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And all the damage that has taken place will move in opposite directions and literally become missiles and projectiles. -- within the past hour specifically, every minute that clocks by, we experience strong gusty winds. its getting harder to be here, its pemting our faces as well. we do have a sturdy structure to evacuate to. people ask why are we out here in these conditions. we are here to tell the stories about why you evacuated from your home. wolf. >> i know its getting worse and worse. de...

Hello, everyone. im alicia menendez. a busy sunday of breaking news along the gulf coast where as we come on the air, hurricane ida remains a category-4 storm, maintaining its strength, slamming much of southern louisiana and mississippi. as the national weather service in new orleans put it moments ago, ida is not weakening. this is not what you want to see. ida made landfall near port fourchon, louisiana, in the afternoon. and by the hour, video like this from houma, louisiana, showing the pow...

Winds and extreme storm surge of up to 15 feet. now, notice new orleans is to the right side of it track. any, little shift or wobble brings those stronger winds to new orleans but as of now, we expect the core of the storm to miss new or leans and thats important for wind damage for that highly populated area. then, sunday night and monday, we are bringing the storm through mississippi with serious concerns for flash flooding, river flooding and tornados. our computer models in pretty good agre...

Responding so far. were keeping an eye on fema headquarters, where president biden arrived a short time ago to get a briefing. well bring you that as well. but first the city of new orleans right now, the latest data from the national hurricane centers puts the storm about 150 miles away from the city. catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding are being seen along the states coast. you can see this surveillance camera from a nearby house, earlier in grand isle, louisiana, a sm...

Over is the idea that every storm is different. every storm has its own personality, he said. and his words, complacency kills. that is what officials are trying to avoid. when you look at the sun and see the wind died down a little bit from a couple of minutes ago they want people to avoid that sense of complacency that you can get easily by coming out and looking at the current conditions. 20 minutes ago conditions were drastically different. in 20 minutes from now it could be even worse. >> t...

Side of the events, where is the flooding going to occur? is it here? georgia, mississippi? are we talking about the appalachian area, ohio river valley, tennessee? i was in waverly earlier this week with 20 people dying from historic flooding and now theyre under watch. where is this going to reach an acute crisis stage? because it seems like its an inevitability. all of these events going on as a confluence. were expecting heightened activity around 7:00 to 1:00 in the morning. well keep our e...

Theyre wonderful people. their people of the earth. you know? but this is going to be a very, very tough storm for that island, and the island was already losing a lot of land as it is. i mean, my friends used to go there when they were in high school and the land loss on that island is incredible over the past couple of decades. it is a very vulnerable area for us. has a lot of history for us in jeffersonparish and really difficult to watch and see that the storm is headed late to. those of us ...

Wind and storm surge of up to 15 feet. new orleans is to the right side of the track. any little shift or wobble brings those stronger winds to new orleans. as of now, we expect the core of the storm to miss new orleans, and thats important for wind damage and power outage implications for the highly populated area. then on sunday night and monday, were bringing the storm through mississippi with serious concerns for flash flooding, river flooding and for tornadoes. our computer models are prett...

To deteriorate very quickly. it is expected to bring winds as high as 130mph, a storm surge as high as 15 feet in some areas and extreme flash flooding. conditions that could threaten life, communities and key infrastructure. memories of the pain of hurricane katrina still haunt this city. the failure of federal levies left 80% of new orleans underwater. the storm killed more than 1,800 people and left millions homeless here and along the gulf coast. 0fficials stress that the citys hurricane pro...

It will be a weaker system by then. it turns into a regular storm by the time it gets to the mid-atlantic, but we have to deal with a big rainfall event. were through wednesday in the northeast. the same areas that got hit a week ago from today by hurricane henri, so the rainfall totals, heaviest in mississippi, along the border of alabama, tennessee, watch out around nashville and you had a ton of flooding over the last couple months, and all of this mess goes to the northeast. this area of red...