Pre evacuation efforts ended yesterday but
the relief caravans heading to Louisiana
today will see lots of high water.
Breaking news overnight.
The Ascension Parish Sheriff's
Office in Louisiana has reported
the first death from Hurricane Ida.
Deputies responding to a report
of someone injured by a fallen
tree at a home in Prairieville.
The person had died.
Prairieville is a suburb of Baton Rouge
and right now we're taking a live
look at the Entergy Power outage map.
Entergy reported more than 850,000
of the more than one million power.
Colleges across the state that includes
the entire city of New Orleans.
The only power in the city is
coming from generators and Entergy.
Says customers could be without
power for weeks.
What's happening in Louisiana will
only unfortunately get worse.
We have multiple crews there right
now and other crews headed that way.
Xavier Walton has an up close look
at how things have been on the ground
over the past 24 hours in New Orleans.
From the moment I de made landfall,
Louisiana and the world couldn't stop
watching this video from a balcony
in vanisha I'll showing storm surge.
In the city wind wreaking havoc?
Tree limbs littering streets
and falling on top of cars,
Louisiana has had its share.
I was here for training.
So. At this point, back.
Ida creating new memories,
but to a different degree as
a category four hurricane.
Years so it looks like it's
gonna survive the hurricane.
Between the wind and the rain does
so much damage here in the French
Quarter. Take a look at this.
This roof ripped off. Twin Wild
and out of control causing debris
on Canal Street to go airborne.
Moral of us caught that on camera.
A metal sheet from this
billboard being blown away.
I did not want to be the
capitated Paula from Chicago on
vacation trying to cut it short.
We just couldn't find any flights that
were available so everything was gone.
We tried to look for Amtrak.
We tried to look for more buses.
None were available at all,
no cars available,
so we're like we'll just hunker down and.
Stay in the hotel.
That was Xavier Walton reporting right now.
Groups here in Houston are getting
ready to head east to help.
Yeah, that includes CenterPoint
Energy Workers Army shelter.
Later this morning, Michelle
Houston is doing what they do best
and it sounds like a big effort.
Steven Kim, it's definitely a big effort,
but Centerpoint says they are ready to
send help to our neighbors in Louisiana.
Right now I'm at its service center here
in the Greenspoint area where in just a bit
crews will start arriving and gathering.
We're told that more than 200
CenterPoint Energy employees and
contractors will be heading out this
morning to help restore power.
Now this is a live pic of New Orleans
that you're seeing right now.
Still in the dark this morning after
Hurricane Ida knocked out power to thousands.
Now just a devastating situation there.
At last check,
Energy says more than 850,000 people
across the state are without power,
including the entire Orleans Parish,
and even more help is coming
from Houston gallery furniture
mattress. Mack once again stepping up later
this morning, he'll be sending 30 truck
trucks loaded with relief supplies
to reaches a Louisiana ravaged by the
storm to help impact the families.
Volunteers began collecting donations
yesterday and will continue today as well.
He's also opened up as North Houston store.
As a shelter for evacuees.
Lakewood Church will also hold a
collection drive today and tomorrow
they'll collect bottled water,
cleaning supplies, diapers and more,
and will work with other partner
churches that distribute the supplies.
Meanwhile, guys back here
at center point will be
here, providing updates throughout the
morning as crews head out at 6:30 AM.
Stuff for us this morning.
Those crews offering much needed help.
Thank you so much and take a look at
this high wind shearing off the
roofs of two medical centers.
In the New Orleans area,
crews have been working to
evacuate both facilities, and there
is similar damage across the
French Quarter and beyond.
Trees are down and there is widespread
flooding and wind damage in many
areas that have been hit repeatedly
by severe storms in recent years.
A lot of people left before the
storm hit everyone we've spoken to
says they just weren't willing to
take any chances with this storm.
This evacuation, reviving old fear,
stress and anxiety for many southwest
Louisiana residents who survived a
rough hurricane season last year that
started with Laura one year ago making
landfall as a cat four hurricane.
Obviously, six weeks later we got hit
by Hurricane Delta and then a few
months later we got the winter storm
in February and then a few months
later we got all the flooding in May.
We've also heard from several
families who live on the Louisiana
border Herrarte heading back home,
many of them counting their blessings
because some families have still not
recovered from last year's hurricanes.
Yeah, that's right.
Laura was devastating there this morning.
We're still waking up to
tropical storm warnings.
Flash flood warnings that are
in effect and take a look.
This now extends right through
portions of Mississippi as well,
so even as Ida is on the move,
it's still producing really flash flooding.
Life threatening rains still across
portions of these areas because
they're already really saturated
and dealing with wind gusts around
3040 plus mph this morning.
So wrapping around, we're still going
to be tracking that on and off of these
rain bands throughout the day today
here locally this morning. We are dry.
I'm expecting a really hot afternoon.
What we're looking at.
The forecast though is really all
the activity in the Atlantic.
This wave in particular just
off the coast of Africa.
It's going to continue to increase
from an 80 per around an 80%
chance this morning of developing
over the next five days.
Next three names on the list will be carrot,
Kate, Larry and Mindy.
We will talk more about our
local forecast and putting
idea into the latest track.