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But those critical protective actions are really important right now. now, with fema, we have been positioning in support of the states of louisiana and mississippi for days, moving specialized teams like search and rescue into the management assistance teams, power restoration assessment teams and supplies like meals, water, jen righters, tarps, cots to be able to support the louisiana and mississippi teams as soon as its safe to do so. >> okay. about when do you think that will be, david? i me...

From you, david, from people achlt thank you for being with us, best of luck as you navigate the next few days for people along the gulf coast. appreciate it. lets go to nbcs sam brock who is in baton rouge. there have been hours of heavy rainfall there. what are you seeing and feeling, sam. >> i think we are probably three or four hours behind what morgan is seeing at the moment in houma, custom of course is one those areas that is bearing such a brunt of the orderly strength of this storm. 1...

It is incredibly tough to believe the eye may be still an hour or two away when you look at how powerful this storm is. right now, we know that there is still a lot of people who were unable to evacuate from this community here. so the big concern going forward is, how much of a storm surge issue is it going to be here? because we are already seeing how powerful the wind is from ida, just about a half hour after it made landfall. right now -- bear with me. its only getting more powerful. its inc...

Your thinking, david? >> right now, louisiana and mississippi have shelter capacity in place to shelter thousands of folks who may be seeking refuge. we are not seeing those levels of shelter populations just yesterday. gratefully, we saw people heed those mandatory and voluntary evacuation warnings yesterday. you can see traffic on the roads that folks were listening to knows warnings, which is good. we are hopeful that people did not stay behind because this is a pretty ferocious storm. and it...