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This will be one of the strongest landfalling hurricanes in our country's history. so it'll go down there with the andrew and katrina and laura and matthew that went into mexico beach and florida. we've had a list of powerful hurricanes lately and this is right there likely to make landfall in the next couple of hours with winds of 150 miles per hour. it didn't strengthen the last update. thus all the way up to 185. when you hear the parish presidents telling people that live in trailers they have to get out because the trailers will be destroyed by these winds, that's how serious of a situati...

Goes over it would come directly into baton rouge which is where we are now. it's possible the eye wall could be passing over where i'm standing. in terms of what is happening in baton rouge, i'm on the campus of lsu. it's the largest university in the state of louisiana. some 30,000 plus students have been told to shelter in place. we're hearing emergency announcements made over the pa system earlier. there's no mandatory evacuations in this area. the mayor didn't feel the situation was dynamic enough that the deluge would be high enough. people i was speaking with, i'm standing next to the l...

Not much going on here in the french quarter. as we look at the radar, here is what is going on. 155 miles per hour winds. we expect it to make landfall with 155 miles per hour winds. currently it's at 150. what hurricanes can do sometimes is replace their eye wall. they can do an eye wall replacement cycling. the good news, it maybe helps weaken the hurricane. the bad news is, that makes it bigger. basically two different walls coming in. so we think that might be what we're seeing now. the winds are fierce. if it makes landfall at 155 miles per hour, it's the strongest hurricane to ever make...

Be torn apart by high winds. we have tree branches littering the streets here. this is only going to get worse because we know the eye wall is making its slow steady approach to houma right now. morgan city also in the path. these are cities that, you know, have about 30,000 people living in each, give or take. and we know that a lot of the people, they don't want to take the chance with ida and they went ahead and evacuated. many either couldn't afford to and are choosing to say. one story in particular struck me. we know a family here in houma. the father had gotten his first vaccination sho...

As we all well know, when you're standing out here, it pretty much all feels the same. so everyone here in houma hunkering down and preparing as the eye wall now is just about upon us. jim? >> hunkering down in houma is right. jason, you to that as well. we'll get back to you. you can really see the winds picking up. i've been in one of those eyes before. and it can be eerie. it can be very calm but make no mistake. there's no nastiness to come. jason carroll, thank you. let's go to the cnn weather center where jennifer gray is tracking this storm. one of the things that is just really appar...