gregg: this is a fox news alert. i m gregg jarrett. louisiana governor bobby jindal declaring a state of emergency. hurricane ida barreling toward the coast. strengthening to a category 2 storm. in the last several hours, winds clocking in at 100 miles an hour. they say ida could get a lot stronger. storm triggering deadly floods and mudslides in el salvador. 90 people are dead and 60 are missing and now the deadly storm has a brand-new target. domenica d d d davis is live ine weather center. everybody along the gulf coast is going to be need on the alert for this storm for the next 48 hours. here is the contrast. we have an advisory coming up at 3:00. this is a category 2 and expected to stay a category 2 through monday. then we re going to see it start to lose some steam as it moves further into the gulf. here is the latest track, a landfall somewhere between louisiana and the western part of the florida panhandle. it s still a little bit out here. we still have a ways
okay. a somber memorial in los angeles. fire fighters in california say good-bye to two of their own who died in the line of duty. investigators searching for a missing yale graduate student are focusing attention on one building. why it could be the key to finding out what happened to annie li. a university student becomes the latest linked to the h1/n1 virus. how campus officials are trying to keep it from spreading. hey, there, thank you for having us over. you are watching hln. i m virginia cha. two fire fighters who died battling the largest wildfire in l.a. county history are being honored. thousands of fire fighters across california joined friends and families in a somber memorial at dodger stadium. vice president joe biden and governor arnold schwarzenegger among those paying their respects. captain hall and specialist quinones died when their truck plunged off a mountain road. the governor says the men are giants in the eyes of all californians and their names