Hurricane Ida Visa Trail of destruction.
Now the search for survivors begins.
There's somebody in there I think as we get
a sense of just how much damage was done.
Not even hospitals
escaping the storm's wrath.
And these images so familiar to
Houston have us scrambling to
help our neighbors to the east.
A special edition of the
411 starts right now. We
begin the 411 with the aftermath of
Ida new images coming out of the area,
including Slidell, LA,
where this drone video shows
the devastation left behind,
and new video coming in showing
a downed transmission line.
This is at Jefferson,
Jefferson Parish in Avendale,
Louisiana, near the Mississippi River.
Now, many emergency crews having a hard
time getting to some of these areas,
the storm being blamed for at
least one death and take a look
at this one minute this.
Electrical tower in Jefferson Parish
is standing the next it's gone.
The transmission tower collapsed during Ida.
The tower provides power for New
Orleans in the east Bank of the parish,
which are all still mostly without power,
and it could be weeks before it's restored.
Right now more than 800,000 Entergy
customers are without power and several
Entergy crews from the Texas town of Orange
are enroute to Louisiana to help out.
Hey, thanks for joining us on
the 411 I'm Ron Trevino and I'm
Reagan. Eraj we have got a lot to
tell you about this afternoon.
First live team coverage spread out
throughout Houston and Louisiana with
a look at the aftermath rescue efforts,
evacuations, and ways to help
a damage to buildings is
clearly visible in New Orleans.
This afternoon, collapsed walls,
left bricks and debris on the ground
and exposed interiors of buildings
at several sites across that city.
In some cases, roofs were missing
or buildings were reduced to rubble.
Are Xavier
Walton has been in New Orleans.
The past few days zaviar.
What are things looking like right now?
So right now we are right across
from the Mississippi River and in
front of one of the most iconic
buildings in all of New Orleans.
But walk with me this way because
this is what people are coming to.
Take a look at and take pictures of you
see all the debris here and then you see
the tree limbs that fell off across from us.
That's Cafe du Monde.
Know people not going to take those pictures.
Actually,
what they're coming to take pictures of.
Actually look at this look at
this right here.
You see that people are coming to
take pictures of this massive tree
splintered yesterday from Hurricane Ida.
That's how strong the storm.
Was the cat four hurricane was
now in the French Quarter.
A lot of debris you see buildings messed up
but also you see rooftops ripped off as well.
Some trees falling on top of cars.
Keep in mind this two power is still
out to the entire city of New Orleans.
It's in the 80s today,
but coming up tonight at five.
I have a sweet story about a woman
who is trying to help hundreds.
It cool that story coming up tonight
at 5 in New Orleans. Xavier Walton.
I'll send it back to you.
And this is a scene that keeps
playing out in Louisiana.
High water spots, making it difficult
for first responders to get to people.
This is before and after security
footage of the high water from a fire
station in Delacroix, Louisiana.
That's about an hour southeast
of New Orleans.
Are Adam Bennett joins us on the phone.
Now he's on the way to meet up
with the Cajun Navy who are based
in Lafayette and who are helping
with rescue efforts at him.
How many rescues have they done so far?
So like I just got off the phone with
the founder of Cajun Navy Ground force.
They had actually moved
on to a town called Houma,
which is about 20 miles or so from the coast.
And because it really didn't flood there,
they're really dealing with very,
very heavy wind damage.
So he told me at this point they're
actually not doing any rescues.
Their primary goal right now is
to clear the row and also to
clear trees off of peoples homes.
And in fact, it sounds like you're
listening to some of the video
that they just posted on Facebook.
This is a Facebook live video from
the parking lot at the Walmart on
Martin Luther King Junior Blvd,
in town in Houma,
and that is where they've set up what
the founder Rob today is describing
is kind of a mobile mash type unit.
It's a place where people in
town can go to get food.
They can get water,
they actually just had some
pallets of water delivered.
They can go and get supplies and he
said so far they've actually helped.
About 60 to 70 people.
There's several cars in line when we were
on the phone and he said they're really just.
Started,
there's a lot of need in that town.
He told me there is really,
really bad wind damage.
There's also no running water,
so they plan to be there,
at least for the next few days.
He's thinking about three or four,
but they'll be there early as
long as they're needed again.
Their primary goal is to clear some
of the roads and trees and just kind
of help people get's back to normal
as they can in the short term and
they're thinking they're going to
have about 200 or so volunteers.
And actually he told me they
already have several volunteers
that have come from Houston.
Take a listen to what he had to say.
Melanie just drove in from Houston
and actually one of my team members
is there picking up a communication
system right now that was donated to us.
So Houston is really an
important part of what we do.
We actually were stationed with
Mattress Mack during the ice
storm for 10 days and helped him.
Distributed supplies and water
and so many other food items and
so many things in that community.
This
is a group that has a long
history of helping Houston.
They founder told me they didn't want
to 4000 rescues during Hurricane Harvey.
And he told me that as you heard right there,
they helped recently during the ice storm.
So he told me they are still
looking for volunteers.
This would again be people
to come down to Houma.
He said you can go to a crowd,
re-lief.net sign up,
but we are on our way to home right now.
We just crossed over the Louisiana
State line maybe 1520 minutes ago.
Not quite the Lake Charles yet.
There's actually pretty heavy traffic here,
but we will continue to keep
you guys updated throughout the
afternoon and on social media.
On our program went back to you alright,
Adam, thank you so much.
Be careful. Out there,
let's go get over now to Timpane day.
Just him where is idle right now
you know. Thankfully the storm has
lifted north in the four o'clock
advisory does take it down to a
tropical depression with winds.
Now 35 you think about 24 hours ago
is still a cat four with 140 mile
an hour winds it is dropped 105
miles off of those sustained winds.
Still rather large system and there's
plenty of rainfall still associated with it.
But all of that is now north of New
Orleans in southeastern Louisiana.
Some sun breaking out there,
giving them a chance. Start to recover.
There's the rainfall in central Mississippi.
A lot of it too,
and that's going to be spreading
its way north as that track tracks
off to the northeast rather quickly
over the coming days,
but this will over spread most of
the Mid Atlantic and the Carolinas
with some pretty good rainfall.
In fact,
look at these flash flood watches
extending from the Gulf Coast all the
way up into southern portions of New England,
with rainfall amounts anywhere
from three to six to 78 inches,
especially on the east or the western side
of the mountains of the Appalachians,
as it tracks off to the northeast.
Now until Louisiana.
We've had plenty of rainfall there.
Some of these numbers up and
over 6 to 12 inches.
Now each storm is unique
coming up in just a little bit.
David Paul and I are going to talk about
why Ida will be remembered for more
than just the damage it left behind.