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Louisiana, the hurricane warning was downgraded there to a tropical storm warning. >> and the city's curfew was lifted. cnn's rosa flores has the latest for us from new orleans. >> reporter: the city of new orleans prepared for a major category 1 hurricane. the mayor of this city asking people not to panic but to prepare, saying that this city could see high winds that could cripple the power grid and also strong storm surge. even a curfew was issued at about 7:00 p.m. well, a few hours later the hurricane warning was downgraded to a tropical storm warning and then that curfew was lifted. as y...

Could have been because there was a big window for this to have intensified in the gulf of mexico. what allowed for that not to happen was its forward speed. it didn'tvich time to lull in those warm waters. thankfully we're looking at these winds, which are bad enough, and of course these have been bringing down power lines. 89-mile-an-hour winds. it's the strongest wind gust we've seen coming about 31 miles away from venice, louisiana. gulfport there at 73, just one shy of hurricane force. keesler where it made landfall. 70 miles an hour. the storm is now inland. the center of the storm is ri...

Hour. nate made its first u.s. landfall on saturday in southeast louisiana. >> officials were expecting dangerous storm surges, fallen trees, downed power lines. but you just heard a good report from biloxi, mississippi a few moments ago. they don't have any reports of that. more than 36,000 households, though, across florida, alabama, and mississippi, though, are already without power. and some areas could get up to ten inches or 25 centimeters of rain. you can see just how high the waters are rising already. these are firefighters waiting for water at the hard rock hotel and casino in biloxi...

And actually improves memory. the secret is an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. welcome back. i'm ali velshi. >> and i'm stephanie ruhle. we are covering two storms that are unfolding right now. >> reporter: the destruction from this scene is dire. the scene behind me is utter chaos, blinding rain and wind. it is only expected to get worse. there are trees coming down right here. we're seeing debris flying through this area. >> it's hard to get any phone

Category 5 storm. probably saving hundreds of thousands of homes here in florida. david? >> yeah, stark contrast. so important, those relation r that changed after andrew. matt, thank you. as we reported at the top, irma is not done yet. it's going to be another dangerous night of winds and blinding rain. chief meteorologist ginger zee with the new track tonight. ginger? >> reporter: hey there, david. you can see the center in south georgia. now moving north-northwest at 17 miles an hour. so, it is cooking. it is trying to get out of here. with it will come a lot of heavy rain, especially we...