you'll see grand isle on top of your screen. just below there, port forshaun, a key place for oil and gas. from cocodrie you can see how these tides have risen in these bays of louisiana. that shows the eye just offshore. it's moving about 15 miles per hour which means storm surge is moving quickly into areas like grand isle where we do know a couple dozen residents decided to stay behind. we're going live to many reporters and local officials in louisiana in the next hour, but let's begin with chad meyers who can break down the latest forecast for us. chad, this is not just rapid intensification. it's almost like we need a new term for what this is. people went to bed and they saw a category 2 storm. they're now seeing a hurricane on the verge of cat 5. >> yesterday the storm tried to do an r.i., rapid intensification. the sun, i believe, and the warmth of the day got away. when that sun went down last night, brian, the atmosphere decoupled and everything just went crazy. the water was warm, the at atmosphere got cooler and the

that's how bad it is. >> reporter: this is where the only road to grand isle ends. it's still under several feet of water, and just behind me broken into pieces it's in the community down this road here where neighbors are said to be on the rooftops waiting for help seven miles long, grand isle is and now was the only inhabited barrier island in louisiana. 1500 live here these before and after satellite images perhaps our clearest view of what's been lost >> i think that the first reconnaissance is going to be by air, because there is so much water there, we're not going to be able to get in. >> reporter: tonight trying to find what's out of reach, as what comes into view is what no one wants to see. >> miguel almaguer now joins us near grand isle miguel, i understand like many others across this region who can't make it out any further. neither can you and your team. what challenges are responders up against? >> reporter: well, tom, let me show you what they're up against. just yesterday this was a small community. there were four homes behind me that were hurrican

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i know you spoke with the police chief in grand isle tonight. where some chose to stay, and are now trapped. what have you learned? >> reporter: david, the police chief has been there for his whole life, over 60 years. he's weathered major hurricanes before, but he says it's the worst he's ever seen. it's still so bad, they haven't been able to get out and survey the damage. they expect there are still people trapped, that they will have to execute some rescues. his major concern right now in addition to sparing the people, grand isle may be cut off. there's a single road leading to that spit of land. they don't have electricity or running water. both he and others tell me they're concerned about the future of grand isle. david? >> matt, thank you. ginger, victor, and those in the storm zone. >>> we'll have much more on hurricane ida tomorrow morning, and we'll go back to ginger in a moment. >>> but in the meantime, we turn to the other news this sunday night. the somber homecoming. 11 marines, one army soldier, and a navy corpsman, most of them

seven miles long, grand isle is and now was the only inhabited barrier island in louisiana. 1,500 live here. these before and after satellite images perhaps our clearest view of what's been lost. >> i think that the first reconnaissance is going to be by air because there is so much water there, we're not going to be able to get in. >> reporter: trying to find what's out of reach as what comes into view is what no one wants to see >> miguel, thank you for that report >>> we're going to turn now to breaking news out of california where evacuation orders are underway for the entire city of south lake tahoe that affects about 22,000 people residents and visitors were told to get out yesterday as the caldor fire rages on the fire has been burning for two weeks and has destroyed more than 186,000 acres and right now it's only 15% contained. nearly two dozen firefighters are headed to the legion from nearby nevada to help those already on the ground. >>> america officially ended its 20-year war in afghanistan this is the last american soldier to leave kabul from the 18th airborne. major gene

grand isle got really the brunt of it. and then up into houma as well. >> you mentioned port fuchon they had the right side of the eye of the storm over it for something like two hours, and port fuchon and the grand isle, what they'll look like when this is over, man, we'll see. thanks to you and all of you in the cajun navy appreciate your time. >> yes, sir. thank you very much. >>> 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 susta

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>> in grand isle, the mayor thought there was about 40 people on grand isle, that was including firefightersyor is going to get back. we're trying to get helicopter service for him, i think the first reconnaissance is going to be by air, because there is so much water there, we're not going to be able to get in. i know the mayor is down there. i was able to talk to him this morning. we are trying to get him up in the air but that area is a two-hour drive from us, it is part of our parish but the southernmost tip of our state. >> cynthia, thank you so much. we wish you the best of luck. a lot of folks around the country thinking of you and folks in your parish this morning, holding you in our thoughts and prayers, thank you. >>> we turn to the pentagon where officials are holding a briefing on afghanistan right now. we're going to listen in. >> -- operation. over the weekend and into today evacuation operations continued. yesterday 26 u.s. military aircraft all c-17s departed with approximately 1,200 evacuees. in total, there were 28 flights out of kabul airport in the last 24 hours, which in

you mentioned grand isle. i can tell you, the video that i have seen, the reports i have received are just tremendous amounts of storm surge and wind damage. the good news is -- i hesitate to give you a figure but something like 98% of grand isle evacuated. the people who are they are, i believe, stayed back in structures that are specifically designed and built to withstand these types of forces. but i have no doubt we are going to see extreme devastation, grand isle and elsewhere. but we will likely be sometime after first light tomorrow morning, before we can get up in the air and get vehicles down there. of course, you have to travel la-1. la-1 was not in good shape earlier. we will be working that as quickly as we can and in all likelihood, traveling to grand isle and elsewhere in that vicinity with a helicopter. >> [inaudible] gov. edwards: ok, i can tell you know tier one hospitals have been evacuated. tier one hospital is what we commonly think of as a hospital. by definition, we have summary have hosp

many british isles that was as bright as it got today.xclusively flowing to the west parts of scotland, west of northern ireland, western fringes of wales and parts of the south—west of done quite nicely as well. you will have been very lucky to have seen any sunshine because this onshore breeze around the big area of high pressure to the north west of scotland has been feeding in, as it has the semi days now, quite a bit of cloud towards the eastern side of the british isles and that is where it has worked his way towards the eastern side of the midlands time although it is not overly cold although it is not overly cold although if you are fully exposed to that onshore breeze out east and you have got a lot of cloud you might have got a lot of cloud you might have struggled to get to, sort of, the mid—teens towards the cost of the mid—teens towards the cost of the day. overnight, not a great deal changes over the club becomes a lot more expensive. some of the cloud filled in and settles in the hills on the north of england and perhaps ot

somewhere between grand isle and homa. then quickly it weakens, and it drops a lot of rainfall, and brick brings all kinds of other hazards to the deep south. when we talk about hurricanes we talk about the quadrants. the worst is the right front, the northeast quadrant, where you find the strongest winds and highest storm surge and greatest tornado threat. as the system pushes to the north notice that new orleans is definitely in that front white quadrant and so is biloxi, mobile and other areas of mississippi. see wide power outages along the coast line and spread north as the system surges north. storm surge? real bad. a large swath right along the coastline of louisiana going to mississippi that could see more than nine feet. we could see rain pick up to about 12 inches, if not more. that's going to cause flooding, and, kim, tornadoes, absolutely. see that across portions of the deep south. >> absolutely terrifying. all right, listen, we'll check in with you a little later. thanks so much. >>> i want to show you some i

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he saw a lot of debris strewn all over the place on grand isle. and when he was shooting some of this video, he did not see buildings flattened which was surprising to him and to me because we all know that grand isle was really squarely in the path of hurricane ida as it made landfall. one of those places that was just -- those outer-barrier islands that just got walloped by hurricane ida. so the fact that no buildings, at least to the eye from above, looked to be flattened. that could be a good sign but again, these rescue and recovery teams, don, have to get to grand isle. they have to get to other barrier islands out there just to see if, number one, if anyone is out there who needs help or anyone is alive out there who can be rescued. and number two, about the building damage. that's going to ache a little while. >> earlier today, i understand you were in slidell, what's the situation there? >> right, don. we got up to slidell and we saw some heavy flooding on the roads that was still there. and the mayor of slidell had told us he was afraid

jon: grand isle is the area i was specifically referring to.y flight in a certain way but when you come in after a tropical storm are there any particular issues you have to worry about that you have to watch out for like please flight check quick. >> absolutely, serve. we monitor the weather 24/7 and support staff is back here on deck ready to support us. as pilots and air crew this is what we train for. we have gone through years and years of training most of us live and breathe this all the time. this is what we do. we are here to save lives and protect our homeland. jon: we are happy to have you on the job. we wish you well in the days ahead. thank you. >> thank you serve. semper parada's. jon: team coverage continues as hurricane ida slams louisiana and southern mississippi. who breaks eight world records... after age 65, without a serious support system. kathy martin has one in medicare from blue cross blue shield. she won't go a day without the right card. because she can't go a day without running. the medicare coverage trusted by more

i want you to look at this coast guard video over grand isle, louisiana. you can see how random the devastation is. some houses totaled. while some right next door are still standing. water rescues across the region like this man in a wheelchair being lifted out of a boat. there was even a dolphin spotted swimming in flood waters injure slidell, louisiana. a deadly hurricane, a raging pandemic, and the end of the united states' longest war. the truth matters now more than ever. i have said this before that misinformation is killing us. it is killing our democracy. also the division, right? and the misinformation. so this is something we cannot ignore. this is the whole point of what chris and i were just talking about. sickening. the 100% false claim about president joe biden spread by conservatives on twitter saturday night, the completely disgraceful lie that the president of the united states did not show up at dover airforce base to honor those 13 u.s. service members who died in the suicide bombing at the kabul airport last week. a republican congress

isles. we will be looking at mist untilfog. underneath the isles.ll be looking at mist until fog. underneath the cloud, 13 or 1a perhaps. where it breaks, eight or nine and possibly turn. tuesday, a dull start from many areas. brightness perhaps getting into east anglia. yet again. in the sunshine, you could see 20 celsius. american anti missile systems have intercepted rockets fired at capital airport where the us evacuation is drawing to a close. uk government is seeking international support to ensure the taliban allows people to leave afghanistan, as british troops from kabul return back to uk soil. us military is saying it is investigating after at least nine afghan civilians died. hurricane aid has now we can to a tropical storm, as powerful winds and rain wiped out all power supplies in new orleans. people travelling to the uk from canada, denmark and five other new green this countries will not need to isolate, as the uk latest travellers come into force. those are our headlines. now it is time for weather world. those are our headlines. now

you mentioned grand isle. i can tell you that the video that i have seen and reports i've received are just tremendous amounts of storm surge there and wind damage. the good news is i hesitate to give you -- something like 98% of grand isle evacuated. and the people who were there, i believe, stayed back in structures specifically designed and built to withstand these types of forces. but i have no doubt we're going to see extreme devastation. grand isle and elsewhere, but we will likely be sometime after first light tomorrow morning before we can get up in the air and get vehicles down there. and, of course, you know, you got to travel la one. i don't know if you saw the video, but it was not in good shape earlier. we will be working that just as quickly as we possibly can. and in all likelihood, traveling to grand isle and elsewhere in that vicinity via helicopter. >> reporter: do you have any information about hospitals? [ inaudible ] s. >> no tier one hospitals have been evacuated. tier one is what we comm

in scotland, mostly dry with sunny spells, the odd spot of rain from the cloud in the northern islesch cannot be ruled out but in england and wales there are slow—moving torrential downpours, but the risk of catching them, south—east wales, south midlands, including into london, and most places will not get to 20 celsius today. but again, it is ok if you are in some sunshine. whatever torrential downpours have developed in england and wales slowly fade this evening at the second half of the night looks dry, largely clear and temperatures will be lower than this away from the larger towns and city centres, so we are talking single figures in many places and a fresh and bright start on tuesday with a ridge of high pressure across us, although some showers will get going and we are watching this weather system heading in from the west slowly and tomorrow morning it could produce outbreaks of rain into the isles of scilly and cornwall. tomorrow in scotland, the greater chance of catching a shower compared with today among the sunny spells, in northern ireland a brighter day, a few shower

intense winds in grand isle. clearly the worst is yet to come.already catastrophic storm surge, very damaging winds are moving onshore across the gulf coast. let's get straight to cnn meteorologist chad myers. chad, 150-mile-an-hour winds. just six more miles per hour this would be a category 5 storm. >> right. you can't really separate 150 from 160 or 157 except that there's obviously more extensive damage the higher the number goes. it's log rhythmic. taking a 75-mile-per-hour storm, compared to what we have here, 150-mile-per-hour storm, that seems like it's two times greater. no. actually it's 256 times more powerful when it comes to doing damage because it's not a linear extrapolation, it's a log rhythmic extrapolation. port fourchon got the center of the eye, but the problem would be grand isle. grand isle got the right side of the eyewall, not the middle of the eye. you only got the eyewall itself. 150-mile-per-hour storm, that's almost where we were with michael that made landfall on mexico beach. i can probably see similar results. some

he's riding out the storm on a boat in grand isle, louisiana. josh, tell us what you're experiencing right now. >> reporter: a lot of wind and rain right now. i mean, you can't even see the dock or nothing. it used to be a dock over, i guess, but it ain't no more. we had a issue the door got open and it busted a window. we got that taped up. you can't see nothing in grand isle at the dock right now. there is nothing. like, you can't see anything. >> what made you decide, josh, to try to ride this out aboard a boat? >> well, we got more or less -- before we realized we was trapped, and then we pretty much road it out then. >> so who is with you? >> we got four guys on the boat. we got -- there's other boats over here, too. we got jack up boats and utility boat over there. we got another boat. we got four boats in here altogether. >> how much worse do you expect things to get? >> right now? it's pretty bad right now. i get the eye is getting close to us. i don't know. it's really bad. we got the hull -- the bob set, and -- that's all the boats we

you mentioned grand isle. i can tell you the video i have seen, the reports that i have received, are just tread amounts of storm surge there and wind damage. the good news is -- i hate to give you a figure, but something like 98% of grand isle evacuated, and i believe people who are there stayed back in structures that are specifically built to withstand these times of forces. i have no doubt we will see extreme devastation, but we will likely be sometime after first light before we can get up in the air and get vehicles down there. and, of course, you've got to travel -- i don't know if you saw the video, but l.a. 1 was not in good shape. in all likelihood traveling to grand isle and elsewhere, in that vicinity, probably by helicopter. [ inaudible question ] >> okay. so i can tell you tier 1 hospitals have been evacuated. by definition, we want hospitals, some behavioral health hospitals, and these are typically much smaller. the patients' needs are not quite as acute, and we have evacuated four such hospita

grand isle had that 146-mile-per-hour wind gust.ng that's interesting with the structure of the storm, we're now seeing dual eye walls. the storm had been about 20 miles wide. that's the clear eye here. then another ring on the outside of that. so that's what we call a double eye wall that is 50 miles wide. the max winds will come down with the storm a little bit so you think that's great but the problem is then the wind field expands so the damage path could be even wider so instead of just an extreme damage path of 20 miles now we're talking about maybe not quite as extreme but really really bad of 50 miles bad. that's the structure of the storm as it's making landfall. we'll be talking about that more and what the implications are for inland areas. i want to talk about the storm surge inundation. the bottom line up to the orange, that's six feet of water expected. the red is nine feet. around new orleans and the mississippi river here we're grayed out, that's protected by the levee system. we do not expect the levees to be topped

but there were efforts made earlier today in and around jean lafitte and grand isle. does anybody have more specific information? we are not aware of any loss-of-life in grand isle, but it was only accessible by air today and so we were able to finally get some air assets up. i know we've been able to get some people on the ground to inspect facilities there as well. i am quite certain any needed rescue's have been made and we will get back with you if for some reason that is not the case. >> [indiscernible] gov. edwards: first of all, any additional deaths would be unconfirmed, and until a coroner officially confirms a death and attributes of the death to a hurricane, i am not going to get in front of them. i had a number of conversations overnight and today with parish presidents and other officials who believe the death count attributable to the hurricane will go up because they see catastrophic damage in certain places that they have every reason to believe were inhabited at the time the damage occurred. it is certainly possible, and i have prayed that by some mir

you mentioned grand isle. can tell you that the video that i've seen and the reports that i've received are just tremendous amounts of storm surge there and wind damage. the good news is, i hesitate to give you a figure but something like 98% of grand isle evacuated. and the people who are there i believe stayed back in structures that are specifically designed and built to withstand these types of forces. but i have no doubt we're going to see extreme devastation, grand isle and elsewhere, but will likely be sometime after first light tomorrow morning before we can get up in the air and get vehicles down there and of course you've got to travel la-1. i don't know if you saw the video but la-1 was not in good shape in the area earlier so we will be working that as quickly as we possibly can and in all likelihood traveling to grand isle and elsewhere in that vicinity via helicopter. >> [ indiscernible ] >> okay. so i can tell you no tier 1 hospitals have been evacuated. tier 1 hospital is what we commonly think

of scilly and also the west of cornwall. to the isles of scilly and also not particularly cold, ourand, if you do, it�*s likely to be slow—moving, heavy and potentially thundery as well. temperatures more widely, we are seeing 20s than we are today, but roughly 14 to 21. and as we head into wednesday, a similarstory in that it will start off on a dry note with some sunshine, showers getting going through the day, rain in the western isles travelling towards the northern isles and temperatures, again, up a touch, we can see 22 for example in liverpool. then things become a little bit more uncertain because of this area of low pressure, it may well come in from the west and drift eastwards or it might sink southwards, so a lot to play for with this one. if it does travel eastwards, it will take its rain with it. but the outlook from thursday to sunday does remain unsettled, with sunshine and showers and some brisk winds. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11: team gb are well—placed for more medals at the tokyo olympics — this time in eventing, where great britain are looking to secur

this thing came ashore, and what do you hear from grand isle, houma? hearing stories of people needing rescue? is the physical damage is it catastrophic there? what are you hearing from the people down there. the crews down there? i know it is dangerous for people to go out and do rescues, we know there have been a few rescue calls. but what the word from southern part of the state? >> i spoke to dean blanchard who owns a seafood business down there, his business is gone. the employees he had at his home, part of the section of his house ripped away, he was worried about safety of those people that rode it out, nobody can get to them now, because of surgery he h this is the first time he did not stay on the island. we have seen photographs of boats, barges and vessels just bobbing in the water. they become missiles of anyone that stayed even if their house is elevated, as many are, on grand isle, if you are hit by a moving vessel or debris it will knock the houses out. we're expecting to see major damage in and hopefully those who stays will be able to

there's the storm coming onshore in grand isle. i've beening looing at wind gusts and overwash in grand isle. it's not very good there and about to get worse as the eyewall comes onshore. we have the extreme wind warning stretching almost up to the west bank into new orleans. anywhere you see that red, you're going to see wind gusts of 115 or more. here are the gusts we have right now, were buoys out here and oil rigs out here that have reported numbers over 100 miles per hour already. those numbers are likely to go up. look at the size of the area that's going to be 110 or greater. down here obviously in the bottom of the boot, you'll be 130 or greater. this 110 or greater gets very, very close to metry and we'll lose power for a very long time. some people won't get power back for a month. here are the shell beach, six-foot surge and that number will certainly go up. wolf, we'll need 10 tore 16 feet for storm surge. in the back areas, the back levees may not hold all this water. we may flood some of the southern west bank towns,

my real concern is what the people in grand isle have been dealing with.thstanding these winds for such a long period of time. we will rebuild and it will be messy and invent. the thought of 51 fighting for their life right at the gulf of mexico with wind and water so raw like that. it is really disheartening. and that is what bothers me mentally. it is what is eating away at you all day. that's where my stomach is churning all day. >> thank you. so for your time. please stay safe. >>> today this request from the mayor of new orleans. take a listen. >> this is the time to stay inside. do not venture out. no sight-seeing. this is very serious. we need you to stay in from this point forward. all morning. all afternoon. all evening. as it relates to monday morning, we should see some signs of, that we're moving out of this but you are not to come out until you receive more information from the city of new orleans. >> for natives of new orleans, perhaps a telling sign, this storm was not to be taken lightly is the fact these spotted cat music club closed ahead

grand isle is the southern most border. we are catching hurricane ida from the coast to where we are now in our population center next to the city of new orleans. and our population center, we're getting in front of it with the winds averaging in the 100 miles an hour and gusts in the 130 range on our west bank around the airport. and so that area -- i can look out my window. it is not looking good out there. we'll keep plugging away. hopefully we can get through this in the next several hours. we can work trying to clean up the community and trying to find a place to come home to. we really thank the people get out of the way and it gives us the ability to get to work and get to work quicker. >> sheriff, do you have a sense of how many people have evacuated and how many people remain? >> outside the levee district, i would say the vast majority evacuated. within the levee district, a good number. the traffic yesterday getting out south of the city was extreme. taking people eight, ten, 12 hours to take a trip that would no

and the far north of northern isles and the far north of northern ireland.she was going across the far north of scotland and into monday we will feel the effect of the north—westerly winds cool air flooding across the uk, starting the new beak fairly quiet with a lot of cloud particularly at further west bringing drizzle, sunshine further east and highest temperatures may be 20 or 21 but add in the wind and it will feel cooler than recently. for the week ahead fairly quiet, mostly dry aside from occasional showers, lots of cloud on wednesday. this is bbc news with the latest headlines... labour says there are questions for devon and cornwall police about why it chose to return a shotgun licence to the man who killed five people in plymouth. how on earth did he get a gun licence in the first place? what gran checks were done? i am glad there is the investigation is under way about why it was returned. there are wider questions here. —— what background checks were done? —— what background checks were done? afghanistan's president says his top priority is boost

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we saw the first landfall today, the isle of youth, cuba's isle of youth, and we're going to see a se> good to be here looks like it's going to be a category 4 storm this is on a day last year category 4 laura hit 16 years to the day of katrina on sunday let's talk about ida we're seeing it strengthening. we saw the first landfall today, the isle of youth, cuba's isle of youth, and we're going to see a second land falling on sunday. so right now we're seeing 80 miles per hour winds, it's strong, it's going to continue to strengthen, as it gets into those really warm back waters of the gulf of mexico, so category 2 storm by tomorrow, and look at saturday afternoon, tomorrow afternoon, category 3 storm. it's in a really favorable environment. i mentioned those really warm deep waters. we're looking at low winds here, everything a hurricane needs to really get fueled. by 1:00, we're looking at a category 4 storm and unfortunately that's what we're expecting. and the national hurricane is expecting. sunday late afternoon into the nighttime, we're going to see a landfall of 140 miles per h

the mayor of grand isle called ida katrina on steroids.>> well i think that is david, a good friend and a great leader. he's been down on grand isle through the tough times, all of the guys from down there, they caught the brunt of it. and ida was worse for them than katrina was. the worst nightmare is to have drowning and life issues, but also massive destructions of property. i have not seen the pictures because i haven't been able to access the tv. but my guess is if you look at everything from grand isle up to la place, you're going to have some substantial damage and loss of life is the greatef concern. however, when the storm ends and the rescue begins, then the recovery starts and that can't happen if electricity doesn't get back up and operating. so that again continues to be the order of the day because it actually can spawn other consequences that we haven't thought about. people normally prepare for 72 hours but not seven days, two weeks, three weeks, four weeks. if it gets into that we're going to have trouble. but i know they'

this is where the only road to grand isle begins.still under several feet of water and broken into pieces just behind me it's the community down the road from here where neighborhoods were said to be on their rooftops waiting for help to arrive seven miles long, grand isle was the only inhabited barrier island in louisiana. our team in the air with the coast guard surveying the damage less than a thousand people lived here with the exact number of trapped or missing remains unclear. we've got a large population, got hit with a very large category 4 storm everybody is hurting in different ways >> reporter: this morning, communities still out of reach but hanging on to hope >> i mean, miguel, you mentioned some places like grand isle, people in places completely cut off. have officials been able to at least make contact with them and communicate with them at all >> reporter: yeah, craig, there was good news overnight. we heard from a fire chief who believes nearly everyone got out of that community with their lives. nearly every buildi

you mentioned that you were able to connect with the mayor down in grand isle briefly.t are communications like? and most importantly, what is the mayor telling you? >> well, the mayor wants to help his people, and it was very difficult. i know yesterday he wanted a helicopter. we were trying to get him a helicopter to get in but the helicopter had nowhere to land. you from thea footage i've seen on national media, it seems like the roadways are clear. different in la feet. they are under water. i haven't been able to get out there today. i i'll look at it at some point today. we're trying to dewater that. that's one of the big issues we're trying to get to today, getting the water out. a massive amount of water, miles and miles of water. it's not just a little section. and the search and rescue continues today. we have boats going into that community as well. and then up here where we're in the hurricane protection system, we're dealing with power outages. water supply that is fragile. my concern is humanitarian aid is going to increase as the days go by, so we're look

this was from grand isle. one death has been reported. louisiana's governor expects the death toll will rise considerably. >> emergency officials are on the look out for what the student surge will bring. ida made landfall sunday. this is what the wind sounded like. just harrowing trying to imagine to live through that. now the entire city of new orleans is without power. that's more than a many people. entry will be blocked up to a week. maybe longer. here is what president biden said this afternoon. >> for a time, ida caused the mississippi river to literally change its direction and some folks are still dealing with the storm surge and flash flooding. there are roads that are im impassable due to debris and down power lines. we need people to continue to shelter in place if it's safe for them to do so. ed, what are you seeing? >> reporter: it was a long night for residents who were watching water flood into their home. the good news this afternoon is that the flood waters starting to recede a little bit in some places rather quickly. t

the offshore islands, he said included the british isles and the islands of japan. the outlying isles included the continents of north america, south america, and oceana. so any country who wants to rule the world needs a rule that world island right well brings up to previous empires and what gave them geo graphic strength, right? there is a british empire in the american empire, the british empire ruled the seas. and in his work, he talks about how having the critical landmass trump's having dominion over the seas. and because of all the natural resources that are effectively in that land mass in the american empire, it was a phrase manifest destiny. as america went east to west and they conquered that entire continent more or less, and separated or isolated or protected by 2 oceans. so they were it having the ability to grow accordingly. now we're entering into a period where this idea of having the critical landmass the island is coming into play. so around joining the shanghai cooperation organization or s c o. we've been talking about that for a number of year

we have report of 166 mile an hour wind gusts in grand isle. now the system is moving inland. look at it, six hours later, still intact, still a cat-4. the systems moving to the northwest now, the worst of the winds in tahoma. the system will move north, eventually northeast. power outages widespread all across the southeast and it's very hot this time of year. a lot of folks will be without air conditioning at least a week or two. this is the official track as you can see in tennessee. during the day tuesday, we're dealing with it through the end of the week. it heads towards dc, new york and boston with very heavy how much heavy rain? some folks will still see another foot of rain in the southeast. believe it or not, at least 4 to 8 inches will make its way up the appalachians into pennsylvania and maybe new york city as well. we're not done with the storm quite yet. >> all right, jeff, with what we need to know. thank you. >>> tonight more than 90,000 americans infected with covid are being treated in hospitals. that's the highest number since last winter. nationwide, nearl

of sclly and cornwall, the chance of seeing some rain, showers into the western isles.well—scattered but potentially torrential thundery downpours getting going. but in the sunny spells, it does feel quite warm — if anything, temperatures are a degree or two higher tomorrow compared with today. they are close to, or a little bit below average for the time of year. again, a few thundery downpours will rumble on into tuesday evening before fading. the frontal system to our west makes further progress in for wednesday, the clouds towards westernmost areas seeing some early rain. then it sunny spells and showers breaking out again — if anything on wednesday, more focus on these downpours and western areas, northern england, northern ireland, and scotland with the chance of a shower possible just about and the bbc has learnt the uk anywhere. if you do get a sunshine, and many will at times, it will feel pleasantly warm. and then for thursday onwards into the weekend, or weather dominated by an area of low pressure stopped turning windier towards the south, but nowhere near a

early rain affecting the isles of scilly and cornwall, a greater chance tomorrow of catching a showern scotland, those most won't, a brighter day in northern ireland with a shower possible later. for england and wales, most staying dry with sunny spells, but slow moving and torrential thundery downpours that could bring some flooding and slowly fading as we get on into tuesday night. for wednesday, the focus of the heavy showers will be across northern areas and northern ireland, northern england and scotland could see the downpours on wednesday, there were a shower is possible just about anywhere. pleasantly warm where you get to see some sunny spells. thursday onwards into the weekend, the weather dominated by low pressure. windy again to the south, though not as windy as it was last week, bands of heavy rain or showers moving through with brighter spells in between. and with weather like this and temperatures like this, you may be forgiven for thinking that august is doing a good job of dressing up as autumn in disguise. iam sure dressing up as autumn in disguise. i am sure we are

but looking at the videos and the phone calls from places like grand isle, laplace, st. john parish, we're going to see a lot of dv station and hopefully little loss of life. >> because of transmission line s taken down, new orleans completely lost power. >> i'm talking to you from the only cell phone working at my location. a tc at&t is out. many of the cell services even at baton rouge, is not working. communications for the public is limited in getting in touch with loved ones. so, that's going to further affect how we get to those areas and also communicate with loved o ones, as we find people that rode it out safely. >> how do you check on people if they can't contact you? >> it's very difficult. you know, the communications between the first responders and wildlife and fisheries, as they go out, they'll have a great network to go out and rescue those people. until we get people back to communications, it's going to be very difficult. my phone was filled up last night several times as we were evacuating people all through the night. and i'm sure that personal cell i

france, so that rain not making a lot of progress across our shores, just really into cornwall and the isleson tuesday seeing some spells of sunshine and one or two showers popping up again into the afternoon. a few of those could be heavy, possibly thundery, and temperatures again up to 20, possibly 21 degrees. now, into wednesday, i think we could see a few more showers breaking out at this stage, a line of showers likely to push in across north—west scotland, some breaking out elsewhere through the afternoon and again some heavy, thundery ones, those temperatures around 20 or 21 degrees. as we head towards the end of the week, things are set to turn more unsettled. one area of low pressure rolling in for thursday, another one behind it and that's our weather maker for next weekend, so generally speaking as we head towards the end of the week it is going to turn more unsettled with showers or longer spells of rain and potentially some fairly brisk winds as well. this is bbc news. i'm sarah mulkerrins — live in tokyo — on day 10 of the olympics. an athlete from belarus is under police prote

tend to be slow moving with light winds here area more persistent rain pushing on into the northern isles through the day. and i think we could start to see increasing amounts of sunshine across the south and the east where we could see highs of 20 degrees. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines... the us and britain warn their remaining citizens in afghanistan to leave as the taliban continue their advance, seizing a second provincial capital. w hundreds are evacuated by ferry in greece, as firefighters continue to battle an unprecedented outbreak of wildfires. the end of most coronavirus restrictions in wales — no more limits on meeting indoors, plus an end to rules on social distancing. and it's gold medal number 20 for team gb — asjoe choong takes top spot in the men's modern pentathlon. now on bbc news, across america, dna testing is uncovering a disturbing side to the largely unregulated fertility industry. angelica casas reports. i see you, evie! cheering across america, dna testing is uncovering a disturbing side to the largely unregulated fertility industry. i had prayed for 15 y

. >> reporter: some communities like grand isle along the gulf coast completely cut off. it's still impossible to assess the full impact of this monster storm. >> stunning images there. thanks to tom yamas for that report. let's bring in bill karins. when you look at the pictures and consider power being out for weeks or perhaps months in some places you start to get a grasp p, as we tried to yesterday morning when the sun first came up of how deadly, how serious the storm really was. >> yeah. fifth strongest storm to ever hit our country and the pictures you're seeing is what you expect with a storm of that magnitude. we have breaking news on two fronts one with ida another with the caldor fire which i'll get to in a second. here's what we're watching currently. we have problems with water still. a lot of river flooding. we have reports out of mississippi, highway 26 warned out last night, vehicles drove into that area that was flooded. two fatalities, ten injuries, three of those injuries are critical. so highway 26 is both lanes washed out, that was overnight in missis

emergency officials getting calls from people who did not evacuate the barrier island of grand isle saying water in their home is up to their chest. in nearby lafitte authorities warning that a levee is failing putting at least 200 people in, quote, imminent danger. >>e have many requests for rescue certainly in the lafitte area but also up here, people have had and sustained damage to their homes. we have a senior center of independent living but they had about a third of their roof get damaged. they were taking in water. >> reporter: earlier a barge that got loose slammed into a bridge that leads to lafitte making it nearly impossible for rescuers to reach people. >> i'm told the vessel has sunk so those folks, if that is the case and i've seen pictures, they'll have to use a ferry for a couple of months. >> reporter: the largest health system, oshner health, and video from one of those hospitals showing the fierce winds blowing off the roof. >> whoa! >> reporter: in houma, louisiana, tearing the roof off this building. congresswoman beryl amedee who represents houma describing the scene

france, so that rain not making a lot of progress across our shores, just really into cornwall and the isleses on tuesday seeing some spells of sunshine and one or two showers popping up again into the afternoon. a few of those could be heavy, possibly thundery, and temperatures again up to 20, possibly 21 degrees. now, into wednesday, i think we could see a few more showers breaking out at this stage, a line of showers likely to push in across north—west scotland, some breaking out elsewhere through the afternoon and again some heavy, thundery ones, those temperatures around 20 or 21 degrees. as we head towards the end of the week, things are set to turn more unsettled. one area of low pressure rolling in for thursday, another one behind it and that's our weather maker for next weekend, so generally speaking as we head towards the end of the week it is going to turn more unsettled with showers or longer spells of rain and potentially some fairly brisk winds as well. welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines: an athlete from belarus is under polic

grand isle, you will get 15. in some areas, around 10 or 11 so we have got an area that could see at least a 9 foot storm surge. we could also see rain get up to maybe 15 inches in spots. isolated areas, as high as 20. and on that nasty, right side of the storm. well, areas like mobile, they could see severe weather in terms of tornados because these -- these outer bands come to shore and they rotate and they spark these tornados. that's going to lead, robyn, to, yes, power outages unfortunately. >> okay. we will check in with you in about 20 minutes' time, again. because it's clearly moving faster and bigger and really a real issue for many people on the ground there. this is potentially devastating, tyler, we will check in with you as i said in 20 more minutes. thanks so much. stand by. >>> so, ida will hit the louisiana coast on the 16th anniversary of hurricane katrina's landfall. and ida is also barreling towards a section of the state that really hasn't fully recovered from two hurricanes last year. well, j