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Watches in effect for much of the state of california through friday. the worst moving into central and northern california, where debris flow will be possible around burn scars and there will be deaths with this. people need to really heed the warnings, people are advised to stay put, do not go on the road starting now until friday. 911 will be overloaded, people will not be able to get to you. those high wind alerts continue through thursday afternoon. again, over the next seven days, incredib...

Night just crossing a bridge was very windowy even in a very heavy suv. the cost of infrastructure along the coast of any state in any country is exorbitantly higher. i appreciate any help we can get. i appreciate hind stepping up not only for the state of florida but south carolina and other coast lines preparing. we are hunkered down here right now and encouraging everybody dont go to the water or beach or ocean. we saw horrifying videos in florida of people doing that im asking people to stay...

Lot of areas. winds coming out over the open ocean 30 miles per hour at 30 miles per hour and storm surge begins to pile up relentlessly pushing ocean water to the coast and when the storm gets there, it will drive that water on shore and you see the storm surge, wind totals get up to 50 or 60 miles per hour for total wind as the system approaches the coastline bringing that wall of water with it, four to seven feet in highest areas, but widespread, three to five feet on the way, enough to do a ...

Capacity and surging workers into the system so that this epic storm can be restored as soon as possible. >> theyre not going to deploy people until they feel it is safe. then theyll start getting the service backup as soon as possible. i dont believe they deemed it is safe for workers to go into the subway system right now. there will be limited bus service as well. long island road shutdown after trains reaching their final

The ending fury of category 4 hurricane winds felt right where im located -- i just -- its so hard to describe exactly what happened. im going to do my best to share it with you. it was white knuckle, anxious moments for my team, the people on the ground here, and certainly for the individuals who tried to ride out the storm in the area. it was like taking, for example, an analogy. it was like taking a direct hit from an ef 3 tornado. winds over 140 miles per hour. over a large space of time. an...

About 300 levy systems dot the landscape. you stretch the levy system in the mileage of the levies themselves and it stretches about 3200 miles. you can take it from new york city to los angeles and beyond. thats kind of the amount of coverage of levies that dot the landscape. this amount of rainfall going to put strain on the levies in this region and notice the system here as it moves across the state of mississippi on monday we expect the heavy rainfall to push north and east of the region an...

Could be uninhabitable for weeks or months. a dire warning from the national weather service after hurricane ida made landfall on sunday as a category 4 storm. flash flooding and potential levy failures among the chief concerns this morning. ida is one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the state. tied only with laura last year. another storm more than 160 years ago. >> the full lines the emergency operation center are currently down. more than a million customers are without power. thats a...

Patients were evacuated to northern louisiana and other parts that are not in the direct path of the storm. but i think we need to prepare ourselves to see some real devastation today. these hospitals, particularly the staffs that were already fatigued before, i think theyre going to be hit pretty hard. i spoke to the secretary of health earlier this morning, and she shared with me they are doing some things in the state to try to minimize the ers from getting overrun. people with ongoing oxygen...

About 20% of tropical systems its called the brown ocean effect. the soil is so saturated. it essentially acts like the gulf of mexico. 13 hours since landfall now. 13 hours over land still maintaining category 1 hurricane strength. spent about five hours at category 4 strength. when you put it over the waterways, its conducive to maintaining an intensity of a tropical system but this one crossing into the state of mississippi in the last hour and maintaining hurricane strength. it speaks volume...

Storm force winsds with the particular hurricane force with the particular storm. incredibly 13 hours removed from landfall maintaining that hurricane intensity. the center crossing into southern mississippi. i think another 6 to 8 inches of rainfall in store across the area. and it made landfall as category 4 150 miles per hour sustained winds. with that said, over a million customers without power from mississippi to portions of louisiana. were looking at generally three to four people per cus...