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Have better protections in place and learned a lot from that, but theres no real preparation for a storm of this magnitude, one that we have not seen the likes of since the 1800s. this message has been repeated. thankfully to your network and many others weve been able to get that message out to people and hopeful they have heeded those warnings. >> the governor says louisiana today is not the same louisiana as 16 years ago. will the levy system hold up. >> my prayer is that it will. we dont kno...

It. michelle, lets bring you in here. what is the latest on idas track right now? >> hi there, guys. yeah, it looks like were going to make landfall in about seven hours and bill karins, our top-notch meteorologist here, said ida is challenging the records to be one of the strongest storms ever to hit louisiana. certainly looking good on satellite. you dont need to be a meteorologist to know that picture on satellite is showing us a very strong, textbook, classical hurricane. category 4 storm. a...

This was not necessarily expected? >> we were expecting landfall. this is a preliminary landfall, richard. part of the storm center passed over the mouth of the mississippi river. keep in mind, a second lawful is forecast later tonight. this will be the more impactful one of the two, we can see some thunderstorms, judging by the cloud tops there, rolling through areas of louisiana, mississippi and coastal alabama right now. the actual center of circulation is still 100 miles south of biloxi, mis...

Out a beam that reflects back the raindrops. so, were actually able to see a picture where we are getting the heaviest rain. when the towers go down, we cant get that picture from the ground, so we rely on satellites up in space, but they only show us the clouds. we know the way the storm is designed that the higher the cloud tops, the better chance were getting of heavier rain. but its not giving us as good a picture of where the torrential downpours are occurring, which affects how we know jus...

Farmers this time of year begin to burn land to cheaply free land and the wind pattern picks up the smoke, carrying it downstream. seeing satellite images from about 38 million kilometers up showing the haze and smoke. we put the thermal energy of fires in place here. seeing reports of 70,000 respiratory infections reported in this region. eye irritation, cough. its the name of the game for people in this portion of the world. in fact, look. you can easily pick out the smoke and haze, differenti...

Compact. it can fluctuate both strengthen and weaken very quickly. and its hard to determine just exactly what it will do. for right now, its strengthening. hurricane force winds only about 10 miles out from the center. winds are up to 80 miles per hour. its moving west/northwest at just about 10 miles per hour. it should maintain hurricane 1 status for at least the beginning of the weekend. as we go he will he into sunday should weaken into a tropical storm as it moves in to the leeward islands...

Known point of contact initially, the reports had it at about 10 kilometers. now thats moved between 100 to 200 kill meters from the last point in contact. heres the current perspective. look at these thunderstorms. anything you see in red ipd indicati indication. this is infrared, using the thermal signature of the cloud tops. a lot of these cloud tops very cool. 40,000, 50,000 feet high. notice the areas of interest. some lower clouds, still some moderate thunderstorms in the vicinity. take a ...

North that unusual. it was a very new plane 13,000 cycles. for a six-year-old plane thats a lot but thats are short hauls. two hours was the longest. 23,000 flight hours, experts say thats a lot of cycles because planes have a lot of stress when they take off and land and pressurize and then tee pressurize. may have been a contributing factor but most people say these planes can good for years and years and years. >> generally theyre very robust. thank you. more now on the weather those pilots...

Is that across the board internationally? >> thats across the board internationally. even that is a little bit too close. and most pilots will tell you they want to stay further away from the thunderstorms. thunderstorms are probably the most dangerous thing that we routinely have to fly around. >> so in asking to deviate from its normal path was he trying to fly above the thunderstorms or what was going on here? >> asking to go from 32000 to 38,000 feet, thunderstorms can routinely go above tha...

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