i'm cnn meteorologist, derek van dam from houma, louisiana.o you. >> derek van dam in the middle of it all in east baton rouge parish. search and rescue crews are out looking for residents who may need help now. officials asking them to stay in place so those crews can clear away safety hazards, including power lines in the water. joining me now is the mayor of baton rouge, sharon weston broom. we know you have a lot on your plate this morning. i wonder if you and the search and rescue teams have a handle now on how many residents are in need of help. >> actually, we believe baton rouge was largely spared and we don't see a large number of folks involved in search and rescue, but we are assessing the situation this morning search and rescue teams are out as well as our other departments that are assessing all the damage. the truth is that we are really sending a lot of our resources, including our search and rescue teams out to our neighbors in the surrounding parishes, recognizing that they received more devastation than our parish did. >> go

derek van dam thank you so much. providence, rhode island, appreciate it. mark pompas directs the emergency management agency. good so see you. how are average citizens preparing? what are they doing? are they sandbagging? are they putting up plywood? what's the scene? >> we're not to that point where plywood and sandbags are being deployed. i got off the phone with the national weather service we had the latest up to date forecast specific to rhode island. it's predicted the storm will make land fall over long island, that puts us in the concern where the winds are more heavy and winds are greater. we're looking at winds 50, 60, 75, maybe even 80 miles per hour on the coast, 40 to 50 miles an hour inland and the bay is a concern for the storm surge predicted, 4 to 6. >> so rhode island's governor is fleeing up federal funds to help with the response so what kind of resources does that give you to work with? >> sure. we've been watching the storm for a while now. especially when it took that northern turn. and when it did so, we were in constant contact wit

back to you, john. >> derek van dam, thank you very much, as always. good luck today. >>> joining us now, atlanta governor of louisiana, billy nungesser. thank you for joining us. we know you're in baton rouge right now. what are things looking like where you are? >> we've gotten through the worst of it here. the wind has died down. where the levees have seemed to f have failed, we're working to get people as the water is rushing up highway 23, another area heavily impacted. as the sun comes up we'll see widespread destruction from the winds and the water. >> at this point, is it unknown? do you have a sense of what the damage may be, of what the human toll may be? we know that st. john the baptist parish has been inundated with 911 calls for rescues because of flooding and yet we know rescuers haven't been able to go to the folks who need help. >> we've gotten calls overnight of people that were stranded because of the safety issue, they couldn't go out till this morning. i'm sure we're going to find many people in their attics, on r rooftops that rod

so active both in north america and europe as well. >> thanks so much, derek van dam.ioned, hot air and strong winds are adding fuel to dozens of wildfires in greece and fires in athens have already caused massive devastation. elinda labropoulou is joining me from a town outside the capital city. i'm struck by the devastation behind you. what is the latest on the efforts to contain those fires that have been raging for almost a week now? >> reporter: as you can see the devastation behind me is immense. the good news is that the fire in athens has practically been put out, but of course there are fears of the fire rekindling. so authorities are on high alert, they are everywhere, but citizens have returned to their homes. we've spoken to a lot of people who are trying to put their lives back together, see what remains. and there is great concern about the forest that has burned, this beautiful area that so many people refer to as the lungs of athens. at the same time big fires continue to burn across the country particularly on the island of evia, greece's second larges

i want to bring in our meteorologist derek van dam in houma, louisiana. ida expected to make landfall right around where you are. give us a little sense of what you're experiencing already and it's still an hour or two or three away. >> reporter: wolf, that's right. this is the stuff of nightmares. it's unfolding right before us. we are staring down the eye of a monster not 50 miles away from where i'm standing in houma, louisiana. this is the time to shelter in place. if you had friends that didn't evacuate, if you're here in this location and didn't evacuate, it's time to get inside your home, away from windows, in that secure location that you've thought about and have your hurricane preparedness ready. extreme wind warnings have been designated for this area all the way to the gulf of mexico. that is reserved from the national weather service for only the most rarest of events, this being one of them. 115-mile-per-hour sustained winds at a minimum. that is life-threatening. that is potentially catastrophic to this area. that's why they've issued that

i'm senior meteorologist derek van dam in newport, rhode island.to you. >> let's bring in meteorologist pedram javaheri. let's look at the tropical storm. where is it heading? >> 12, 13 kilometers per hour, it's still moving to the west, northwest. so it is still moving away from the water. we do expect a sharp right turn within the next several hours and gradually pulling off back towards the east. that's the concern. it's already rained here quite a bit in the past 24 hours. we know the month of july brought in the wettest month on record for new york state as well as the state of massachusetts. and a tropical depression by the name of fred moved across this region in the last week-and-a-half or so that made this area saturated. we have winds of 50, 60, 70 miles per hour, up around near hurricane force. it's not going to take much to bring trees down. that's why we saw 100,000 customers without power. rainfall amounts again exceeding 200 in a few spots there from brooklyn up towards cranberry, new jersey, there picking up 226 millimeters in just

. >>> our coverage begins with cnn derek van dam live in houma, louisiana. i know you were getting whipped around earlier. what does it look like now? >> reporter: yeah. we were in the bulls eye of the storm. it was a nightmare snarcenario t unfolded here before our eyes. it was relentless. the ending fury of category 4 hurricane winds felt right where i'm located -- i just -- it's so hard to describe exactly what happened. i'm going to do my best to share it with you. it was white knuckle, anxious moments for my team, the people on the ground here, and certainly for the individuals who tried to ride out the storm in the area. it was like taking, for example, an analogy. it was like taking a direct hit from an ef 3 tornado. winds over 140 miles per hour. over a large space of time. and over a large distance, as well. the storm, we anticipated the eye to go over this area. so we thought we would get some respite. that did not happen. the storm pivoted and pounded us with the relentless wipd for hours. there have been helicopters flying around. familiar sounds

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to start with where the storm is right now, let's go to derek van dam in newport where the landfall is imminent. derek, can you hear me? what's the situation? >> chris, you and i have ridden out enough of these hurricanes to know this storm means business. it's the fact that there are so many trees and the saturated ground that will bring up that power outage map very, very quickly. in rhode island we've already had over 66,000 customers without power. take it from me, someone who rode out a storm last week for four days without power, that's hugely impactful. every once in a while we'll get these storm force gusts that come through. people are venturing outside here in newport. it is generally safe to do so, but there have been reports of trees down near the coastal roads, and people just taking advantage of what is an out of the ordinary day. they're used to nor'easters in the winter time when there are no leaves in the trees. in the summertime, when you have full foliage, those act almost as a sail. that's why we're seeing such a large increase and a spike in power outages because t

cnn meteorologist derek van dam is there for us. what are you seeing there, derek? >> reporter: yeah, pamela, in fact residents are taking advantage of that very narrowing window of opportunity to sandbag, to prepare their homes and to protect themselves from this monster hurricane that is approaching. this is a particularly vulnerable location. i'm in the terrebonne parish, home of about 100,000 people. where i'm standing right now, only 10 feet above sea level and that's pretty much the story across much of this particular parish. of course there are a system of levees in place, floodgates have been closing and will continue to close up until the approach of hurricane ida. of course this is within the city and a state that has been hit particularly hard by the covid pandemic. low vaccination levels and high hospitalizations adds a complexity to this whole situation as well. talked to a nurse from this particular area just off camera telling me that she's never witnessed or experienced in her entire career of working here a mandatory evacuation aside from katrina.

derek van dam. let's try to go back to tom sater and see if we got that mic situation solved. tom, give us the latest on ida. this is shaping up to be a massive storm. we heard governor edwards warning about this, just how far wide across it is. this is a scary storm that's about to come ashore. >> no doubt, jim, this is going to be a multimillion dollar devastating effect and ongoing for days. many people will be without power and uninhabitable for weeks. as this makes landfall, it's expected as a category 4. the wind core will be providing stronger winds than we had with the landfall of katrina, but katrina is a much different beast. in fact it had a longer life cycle. at one time it got up to a category 5 so there was much more water welling under katrina. it was carrying with it much more water and on a different approach to create those storm surges that are much greater than we'll see with ida. those were 17, even 20. we are not going to see that. we're going to be looking at an impact that's going to be quite something and really it's unfortunate that's the state of lou

cnn's derek van damme and nadia is on the ground. tom, what's the latest forecast? this thing is strengthening, no doubt about it? >> no doubt about it, jim. what we've been watching is a well-defined eye popping up. inside the eye, columns of warm air are shooting up and cooling at the top. we got a lot of lightning activity, so it's strengthening. we'll get a 5:00 p.m. update from the national weather service, but we'll see the pressure drop. when the pressure drops, the winds respond and they really pick up. so, again, we're at 100-mile-an-hour sustained storm. we're about 290 miles from the mouth of the mississippi. four out of five hurricanes last year made landfall in louisiana. we are looking at a multibillion-dollar disaster ahead of us for land tomorrow. laura, which made its way over lake charles, $17.5 billion in damage. there are thousands of homes that are still covered in blue tarp, still a lot of damage, a lot of repairs. we got thousands that are living in fema trailers. but also you toss zada in there, this was another $1.5 billion. if there's anywh

. >>> we'll bring in derek van dam live in hard-hit houma, louisiana. it was touch and go for awhile for you there. what is it looking like right now at this hour? >> reporter: it was a nightmare that, really, unfolded in front of our eyes here. for the residents that decided to actually ride out the storm here in terrabonne parish, incredible. it was like, as an analogy, like taking a direct hit from an ef-4 tornado. that was 50 miles wide that moved over the same location for several hours. it was relentless. it was daunting. it was almost like driving in white knuckle traffic. that high anxiety, high pressure situation. it wears you down. our producers on the third floor of our team actually felt the room in this reinforced concrete building sway in the wind. that's how incredible it actually was. listen, the sounds we've had here. familiar to me who has chased many hurricanes. we have generators in the distance. obviously, no power. just like nadya in new orleans. that's going to continue for days, if not weeks. there are helicopters that have flown

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derek van dam is live in human a, louisiana. we heard from allison.e know we are hours from landfall. when we talked last hour, you were definitely feeling the impact of ida's outer bounds? >> reporter: yeah, listening to allison give those real-time updates really chilling, sending chills down my spine because we know that we are in the direct path of this monster hurricane. in fact, phil, i used to tell my kids that monsters don't exist, but now we are staring one down. just 100 miles from where i stand in the gulf of mexico, a terrifying sight for people waking up this morning, especially if you decided to ride out the storm. now is the time to shelter in place and look after each other because the weather will deteriorate quickly. we all know that. anywhere water touches, whether it's from the sky or from the ocean below, will be impacted by this particular storm. a very sobering statement from the governor of louisiana stating that this could potentially be the most powerful hurricane to strike louisiana since the 1850s. that is incredible. some

meteorologist derek van dam is in newport, rhode island.energy deck layerlation has been approved for rhode island. i'm wondering what it looks like where you are right now. >> well, if you can hear behind me, we are getting that all too family sound of an approaching tropical storm just bending around the mass of some of the sailboats that call this particular harbor home. we will get to those details in a moment. this is a different newport harbor than 24 hours ago. a couple of days ago thought this storm would be fish food. now it's arriving on the shores of southern new england and the impacts will be felt and unfolding in the next couple of hours. some good news. it's interacting with cold ocean water, so it is down graded to a tropical storm. we are splitting hairs when we talk about a low end cataegory hurricane. you have the winner of america's cup here. and we are going talk to the owner from this particular beautiful vessel behind me. i want to ask you if you don't mind how you prepare a ship of this magnitude from an on coming tr

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that's where we find cnn derek van dam live in new port. so, i see, it looks like you're starting to feel the outer bands? >> yeah, this s in fact, the first experience of henri that we had here in newport, rhode island. of course just to our west new york city getting hammered with heavy rain. over six inches in a very short period. we saw that unfold overnight last night. we are preparing for the first landfall in 30 years. this is really significant. the impacts of the storms but i walked around newport last night and people here, remember, this is high tourist season. people acting and behaving as if there wasn't a hurricane on its way. quite surprising. really the only people that i experienced yesterday taking this storm seriously were some of the ship captains and the boat owners. take a look at how this person prepared himself for the oncoming storm. >> i didn't think i would be protected, i would already be gone. if those projectiles start coming at me, really not a lot i can do. you have all the boats in the harbor. i don't think

derek van dam is there. how are things there? >> reporter: yeah, we have been watching hour an hour of people coming here, filling up sandbags, taking advantage of that narrowing opportunity to protect property, to protect their businesses, and quite frankly their lives. but as you can see now, there is no one. it seems as if people are taking heed of the mandatory curfew that was just -- went into effect at 6:00 p.m. local time. evacuations were ordered at 6:00 a.m. this morning. people have really vacated this particular area, and this is all that remains. of course, this particular region where i'm located, the terrebone parish, is extremely vulnerable to storm surge. you think about the previous storms that have just wreaked so much havoc on the south coast of louisiana, it has completely changed the natural barrier within that particular region, making this coastline very vulnerable to any approaching storm, let alone a category-four hurricane. we talked to a local nurse here that didn't want to be on camera, interviewed liv

let's go to derek van dam as close to the center of the storm. he's in newport, rhode island. what's the weather like? >> a blustery rhode island, too, brian. we're probably one to two hours away from the closest approach of hurricane henri. every moment or so we get blasted by strong gusts of wind, just verifying what allison talked about with 60-mile-an-hour gusts. we had a report of 69 miles an hour. look at the ripples there just fanning out and a lot of the boats just taking the brunt of this storm in the newport harbor where i'm currently located. you can see them swaying about, and a lot of the captains here, the owners of the ships we were speaking to earlier today, they have had to put extra lines down just to secure their property. we talk about power outages within rhode island specifically, with wind gusts in excess of 60 miles per hour, that saturated soil that allison was talking about. i expect the power outage number to spike quickly because we're already at 20,000, which is the most significant in terms of power outages across the new england coastline. but re

cnn's derek van dam is in rhode island. in the end, what areas are going to feel the worst of this?re talking about the potential of flooding today across portions of long island into connecticut, rhode island, and even into western massachusetts as well. it's just incredible to think that we're talking about flood potentials. would disasters that have taken place in different parts of our country, one in tennessee and here across new england. when the history books are all said and done, they're all written from tropical storm henri, it won't be the storm surge, the wind, but it will be this flood -- the flooding that took place. i want to show you what happened in middleton, new jersey. this was an area hit particularly hard at the onset of henri's arrival. they saw over eight inches of rain, short period of time that left roads flooded, that left businesses impacted. some of the cars left stranded within some of those roadways as well. the concern here going forward is that there is a very saturated ground, more rain on the way, another one to three in inches, weather prediction

. >> and joining me, now, is meteorologist, derek van dam. derek, two separate continents. two simultaneous disasters. what more can you tell us? >> yeah. the fires, over the western u.s., as well as the fires across southeastern europe are, both, dangerous and unpredictable due to the nature of the wind and the drought conditions that are in place. just in greece, alone, the past 24 hours, nearly-100 new fires. of which, 64 are still active. so, they are making some progress in some of the smaller fires. but, of course, as the reporter just discussed, a moment ago, they continue to approach certain populated areas, including the suburbs of athens. and it's not just greece we are talking about italy. we are talking about southwestern portions of turkey. you can see the hot spots from this modus satellite image. scattered about much of the mediterranean and it's all under the backdrop of extreme heat that has taken place across this region. a heat dome has formed. not much to push that stagnant air mass out of the way. so we continue to see that heat build, even though there

now to derek van dam on the phone with me from homer, louisiana, near where the storm made landfall.now we had trouble getting your signal up. you have been in louisiana since ida hit as a category 4. how bad has it been? >> rosemary, you can imagine communications are virtually impossible here. we took a direct hit in homa, louisiana. you are looking at southeastern louisiana. the eye wall went directly over us. i don't know how else to say it but it was a nightmare and unfolded in front of our eyes. it was a relentless never ending fury of category 4 winds. we thought we would go into the center of the storm. pedram talked about that, the eye of the storm. we did not get that. the storm moved to our north and east so it kept us in the eye wall of the hurricane for the entire duration. it was like taking winds an ef3 tornado, 136 to 160 miles per hour over a large area for a long period of time, three, four, five hours. my producers rooms were shaking. we are in a heavily reinforced concrete building that was built post-katrina. it was about 13 years old. that is post-katrina. it ca

dang derek van dam is in rhode island. across new england for the rest of today and perhaps even a little bit into tomorrow? >> reporter: well, erica, we're talking about heavy rain in tennessee and now also heavy rain across new england. with climate change and our warming planet, heavy rain events are 40% more likely to occur by the end of the century. warmer air, ability to hold more water, the potential to unleash more frequent flood events. here's an update of what i'm seeing with the latest out of heartfield, connecticut. this is an area with 2 to 4 inches of rain from henri's arrival. then the storm moved over the same region and now they have a flash flood warning. an additional 1 to 2 inches of rain. that means localized flash flooding. you've got to be aware if you're located in hartford that a flash flood warning is in effect for the next hour and 15 minutes. >> derek with the latest from new port. thank you. >>> hours from now, new york will have the first female governor. governor andrew cuomo's decade long ru

. >> thank you very much, derek van dam, appreciate it.e1 let's get more on the wildfires in greece,f the most dangerous blazes are just outside of the friday when a volunteer firefighter was çókilled.y1 at least 20 people have been hospitalized. elinda labropoulou joins us live from athens. elinda, i understand thew3 wind are really making it e1worse. what's the latest? >> reporter: yeah, they absolutely are, the heat changing direction. and therefore making operations much more difficult. there's a lot of firefighting w3 aircraft. yout;/s may be able to see some behind me. you'll definitely be able to see the haze and some of the smoke that's coming frome1 areas very very close to athens by now. a number of residential areas have been evacuated. andxd the fire is approaching, d this is just one of the many fires burning across greece. we understand that theçó fire close to the ancient site of owe olympia has also rekindled. there was a big front there som( days e1ago.Ñi now, fire-fightingçóçó operatio are under way there to try to prevent anyt( damage to the archeological site. it'

let's bring in derek van dam. what you are seeing there, i remember seeing that same scene in paradise a couple years ago, those devastating fires there. what is the latest in. >> yeah, it is also hard to actually comprehend that the same type of natural disasters unfolding on two different continents in such a ferocious way. we have what is taking place in greece, turkey, basically southeast europe and what is happening on the western portions of the united states in north america. but let's start in greece was the fire visuals coming out of the northern suburbs of the capital there in athens is just incredible. since sunday, they have burned over 6,000 hectares of acreage so far. and this is incredible because in 2020, the entire fire season only burnt 10,400 hectares. so really just puts this particular season in context because we still have several months to go of the dry hot summer, typical fire season weather months. you can see temperatures there as the reporter just mentioned have been excruciatingly hot,

cnn's derek van dam is on the story in houma. t now. what can you tell us? >> jim, these are literally scenes of my worst nightmares. we are staring down the eye of a monster category 4 hurricane. and it is unleashing its fury on houma, louisiana, as we speak. i have to continue to peer behind me because a large tree has just fallen down, and i want to make sure it doesn't travel this way. what you can't see to my right and to my left is that i do have protection between this concrete building. but this is what it's like to ride out a category 4 hurricane. it is extreme. it is loud. and it is literally feeling like a million pin pricks battering my face as these gusts come through. we've had intermittent internet connection here so we don't know how close we are to the eye wall, but my guess is that we have to be ten minutes from the strongest part of hurricane ida. you have to feel for the people here and just talking to some of the residents who decided to evacuate to this hotel where we are at, and they have told us that they a

cnn meteorologist derek van dam is there. what are you seeing there in houma, derek?porter: pamela, they're taking advantage of the narrowing opportunity to save property and save lives. you can see the individuals from houma, louisiana, terrebone parish, to take advantage of the sand deposited here, filling up sandbags, bringing them to their homes and businesses to protect them from the floodwaters that are indeed going to come to this region. what makes this area so vulnerable, ter abone parish? only seven feet above sea level. any storm surge above that has the potential to inundate this area. of course there's a series of levees and floodgates who have been closed. the levee system built in 2013 meant to protect this parish and 100,000 residents is meant to protect from a category 3 or one in 100-year event. this storm will arrive on our shores as a category 4 hurricane. that means it's going to test the limits of that particular levee system. i talked to a nurse from a local hospital within this area. she didn't want to be interviewed on camera, but this is inte

derek van dam is there in newport. what's the latest? >> reporter: chris, you make a really good point. vulnerability. this is the concern going forward, over 75,000 people without power in the state of rhode island, over 100,000 across new england. the potential for temperatures to soar into the middle and upper 80s as we head into the rest of the next 24 to 36 hours, that has the potential to impact. last week i was in the great lakes. we had severe storms come through. we were without power for four days. a huge impact. this area yesterday was concerning to me. there were thousands of people here. this is high tourist season within this part of new england. people flock to this area, almost acting as if there wasn't a tropical storm or hurricane approaching the region. i'm not exactly sure where all those people went. they bunkered down in their hotels, their airbnbs. people coming out to check out the scene, to make sure there wasn't any major damage. aside from the odd tree that's fallen along the coastal areas. it's probably more t

derek van dam has the forecast. >> augll eyes on henry owi and good reason.er. 65-mile-per-hour tropical storm located well off the southeast coast. the official forecast track calls for a strengthening storm into a category 1 hurricane as it makes its final approach into southern new england. again, late sunday into early monday. what is steering this is so important. we have high pressure to the north and east, an upper level low working either way across the mid-atlantic, that will help the almost north to n northwesterly jog. and it will take advantage of the relatively warm ocean waters helping to strengthen the storm as well. significant model differences, of course lots of details still to iron out, but one thing for sure, tropical mischief this weekend. >>> and if you plan on flying american airlines anytime soon, don't expect mid flight cocktails. the airline is extending the current ban on alcohol in the main cabin until january 2022. and drinks are blamed for passengers behaving badly. those who refuse to wear masks, struck flight attendants and th

derek van dam is joining us with the latest. you are tracking both storms, so let's start with the latest on grace. >> yeah, grace is the more immediate threat although it is a bit ominous to hear a potential tropical system making impacts at least to the northeastern united states. that in a moment. but first grace, which is only hours from making landfall across the yucatan peninsula, if you've been to cozumel, you know these areas very well. very flat and also prone to hurricane strikes. just within the past year alone, less than a year in fact, they have had three named tropical systems, this will be the fourth named tropical system to make lawful within a 70 mile radius of cozumel. this hear as been rocked by tropical storms and hurricanes, strongest being a category 3 last year in october. they have hurricane warnings including cozumel at the moment just south of cancun. newly hoisted hurricane watches for the sa r varicus state. and it continues to strengthen. it will move through mountainous terrain. warm waters means re

i want to bring in meteorologist derek van dam in houma, louisiana, west of pwhere ida made landfall.very careful, you and your crew. >> yeah. we've got reinforced concrete building with hurricane windows where we can vacate to very quickly. listen, in houma, louisiana, conditions are deteriorating, as one would expect. as the eyewall progresses through southeastern louisiana, i think it's important for people to understand that they may get the strong major hurricane force wind gusts in excess of 110 miles per hour. it's coming here. we're under an extreme wind warning. we know that. there will also be a few break for certain individuals in southeast louisiana, where the eyewall of hurricane ida moves over. it is likely you will see the sun come out. it is likely you will see the birds fly around in confusion. things will go eerily quiet. that's not the time to get outdoors and inspect your property. that is the time to shelter inside because what will happen is once the back side of the eye crosses over a particular area, the winds will change from a different direction, the debris

derek van dam is on the scene in houma, louisiana. derek, you can tell. tell us right now? >> reporter: jim, these winds are he lashs. this is what a monster category 4 hurricane feels like. it's pins and needles on every exposed part of your body. it feels like a jet engine spraying at you at 100 miles per hour. if i stepped 20 feet backwards, i would not be able to stand. we are approaching the inner eye wall of major hurricane ida. this is a significant storm. and the national weather service verifies that. they've issued what is called an extreme wind warning. our phones have been lighting up, left, right, and center with the alerts. and it's reserved for only the most dangerous of situations. sustained 115-mile-per-hour winds. there goes the camera lens from our particular camera equipment. you'll have to bear with us. we're in the middle of a hurricane. clearly. and conditions change very rapidly. i want our viewers at home to understand we have the ability to duck into cover. i'm in as safe of a position as i can potentially be in with a building t

derek van dam is tracking both systems. which one poses the greater threat?, but here is a look at tropical storm henri. we'll get to that in a moment. we are literally minutes away from a landfall across the yuc yucatan. this area is get rocked hard with near hurricane-force winds. conditions will continue to deteriorate. it is an 80-mile-per-hour storm, that makes it a category 1 atlantic hurricane. it will reemerge in the bay of campeche perhaps strengthening once again before another landfall over the eastern coastline of mexico. landslides, mudslides, localized flooding and storm surge impacting both locations. now on to trapsopical storm hen this is south and west of ber bermuda, it has become more disorganized, good news. but there is a good potential that it will strengthen as it rides along the eastern sea board of the u.s. some of our computer models showing the westward shift in the trend, that is what meteorologists look for, because it shows us what the future potentially could hold. and the national hurricane center has shifted that forecast pat

derek van dam is in newport, rhode island.cy declaration already approved for that state. what duds it look like right now as the sun is rising where you are? >> yeah, you know, we have got the all too familiar sounds unfolding behind us as the winds bows and bends around some of the masts of the sailboats here. this is a very different newport harbor than 24 hours ago. look, this was supposed to be a few days ago a storm that stayed out into the atlantic. fish food, as meteorologists often refer to it as. that has changed. now the storm is approaching our shoreline and conditions are deteriorating. the first outsider bands impacting the southern new england coastline. i walked around newport yesterday. remember, this is high tourist season. there are a lot of people here. they walked about as if no hurricane was approaching. seems the only people taking it sear seriously were the captains of these ships behind me. >> if those projectiles start coming at me, there is really not a lot i can do. you got all these boats moored in

he and derek van dam were anticipating that eye might pass over houma, louisiana. now tarks peers to be tracking to the east of houma and heading in between houma and maybe new orleans to the north. does this mean that it's maybe moving towards new orleans? what's the latest? what can you tell us? >> it's just shifting more to the north. moving in more of a northerly direction. i don't think jason and derek will get the eye which basically mean ths they're going to be rid by this eye wall and never get in that calm portion of the storm. so they'll definitely get the brunt of the storm and have been for the last several hours. and will continue until this storm finally gets north of them and pulls away. the center of the storm, the eye of the storm is definitely staying to the east of houma. if this storm continues on more of a northerly track and that's what it's looking like at the moment, it will end up a little bit closer to new orleans than what we previously thought. new orleans is now under a flash flood warning, as well as houma. so we are going to continue

. >>> cnn's derek van dam live in houma, louisiana. know we're on an hour and a half before sunrise, what can you tell us about the damage there and the danger of storm surge that still might exist. >> reporter: it's too dangerous for us to drive from the shelter of our hotel at the moment because there is damage covering many of the roadways across houma, louisiana. but just to give you an indication of what we expected to see this morning, this is a tree that fell on the vehicles in the parking lot behind us. this is just a drop in the bucket per se of what we expect to see because of the fury that was unleashed on this particular region, the terrabonne parish. it was a relentless day comparison to a direct hit from a 50 mile wide ef-3 tornado lasting for hours. it was an incredible moment, extremely -- moments of anxiety for people and our crews who rode out this storm as well. what kind of storm reverses the flow of the mississippi river? only a category 4 monster can do that. hurricane ida did that. what we're seeing here is scare

let's check in with derek van dam in new port, rhode island. the governor expects more than 100,000 people to lose power in the state. what are you seeing? >> reporter: current numbers at 78,000. i'm located in new port. close to the coast. and you can see no trees behind me that have fallen down. for the most part, this area has gotten past the storm. i-taken off and shed my rain gear. that should be a sign the rain has ended. but maybe perhaps i'm shooting myself in the foot. there still could be the potential of more rain. the threats going forward for this area as the potential for more trees to fall over. knocking out power to communities. and the reason being is that we still have our full foliage on the trees. it's mid august. midsummer here. and that means it doesn't take much to knock over branches and trees, especially in the saturated environment that we've had. going forward, though, the temperatures here are going to warm up. it's hot by new england standards for the next coming days. we'll work into the middle and upper 80s come t

cnn's derek van dam is live for us in hard-hit houma, louisiana.ast we checked in with you, it was pitch black there. i think you were just kind of starting to get a sense of things. what are you seeing? >> reporter: yeah. r residents here endured the relentless fury of a category 4 hurricane that pivoted over this specific location. it was equivalent to feeling the direct hit of a 50 mile wide ef-3 tornado lasting for several hours. you can imagine the damage that will unfold. in fact, my team and i were just talking a moment ago, we fear what we may see once the sun actually rises within this area. i'm going to have my camera man pivot to my left or over my right shoulder i should say. this is just a drop of the larger bucket here. we have trees that have fallen on vehicles. we have damage to the hotel where we are located, windows were blown out. we had a natural gas leak yesterday. this is just some of the many problems that are going to be unfolding throughout the area across the terrabonne paris near houma, louisiana. what an incredible exper

let's go to cnn's derek van dam live in louisiana.elp us understand what it's like there because according to the radar it looked like you would be feeling this right now. i think i hear some rain behind you. what do you see? >> reporter: definitely the first taste of major hurricane ida. christi, phil, i used to tell my kids that monsters don't exist, but what we woke up to this morning is indeed with monster and it's only 100 miles from the coast of where i'm standing right now. this storm, as allison so aptly put it, does not stop at the coast. anything that this touches, anywhere the water touches from the sky or from the ocean will be impacted by major hurricane ida as it makes its final approach. last-minute preps should be completed. there are mandatory curfew and evacuations in ter goan parish and the entire louisiana national guard has been initiated for this particular storm. a very sobering statement from the louisiana governor yesterday. take a listen. >> this will be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit anywhere in loui

. >> derek van dam, take good care of yourself. thank you. >>> listen, we're following new developments in the chaos and the desperation in afghanistan this morning. the pentagon is holding a news briefing on the situation. it's set to begin at 10:30 a.m. eastern. we're going to bring it to you live when it happens. a new security warning has been issued for americans who are still in afghanistan. the u.s. embassy telling them, do not come to the airport unless instructed by the american government. >> yeah. thousands of afghan citizens are making the harrowing journey to the airport anyway, hoping to escape taliban rule in afgha afghanistan. a source telling cnn about 14,000 people are currently waiting to get out. president joe biden says the united states is working to get afghans who helped american forces out of that country. he says every american who wants to leave will be evacuated. meantime, a plane carrying arrivals from afghanistan arrived at dulles airport just a short time ago. they arrived with mixed emotions of grati

van niekerk, failed to make the final, which is due at one o'clock. one man who's no stranger to the 400m final is the former olympic sprinter derek redmond who joins usf what - thank you forjoining us. thank you. what do you make of what is - thank you forjoining us. thank you. | what do you make of what is coming up what do you make of what is coming up on what you have seen so far? it has been a really interesting games. at one point, we were not sure whether they were going to take part, and now they have, people say there are no crowds and goodness knows what. the majority of us watching have forgotten that there is no crowd and there has been drama pretty much in every sport in every discipline, including athletics. so it has been pretty gripping stuff. what about what happened with wayde? where you surprise? idat what about what happened with wayde? where you surprise?— where you surprise? not 100%, he has been battling — where you surprise? not 10096, he has been battling injury— where you surprise? not 10096, he has been battling injury and _ where you surprise? not 10096, he has been battling injury and struggling - been battling injury and