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Water up at a maximum of 3 to 5 feet. those things are over with. the winds are quickly dying down. its now a tropical storm. its no longer a hurricane. you see houston above where the tropical storm system is. out to the right of that, the red, the heavy rain, thats going to be heading up toward port arthur and beaumont and lake charles later on today. thats my biggest concern. obviously houston is flood-prone. youre going to get heavy rain early. but the wind is to the east. i dont think youll...

What have the impacts been of hurricane ida? >> after the storm started making landfall, we started to see power outages around town. that brings the first wave of patients to the hospital who are looking for extra care. maybe have a concentrator at home for oxygen. we have so many people who have oxygen needs during this covid surge at home who are looking for extra medical care. we tried to get that out to them as much as possible. but you start to see some of that wave of patients. and then a...

Miles per hour winds look like. they are were built to sustain big hurricanes and well see how they faired. >> bill, stand by for me. i want to get to al roker now, as i understand youre driving in new orleans, what are you seeing? >> you know it is interesting, there is downed trees. we can see it over here. there is national guard folks right on the corner here, and you see a lot of tree damage. but you dont see a lot of structural damage. there are no traffic lights because lets face it there...

To transport patients to other area hospitals. i want you to see this tree directly behind me. notice the water inundated at the root structure of this tree. gives you an idea of how saturated the ground s weve had a lot of rain. some of the wettest start to the year and that has added to the potential of catastrophic tree damage as well as property damage throughout the region. im cnn meteorologist, derek van dam from houma, louisiana. back to you. >> derek van dam in the middle of it all in ea...

Its going to rain a lot with this storm too. more on that in a second. you can see the clear eye to the north, northeast, northwest of number 2, it still has 18 hours over very warm water. we still think its going to be become a major hurricane later tonight and may make landfall as a category 3 or a category 4, not much difference between the two. it will land at grand isle, louisiana and head toward houma. then the storm will begin to weaken as it heads northward, still a category 1 by the tim...

Strong category 3. not much of a different between the two. the hurricane center has it a 130-mile-per-hour landfall. if youre going to have 130-mile-an-hour winds, thats tornadic-type winds. extreme wind damage. then storm will weaken as it heads north. even if baton rouge we could have significant tree damage and power outages. new orleans, youre maybe just far enough away to not have significant wind damage from this storm. the landfall is west of grand isle. it could be as far west as morgan...

Winds maximum at 50. to get tree damage, you have to be at about 40 miles per hour. if you had told me we were going to get a tropical storm, pretty strong tropical storm landfall in new england and only have 120,000 people without power, i would have laughed because thats a really low number for the densely populated area of this country, but the storm just weakened so quickly and never had that strong of winds so it really saved them. you can see on the radar theres heavy rain around hartford ...

Were very fortunate about this. high tide were approaching that this morning in the next three hours. many areas of southern new england. but landfall is not until noon to 2 pm. and that is going to be almost when low tide is. so, that is really going to save us significantly. that 3 to 5 feet mostly to the right of the center of landfall. were talking about rhode island, which will were hit really hard by bob. but as far as the maximum wind gusts, the highest winds could get to the 60 mile per ...

Landfall. notice the backside, theres no rain. i should call it the front side of storm. the right portion of the storm, the east side of it from providence to the cape. this was all expected. all of the heavy rain is on the west side of this storm. you can see the bands. the one heavy band setting up over islip and another over western mass and central connecticut. theres the location of the storm just to the north/northeast heading through connecticut. by 8:00 p.m. its over in western mass and...

People have been preparing for the storm, taking boats out of the water. beaches have been closed in preparation for its arrival. there are a lot of vacationers here in new england because this is the high season for tourists. what are the immediate threats here? well, we have the potential for widespread power outages. widespread tree damage. allison was talking about that, there are coastal cities that line new england and theyre used to noreasters in the winter. thats when there are no leaves...