east side. anywhere to the south side will have more wind damage. so keep that in mind. we can show you though those pictures. yes they'll constituent get gusts. galliano had a high of 84. that's the highest i've seen on the lakefront. the winds are starting to head towards gonzalez, hammond, and eventually baton rouge. charge year devices now while you can, stock the freezer of everything that's frozen and keep it shut. you never know when you'll lose power, so the storm winds, the red is the hurrican

let's go to meteorologist bill karins for the forecast. bill? >> hey, good morning.ot some interesting things happening with henri in new england as we go through this upcoming weekend. first let's deal with the immediate. that's dealing with the remnants of fred. we still have a lot of heavy rain. we had tornado warnings in new jersey overnight from this storm. we're going to see exiting during the day. we have flash flood watches in areas of green. in maroon, we have flash flood watches in new york, right around utica. additional rainfall. a lot of the heaviest rain will be in southern new hampshire, vermont, 1 to 2 inches. all of this mess from fred will finally be gone by this evening. let's get to the interesting stuff. this is tropical storm henri. this is about 200 to 300 miles southwest of bermuda. it's slowly going to be making its turn to the west and north in the days ahead. i do think it will be a category 1 hurricane off of cape hatteras. look how close it is to nantucket and cape cod. slowly weakening by the time we get down. our interest, our high conc

meteorologist bill karins, before we get the latest on ida, you're following developments from alliance and the levee failure there. what are you seeing? >> we've only had a couple levee failures. the one was in alliance and another john lafitte areas, had about 200 people bravely at risk and needed to get them out of there. the alliance area is where the fill phillips 66 oil refinery highway 23 along the mississippi river, that's a grave concern not just for anyone left there, hopefully everyone evacuated but start worrying about the environmental impacts of all of the storm surge and levee breaks and everything else. we'll see the aerials and pictures throughout the morning. the sun is coming out. the coast guard are out there trying to assess and rescue people if necessary. we had 18 inches of rain near hammond and down to laplace and we have emergencies also for those locations, so yeah, we have our hands full still. even though the storm weakened significantly, it still can produce tornadoes this afternoon and not fun from biloxi to mobile to pensacola. those bands are still spiral

let's go to bill karins for the forecast.l say that movie makes me cry every time. and i hope that the weather is good in iowa tonight. >> yeah, it's debatable. that movie and "miracle," two of my favorite sports movies. as far as the forecast goes, i looked up and it looks like 92 for a high, mostly sunny and no storms that they've had the past couple days, and the corn is high this time of year. let's look at the obvious headlines. the heat is still one of the big, big stories out there. heat warnings in the northwest and almost all of the east is under heat advisories or warnings. the exception being the southeast, not like it's chilly there, it's still hot but you're used to it. 106 million people impacted by the advisories or warnings. the warnings are up for st. louis, boston, hartford and file. how hot? close to record highs today. we'll be close to record high in washington d.c., record is 99 today. it'll be interesting this afternoon if we get there or not, but you get the idea. this is hot for this time of year. and

meteorologist bill karins tracking the heat. , a scorcher. >> makes you look forward to fall we'll likely see today going down as the hottest day coast to coast in the lower 48 so far this summer. it might be topped tomorrow. by the numbers, you just mentioned it, 146 million from the pacific northwest to texas to chicago all the way through the northeast. so many of us included i know we don't have florida and georgia and mississippi and south carolina included on this but trust me, it's hot there too, they're just more used to it the rest of the week, tomorrow will be the peak of the heat wave in d.c. we do have a chance of hitting 100 in the nation's capital. new york city mid-90s. we'll be in the mid to upper 90s st. louis, nashville remember, those are the temperatures taken in the shade. then when you add in humidity, this is the feels-like temperature when you walk outside on your skin d.c. could be one of the hottest spots in the country tomorrow with the feels-like temperature of 110 degrees that's dangerous categories.

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let's go to bill karins for more on this.ar i think we had four, maybe five storms making impact in the state. this one doesn't look like it's headed for lake charles, this could be a serious threat for central louisiana and possibly the new orleans area. let's get to the latest, winds ticked up from 40 to 45 miles per hour, the bottom line is this storm has 60 hours until landfall and it's going to intensify all the way up into landfall. it's a matter of how strong could this storm get in the next 60 hours, two and a half days. the hurricane center thinks this thing will have a category 2, 100 miles per hour winds midnight saturday night into sunday morning. they are saying a major hurricane landfall with 115 mile per hour winds as a category 3, close to morgan city or homa, that's that center red line. two days out that's about 80 to 100 miles average air so this could shift east or west and then the storm is going to slowly weaken and bring torrential rain and even some high winds right over baton rouge and then it will ra

. >> nbc news meteorologist bill karins is tracking ida for us. bill, this storm comes exactly 16 years after hurricane treene devastated new orleans. how prepared is this area for a hurricane likealicia, we'll fin. we spent $15 billion to prevent another treene. the levies were built up, the pumps were improved. everything in new orleans has been improved, so we don't have that situation ever happen again. it's going to be a test. this will be one of the biggest tests we've had since all of those improvements were made. but the bottom line with the storm, everything that's been prepared, it should be able to handle it. it should be able to handle the 1 to 2 feet of rain. you can see the storm coming closer to new orleans, closer to the louisiana coastline. it's now only roughly about 300 miles away. it is a strong category 2 at 105 miles per hour. we think it's going to become a category 3 overnight. and likely a category 4 early tomorrow morning. so landfall is likely as a category 3 or 4 major hurricane. south of new orleans, somewhere near gran

let's go to the meteorologist bill karins keeping an eye on tropical storm fred. eah, we're expecting that landfall later today. we just got the new information in from the national hurricane center. and we have a tropical storm warning for panama city. we expect about 8:00 p.m. today that potential landfall there right along the coastal area. here's the new update. winds are at 50 miles per hour. it's gotten a little bit stronger. it's heading to the north at 9 miles per hour. the weather will go downhill quickly today. you can see the big bend area, panama city. 60 miles per hour is the peak winds will move on shore. not enough to do a lot of damage. there will be a little bit of storm surge. there could be isolated tornadoes. it will head north to georgia by the time we get to tuesday. the biggest impacts would be rainfall if we get them. locally up to 10 inches on the gulf coast. flash flood threat for the appalachian mountains. eventually all of that rain will head up into the mid-atlantic region. finally we still have a tropical depression grace to talk about

bill karins starts us off tonight with the latest on ida. bill. >> good evening, joshua. we are getting in the new 8:00 p.m. advisory from the national hurricane center. we are also now for the first seem seeing the center of the storm on radar. that's the green you see here beginning to show up. that is about 275, 285 miles from new orleans at the current time. so the white is the clouds. the green is the rain bands. and those will be moving on shore as we go throughout the overnight hours. this is the satellite imagery and we color it to kind of see the brighter reds. kind of lets meteorologists know where the stronger portions of storm are. this is the new advisory. 105 miles per hour so the winds did not increase. that's great. we want to keep this as weak as possible. we don't think it is going to get weaker before a landfall but we do expect it to get stronger. hurricane center still thinks it could become a category 3 hurricane overnight. it may be right before landfall, possibly getting up to a category 4. so we should expect major hurricane landfall in south earn

nbc meteorologist bill karins starts us out tonight with the latest on

let's go to nbc news meteorologist bill karins who has got this new forecast. that looks massive and pretty frightening, bill. what you got for us? >> it's nervous times in louisiana, coastline of mississippi. every will wiggle or wobble really could change what your town looks like when this storm is done. we know it's heading in as a major hurricane, maybe category 3 or category 4 for southern louisiana. exactly where it makes landfall and what town gets the most destruction is what we still have to figure out. the latest from the hurricane sfler, this was the 11:00 a.m. advisory. the winds are at 85 miles per hour. we have not seen the rapid intensification this morning that we were fearful of. that's why they went from 140 mile per hour landfall to 130. the weaker we can keep this thing over the next 24 hours t better for everyone. all indications are it is going to strengthen and maybe rapidly strengthen later tonight. the hurricane center has it going up to 130 mile an hour winds. sunday morning at 7:00 a.m., notice that the path, the hurricane center has

. >> bill karins, one question for you. did i hear you correctly that you say this is going to impact 36 million people? >> that's how many people are in the potential risk area for flash flooding. so not all of those people are going to get flash flooding. but in that green area that i showed you, that's where the heavy rain is going to set up over the next two days. we still have serious issues to deal with in the days ahead. >> well, stay tuned to msnbc. do not change the channel. thank you bill karins for that reporting. >>> turning now to nbc polling that was just released moments ago. for the first time in his presidency, joe biden's approval rating is below 49%. it's a four-point drop in approval compared to april and a nine-point bump in disapproval. the poll was conducted before and during and immediately after the fall of kabul. just 25% of adults approve of biden's handling of afghanistan and 60% disapprove. he is also set to give an update on afghanistan at 4:00 p.m. eastern today. 53% approve of the handling of

. >>> let's get to bill karins now, nbc meteorologist just north of the center on the right side, that eye will beat the crap out of you. it beat them up for hours and hours. it was horrible. >> and houma was on the back side, on the western eye wall for six hours, a major hurricane after land fall, almost unheard of you're right, warm, swampy water. let me take you through what happened today and what's going to happen in the next couple of days this ended up being the fifth strongest hurricane land fall on record and it tied lara louisiana has the distinction, unfortunately -- the first ever with back-to-back 150-mile-per-hour hurricanes max sustained gusts, the area that was just crushed with the strongest wind well-built structures, ones that were built to withstand a major hurricane have reported significant damage flash flooding around new orleans, back toward biloxi and gulf port. those are done the areas in blue there, we have a lot of river flooding going on damage is still being done to homes and structures in those areas. only meridian, mississippi, is under a flash flood wa

but let's go right to bill karins, nbc 4 meteorologist, as you focus on the storm.was bumped up, it was not unexpected, from a category 1 to category 2. talk about where it stands right now and its potential to hit a cat 4. >> right now the forecast is to go to a cat 4. i think it easily will be a category 3, possibly a category 4 at landfall. we're not going to mention cat 5 at this point. we don't think it has enough time to do that. we are about 24 hours away from landfall right now. last hour if you were with us i was watching two things. one, obviously the high was getting better defined, we thought it would intensify, which it did. it went from 85 to 100-mile-per-hour winds and that's an estimate right now. we don't have planes flying in the area right now. they will get there in two to three hours and then we will get a new estimate of the exact intensity of the storm. the other thing, that northeast little wobble we have seen was happening. it wasn't just my eyes fooling me, so that new position a little bit to the right of where the forecast line was suppos

and our top notch meteorologist bill karins sent out a note to our group and said ida is making a run for one of the strongest storms to hit louisiana. it's in the perfect environment for the strengthening. it doesn't have a lot of time, but enough time to see 155-mile-per-hour winds. look what happens. the story doesn't end there. the winds, storm surge and also the rainfall, torrential rainfall. but then it slows down. and then it's really going to become a story of tornadoes, strong thunderstorms, heavy, heavy rainfall. we stop this right around tennessee and remember just a week ago we saw 17 inches in tennessee in one spot and we're going to add to those totals. and then by thursday we're still seeing the impact in the mid atlantic. those grounds are so saturated also. we could have enough oomph to this storm to see thunderstorms and a tornado risk come wednesday and thursday in the mid-atlantic. so, let's talk about the first impact. this is where the levee protection system is going to be tested. all those walls. all the money put in for the protection. and we do believe that t

that's nbc meteorologist bill karins starting us off tonight. let's get to the situation in afghanistan, if you're not looking at the tv, stop, look up. the pentagon identified the service members killed by a suicide attack on thursday. these are their names. 13 of them. it happened at a check point outside the airport in kabul. the blast also killed dozens of afghan civilians. president biden promised swift retaliation for the attack. some of which has already come. last night on his order, the u.s. military carried out a drone strike against isis-k, that group claimed responsibility for the airport attack. this morning, general william taylor confirmed that the strike killed two high profile isis targets and another one was wounded. but the threat of another attack at the airport remains. the state department is urging americans in kabul to stay away from the facility. this afternoon, a statement from the president warned that another attack is quote highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours unquote. now, tuesday is the deadline for the u.s. to

bill karins will break it down in a few minutes. meantime, a live look at rhode island. where henri made landfall around 12:00 p.m. it's near westerly. the storm's maximum sustained winds reached 60 miles an hour at landfall. let's now get to a live look at our roving camera. that one has been driving through connecticut. we're going to move there now. it is near the rhode island border. while connecticut was spared from a direct hit, the governor in the last hour stressing we need to take the impact of this storm seriously. >> don't get complacent. as i said before, sandy, those were not hurricanes either. because the terrain is so wet, you do have, just a 40, 50 gusts. knocks over trees and that's why we're watching the power outage situation so carefully. >> and to give you a live look from the earth cam, we're looking at montauk, new york. the storm is causing threatening conditions. it has brought with it dangerous storm surge, strong winds, also some flooding rainfall. and in washington, the president will be speaking later on this afternoon with an update on how h

thanks so much. >>> bill karins, meteorologist bill karins, take a look at the storm for us right nowed the worst, bumping up against category 5 territory there. the sun is up now over the gulf coast, how is the reality comparing to some of those predictions. >> it's exactly what you would expect with a category 4. you are not seeing, you know, like a category 5, you know, or higher, sometimes you are left with the foundation of the house, that's t there's nothing else left. we are not seeing that, but i've been seeing pictures day break here of a lot of those structures that are destroyed. you kind of -- you see the building and you see the debris and don't know what it looked like beforehand. you will be seeing those pictures all day today. we look at houma, the leaves are stripped off all the trees, i was seeing those pictures, that's expected, the trees that are still standing, that is. areas down at the coast is what we're still waiting to see, how bad that storm surge was, what damage that did and the winds. we have flash flood emergencies going on. we have levee problems in joh

let's bring in meteorologist bill karins. , you tracked this thing relenltslessly before, during, an after landfall. we talked about how it's going to have a long tail. how are things looking today? >> we're still going to see new communities getting flash flooding. i'm hearing reports of a road washed out in mississippi, two fatalities, ten injuries some of we're not done with tall damage yet. we have flash flood warnings down along the coastal areas. a lot of the rain has moved into the rivers and we have major and moderate river flooding. anywhere you see in blue around new orleans, hammitt and elsewhere, we have heavy rain reporting in biloxi and alabama. we're not completely done. when you talk about a million people without power, it's hot in the south. i mean it's humid after that storm moved through. it's going to feel like 100 degrees in the afternoon in the shade in new orleans. it's not going to feel any better as we go into wednesday. the heat index will feel like 101. as you expect, it stays hot and humid through

to meteorologist bill karins with the forecast. o me massacre the sports. >> no, i was looking forward to it. yeah. running back and backing in the same sentence was not the easiest. so, what i don't want to do for the weekend is have more coverage of another hurricane. and it is possible, i'll get to that in a second. let's start with the immediate, and then i'll get to the developing news in the tropics. first off today, it's hot just like yesterday. 60 million people under heat advisory. pretty much all of the central plains into the ohio valley. the new york city is under a heat advisory in buffalo, syracuse and rochester. it was brutal yesterday in areas of new orleans, shreveport, feels like 109. tulsa, 111. d.c., 100. still the dog days of summer. it's ac weather. and then thursday, indianapolis, very hot and humid. it's not until this weekend things will significantly cool down. syracuse gets cooler, portland. new york city gets cooler on saturday. but that cooler air doesn't reach much further south. d.c. going to stay hot

joining me now is nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> hey, jonathan. the bottom line with this storm is it's like a big huge nor'easter and the winds are similar to a nor'easter but there's leaves on the trees so we're going to get a lot more power outages than we typically do. and tropical systems can bring a lot of rain to the surface and flash flooding will be a major concern as we go throughout the next 48 hours. you can see on the radar the storm is very close to block island. it is now only about an hour or two away from crossing the coast line of rhode island for an official landfall. it will not become a hurricane again. it will make landfall as a tropical storm. the strongest winds and the best chance of power outages will be from about new london, montawk, from block island, westerly, providence, newport. that's where you can see the strongest winds are now. it is a narrow area. this is not going to be a widespread power outage event all the way through long island and connecticut and into massachusetts. because the winds just aren't strong e

. >>> we want to bring in bill karins, tracking the path of the storm. bill, where are we? >> we're in the final stage, the final concern was the heavy rain we've been a band of very heavy rain that's falling, and now that rain mass shifted all the way from landfall, all the way into areas of the hudson valley, into the catskills. when you start to get to heavy rain bands in the mountainous areas, that's when you get concerned form areas in the maroon, have the possibility of flash flooding. the majority of new york city area is under the flash wood warning, and hartford and new haven. additional rainfall, as much as 2 to 4 inches. in some areas of new york city, they've already had already 6 inches of rain. look at the winds. they're not that bad. the trees can handle that just fine. the power outage numbers were 125,000, now 115,000, so some people are getting their power back on already. that's fantastic news. hopefully those without power they'll get it on in the next 24 to 48 hours. with all line crews that are on standby, they were knock that out in a hurry. again, as

let's go to meteorologist bill karins for the forecast. bill, how is it looking?er than it had been in new england as henri leaves and i think that race was fixed at the end there. that look like dive to me. all right. so henri yesterday did still bring some very heavy rain to areas that were hit for the second time. just look at the path of henri. came on shore. took a trip through connecticut. went to the cat skills. and then, decided to drive i-84 back through connecticut and is now exiting cape cod. what a path for this storm and we are done with it. so this is still the peak of the tropical season. the first week of september is the actual peak. so this is the time of year we always have systems to track out there. we have three what we'll call areas of interest right now. thankfully for us in the lower 48, none of these is heading directly for us. so i think we are going to have at least a week of pretty quiet conditions out there with no concerns for any landfalls or interactions with some heavy rain from any of those systems. but for today, it is hot in th