This is one of the strongest storms
to make landfall here in modern times.
This is a very dangerous and a very
real situation. I know I'm at home,
but I'm not sure at this point. For
the best and planning prepared for the
worst as soon as the storm passes,
we're going to put the
country's full might behind the
restaurant coverage right now.
Contact with Grand Isle.
Oh my God no no.
And there you see it,
the sheer power of Hurricane Ida.
It made landfall as a cat four hurricane,
and while the winds have weakened,
Ida is already one of them,
worked most powerful storms.
The state of
Louisiana has seen breaking right now.
All of New Orleans is without power.
This is a live look at the city in the dark.
The power outages are widespread,
hitting well over 800,000 homes
across Louisiana and Mississippi.
The images we are seeing tonight are
devastating roofs off of buildings,
major flooding we're hearing.
Of at least one death in a parish
between New Orleans and Baton Rouge,
and it's going to be a long night
because Ida is not done yet.
We begin our coverage tonight
on the coast of Louisiana.
Thanks for joining us everybody.
I'm Teresa Woodard
and I'm Chris lower.
Its officials say a major electrical
transmission tower has collapsed
and there are cables strung across
the Mississippi River right now.
There is a tremendous amount to
unpack from this storm, and we're
going to walk you through it all is.
He is going to join us live with how
North Texans are stepping up to help.
And Pete's in with the latest on I diss
track. There is some security
footage from a fire department in a
parish to the east of New Orleans
that really shows you just how
quickly things change there that
is within one hour you can see it.
Water just rushed in.
Let's go to Pete now to see where
Ida is right now.
Well right now Theresa Ida is between
Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
So here we are. There's Baton Rouge.
You could see the center of circulation.
Look at the I.
We're still seeing a fairly
decent I hear on the radar and
there's the city of New Orleans.
So just about in the middle of the two.
That's where it is the problem
for New Orleans is there on
the right side of the storm.
That's the bad side of the storm.
We call it The Dirty side of the storm.
That's where the most intense
winds almost always are.
That's where we have the severe weather
threat, and it's almost always where we have
the flash flooding taking place as well.
Category two,
it's still a two winds of 105 miles an hour.
We have wind gusts of 1/21/25 right now.
Once again, 30 miles to the east,
southeast of Baton Rouge,
to the to the West of New Orleans.
Look at the winds right now.
New Orleans 90 mile per hour winds
in New Orleans just to the South.
We have winds here of 98 off to the
East 7556 up in Hammond, Slidell.
63 Baton Rouge 62 mph right now.
Once again we're looking at.
I mean devastation is taking place right
now throughout the state of Louisiana.
I mentioned on Friday it would be
catastrophic, and unfortunately,
that's exactly what's happening.
Those are the winds.
Look at the rain.
I mean, this is the last four
or five six hours of rainfall.
Anywhere from 4 to 9 plus.
These are just some official
reporting stations.
I've seen a number of places that
have a foot or more of rain and the
rain is still coming down right now.
So not only the wind,
but it's also the rain we've had
the storm surge along the coast,
anywhere from 10 to 15 feet in some areas.
Here's one model that I think
has a good handle,
so there's New Orleans.
When will the rain in it's going to rain
and it will be windy all night tonight.
Watch this.
I want to go to 8:00
o'clock tomorrow morning,
so it's tonight for the city of
New Orleans and surrounding areas.
With the rain and also with the
wind by 8:00 tomorrow morning.
A little bit of rains left.
Certainly some,
some some winds are going to be around,
but the bulk of the problem then moves
up into parts of Mississippi Meridian.
Jackson,
Ms.
Watch this the system just continues
to spin off to the north and then
eventually off to the Northeast.
There's the official position right now.
That's where it is at this point.
Watch the track.
It'll move through Mississippi
up into parts of Tennessee.
Into the lower Ohio Valley and then
eventually off the Mid Atlantic Coast.
So big problems all night.
Tonight it will only worsen
as the night moves.