what's beter for you is worse for hammond and slidell. max winds have been shifted out of there. that storm will be near baton rouge around midnight, and as we mentioned, we have to deal with this thing all the way through wednesday, maybe even into thursday. thursday over connecticut. >> incredibly long tail on that storm. >> yes. taking a week off after this one. >> we'll keep watching. i'll keep you with me, bill karins. thank you. >>> today, louisiana's governor urging those at home to stay in place long after the storm passes through. >> once the storm has passed, you need to be prepared to shelter in place for the first 72 hours. we have every possible resource ready to go to help you. we'll get there sooner than 72 hours if at all possible in order to rescue people across the state of louisiana. but this is the window of time that it may take in order to get first responders to you

it is a dolphin swimming in a slidell neighborhood yesterday.i understand -- i'll ask the mayor about this. there may have been other creatures in the water the dolphin was trying to escape from. let's get the story and what's going on with the people of slidell. we have a mayor with us. thank you for being in focus. >> thank you. good to be with you today. >> harris: first of all let's talk about what's most important here the safety of your people. how is everybody doing? >> we still have probably 3/4s of our community without power. we have both hospitals powered up at this time and working to get our nursing homes and elder care centers back up as quickly as possible. there is a little commerce. a few of the major stores have brought in generators and we're starting to open up a few grocery stores today. gas stations have opened up with generators and believe it or not waffle house and pizza hut. last night the lines at waffle house and pizza hut were 25 and 30 cars deep. people were tired of eating their own cooking for the past three or fo

>> we got up to slidell and saw heavy flooding on the roads still there. of slidell told us he was afraid by midday they'd see worse flooding because even though the initial flood waters recessed he was worried shifts in the winds from the rem hernandez of hurricane ida still hanging arounds would shift some of the tides of lake ponchartrain into his town and cause even more flooding. we don't know whether that actually happened but slidell was very hard hit by flooding. we saw it today and it was nearly waist deep in flooding. we could not transmit from there because there were no signals available. we had to shoot our video and leave. we caught up to some people in a very long line for gasoline in st. bernard parish not far from downtown new orleans. these people were waiting in line for two hours, three hours per person. we talked to a lot of them. they were desperate for gas some for their vehicles some for generators at home. the owner of the gas station told us he had started the day with 5,000 gallons and by the time we left at 7:00 p.m. he was down

there was even a dolphin spotted swimming in floodwaters in slidell, louisiana. a deadly hurricane, a raging pandemic, and the end of the united states' longest war. the truth matters now, more than ever. and i have said this before that misinformation is killing us and it's killing our democracy. also, the division, right? and the misinformation. so this is something that we cannot ignore. this is the whole point of what chris and i were just talking about at the beginning. it's 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 air force base to honor those 13 u.s. service members who died in the suicide bombing at the kabul airport last week. a republican congressional candidate in california tweeting, our heroes returned to american soil in dover afb today. nobody from the biden white house attended. the co-founder of students for trump tweeting, not even the president of the united states showed up. and sa

got back from slidell about 30 minutes away from here and i will show you the video, there's active whatning right now. communication is very difficult. we had to get this video and bring it to a place where we could bring it to you because there is no cell phone communication at all. what neighbors are doing is getting out in the street and finding ways to help each other. there are countless trees down there, they are pulling out their boats and going door-to-door, rescuing people who need to get out of rising water in slidell, as well. too many trees to count that are down, even the police chief they are talking about how difficult it is to even communicate right now. this certainly hampering their efforts. that's what we are seeing, starting from coastal mississippi where we have been here, biloxi and gulfport, thousands of power outages come even tornado damage being assessed today. as he moved closer to slidell and new orleans the picture gets even more difficult to see, guys. >> john: still not as bad i would think as he he saw during katrina. >> not at all. >> sandra: you are tal

again slidell, new orleans, you can see these starting to slide in. these are not peak.hese are just where they are at now as the storm is approaching. you have several numbers here in the two to three feet range. however, those numbers are going to keep going up. these are the peak numbers of where we expect them to be throughout the morning and early afternoon. the pink area here including grand isle 12 to 16 feet. if you went to bed last night, these numbers have changed as you are waking up. most of these numbers have gone up one, maybe two feet from where they were yesterday evening. not dramatic changes, but not in the direction we were hoping they would go. eight to 12 feet for the purple areas here and four to seven for biloxi. winds will be a big factor with this. that's why we talk about power outages. in fact, we got word that the national weather service in new orleans may have taken a power hit and are using generators as backup. again these are the things that are expected to happen. more and more people are going to experience power outages as we go throug

joining us now slidell, louisiana mayor greg comber. good to have you on.rews, they've been doing some rescues. tell us what they've seen? >> good morning, jim. we have -- it was a long night last night and i finally got off the streets about 12:30. everything looked fairly decent. some trees and some power lines down. and i went to sleep, i guess on the the couch about 2:00 and 4:00 my police chief came in and turned the light on and said you need to get up. we have water in every neighborhood in town. in about a three hour period, we had probably five to six foot rise in the bayou and the lake estuary system that pushed water into a number of people's homes on the south side of our community. and we had to deploy boats at 4:00 this morning and do water rescues. we took about 15 people off their roofs of their homes. within three to four hours the water was starting to recede and we had to pull the boats out because we would have been stranded and now we're in with high water vehicles an taking people out of the neighborhood on the lower side of town. >> t

that's going to begin shortly in baton rouge and for our folks in slidell. the extreme wind warning is issued when the center of the storm comes onshore. if you get winds above 115 miles per hour. they extended this and issued it closer to new orleans. it butts right up against the western portion of the city. and that extreme wind warning will go throughout the next couple hours as the eye heads northwards. we were thinking earlier today new orleans would be just outside of the eyewall. it wouldn't go through the heart of the storm, but because of this turn towards the north, it's going to bring this western eyewall very close to the city limits as we go throughout the next three hours. we easily could get the western portion of the city, 100-mile-per-hour gusts, 110-mile-per-hour gusts. you can see, this black line is the forecast path. it was going on a pretty much northwest track. looked like it was going right for houma. then it slowed down and stalled. and then look at that, due north, and the eye, it has to reposition this at the top of the next hour.

an area close to the city of slidell is currently accessible only by boat.now in atlanta. they have no idea what remains of the home they left behind. we don't know when power is going to be back, there is no cell phone towers because they are down. i don't know if my co—workers are ok, if my kids are ok, if my friends are ok. it is overwhelming. footage of the storm itself contiunues to emerge. these pictures came in to us earlier, this was from sunday — the wind making the windows shudder violently, in la bouettejust outside of new orleans. and here's more of the aftermath. the biggest problem facing louisiana as the waters begin to recede is that much of the state is still without electrical power. michael george is in new orleans for cbs. more than a million people who are still without power two days after the hurricane hit, the reason why it is right behind me. this is a three—storey transmission tower that was brought down by the hurricane and there are holes in the power grid right now so officials say it will take weeks, not days, to fully restore t

you can see all these areas of red baton rouge, areas down towards slidell. we thought we would have a tornado move toward slidell. the radar is just to the north of there. they were under a warning for awhile. but this tornado watch is in effect until 6:30 in the morning and the darkness of night. so this is not going away. do we have one? we do. right there st. tamry. you can see it just to the northeast of new orleans. the center of the storm now, pam, is 30 miles to the west. it will split the needle between baton rouge and new orleans but these bands are quite heavy. the heavy rainfall will continue through the night up through the ohio valley into new england. when a storm is strong enough and large enough and creates a lot of damage, it is retired and never to be used again. there is not a letter in the alphabet that has more retired names than the letter i. isabelle, irene, ivan, ike, ida will go on this list. no doubt about it. typically, the letter i storm happens around the 4th of october. we are way ahead of schedule, pam, and if you didn't know i

the city of slidell hit hard by flooding. >> in about a three hour period we had probably 5 to 6 footise in the bayou. >> reporter: ida's path of destruction widespread, u.s. coast guard aerials show the severe impact in grand isle, louisiana. >> this is going to be very long ordeal in terms of getting everything cleaned up and certainly getting everything repaired. >> reporter: more than 1 million people are now without power after the storm including the entire city of new orleans. >> we're already seeing the power outages across the area. and the threat isn't over parent. >> reporter: overnight the city experienced an outage in its 911 emergency call system as the storm crossed the state. one major electrical transmission tower in jefferson parish collapsed in to the mississippi river. all eight major transmission lines providing power to the northern area are down. city officials are bracing themselves for what could be weeks without power. >> we have to be realistic and prepare people for worst case scenario just like hurricane laura in lake charms les where took weeks. >> report

if you can keep it out of new orleans, but it may go to slidell if there's pressure on it. so we still have the worst part of the storm in front of us. i know it's caused some destruction along the coast, but the bigger part of the population, our oil and gas industry is going to be significantly impacted with that forward push on, and there's about 150 chemical plants in the area, much of it is tied to industrial production here in america and around the world. and we could have pollution problems in those plants if that infrastructure failed and the eye of the storms comes through the alley. >> lieutenant general honore, thank you so much for your time. >> let me say this. people please help the volunteers. we have the red crowd out there, a lot of charities will be needed to help people in the coming days. if you can't go out and volunteer, please donate. thank you very much. >> thank you so much for that message. we appreciate it. >>> we want to bring in right now mayor lee dragna of morgan city, louisiana. first, good afternoon to you, mayor. are you safe right now? i

extends a guy named john slidell down to mexico in order to negotiate the sale of california. at a time when the mexican government is still upset that the u.s. is claiming the area south of the river. they are obsessed with a contested southern texas boundary. bulk sends a guy to talk about buying california. no understanding of the internal political situation of mexico which is very fragile. furthermore everybody knows and hates him because he had said ridiculously racist things of mexico in the past. also he doesn't speak spanish. he would talk about blundering generations you could say that is it. okay, some people have argued that polk did that on purpose. he sent a guy down to mexico because he just wanted to incite a war. think before he started writing this book is very influenced by the argument that because polk was a slave owner he just really wanted to take a whole bunch of land from mexico in order to spread slavery. but working on him for ten years, i think it is more in the blundering argument has a little more merit. i think he has such a low opinion of mexica

this time edging closer to a larger populated area, get to around new orleans, slidell, mobile, don't let your guard down with this. tropical storm-force winds will move inward around 6:00 to 8:00 in the morning and already making their way to the north. it will be 2:00 in the afternoon until they spread to the north. by then it will be the hurricane-force winds. very concerned now if we see at 8:00 the national hurricane center just edges it ever so slightly to the east as it did in the 5:00 p.m., because in the 5:00 p.m. we found the center of the storm had wobbled somewhat. you change that pinpoints of where its center is, it changes where landfall is in the track. look at the eastern eyewall. makes its way very close over metro new orleans. those are where the winds are the fastest. could see winds obviously over 110 miles per hour. and gusts could be possibly even higher than that. they move inward. you have winds well north in parts of northern areas of the state, in toward tennessee. two models, pretty good agreement. european's slower. this is 1:00 p.m. central time. if we alw

the man slifd in slidell in a raised home inside a wildlife refuge in and around the marsh area. water had come in, storm surge from hurricane, knee deep flood water. he went down to the shed, wife heard commotion, looked down, saw the alligator attacking her husband. and the man's body is missing. we start with an aerial view, thanks to the coast guard at the area known as grand isle. this is what hurricane ida did to the coastal community of grand isle, louisiana. shredding rooftops and scattering debris everywhere. on monday coast guard aircraft circled the island looking for survivors as first responders across louisiana did the same thing, reaching those still trapped in the hurricane's aftermath. >> we're still in a search and rescue mode. we're not recovering yet. we're still responding and trying to save lives. >> reporter: in laplace, louisiana, rescue crews went door to door searching for families stranded by the floodwater. some took refuge on the second floor or in their attics. >> the ceiling in every room caved in, and it was unbelievable. four feet of water just ca

in slidell, a 71-year-old man is missing after being attacked by an alligator and losing his arm.arther west, ida's wrath flexed in the form of crumbled roofs and twisted trees. in a show of force, the wind was so strong in gramercy, alabama, it was enough to tip over an 18-wheel tractor trailer. not just one, but three tractor trailers in one parking lot. out of so much devastation emerged moments of hope. the nurses inside the neonatal intensive care unit volunteering to stay through the night with newborn babies who so desperately need them. >> my team pulls together. doesn't matter what's happening. they're going to make sure the babies are taken care of and that their team members are taken care of. >> reporter: at children's hospital new orleans, a physician and chief there saying so many young doctors and nurses took their kids to safer cities like atlanta and birmingham, then came back into lockdown in new orleans to care for their patients overnight. many of them, guys, still have not seen their own homes even at this point. hoda, back to you. >> somehow, sam, that does n