This is WFMJ told is
that this storm in no way will be weak.
As we come on the air,
the Gulf Coast is preparing for
another major hurricane and the warning
tonight is get out now or shelter in
place for the foreseeable future.
That is where we begin tonight.
Thanks for joining us for WFAA News
at 10 everybody I'm Teresa Woodard.
Morgan is off,
all eyes are on the Gulf Coast.
As Hurricane Ida continues churning
toward Louisiana expected to hit land
tomorrow as a dangerously powerful storm.
Ida is on track to become a category 4.
Hurricane landfall now just hours away.
Residents from Louisiana to Mississippi
are preparing for what could be
another catastrophic August 29th,
16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina.
Interstate 10 E on Lake Poncha train
has been packed with people trying
to evacuate New Orleans people who do
not want to chance getting stuck with
whatever wrath idle will bring tonight.
We also know all flights going in and out.
Of the Louis Armstrong International
Airport in New Orleans are canceled,
meteorologist Jesse Wheelie is
closely tracking ideas, so Jesse,
if this is a category four hurricane,
that really means the possibility
of catastrophic damage,
especially in a city like New Orleans.
Yeah,
unfortunately,
that's still
looking pretty likely.
It's right now. Still a category two,
but it still has plenty of time
over very warm Gulf waters.
There's hurricane Ida.
If you notice the eyes becoming very well
defined as it starts to approach the coast,
pressure has been dropping.
Winds have not really increased too much yet.
OK, that's expected to change
as we go through later tonight.
You know winds are expected to become
a category four strength by the
time it does arrive into the coast
of New Orleans or Louisiana rather.
So here it is,
there's the center of circulation.
Moving to the northwest.
Still some outer bands already bringing
some heavy rain to parts of the Gulf Coast,
so a wider view shows you there it is.
Hurricane category 2 Ida right now winds
of 105 mph. It's moving northwest.
At 16 it is 235 miles southeast of Houma,
LA, so that will be there within
the next to see it's 10:00 o'clock.
We expect landfall in about 1618 hours.
That's when we're expecting landfall,
so it'll be a category four by tomorrow
morning with winds of 130 mph.
There has been a slight little
adjustment east in track and expected
track that's not good for New Orleans.
That puts it closer to the center and
on The Dirty side of the hurricane,
which is the Northeast quadrant.
So see landfall, right there.
That's 2:00 PM on Sunday.
So we're looking at an afternoon landfall.
It does obviously weakened once
it moves inland,
but there is New Orleans right there.
There's like potty train.
Very dangerous conditions with the damaging
wind gust of 100 to 140 mile an hour winds.
Also,
the flooding rain.
And of course the storm surge.
We're going to talk more about the storm
surge and what Ida has in store for
the rest of it stripped the United States.
There's a lot going on here.
Teresa will have the
latest coming up alright,
Jesse,
it's hard to look at knowing what lies ahead.
Let's take a live look at New Orleans.
Tonight, mandatory evacuations
are in effect right now for
residents who live outside of the
area that is protected by levees.
The mayor has urged more people to
voluntarily get out while they can.
That does include the New Orleans Saints,
multiple journalists who covered
that team say the players,
coaches and their families flew here to
Dallas tonight and they are planning to
stay in North Texas through Wednesday
unless it is safe to return home sooner,
let's get a report from New Orleans now,
ABC's Elizabeth Schulte is there just.
Hours before Ida is expected
to make landfall.
Ida is rapidly
intensifying as it closes in on
the Louisiana coast forecast to
potentially become a category
four storm before making landfall.
The wind speed at landfall is
projected to be sustained in
the neighborhood of 140 mph.
Mandatory evacuations in place
for thousands outside the levee
system in New Orleans.
Other parts of the city under a voluntary
evacuation roads out of the city
jammed with traffic.
Traffic goes back for miles towards the city.
And for miles, leaving here up
towards Baton Rouge, airports
also filled with people trying
to leave ahead of the storm.
Homes and businesses now boarded up.
Many spent the day waiting in
long lines for gas or sandbags.
We're just hoping that Monday morning
comes we're not calling insurance
hospitals in New Orleans
are sheltering in place,
stocking up with 10 days of supplies
including fuel for generators.
But in Mississippi patients
are being moved further north,
away from the coast.
We have worked
with, we have requested and we
have received the support of
the federal government to have.
Additional assets to move patients. Ada
is set to make landfall 16 years
to the day after Katrina. Every
storm is different.
They all bring their own challenges.
But I also want you to know
that we're not the same state
that we were 16 years ago.
Residents hope the post Katrina
system of levees, pumps and
seawalls will protect the city.
Well, this was coming from the South,
so it's going to be pushing water up
the whole entire time, you know. So
the water is my biggest concern.
Ida is expected to make landfall
sometime Sunday afternoon or evening.
Elizabeth Halsey, ABC
News, New Orleans, whenever and
wherever I does come ashore, Texans.
Will be there within hours
to help victims tonight.
The Dallas County Office of Emergency
Management says it is monitoring
Ida and will be ready to help
if it's called upon Red Cross.
North Texas has four emergency
response vehicles on standby and
on course says it is working with
its utility partners in Louisiana.
Tonight, crews are ready to
head east when necessary.
One key to responding to hurricane
torn area is supplies and today
World Vision gathered supplies
at its North Dallas warehouse.
They've got things like tarps,
generators.
And personal care and hygiene items ready
to be taken to our neighbors in Louisiana.
Humans are not the only
ones trying to escape ideas.
Path animals are to the SPCA of
Texas already received nearly
30 homeless cats and kittens.
They'll be taking care of them
in shelters until they can find
them new homes in the coming
weeks and at least 25 volunteers
with Texas based Dallas based.
Rather Texas Baptist men are
expected to deploy Monday morning.
Their destination is not yet known,
but the mission.
Is you are looking at video from
previous Texas Baptist men deployments.
It's the third largest disaster
relief organization in the nation and
volunteers have responded around the
world so they know what is needed first.
And so that initial wave of volunteers
for us will include a mass kitchen
capable of feeding 32,000 meals a day,
plus some coordination efforts, shower,
laundry unit, possibly a chainsaw unit.
They are also going to be sending
a team to assess damage and they
might have to call for additional
trained volunteers in the days,
possibly weeks ahead.
It is eerie that Hurricane Ida
will make landfall exactly 16 years
after Hurricane Katrina destroyed a
massive stretch of the Gulf Coast.
Katrina hit August 29th, 2005.
It is a day coastal Louisiana and
Mississippi will just never forget the
images from that time are heartbreaking.
Katrina was a large and extremely
powerful hurricane causing catastrophic
damage and enormous loss of life,
killing nearly 2000 people.
It initially struck southeast.
Florida then intensified to
a category five in the Gulf.
Eventually,
it weakened to category 3 coming
ashore in southeast Louisiana.
Then it made another landfall in
Hancock County, Mississippi.
It does remain the costliest hurricane
to ever hit the United States,
$160 billion worth of damage done
and countless lives forever changed.
Much of Katrina's wrath was because
of storm surge and flooding.
New Orleans levee system failed.
The entire city went underwater,
including its Six Flags theme park,
which remains abandoned in the 9th ward,
the Mississippi Gulf Coast was destroyed.
Casinos crumbled,
houses became cement foundations,
major bridges knocked out,
and some areas had no power for
six to eight weeks.
Front doors and windows were
spray painted with red.
X is marking all of the spots
where people died.