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About 300 levy systems dot the landscape. you stretch the levy system in the mileage of the levies themselves and it stretches about 3200 miles. you can take it from new york city to los angeles and beyond. that's kind of the amount of coverage of levies that dot the landscape. this amount of rainfall going to put strain on the levies in this region and notice the system here as it moves across the state of mississippi on monday we expect the heavy rainfall to push north and east of the region and potentially through the tennessee valley come tuesday into wednesday. finally picks up a little b...

Could be uninhabitable for weeks or months. a dire warning from the national weather service after hurricane ida made landfall on sunday as a category 4 storm. flash flooding and potential levy failures among the chief concerns this morning. ida is one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the state. tied only with laura last year. another storm more than 160 years ago. >> the full lines the emergency operation center are currently down. more than a million customers are without power. that's all of new orleans without power this morning. a tree fell on a home in prairieville killing the fir...

Patients were evacuated to northern louisiana and other parts that are not in the direct path of the storm. but i think we need to prepare ourselves to see some real devastation today. these hospitals, particularly the staffs that were already fatigued before, i think they're going to be hit pretty hard. i spoke to the secretary of health earlier this morning, and she shared with me they are doing some things in the state to try to minimize the ers from getting overrun. people with ongoing oxygen needs call 2-1-1 call oxygen exchanges to keep the burden off the hospital. >> whether they can ca...

About 20% of tropical systems it's called the brown ocean effect. the soil is so saturated. it essentially acts like the gulf of mexico. 13 hours since landfall now. 13 hours over land still maintaining category 1 hurricane strength. spent about five hours at category 4 strength. when you put it over the waterways, it's conducive to maintaining an intensity of a tropical system but this one crossing into the state of mississippi in the last hour and maintaining hurricane strength. it speaks volumes as far as how intense of a storm we're dealing with. estimated rainfall totals in the region in ...

Storm force winsds with the particular hurricane force with the particular storm. incredibly 13 hours removed from landfall maintaining that hurricane intensity. the center crossing into southern mississippi. i think another 6 to 8 inches of rainfall in store across the area. and it made landfall as category 4 150 miles per hour sustained winds. with that said, over a million customers without power from mississippi to portions of louisiana. we're looking at generally three to four people per customer so about 3 to 4 million people without power across the two states and it speaks to the inten...