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West, north south, 250 miles. it has rapidly intensified. to give you a sense of this, rapid intensification is within 24 hours you see the winds go 35 miles per hour. this thing went from 18 miles per hour at 5 am yesterday, to 5 am today, 145 miles per hour. that is a massive jam for a storm to take in 24 hours. and unfortunately is what we are seeing more and more. here in lake pontchartrain, the sea is obviously very angry. the winds are picking up. we are worried about storm surge. storm st...

Last year we were in the cone of uncertainty for hurricanes eight times. so even then during the pandemic we had a lot of practice sort of understanding what we needed to do. and they are doing the same, they are making sure they have appropriate staffing, discharging anyone that can be discharged and urging our residents if you do not have an emergency and you do not need hospital care, this is not the time to come to the hospital. coming up on "cnn newsroom," a new report details the growing...

Is strengthening. so as that pressure drops, the hurricanes gonna start to strengthen and we are going to begin to see those winds shoot up here in the coming hours. so its begun its strengthening process. national hurricane center expects this bad boy to rapidly inte intensify in the hours to come before it makes landfall in southeastern louisiana. its going to rapidly intensify into a category 4 hurricane with 130 -- 130-mile-per-hour sustained winds. gusts as high as 150 and it will make land...

Be cautious before any storm. these have been ominous. youve been through so many of these. what is your read right now about idas strength and the potential impact here? >> well, i think, you know, usually when youre watching hurricanes approach theres flux and variability. the storm has drifted a little bit to the east of the original path. the models and forecasting has been showing the path here through anywhere from morgan city, louisiana eastward toward new orleans and in between theres th...

Packing highways ahead of idas punch. cbs news meteorologist and climate specialist jeff berardelli is tracking what could be a catastrophic storm. jeff. >> reporter: good evening, adriana. so, we just got the latest information from the national hurricane center. winds are up to 105 miles per hour. its entering its rapid intensification phase. and also now the track has shifted earlier. that means less time to prepare. that is the track. a cat four is expected to make landfall early tomorrow af...

It will become a 130-mile-per-hour hurricane but we are gusts will be way stronger than 130 miles per hour. at the moment landfall looks to be somewhere around grand isle to houma, louisiana. the impacts are way out from the center and way out from the cone. were already seeing bands of showers and thunderstorms move through the north of the gulf coast into portions of alabama, mississippi, and louisiana, despite hurricane ida being about 230 miles to the south and east of houma, louisiana. all ...

Its coming at a difficult time when our capacity is stretched. but i will say our hospitals prepare for this every year. last year we were in the cone of uncertainty for hurricanes eight times. so even then during the pandemic we had a lot of practice sort of understanding what we needed to do. and theyre doing the same. theyre making sure they have appropriate staffing, theyre discharging anyone that can be discharged, and we are urging our residents if you do not have an emergency and you do n...

Of weeks. so thats going to be painful. but well recover from it. our parish leadership is more well trained and the federal government put a lot of money in helping them establish emergency operation center. most of our government officials have gone to schools provided by fema on how to prepare and respond to disasters. so we are a lot more resilient, but we never faced a category 5 in recent years with the amount of population weve got inside the cone of uncertainty. and we have between baton...

The highest ptornado potential. you are going to feel impacts because those impacts are going to be stretching far out from the center, and far out of the cone. so here in the -- in this area, we could see some tornados, for sure. were also going to see high storm surge so we have a storm-surge warning. right around the mouth of the mississippi, we could see up to 15 feet of storm surge. that is unbelievable and thats catastrophic. on top of that, michael, we are also going to see about 15 to 20...

Landfall at or near major hurricane intensity sunday governor john edwards saying unfortunately all of louisianas coastline is in the forecast cone for tropical storm ida and we should always prepare for storm one category higher hurricane force winds of 100 miles per hour are currently forecasted and john is staying on top of that. buffalo bills wide receiver takes a swipe at the nfl after he was reportedly fined for not wearing a mask at facilities he tweeted the league sent to him about not w...