this is where morgan sheskey is hunkered down. tweet, a very similar area. here you can see that wind prip -- whipping those trees around. the people walking around could be part of our crew, could be residents in the area. houma, louisiana, our thoughts are with you as you bear the brunt of this storm right now. i'm lindsey reiser. yasmin vossoughian will be back here next saturday and saturday at 3:p.m. catch me at 6:00 p.m. eastern next weekend. our special coverage of hurricane ida continues right after the break. with downy infusions, let the scent set the mood. feel the difference with downy. we did it again. verizon has been named america's most reliable network by rootmetrics. and our customers rated us #1 for network quality in america according to j.d. power. number one in reliability, 16 times in a row. most awarded for network quality, 27 times in a row. proving once again that nobody builds networks like verizon. that's why we're building 5g right, that's why there's only one best network. at pnc bank, we believe in t

what are things like now, morgan sheskey? >> what we expect right now is a very significant powerful hurricane to make its way here in just an hour or two. right now, these outer bands are getting incredibly strong. we are already seeing light debris starting to be thrown around in the streets of houma. this is absolutely the weighs place you don't want to be when this hurricane passes over. it is incredibly tough to believe the eye may be still an hour or two away when you look at how powerful this storm is. right now, we know that there is still a lot of people who were unable to evacuate from this community here. so the big concern going forward is, how much of a storm surge issue is it going to be here? because we are already seeing how powerful the wind is from ida, just about a half hour after it made landfall. right now -- bear with me. it's only getting more powerful. it's incredibly concerning. we will sends it back to you for now because at this point it is starting to feel we are a bit too exposed to some of these