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Pumps but the entire parish of orleans went out in terms of the power thats being provided there. but thats true for most of the southeast louisiana. were up to getting close to 800,000 outages. not unexpected when you have winds that come in at 150 miles per hour. and so this storm, as you mentioned, is everything that was advertised in terms of the wind, in terms of the storm surge and quite frankly, the rain thats falling, as well. so this is a very devastating storm. >> yeah, in fact, last h...

The storm compares, were joined by craig fugate of the obama administration and michael mann, a distinguished professor at penn state university and author of the"the new climate war." thank you for joining me. craig, after katrina, the federal government spent more than $14 billion on levees, pumps, seawalls, flood gates, and drainage which provided enhanced protection from storming in the new orleans area. its early days, early hours of the night, but does that work appear to be making a big d...

The gulf on track to reach baton rouge. nbc meteorologist bill karins is back with one more update for us. bill, i understand we have more advisories related to flash flooding to worry about. >> for the first time under a flash flood emergency for the national weather service. they put that out for the new orleans area. immediately, youre like uh-oh, new orleans under flash flood emergency. the levees are fine. its because of the heavy rainfall and the pumps are struggling in a few areas to keep...

There is no electricity they are dealing with but because this building has come down, what they are doing is they are disconnecting the electricity to this building so that as the cleanup continues or if any power comes through, nobody gets shocked. that said, they are saying that for most customers its going to be seven to ten days before they get power. this is what entergy says it will look like to restore power in new orleans. first of all, theyre going to work to get essential power to ess...

Dark. >> the entirety of the parish went out. theres still isolated places with generators and the turbines are still operating to operate the pumps but the entire parish of orleans went out in terms of power being provided there. >> now, the first deaths from the hurricane was reported in just the last hour, a person killed by a falling tree. ida made landfall sunday as a powerful category 4 storm, slamming ashore on the 16th anniversary of hurricane katrinas landfall. it has now, as we speak, ...

>> it looks like they have that the worry is they said we are very confident in the pumping stations. but what they could not account for was there rainfall directly into the city of new orleans 10 feet above sea level basically it is a bowl shape and thats a problem you can keep the gulf of mexico out with the levees and make hard to train out but the rain that fell hear that pumps are able to handle half an inch per hour we were getting upwards of three or 4 inches throughout the if one —- a...

Now, streets have boarded up buildings and flood gates because of the flash flood threat. >> reporter: officials keeping a close eye on the pumps. theres a lot of focus on the the pumps will no doubt be put to the t inewrlnsast, outsidehe lee ottion ssurge inti see.etin ffialsate today. the agency deploying 2,400 employees to the region. >> were going to put the countrys full might behind the rescue and recovery. and i mean that. >> reporter: hospitals, already packed with covid patients, now sh...

Far? >> at this point it looks like the levy is doing a fine job. there are two breaches that are causing problems right now, one in la feet and one in plaquemans parish. they have water rushing in. there are a couple hundred people who stayed behind theyre told to move out because they cant slow the water down there either. the pumping stations that surround the city, move the water from the canals into the mississippi river or lake pontchartrain. there are new pumps in some areas as well and t...

Seeing significant weakening. doesnt mean we wont get more damage but we ear no longer seeing the extreme damage like today. where do we go from here, the treads? tornadoes overnight are a possibility. a tornado watch until 6:00 a.m. in the morning from the western panhandle of florida, southern alabama, southern mississippi and a section here of northeastern louisiana so tornadoes are one threat and then the rainfall is a huge issue, so the rainfall risk. this map shows you where we have a mode...

There are desperate attempts -- its a dire situation down here right now. its only going to get worse. >> yeah. the power is out in new orleans parish. some of the customers could be without power for weeks. the mayor of the town said levi levies overtopped. >> ive never seen water like this in my life. it is inundated inworst way possible. >> cnn is live in the gulf this morning. we go to nadya romero on the ground. good morning. when we saw you, it was pitch black on the ground. new orleans re...