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Presidents and other officials. with parish presidents and other officials who believed that the who believe death count that that have attributable to the hurricane contributed to will go up. the hurricane a lot. because they because they see see catastrophic damages in catastrophic damage in certain places certain places. and they have every that they have every reason reason to believe were inhabited at the time the at the time the damage occurred. >> damage occurred there. >> there are are m...

The past couple of months and that has been exhausting for our personnel and our doctors. the hospitals have been very full, almost every hospital louisiana. and about the lasting in the world that we needed was a category four hurricane, that you know, here it is. weve been locked down since early yesterday morning about 6 am. we brought in a group of doctors and nurses and other health care professionals, and we locked the doors, and we literally wrote this thing out. we had substantial, but n...

Has died because of this hurricane in a parish in between baton rouge and new orleans. and also, get this, people have been calling 911 hoping that first responders would get to them but we all know the first responders are not responding, being dispatched to calls right now because the conditions are just not safe at this point. and now, michael, many are actually second-guessing their decision whether or not to stay. >> i wish i would have evacuated. i kid you not. its not worth it. its not wo...

Category 1 storm down from category 2. but it is still battering the state with powerful winds, catastrophic storm surges and flash flooding as it continues to churn its way inland. now, idas grip on louisiana continues well into the night, knocking out power to large areas, making conditions too dangerous for rescue crews. louisianas governor says the emergency teams will be deployed as soon as conditions allow. heres the governor speaking with my colleague, pamela brown, just a short time ago....

I had to zig-zag through downed power lines and trees and debris and roofs and theres no way at night with the parish completely dark that we could get on the highway and safely respond. >> ida officially ties for the strongest storm ever to make landfall in louisiana. meteorologist pedram javaheri is back with me now. its just been extraordinary to see how slow this moved and how it held together so far after it crossed the coast. >> yeah. that is whats most impressive to me, michael. and you k...

Calls for residents needing help streaming into emergency centers as night falls. >> the water is rising. people are in their homes and were getting reports of people with water up to their chest. theyre asking to be rescued. so very, very dire situation and we just cant get out yet. >> reporter: louisianas coastal parishes now pummeled for hours by ida. the size of the storms devastating force felt across the state. homes and businesses throughout the state without power. new orleans losing pow...

Itself the second wettest year on record prior to ida coming ashore theyd seep 62 inches of rainfall so far in 2021. and of course this system passes we expect it to push 2021 into the wettest year of all time for the city. an incredible amount of moisture already locked into the soil. thats why the flood warnings here are really populating this renal. the estimated rainfall that have come down in the 24-hour period, some areas estimated as much as 10 to 12 inches already on the ground in 12 hou...

Airport bombing. we will bring you their stories. >> he was helping those that are less fortunate, those that cant help themselves, serving his country. the one thing that hes always wanted to do. and in new orleans residents begin evacuating 16 years after hurricane katrina made landfall ida is set to hit louisiana as a category 4 hurricane tomorrow. all against the backdrop of a deadly fourth covid surge in the south. >> the prospect of sheltering potentially thousands and thousands of peopl...