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It. michelle, lets bring you in here. what is the latest on idas track right now? >> hi there, guys. yeah, it looks like were going to make landfall in about seven hours and bill karins, our top-notch meteorologist here, said ida is challenging the records to be one of the strongest storms ever to hit louisiana. certainly looking good on satellite. you dont need to be a meteorologist to know that picture on satellite is showing us a very strong, textbook, classical hurricane. category 4 storm. a...

This hour. louisiana getting slammed right now by hurricane ida which made landfall just hours ago as an extremely dangerous category 4 storm. to put it simply, ida is every bit as serious as forecasters predicted. maybe even worse. were talking about winds of 145 miles per hour. life-threatening storm surge and torrential rain. extensive flooding in some areas already. grand isle, louisiana, that is just for starters. this all happening 16 years to the day that hurricane katrina made landfall i...

From having a hurricane of this magn magnitude. if you look over my shoulder, this is the mississippi. its almost as if someone has a big spoon and is scooping up the water and shoveling it toward the city of new orleans. so the city, french quarter, is right this way. so youve got the mississippi river, river banks. you got the railroad tracks and then right there is jackson square. not far from here, all the iconic places that people come to -- from all over the world, just to experience this ...

President biden is doubling down on his vows to retaliate against isis with more drone strikes, as u.s. intelligence reveals another threat is imminent. >> weve got a busy sunday morning. good morning, everybody. im lindsay reiser. and im jewelry in for kendis gibson. we are of course keeping an eye on hurricane ida. you can see the super dome there. they are bracing right now for our sustained winds of 145 miles an hour. that was the latest update about an hour ago. and the storm surge could be...

More difficult. >> we have four hurricanes last year during covid, but we had a small fraction of the number of people in our hospitals that we currently have. evacuating hospitals is not going to be possible because there is nowhere to bring the patients to. there is no excess capacity anywhere else in the state or outside the state. >> straight to cnn meteorologist allison chinchar. you have been getting real-time updates here. >> we got a new update just a few minutes ago because we are at th...

Grossman has been following idas path and sam brock is in louisiana preparing for the storm surge. how are things looking where you are and how are people preparing? >> lindsey good morning, joe good morning. its calm, theres a slight breeze. were expecting rain to fall here early this afternoon and the winds to pick up as well. lindsey, to your point about rapid intensification, that means 35 miles per hour or more increase in wind speeds over the course of 24 hours. 80 miles per hour to 145 mi...

General, thank you, as always, for coming to "the sunday show." as youve been watching the reports and the progress of hurricane ida, what are you thinking in terms of preparedness and resilience. not just of new orleans but of the gulf coast in getting ready for a storm were hearing is the strongest since the 1800s. >> it reminds me of a thought we must remember. anything built by man can be destroyed by mother nature. and the people along the coast now, even though were a lot more resilient as...

Hours. the governor warns it could be the strongest hurricane to hit louisiana since the 1850s. rachel: meteorologist rick reichmuth joins us all with the latest forecast. rick: 140 mile-an-hour storm as of 5:00 advisory. hurricane hunter aircraft went in with winds sustained at 145 miles an hour. on the satellite view the image it looks absolutely perfectly symmetrical. a storm strengthening at landfall is the worst-case scenario what we want to see on the louisiana coastline. for quick measure...

Inland if, you think, well i dont live on the gulf coast, im okay. that is not the case. this is going to ride up and then having a right turn and head towards the mid-atlantic and the northeast. so, it is a powerful storm. this could leave a lot of devastation. katrina came onshore as a category three. and while ive been saying, hey dont, pay attention to the categories, a still is not lost anybody that this could be a very strong four or low level five. and that brings in with it catastrophic ...

Is different than katrina, its fast. the speed of the storm is fast. 15 miles an hour. katrina was in the low single digits, which is problematic because it spends more time over all of these places creating damage and dumping rain. the disadvantage of the storm is the power of the storm. the speed of the storm. 145 miles per hour sustained winds which is hard to imagine for anybody who does sustained winds. 25-mile-per-hour wind feels like a lot, imagine 145 miles at the same time. the situatio...