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Mouth is describing what they endured overnight as horrible. and the rescue and search efforts continue here this afternoon in la place, louisiana, a small town just west of new orleans along interstate 10. you have local law enforcement crews about to launch a tank-like high water vehicle into these subdivisions. and we're along the highway. there's water on both sides of where we're at. and here you can see people starting to emerge out. there are some places that are shallow enough where people can walk and either get into it with a boat like that, but as you go deeper into the neighborhood...

Trees fell on to power lines and that helped to knock out the power for many of these neighborhoods, but we also had eight transmission lines responsible for bringing that power to the entire city of new orleans, that was comp romised. it was eerie and spooky to be on bourbon street, really quiet any ways but then not to have any kind of light or signs of life after the storm was just an odd thing to experience this morning. so we're still waiting to hear how long it might be before the city of new orleans gets lights back on. that's why the governor is telling people it could be weeks because...

Of wind they would have to be inside in some cases in their attics. how will rescuers go about rescuing them and locating them, considering means of helicopter as we saw in katrina in some cases. >> the sheriff was very active going house to house. this was under a mandatory evacuation order but some didn't leave. knowing that the sheriff took a couple dozen teams, went house to house, asking where they were, what their numbers were, where they lived, how many people were there. they do have that. it was hard to hear the mayor say yesterday getting reports of rising water, we need this water t...

You can hear there the howling wind and rushing water as hurricane ida pummels louisiana. in parts of the state, roads are impassable and hospitals damaged. some parishes are without drinking water. in this video, you see the strong winds ripping the roof off of a building. in jefferson paralyish, people still trapped where they say the water is up to their chests. joining me again is cnn's meteorologist. that is just a nightmare scenario, the thought of people being stuck in their attics with the water rising. talk to us about the situation right now with hurricane ida. >> you know, the repor...

Variety of different kinds of vulnerabilities in different parts of the parish that you have to be concerned with. >> it's good you noted that. our parish is vulnerable to all the threats oh of a hurricane where we are. so you know, you look at grand isle as the storm surge, right on the gulf of mexico. an area that also isn't quite as far south but is very vulnerable is lafite. i'm getting reports there are people in attics. i talked to the mayor, mayor tim kerner, he was getting reports that water was rising and reports that people are in the attics. it is still very rough here. it is still ...