Terrifying Winds News Today

Seen trees come down. its interesting, because youve covered a lot of hurricanes before, this is in a case of the ground getting saturated and trees becoming uprooted. theres some of, that but earlier today, the winds were so high, that the trees were just snapping and breaking. as you said we have it least one report, of a confirmed death. we also have a lot of problems with hospitals. because they are working on generator and backup power. as for new orleans, still in the dark, few late you se...

Sunday afternoon, with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. throughout the years the cajun navy has been credited with rescuing thousands of people. and they are ready to do it again. joining me now, the fleet captain of the louisiana cajun navy. captain, thank you for joining us tonight. i know your boats are at the ready tell me where expectations are what are you going to need to do expectations are what are yo going to need to d just trying to get where we going. trying to leave as soon as...

One life, and it is hitting louisiana at a time when hospitals, all across the region are full with covid patients. i want to turn now to one of the hardest places in louisiana, terrebonne parish, at the southern tip of the state. home to the city of houma. today, the winds were so strong, roofs were literally flying off buildings. >> [noise] if ever there was a time to call 9-1-1. so joining us now and we are very grateful to have him help us understand the situation on the ground, tim, sheriff...

Tonight is louis knit louisianas hospitals, weve seen harrowing video of two different hospitals, that have portions of their roofs blown off. at least to louisiana hospitals that have been damaged or hope to evacuate dozens of patients as soon as the weather permits. but there are not many places for evacuated patients to go. louisianas hospitals are full of covid patients as or the hospitals in all of the neighboring states. joining us now with the latest is nbc news meteorologist janessa, web...

Outages. i actually waited a houston airport. about 24 hours ago, and i drove all night to get to new orleans. its usually a five and change our trip, it was a little longer last night. but i saw as you often see, those bucket, trucks coming in, and theyre sort of an interstate agreement, these trucks come from all over the country, they stage, they stay in a lot of towns where theyre not going to be in the eye of the, thing but they can stay in hotels and move in, in fact where im staying right...

The mix also before the panhandle. and you can see from the radar the golf is speaking up some more moisture, and that is allowing the spin ups caught throughout the overnight. this is a big-time threat. weve already seen a couple of tornado warnings across central mississippi, and i expect that to continue throughout early morning. the winds, they are starting to make their way out of southeast louisiana, but look how theyre starting to flow into central mississippi, jackson mississippi. throug...

And its in the golf for about 24 hours, and really gain some fuel, and wet thats why the moisture is allowing to really fuel across eight states that will see it tomorrow, and then its making its way to sections of the northeast. depression an area of low pressure -- we just had that devastating flooding in nashville, parts of tennessee, where we lost about 20 people. just because this system is gonna go, be downgraded more, it does not mean that we should not track it because it continues to gi...