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Department and our outpatient clinics. covid has been a big component of that over the past couple months. about 20% of the children that we see on an outpatient basis in louisiana today are covid positive. and then in addition, we will be seeing children who have been injured or who are ill in the aftermath of hurricane ida. you know, we literally saw no patients in our emergency department today because we were shut down. no one could come in or go out. but well see what happens in the ensuing...

Not heard too much about search and rescue. as the hours are passing, the reports are that the winds here will start dying down at 8:00 a.m. they expect those are the sustained winds and the rain throughout the night. the best case scenario is by noonish tomorrow that you start to get to a point where things should really be in much better position. what we are going to do is to throughout our district from top to bottom and substantiate live tweeting and letting the neighborhood leaders know wh...

Thats washed out. in some areas its completely closed, in others, completely impa impassable. thats why a curfew has been in effect. you saw throughout the day where this storm really shifted and it shifted very quickly. it would go through periods of light rain, light wind. sometimes you would see the sun break out and 20 minutes later wind bets really whipping up. gusts that bill said yesterday were getting up to 60 miles per hour. thats enough to do significant damage, enough to bring down tr...

That storm, of course, still threatening him. i believe we might have bill karins on standby. is bill with us? >> yes. you got me? >> hi, bill. talk us through what it is were seeing, the ways in which this storm is moving. i know that you are doing the hard work of actually tracking the storm. so im going to pull you away from your monitor, move you over here where you can explain it to me and explain to the audience. >> a little break. i can get out and look at the data. and the big story that...

Threat of flash floods, things falling down, tree limbs coming down, so theres definitely that concern will, despite the moment of reprieve. for that reason, the shelters have been opened all across the county, a place impacted severely by hurricane katrina, and for some people its a scar that is still pretty fresh. lets listen to one gentleman who sought refuse this morning told me. >> trying to compare it to hurricane katrina, so if thats the case, man, im trying to get out of the way. i aint ...

Blowing through right now, quite a gust, right now, that is remarkable is a lot of water, trey. trey: stay safe mike turning to will in gulfport, mississippi. reporter: were in the part of the storm about 3 hours into this. relentless wind and rain that is pounding gulf port, biloxi. were aiming away from the oncoming wind. it is not just the wind itself that is a huge concern but also everything in it. street signs and light fixtures they can become projectiles with the tree limbs that are fall...

Storm. we are here in gulfport, mississippi where we are well over 100 miles away from where the eye of the storm s. you see the wind, you see the rain here. that really is an insignificant distinction for folks here. thats why officials have been ere was an 8:00 a.m. curfew since this morning. they have been saying staying off the roads avoid the conditions that you are seeing here because they are going to be changing extremely quickly and they are going to be dangerous. thats what we are seei...

Relatively safe at close distance, go ahead and go to the shelter. beyond that you shouldnt be out on the roads right now. in my time downtown as we headed over to the command center, you saw some tree limbs down already. this was a couple hours ago. you see behind me -- and ill go to this side where you see some of the road thats washed out. the shore, that was beach yesterday. that was sand there. this is at a point the hurricane has not even made landfall. the hurricane, the main path of the ...

Gulfport and that they dont take this seriously. listen to what the mayor told me. >> the larger threat of the storm and the destruction weve seen all too often. were glad if it passes and were unscathed or the damage is relatively minor, but im already seeing tree limbs down and, again, the storm surge water coming up. hopefully people have prepared because at this point youre going to need to shelter in place. >> reporter: now shelters are also open in the area. i stopped by one of the shelter...

Up to two inches an hour in some areas and with wind gusts over 45 miles per hour knocking down some tree limbs. these utility crews are standing by ready to respond as power outages are already impacting thousands here and this storm far from over. more than an additional six inches of rain or more possible over the next 24 hours as this storm continues to move through. linsey. >> janai, stay safe. lets go straight to senior meteorologist rob marciano who is in westerly, rhode island. rob, what...