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Of the storm, very heavy rain, very strong winds and this just continues to lift. i'm going to take you all the way into monday here, and you're still seeing a lot of very powerful thunderstorms on the eastern side of this. flooding is going to be an issue, wind is going to continue to be an issue. and i think flash flooding may be one of the big stories for the next couple of days. no surprise when i talk about how slow this is going to move and all the moisture that's caught up in it. we've got flash flood advisories and warnings from eastern portions of louisiana across most of mississippi,...

Through this area. rain is also an issue. this is additional rainfall, some of those really bright purple colors, that could be another 10 inches of rain. new orleans is stretching a little farther up, good portion of eastern louisiana is going to see very heavy rain. and then this tracks across the southeast, eventually getting up to the ohio river valley, and within a couple of days you're dealing with it up into new england. it's a large area where we're paying attention to the possibility of flooding, really high in eastern louisiana, but you're getting into with alabama and mississippi, s...

Western alabama, spots where you're going to see some of that really heavy rain x. if you live are up into the ohio river valerie or the northeast, it eventually comes for you also. it's going to be a big and powerful one. this is over the next three days. flooding like this takes a while to work into tributaries and streams, so flooding could be an issue but how much over the next three days, again, areas where this is onshore right now, very likely that we're going to see flooding, flash flooding in the next couple of days. and then you lift up into a large area where flooding is going to co...

Ripped off the bottom and landed where i'm standing, so things are getting pretty dangerous. the to stoplights have been out for a long time, but now it's dangling from the metal pole. on the opposite side of the street at the marriott, you see a dozen linemen, electrical workers who are stationed here. they have their bucket trucks ready to roll. they can only perform in 30 mile-per-hour winds or less. we are very far from that. the earliest they'll be able to get out and repair power is sometime tomorrow, we don't even know when. as of now, there are hundreds of thousands of people without p...

As a category 1 storm, and that is after being on land for some 70 miles. baton rouge is usually safe from the real brunt of hurricanes, but thousands evacuated this city fearing what hurricane ida would bring. and then, of course, you have those who stay to do their jobs like these railroad workers who we met, they say they're going to ride the storm out in these temporary trailers so that when everything is over, they can get the railroads back up and running quickly. listen. >> it's, it's -- definitely want to grab ahold of something. you know, there's not really -- they're not as heavy as ...