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Weeks with all of that rain. that ground is still saturate and rain goes from southeastern ohio back into d.c. we'll see some of this rain. by the time it gets there, 30 miles per hour wind, but it's still there. the storm was a treacherous storm for a lot of people and derek's equivalent of an ef-3 tornado going 30 miles wide going all the way up, lasting for hours where ef-3 tornadoes can last you like 30 seconds by the time it's gone. this was a long duration, long and big destruction event. >> tell us a little bit more about the flooding risk that still exists as well as the potential wind...

Collapsed. and then there was another building right over here that had a mural of fantastic jazz artists. this area was known as the harlem of new orleans, and that brick wall just collapsed there. so it gives you an idea of the power of this storm, andrea. we're talking about a hurricane that brought gusts here in new orleans up to 87 miles per hour and they could have been higher. when it came onshore, actually, there were wind gusts recorded of 175 miles per hour. and the big problem, andrea, is all of a sudden, this thing just kind of slowed down. we saw the eye wall redevelop, recycle, a...

Building like we have. we have to think and pray for the people here this morning. >> yeah. we are listening to the wind. feeling it on the ground, i know, is different. thank you for being there for us. stay safe. we'll come back to you in a little bit. >> a beast of a storm here. some residents told to evacuate immediately because of a levy failure and high tide in grand isle, louisiana about 30 minutes away from now. the flood threat is active. our meteorologist is tracking this monster storm live with us. cnn weather center. it's good to remind people that, you know, new orleans and some o...

Communications are virtually impossible here. we took a direct hit in homa, louisiana. you are looking at southeastern louisiana. the eye wall went directly over us. i don't know how else to say it but it was a nightmare and unfolded in front of our eyes. it was a relentless never ending fury of category 4 winds. we thought we would go into the center of the storm. pedram talked about that, the eye of the storm. we did not get that. the storm moved to our north and east so it kept us in the eye wall of the hurricane for the entire duration. it was like taking winds an ef3 tornado, 136 to 160 m...

Hurricane ida did that. what we're seeing here is scared evacuees in the shelter here we talked to some of them. they know how to ride out category 1, 2, 3 hurricanes, but when you start talking about a category 4, that really changes the game here. they expected storm surge to be a concern, but when that storm, when the hurricane pivoted over this region, kept us in the outer eye-wall of hurricane ida, the relentless winds never stopped. we never got the break that we anticipate and that is why this will be a wind maker or a wind event and catastrophic wind event within the houma, louisiana l...