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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida was rapidly intensifying early Sunday, becoming a dangerous Category 4 hurricane on track for a potentially devastating landfall on the Louisiana coast while emergency

Hurricane Ida is rapidly intensifying early Sunday morning.

Hurricane Ida has crossed the Gulf of Mexico on track for a potentially devastating landfall on the Louisia...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida was rapidly intensifying early Sunday, becoming a dangerous Category 4 hurricane on track for a potentially devastating landfall on the Louisiana coast while emergency officials in the region grappled with opening shelters for displaced evacuees despite the risks of spreading the coronavirus.

The National Hurricane Center predicted Ida would become an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane with 130 mph (209 kph) winds, which happened early Sunday ahead of an expected afternoon landfall. 

The National Hurricane Center predicted Ida would become an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane with 130 mph winds, threatening a region already reeling from a resurgence of COVID-19 infections.

Ida became a dangerous Category 4 hurricane on track for a potentially devastating landfall on the Louisiana coast.

The storm, exactly 16 years on from devastating Hurricane Katrina, hits a region already reeling from coronavirus

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida blasted ashore Sunday as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S., rushing from the Louisiana coast toward New Orleans and

Ida’s landfall came on the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier, about 40 miles west of where Category 3 Katrina first struck land.