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CNNW Early Start With Christine Romans And Laura Jarrett August 27, 2020

Expected to bring storm surges that officials call unsurvivable. Louisiana has not seen a storm this strong in 150 years. Surges of 15 feet or higher could overwhelm coasts in both states. And water levels are already rising quickly, more than 1. 5 Million People are under some type of evacuation order. Coronavirus and the need to maintain social distancing only complicating the hurricane response in louisiana. The state is taking people to hotels instead of shelters. Laura is just the tenth hirk hurricane in history since Record Keeping began. So power is already out for more than 200,000 customers in louisiana. Conditions are dedo toodooro ti rapidly in lake charles and that is where Martin Savidge is. I assume it is not safe to be out in the open . Reporter thats right. We were out there earlier this evening and then it just became far too dangerous. I mean, the winds were not only howling, the rain was cominghor. It just was too dangerous for the crew and us to be out there. We had a brief lull and you could say that was the eye. I dont think that we got the fullon eye. And now were getting all the alerts of the extreme wind warnings. And this is a new alert basically saying that you need to seek shelter now because the wind speeds are going to be excessi excessive. The windows, you can see them moving in and out, that is the pressure of this storm as it moves past. In lake charles, there is extreme fear what daylight will reveal. Also, this is 30 miles away from the coast, but they too were worried about storm surge here. And there were people who decided that they wanted to ride it out, many of them fearful of the coronavirus saying that they were more worried about catching coronavirus in an evacuation shelter than they were of this storm. The truth is, this storm was far more dangerous than anything that they might find in an emergency shelter. But that choice is no longer an option for them. So right now in lake charles, the anxious moments and hours of waiting for the storm to pass and daylight to reveal what many believe will be a very devastating scene. A harrowing night no question. And the window to move is closed. This is now bearing the bluruntf this storm. Thank you, martin. Beaumont, texas is also in the path before derek van dam is there. I know you are getting pummeled. What are you seeing . Reporter good morning. We are getting battered here in beaumont, but just 30 miles to our east, they are getting absolutely crushed. We have had Tropical Storm, Hurricane Force gusts pretty consistent, they come in waves. A lot of familiar sites like transformers lighting up that purple sky that we see so often during the middle of an intense hurricane like major hurricane laura is. And there is a false sense of security when the eye of a hurricane moves inland. A lot of times people will get into the eye, the calm quote unquote part of the storm. They will inspect to see if they had any property damage. But what they dont understand is that at a moments notice the back side of 9 storm will come their way, change wind directions and pick up in a moments notice as well. So whatever debris or whatever damage there has been left over from the north side of the wall will wrap back in and potentially blow that across their property and putting them in danger as well. Most people have evacuated the area, but again, when we go hurricane chasing, this is a game of miles. We are on the outer fringe of the strongest part of hurricane laura which has been good for broadcasting because we can actually get to air. We still have electricity. But the same cannot be said for the hundreds aof thousands of people dealing with no power and that number will sky rocket. We talked to a Beaumont Police officer earlier this morning and she told us that previous hurricanes had actually knocked out power in some of the rural areas of Southeast Texas and into louisiana for upwards of a month. So people need to be prepared for those types of conditions. No services, no electricity going forward. And we also know that fire and police and search and rescue will not start to reinitiate those operations until winds drop below Tropical Storm force. So we still have another 6 to 12 hours where im located in Southeast Texas, i mean you can clearly see were still Tropical Storm conditions with the winds being as violence as they are. But were on the outer fwrinks fringes of lawyer are auras wr. Up to 270,000 people without power. So this is just climbing. I know that you will stay with us and well come back to you later this morning. So where is hurricane laura headed now . Chad myers is in for us, he is tracking this storm. And this is the kind of storm that can redraw the coastline, new inlets. This is a powerful storm here. And the water is still rising. We think about the eye has passed, now the water will go down. That is not the case. The surge is still moving inland. Moving north of i10. The water is still flowing the wrong direction in these rivers. So right now lake charles in the eye, the winds have calmed down, but they will come in from the west probably the next 10 or 15 minutes. So dont go out there even if you still have power and you are wrapping u watching us, but it is still coming. It made landfall near cameron, louisiana. A devastating blow. We talked to dr. Ken graham yesterday and ended that this was going to be catastrophic. And then about two hours later, the words came out from the National Hurricane center that said unsurvivable. So that was just one step up. I think that they got to catastroph catastrophic, but people didnt really realize it and the unsurvivable part, where did that word come from . It came from the National Hurricane center. In is the eye right there, lake charles moving to the north. And on the east side of it, there will be tornados through the bayou and the water is still rising there. Significant surge well east of this storm. There could still be 10 to 15 feet surges east of the storm. Made landfall as a strong category 4. Were to were down to 130 Miles Per Hour, but you wont notice the difference. Everywhere you see murder spell, that is 110mileperhour or greater. And it is probably from side to side 30 miles wide. That is a 30 mile wide ef2 tornado that is hitting everyone in its path. And then the surge with it as well. Things, roofs when you look at an ef2 tornado, the roofs are gone from most houses and that is what is happening with this 30 mile wide swathe as the storm moves to the north. Here is where we started the day. We watched it painfully hour by hour get stronger and stronger, Hurricane Hunters flying through it. I cant imagine the turbulence that they flew through this to give us this data, but there it is, 130 with gusts probably to 160. And the pressure is still very low. It isnt going to lose a lot of wind speed because what we call angular momentum. As this eye makes landfall and it gets smaller, think about the eye that andrew had, it was so smaufl a small and that is why it got to that 5 tornado category. This eye is going to continue to shrink and the winds will continue to be strong for hours and hours and that 15 to 20 foot storm surge up and down and along the coast here. Those towns arent 15 or 20 feet high. And the buoys in the gulf of mexico had waves at 35 feet. So think about 15, 20 foot surge and 30 foot waves. Here is how far the water has moved through these bayous up the rivers and even into lake charles. Im even fearful for our crews there at the hotel because the water is still coming up and the hotel that they are this is at the water but that is the strongest building that we could find. It will still be significant rainfall here. 10 inches of rain is certainly not out of the question. Well go all the way to 5 00 central, moving up alexandria, that is when you get the worst part of it. And then it moves to the north. Losing some strength because it is not over water, but for the first 20 miles from cameron all the way to lake charles, there is not much land there. There is very low land and it is very wetland in some spots and that is where this weather is going here. Hurricane laura up through 14r50e6 po shreveport. And i think that we could have Power Outages at little rock. Thank you so much, chad. We know about in about 49 minute, there will be another update fwrt naup d update from the National Hurricane center. Well talk more about this after the break. 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Surges of 15 feet or higher could overwhelm coasts in both states, water levels are already rising quickly, more than 1. 5 Million People are under some type of evacuation order. We are reporters live in texas and louisiana in a few minutes. And the monitor storm and inrest in wisconsin largely overshadowing the nird nigthirdf the republican convention. A Campaign Official told cnn this week that the trump team believe the conventions message of firm defense of Law Enforcement and no acknowledgement of the black americans is working. But they decided to reference came notice sha only about came kenosha kenosha. Last week joe biden didnt say one word about the violence and chaos engulfing cities across this country. So let me be clear. The violence must stop whether in minneapolis, portland or kenosha. Too many heros have died defending our freedom to see Americans Strike each other down. We will have law and order on the streets of this country for every american. Joe biden would double down on the very policies that are leading the violence in americas cities. The hard truth is you wont be safe in joe bidens america. It is worth noting pence who heads the Coronavirus Task force spoke to a crowd that was not g Wearing Masks and several say they were not tested for coronavirus. President trump making an appearance at the earned of the night. And despite the hurricane, as of now the president s acceptance speech will go on as scheduled tonight on the south lawn of the white house. Another recurring theme of the rnc is that the president has crafted and economy like no other. Trumps policies have been like rocket fuel to the economy. The president also built the most inclusive economy ever. Americans are going back to work. An economy soared to new heights. We built the greatest economy in the world. We made America Great again. Fact is millions are out of work right now. Emergency stimulus has expired. But the white house focuses on the direction of the data, not the depths of the crisis. Instead of the main street pain, the president is taking credit for wall street gains. And take a look at stocks since inauguration day, the dow is up 43 , s p up 53 and nasdaq up an astonishing 109 . These are numbers this team likes to talk about. The Vice President claimed the administration inherited an economy struggling to break out of the slowest recovery since the Great Depression while the recovery was slow, it was one of the longest expansions on record and it just ended this year because of the pandemic. And on jobs, the president likes to take credit for the gains, ignore the losses and declare victory in these small records and rebounds from the crisis. Over9 million jobs were created in may, june and july, but look, the shear size of the jobs crash was so unprecedented, it erased nearly a decade of job market growth. To be honest here, trump is now in a jobs hole. He is down a net 5. 8 million jobs since he took office. And the stock market is up, but jobs have a lot of recovering to do. The president and his team really focusing on this message that they are trying to send that only he can make a great economy and it is great begin. They went all in on this, but it doesnt match reality. It was one thing before coronavirus, but the situation has changed. All right. Still ahead, were following this monster storm pummelling the gulf. Well have live reports in louisiana and texas up next. You try to stay ahead of the mess but scrubbing still takes time. Now theres powerwash dish spray its the faster way to clean as you go just spray, wipe and rinse it cleans grease five times faster dawn powerwash. Spray, wipe, rinse. Robinwithout the commission fees. So, you can start investing today wherever you are even hanging with your dog. So, what are you waiting for . Download now and get your first stock on us. Robinhood. 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