buenas tardes, hoy la gran pregunta ¿estÁ nueva orleans lo suficientemente preparada para ida?o de las inundaciones que cobraron la vida de miles de personas tras katrina, esa es la principal noticia, y ademÁs, este domingo. honor a los fallecidos, el presidente joe biden recibe los cuerpos de los 13 soldados muertos en el ataque en kabul, ademÁs bombardean a un vehÍculo que llevaba presuntos elementos suicidas al aeropuerto de la capital afgana. >> golpes y forcejeos, intentan bloquear el paso de la caravana centroamericana que saliÓ de tapachula, luego se reagruparon para seguir su camino. >> debuta messi, el astro del fÚtbol ingresÓ al partido a los 66 minutos por el brasileÑo neymar, y su equipo, el psg derrota a su rival por 2 goles a 0. noticias telemundo, con rebeka smyth. asÍ se vio el inmenso huracÁn ida a su llegada a la costa de louisiana, tambiÉn hizo sentir su furia en la cercana isla llevÁndose todo a su paso, mientras inundaba la pequeÑa comunidad. >> hola, les saluda nicole suÁrez hoy por rebeka smyth, ida tocÓ tierra poco antes del mediodÍa hora local con vient

ida, now a tropical depression on the move tonight. our team fanned out here on the ground, and al roker with the new track. >>> plus, the other breaking headlines all u.s. forces are out of afghanistan, ending america's longest war. but there are still american citizens who have been left behind. and the new attack on the kabul airport, just as american forces were leaving. plus, the solemn homecoming for the 13 u.s. service members killed in that suicide attack >>> and the major move by the eu. new travel restrictions proposed for unvaccinated americans. it comes as covid hospitalizations in the u.s. hit alarming heights not seen since the winter surge >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt substituting tonight and reporting from new orleans, tom llamas. >> good evening. i'm tom llamas in for lester we are coming to you tonight from an american city in crisis and a region in need of help hurricane ida causing catastrophic damage. the view from above just a glimpse of the actual pain felt on the ground families in l

suÁrez, por rebeka smyth, estas son las noticias que debe saber, nueva orleans a oscuras, el huracÁn idaicidad a la ciudad. reporta un muerto por el sistema. >> estados unidos bombardea un vehÍculo que llevaba alegados terroristas suicidas, mieras el presidente biden recibe los cuerpos de los 13 militares muertos en kabul. el astro del fÚtbol messi debuta en el psg que gana 2 goles a 0. ♪♪ (mÚsica♪♪ a esta hora toda nueva orleans estÁ sin luz, uno de los efectos del azote del huracÁn ida en la zona, el sistema que tambiÉn tiene en alerta a las autoridades ante la posibilidad de tornados que se pueden extender al noroeste de florida, tenemos cobertura con rubÉn y francisco y tambiÉn nuestro jefe de meteorologÍa carlos robles. el huracÁn llegÓ a louisiana con vientos de 150 millas por hora aunque su fuerza ahora se ha reducido a categorÍa 2 sigue la preocupaciÓn y es que ida se estÁ moviendo lentamente por la zona y prolonga la iuietud sobre sus posibles efectos devastadores, el jefe de meteorologÍa de telemundo carlos robles ha seguido este histÓrico sistema, sabemos que hace un par de ho

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ida is supposed to be farther west. this is important.traditionally speaking in a tropical system, the worst part of the storm to be in is the northeast quadrant. think of a clock, for example, area between the 12 and the 3 on the clock is the worst area. unfortunately with ida's track being farther west of new orleans, it puts new orleans in a worse spot for ida than they were in katrina. >> this could be a lot worse than even katrina which killed a lot of people and destroyed so much of the area. is that right? >> yes. one thing you have to keep in mind with katrina, biggest problem was levees failing. you hope all the things they've done to fix those levees, that it sticks and works and we don't have the same problem we had with katrina, but in terms of winds, in terms f of rain, you' dealing with similar situations with ida than you did with katrina. >> stand by. nadia, stand by as well. president biden is set to receive an update from fema headquarters this hour. cnn's arlette saenz joins us from the white house. arlette, what are yo

ida has been every bit the monster feared. it was officially tied for the strongest storm to hit the state with sustained winds at landfall of 115 miles an hour. that is even stronger than katrina, which hit 16 years ago today. it's too early to assess ida's huge swath of damage, but the wrecking power is obvious. just look at this video here on your screen. flooding is wide spread. and some areas could see up to 20 inches of rain. more than 700,000 homes and businesses are now without power. and that number is sure to climb. officials say it could take weeks to fully restore power. now within the next hour or two, new orleans will be seeing its highest winds and heaviest rain. the levee system was vastly upgraded after katrina and holding as of now. south of the city, the rainfall and storm surge have pushed water over our levee in plaquemines parish. a flash flood emergency is in effect. i spoke to a critical care doctor in baton rouge bracing for the worst. >> we would be able to be the most significant event of our lifetim

we begin with hurricane ida. it has weakened to a category one, but not before causing extensive damage. ida has killed at least one person in louisiana after making landfall as one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit the u.s. ida crashed on to shore as a category four yesterday near port faushon. it knocked out power leaving at least one million customers in the dark. ida packed winds of up to 150 miles per hour. ele ofhidi right off.d idli surge in southeast louisiana. these before and after clips show just how fast the region flooded in roughly one hour. michael george is in new orleans with more on the destruction. michael, good morning. >> reporter: anne-marie, good morning. ida has weakened, but the danger to people is still very real. this morning people in new orleans are dealing with rising floodwaters, a city-wide power outage, and a 911 system that has shut down. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: ida's powerful winds blew the roof off this hospital as it made landfall in lafourche parish, louisiana, sund

ida tripled the rate of rapid intensification.here was a paper a couple of years ago that basically says once a century rapid intensification, this is high-end stuff. by the end of the 2010, it could have been much more frequent. qualitatively, it seems like this is hpening all of the ti. i would say yes, there is a strong link, and while we can't say this is caused by it, it fits the pattern. anchor: what does this mean for meteorologists? people such as yourself, your ability to warn the public about dangers that are moving in, and the need to evacuate -- what can you do when a storm gains a that quickly -- gains strength that quickly? matthew: evacuations are challenging to determine ahead of time because it is based on confidence and impacts. we were very confident this would be a high-end storm, we were very confident it would move toward the coast, but when you talk about evacuating a city of millions of people, subtle shifts on the order of 1or 15 kilometers canake all of the difference in conditions experienced. even a cou

we're going to add ida to the list. >> we're adding ida to the list on the 16th anniversary of katrina. you mentioned, tom, that it slowed down to 9 to 10 miles per hour. explain to us why that is significant. >> when a storm puts on the brakes, you have a longer duration of just this banding of course not only the winds, you've got a longer duration, so the winds will push the power poles. they'll push the trees. they'll start works with the roof soffits and some of the shingles. also not only the wind's in one direction for a period of time, you have a longer surge. we'll probably talk about this later on. we'll talk about the mississippi having problems. but we have a longer area of surge, so it allows that water to build hour after hour after hour. that's why we like to see these systems move in and get out. the problem with faster-moving storms is you have to add that forward speed with the maximum wind speed for destruction. so, again, slower storms, it doesn't really matter when you have a cat 4, which is down to a cat 3 now. but really it's about the rainfall. we saw this slow-

tonight, that monster hurricane ida roaring ashore. packing violent winds up to 150 miles per hour, bringing catastrophic storm surge up to eight feet. >> there is a tremendous amount of storm surge, a tremendous amount of wind, and this is tough conditions to survive. >> reporter: as many as 40 people in grand isle defying mandatory evacuation orders. the chief of police telling matt gutman -- >> that devastated some areas. roofs missing. we're out of fresh water. >> reporter: i'm hearing there are a number of people, maybe a few dozen, who are trying to ride out the storm in grand isle. any word on their safety? how they're doing? >> we've recovered most of the pople through the fire department. had a high water vehicle rescue, i think we did seven of those. >> reporter: in houma, winds ripping apart buildings, sending this roof crashing into a power pole, snapping it in half. hurricane hunters flying into ida's stunning 17-mile-wide eye. towering thunderstorms swirling around as the storm approached land. these images of destruction

ida, a category 4 and just it looks like a vicious storm as it's coming ashore. what is your biggest concern right now? what is standing out to you as you are seeing this come in? >> well, i'm talking to people that know of people that stayed behind. and that worries me. i rode out katrina 14 miles. never again will i do it. we rescued 34 people by air boat. floating mobile homes off rooftops. and that storm, it seems like this storm will be a lot worse. i hope there's rooftops and floating mobile homes to rescue people from. because the size of this storm and the power, there may not be a lot left in its path where it came ashore and that tidal surge wiped out homes and businesses. it may not be attics for people to climb into as we saw in katrina. so we are hopeful, but we'll be ready to rescue those people immediately after the winds die down. >> and just very quickly, you do think the levees are going to be okay in new orleans? i know that's been a subject of an area of concern. sounds like they'll hold? >> i think new orleans should be okay. there is $2 bill

we're going to continue our breaking news coverage of hurricane ida.next, we'll speak with louisiana senator john kennedy to find out what he has been hearing, is there people -- are there people in grand isle who need help? what is the strurk rally damage -- structural damage up and down the coast of louisiana and mississippi, hurricane ida, category 3, is next. tums vs. mozzarella stick when heartburn hits, fight back fast with tums chewy bites. fast heartburn relief in every bite. crunchy outside, chewy inside. ♪ tums, tums, tums, tums ♪ tums chewy bites [sizzling] i may not be able to tell time, but i know what time it is. [whispering] it's grilled cheese o'clock. introducing xfinity rewards. our very own way of thanking you just for being with us. enjoy rewards like movie night specials. xfinity mobile benefits. ...and exclusive experiences, like the chance to win tickets to see watch what happens live. hey! it's me. the longer you've been with us... the more rewards you can get. like sharpening your cooking skills with a top chef. join for free o

. > el azote de ida gigantesco paso por luisiana más de un millón sin electricidad y dos muertos pero tardes tras arrasar ida avanza por mississippi y alabama degradada pero aún sus vientos y lluvias per en provocar enorme devastación esta es nuestra principal noticia y además este día lunes >> dramáticos rescates . >> [♪ ♪ ♪] . >> termina la guerra con la salida del último avión estadounidense se completa la caótica retirada de ganistán más de 120,000 personas han sido evacuadas. concluyen 20 años de conflicto con el talibán de regreso al poder >>100,000 hospitalizados los pacientes de covid-19 internados llegan a un promedio diario que no se veía desde el invierno pasado el gobino federal investigará si cinco estados que prohíben el uso obligatorio de las mascarillas violan los derechos de los estudiantes >> noticias telemundo con josé díaz-balart el paso de ida apenas se puede cuantificar y deja imágenes de verdadera catástrofe. >> [sonidos de ambiente] . >> los poderosos vientos del sistema que tocó tierra ayer como huracán categoría cuatro, alcanzaron a arrancar techos completos.

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. >>> that is hurricane ida. she blasshe blasted louisiana t people in floodwaters and ripping buildings apart. we welcome you to "cbs this morning." goteamovere alugust 30th, 2021. along the path of e it has alreadyd > hoal tnew orans doctor about how they're keeping patients safe. >>> and rockets are fired toward the kabul airport after a u.s. drone strike kills more suspected terrorists. the latest on the final hours of the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. >>> first, here's today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> reporter: you're seeing some of the peak intensity right now. debris being sprayed everywhere. buildings like over here, the roof completely off. >> reporter: hurricane ida made landfall in louisiana battering the southeastern gulf coast with an onslaught of water and dangerous winds. >> the storm exactly 16 years to the day after hurricane katrina. >> this is going to cause catastrophic damage. >> this is a major, major storm. it's going to test us in ways that we've not been tested befor

more now on the danger from ida's heavy rain and powerful winds. >> reporter: hurricane ida continuespushes it way north. it is now finding itself between baton rouge where we are and new orleans. and there are dozens of low-lying communities in these areas that are going to be spending a long night. these are low-lying communities, very susceptible to flooding. we spent the day traveling through many of the communities talking to people and trying to figure out how they were preparing for the moment. many folks said they were planning on waiting out the storm in their homes and then getting ready to pack up their belongings and escape once the floodwaters started in the next day or so. as the storm passes to the north and the rain continues to fall. the water needs somewhere to go and it will rush back south through a lot of these low-lying communities. the residents said they have not experienced a storm of this magnitude so strong this far inland. a lot of the storms lose much of the strength by the time it moves inland but others are extremely worried about the wind damage that th

. >> en louisiana ida deja un estado sin suministro de electricidad el huracán de 150 millas por horadegrada con el paso de las horas se ven sus consecuencias y el huracán nora también se degrada a tormenta tropical y deja 1 muerto un desaparecido y varios heridos y 350 mil personas sin luz las lluvias van a seguir, estados unidos agota sus últimas horas de evacuaciones en afganistán mientras en kabul hay ataques con cohetes y el pentágono dice que hay una amenaza activa, 25 millones de estudiantes de méxico viven una amenaza por no tener las medidas de seguridad para prevenir contagios en el regreso a clases (♪ música ♪) (♪ música ♪) >>> fin de semana de gloria para la banda mexicana de los bukis en su regreso a los escenarios en los Ángeles su música sonó igual de bien que siempre en su gira de reencuentro. qué tal les saluda con gusto nicolás soto muchas gracias por acompañarnos en este inicio de semana comenzamos con la historia del día el huracán ida impactó las costas de louisiana causando inundaciones mortales y también daños en el estado como un huracán categoría 4 llegó con v

>> hurricane ida is a really impressive storm.r reminder, i think, of the fury nature can throw at us. we got a little lucky in some cases when it comes to hurricane ida. it's fortunate it's passing to the west, i would say, rather than to the east like hurricane katrina did. and as a consequence, we're probably going to be seeing less damage and less topping of the levees like we did during katrina as well. but there's a lot to worry about what we're seeing with ida as well. the rain rates are intense. and i think that's been kind of a key story when it comes to ida. to the amount of precipitation that's coming off this beast is outstanding. >> how concerned are you in terms of the motential for it to spin off tornadoes? >> it's a good question, i would say. with ida, and it's really difficult in order to predict with absolute certainty as to where and when perhaps those tornadoes may be coming off. i would say that people just need to be careful in this case. >> this has been a busy season. even with ida in the gulf, there is tr

we don't expect more than 11 feet with ida. so that will be okay.s story isn't then about whenbo inequity. to see newcomers come in who are pricing out the folks who lived here originally. >> right. >> reporter: and beyond the property tax and beyond the lower ninth ward there was insurance injustice. fema's flood insurance recently updated because until now no matter if you owned a mansion or a cottage you had to pay the same. >> we're going to be able to price it fairly going forward. currently lower value homes are paying more than they should. and higher value homes are paying less than they should. >> our thanks to ginger zee. it's hard to believe how much time has passed. and also just to look at the fact -- to remember the fact that those images are -- remain innd oo ing help flood waters up to the roofs. people displaced for a very long time as well. >> and t >>> right now on "america this morning," hurricane ida's wrath. the historic category 4 storm slamming ashore with catastrophic flooding. up to 20 inches of rain, reports just coming in

ida is a huge storm. we have been trying to communicate to the public for days now the severity of this storm and the importance of being prepared and getting to higher ground and making sure that they have adequate rations. >> seeing how quickly this has intensified, we're now at 150 miles an hour, we're getting close to a category 5 storm now, which is something a couple days ago didn't seem terribly likely, what's on your mind right now and what are your biggest concerns? >> the biggest concerns right now is making sure that the people that are in the most vulnerable areas did, in fact, get out or get to higher ground. you know, we have the national guard is in place. we have our utility trucks with power companies from all over on standby ready to deal with downed lines. those are always concerns that people go out and put themselves in harm's way because of down lines, people in low-lying areas didn't get out and we're always concerned about making sure that we're on the ready to get out and to have

>> grand isle absolutely ravaged by hurricane ida. miguel, our thanks to you and your team. please stay safe now ida remains on the move tonight, across the mississippi now as a tropical depression, bringing heavy rain and the threat of more flooding ron allen is in jackson for us ron, this is far from over what are residents bracing there in mississippi? >> tom, the drenching rains that continue to fall here have been mississippi's biggest problems all day, much more rain than expected there is concerns about flooding, high waters there some tornado warnings out there as well. there are trees and power lines down as many as 135,000 dwellings without power, a number that may rise there are also tens of thousands of evacuees here, many who we've been speaking to say they're trying to extend their stays at hotels or make other arrangements because they're being told it's not safe enough to go back home just yet, and it may not be for some time. officials here are urging everyone to shelter in place, stay safe, stay inside, and stay off the roads until the storm has completely

hurricane ida will be a long road maybe days or weeks or months to rebuild.fficials to get a full briefing on hurricane ida pummeling the gulf coast the white house focusing obviously on the louisiana don't forget mississippi and alabama right now according to the president the government has shipped three.5 million meals and two.5 million liters of water down to the coast. >> this will be a devastating hurricane. a life-threatening storm. so all love you in mississippi in the wheezing and a god knows maybe further east, take precautions. take it seriously. take it very seriously. reporter: earlier the commander-in-chief turned into the comforter in chief spending several hours at dover air force base to honor the remains of the 13 fallen heroes kill that karzai international airport last thursday in kabul. the president was joined by the first lady doctor jill biden and the joint chiefs and other senior officials. they saluted as 11 flag draped coffins went by to had private ceremonies but not capture on camera. the president one —- you cannot show these pic

i'm frances rivera ida is wreaking havoc as the powerful storm pushes its way north. here's what we know at this hour the entire city of new orleans was plunged into darkness after a catastrophic transmission damage over a million power outages are being reported across louisiana. at least one person has been killed a 60-year-old man lost his life when a tree fell onto his home and president biden has approved a major disaster declaration for the state. let's get a live update now fro there now. >> reporter: frances, good morning. bear with me as there's a lot of developing story lines right now. the state of louisiana certainly where we've been driving through this morning, pitch black. there is no power anywhere you mentioned already a million-plus customers and businesses with no power if you figure that's three or four people per home or per business, you're looking at several million people with no power right now. i'm in prairieville or right near it. it's a suburb of baton rouge look at the size of this tree in the middle of the highway. this is where we stoppe

abc news reporter morgan norwood has more on ida's impact. morgan: ida continues intensifying as it approaches the louisiana coast, becoming a category 4 hurricane before making length of. >> one of the strongest hurricanes to make landfall in louisiana since the 1850's. morgan: officials urging everyone to shelter-in-place. homes and businesses boarded up. many spent lots of time in lines waiting for gas. new orleans airport packed with people trying to leave on saturday. all flights scheduled to fly out on sunday now canceled. president biden approving a n emergency the commission for mississippi. he already had done that for louisiana. ida is said to make landfall 16 years to the day after katrina. >> every storm is different. they all bring their own challenges. but also, i want you to know that we are not the same state that we were 16 years ago. morgan: people hope the post-katrina system of levees, pumps, and seawalls will help the city. >> this one is coming from the south so it will be pushing water up the whole entire time. so the w

local officials predict ida's damage could be even worse. at least one person has been killed by a falling tree, but of course it is dark and people have no way of finding out what is going on in the dark. the wind at times reaching 150 miles app hour. ripping off as you saw there the roof of a clinic. this is in larose in louisiana. the fierce winds tearing a billboard apart. this was in new orleans. people in some areas reporting flood waters reaching up to their chest in their homes and pleading for rescue. electricity eventually went out for the entire city of new orleans. more than a million customers without power now in louisiana and mississippi. >> the entirety of orleans parish went out. there's still isolated places with generators and the turbines are still working to operate the pumps. but the entire parish of orleans went out in terms of the power that's being provided there. >> now, tracking this dangerous hurricane for us is meet'll rollogist pedram jaf h.e.r.ry. pedram, give us a sense of how this unfolded. the thing is it wa

"ida" ya es categorÍa 2 y sigue desplazÁndose a la misma velocidad, 16 mph.uego al norte. lluvias que veremos llegar en forma de tormentas. ayer tuvimos aguaceros en nueva orleans. posibilidad de tornado y bandas de lluvia de hasta 11 pies. acumulados de 12—16 pulgadas. fÉlix: hay una preocupaciÓn. parece que se ha movido a la derecha e impactarÍa mÁs a nuevo orleans. albert: es algo muy peligroso. no podemos estar en esta zona maÑana. fÉlix: gracias. estaremos pendientes. "nora" ya es categorÍa 1 en el pacÍfico, causando inundaciones y deslaves en varios estados mexicanos. rÁfagas de vientos de 80 mph. cientÍficos prevÉn que podrÍa tocar tierra en sonora el prÓximo viernes. el maratÓnico rescate en afganistÁn sigue enfrentando retos. el presidente biden dijo que podrÍa haber un nuevo ataque terrorista. hoy sonaron disparos alrededor del aeropuerto de kabul. reportero: disparos en el aeropuerto de kabul para dispersar a la gente. granadas de humo para el mismo objetivo. la gente se sigue aglomÉrando en el aeropuerto para tratar de salir del paÍs. [habla en in

ida made landfall near port fourchon, louisiana, in the afternoon. and by the hour, video like this from houma, louisiana, showing the power of this storm, entire roofs ripped away. then there's flooding from rain and storm surge. before it's all over, up to 20 inches could douse southern louisiana. higher than the total from katrina, which hit new orleans 16 years ago today. at this moment, some half a million people are without power across louisiana. and that number grows by the minute. here's president biden a short time ago at fema headquarters. >> this is going to be a devastating, devastating hurricane. a life-threatening storm. so please, all you folks in mississippi and louisiana, mississippi and god knows, maybe even further east, take precautions. listen. take it seriously. >> while new orleans dodged a direct hit, the big easy is not out of the woods. right now, fears of storm surge, especially in communities where residents did not have a chance to get out. now hunkered down, waiting this storm out. as officials keep an eye on the new le

ida roared ashore the destructive winds of up to 150 miles an hour. more than a foot and a half of rain is expected over several days. this as ida as seen from space. it's a monster, life threatening hurricane. millions of people are in its path. today president biden promised to put the country's full weight behind rescue and recovery operations. we begin with omar villafranca in new orleans. what are conditions like where you are? >> we are here on canal street. the wind is starting to pick up and the rain is really coming down in sheets at this point. the power is still on in the central business district and here in the french quarter but across the state almost half a million people, half a million customers are without power as the big storm takes aim at the big easy. ida is slamming southeast louisiana, packing triple digit high winds and torrential rain. the category four hurricane made landfall midday. 40 people decided to ride out the storm in grand isles, defying a man tore evacuation order, officials have received multiple calls for rescue

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now, ida making her way through the gulf coast.f this storm. national guard, fema, all the above are on stand by to help you. but we are in the middle of the storm doing the best that we can. we saw the building behind me. i'm going to turn you around here. that's the mississippi river you saw behind me. we have train tracks and this building right next to jackson square. some of the windows have been burst out. they're completely open now with debris going in and out of this building right here. so that just speaks to the fury of hurricane ida right now. what we're concerned about in new orleans specifically is flooding. now, do you remember that from hurricane katrina. largely from the levies breaking. this city sits in a bowl. it's below sea level. it's low-lying. when water gets inside the city, it is very, very, very hard for it to get out. it tends to just sit there for a little while. that is part of the concern here. flooding, and that's why so many people know that that's what's to come. now, we had some 80,000 people all

ida forcing evacuations. alabama, and mississippi have each declared states of emergency. forecasters say a storm surge of up to 15 feet expected in some areas, winds up to 150 miles an hour. it could leave some locations uninhabitable for weeks or months. tyler mauldin is here. tyler. >> you and i have talked about how important the hurricane hunters are and we had a hurricane hunter aircraft. they picked up on a 108-mile-per-hour sustained wind in the weak left quadrant of ida. now all you need is roughly like 110-mile-per-hour wind to get a major hurricane, so if we have a swipe of 108 here, we could easily have gusts -- sustained winds above 110 in that strong northeast quadrant, so i would not be surprised that if they were to -- the national hurricane center, if they were to update the storm eats intensity to the category three to the 2:00 a.m. update which will be coming in just about 30 minutes. regardless it's going to rapidly intensify and we'll be dealing with a category 4 hurricane once we get to

let's turn now to hurricane ida.xtensive search and rescue operations are under way along the gulf coast. the storm crashed into louisiana as a category four hurricane on sunday. it was the second most powerful hurricane to strike the state only behind hurricane katrina which remarkably hit 16 years ago to the day. while tonight more than a million are without power including all of new orleans, and as we come on the air two deaths are confirmed. but louisiana's governor says it will undoubtedly increase. we have got a team of correspondents all over the region beginning with cbs' mireya villarreal in houma, louisiana, good evening. >> reporter: hundreds of homes and businesses look just like this, completely destroyed in this area. this bowling alley where i am stading has been here for more than 50 years but now look at it. the roof is gone, the back wall is gone, there is nothing left inside and yet this place has survived several hurricanes. the owner telling me though ida was more powerful than anything she has

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

are the winds stronger with ida? >> adam: i think rain is going to be an issue even more so than with katrina. >> arthel: the hurricane is slamming louisiana. hospitals there are already near capacity, treating covid patients and unable to evacuate them. the states department of health says more than 2600 covid patients are currently hospitalized. 479 of them are on ventilators. for more on this, we're going to bring in a physician in chief and chief academic officer at the children's hospital in new orleans. doctor, first of all, are you housing any of those covid patients who are in need of ventilators? >> we are. we're here at the children's hospital. as of today, we have about a dozen children with covid admitted to the hospital, and five of those are in our intensive care unit. >> arthel: so what are the conditions like at the hospital now? i mean, how stretched is your staff and your resources? i'm not trying to paint a picture of chaos, because i know you have been through this many times, and you're usually p

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turn ida is currently making landfall.he fallout that will follow this storm will likely be catastrophic. recent studies based on federal data have shown that white americans and communities receive more aid from fema than people of color and their communities even twe level -- even when the level of damage is the same. ateama, what steps should the biden administration be taking right now and in the coming days to ensure that federal aid is distributed quickly and equitably? >> yes, reverend, it's going to be a big issue, especially when you are already looking at programs that are being slowed down right now, like rental assistance for eviction -- it could help with the eviction moratorium that has been struck down by the supreme court. one of the things that i think the biden administration can do to ensure those who have had their homes destroyed in predominantly black areas is make the application process easier. right now even if you are a homeowner and a black person arc black family, and you plier less likely to ge

the sound of ida's winds pul pulplum ling.es flooding potential. tonight, more than 700,000 people are without power. emergency services are suspended across the state for the most mart part, for those who didn't evacuate, the governor said it would be days before help arr arrives. i spoke to a resident who was terrified. you can see ida's winds ripping off part of the roof of lady of the sea general hospital. people are inside and we're told evacuations will take place once the storm dies down. but this gives you an idea what our next guest is dealing with tonight. craig weber is the sheriff where la rose is located. he joins us on the phone. sheriff, what is the latest at that hospital? is it safe for the patients and staff inside? >> the information we have is that the hospital is stable and there was only a small census of patients i think maybe ten total. so administrator and her staff are able to provide care for those patients and they just relocated to a lower floor of the hospital but you are correct, it did sustain m

hurricane ida did that.hat we're seeing here is scared evacuees in the shelter here we talked to some of them. they know how to ride out category 1, 2, 3 hurricanes, but when you start talking about a category 4, that really changes the game here. they expected storm surge to be a concern, but when that storm, when the hurricane pivoted over this region, kept us in the outer eye-wall of hurricane ida, the relentless winds never stopped. we never got the break that we anticipate and that is why this will be a wind maker or a wind event and catastrophic wind event within the houma, louisiana location. we have sounds of generators in the background. people trying to take advantage of the little power they can muddle up. then also the sounds of helicopters flying overhead as they do nightly missions which is unusual. they usually wait for the sun to come up to see the extent of the damage, but it is going to be a grueling next few days here as the search and recovery operations begin. back to you, john. >> derek

hurricane ida is a 4. it is on the cusp of a 5.so grateful to have you with us. when you look at that radar at this moment, what does to tell you? >> yeah, it's, you know, a long night. really watching this. that rapid intensification that we have been talking about happened and the hurricane hunters out there now near 150-mile-per-hour winds. so i look at that radar and it shows just how catastrophic this is going to be. it's a life-threatening situation. you look at this, the center here with those winds, but it's not just the winds. it's the rainfall forecast is life-threatening, the storm surge is life-threatening. all the hazards associated with this hurricane are life-threatening. so catastrophic event underway. >> talk about that because we talk about the storm surge and people, there are people who stayed who have real faith in the walls that are around them in the flood walls and in the levees and the pumping systems. but that doesn't necessarily help rain, correct? when we're talking about in excess of 15 inches of rain,

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

that was before ida. are you ready for this?coming in who need treatment at this point? >> we're ready. we do have bed capacity. we have the staff that we need to take care of additional children and so we'll do what we have to do. our commitment is never to turn a child away and to take care of any child or family that needs us. and about the last thing in the world we wanted at this point in time was a category 4 hurricane. but here it is. and we just have to deal with it. >> and how maxed out is the hospital right now? can you handle another surge of patients? it sounds like from what you're saying, you know, you'll just have to do. you'll make do. you'll make room for patients who come in. but give the viewers a sense of how maxed out things are right now and what covid has done. we've seen so many heartbreaking stories in the news in recent days. "the new york times" had one this morning of children suffering from this delta variant. what has that been like on your end of things? >> jim, it's hit us really hard. it's been a

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

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we're going to begin with the crisis left behind by hurricane ida. here's what we know at this hour there are still more than a million people without power in louisiana, and it could take more than three weeks for it to be restored everywhere roads are closed because of debris, and all flights are canceled to and from new orleans today. the governor has urged evacuees not to come home yet and it's becoming a common sight during troubled times. chef jose andres and his world central kitchen, they were quick to start bringing food to families and first responders in need >> two people were killed and ten others were injured after a highway collapsed in green county three of the injuries are life-threatening officials believe the torrential rain from ida was a factor for more on the aftermath of ida, here's nbc's tom llamas >> reporter: desperation in louisiana. >> the storm came, took everything >> reporter: you don't have anything left? >> took everything >> reporter: entire communities cut off, power down, and for many no cell signal to call for hel

now, ida's already forced some evacuations.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 months. all right. joining me now for another update is meteorologist, tyler mauldin. what -- what's going on, tyler? let's update people on what's likely to happen in the hours ahead. >> so the latest from the national hurricane center, michael, has told us that the winds are still at 105 miles per hour. but that's deceiving if you're only looking at those numbers. you have also got to look at the pressure level. and over the last several hours, the pressure level has been dropping by two millibars every hour and that's a sign that it is strengthening. so as that pressure drops, the hurricane's gonna start to strengthen and we are going to begin to see those winds shoot up here in the coming hours. so it

we don't expect more than 11 feet with ida.'t about flooding. it's about inequity. when you rebuild and it takes 16 years to rebuild, as you start to see newcomers come in who are pricing out the folks who lived here originally. >> right. so what happens when this starts to increase the property value, then everybody's property value starts to go up. now these small little cottages that have two and three bedrooms and the like instead of being what used to be under $50,000, now start to emerge to be $150,000 or more. >> reporter: and beyond the property tax and beyond the lower ninth ward, there was insurance injustice. fema's flood insurance recently updating because until now, no matter if you owned a mansion or a cottage, you had to pay the same.>> we' go be able to price it fairly going forward.rr paying more than they should, and higher value homes are paying less than they should. >> reporter: new orleans has seen ten inches of sea level rise in the last 20 years. let's look at the storm again. we anticipate a cat 4 makin

ida has been downgraded to two. lot of concern that it is going to stay as a hurricane for several more hours. we spoke to a meteorologist in baton rouge, about an hour north of new orleans. he gave us an date from there. all along we were kind of concerned that a lot of what's hit new orleans would head up our way, in baton rouge. and really, it has gotten worse at new orleans and benefited us. and it was expected sort of the core of the storm, after making landfall, would really track right, over baton rouge. instead, after it made landfall, it took a bit of a jog to the right and what that has done is bring more of the core into new orleans, and it has been hours on end of hurricane force winds and the heavy rain and all the impacts that come along with it. new orleans is largely below sea level and the water has to be pumped out. rainwater on a normal summer day — any rain that comes down has to be pumped out. those pumps are dependent on power. they had backup power systems. the main power grid, as you mentione

this three-story transmission tower was torn down by ida. the catastrophic failure of the power grid is just one of many problems that people in louisiana are dealing with. >>> a massive emergency response is now underway after hurricane ida blasted the gulf coast. >> things are just falling apart. i haven't got a dry spot in the house. >> reporter: the storm delivered its hardest hit to louisiana after making landfall there on sunday. these homes in houma in the southern part of the state among those that are now unrecognizable to their owners. >> we'll make it, though. i know somebody will be there to give me a hand, so -- excuse me, guys. >> reporter: over 5,000 national guard troops have been deployed across the state, and some 3600 fema employees are headed to the region. >> we know that individuals are out there waiting to be rescued. we know that we have thousands of people out right now with high-water vehicles and boats who are doing search and rescue. >> reporter: residents who evacuated were urged to stay away while first responde