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Experiencing. from my balcony, you get a 360-degree perspective of what's unfolding here in houma, louisiana. it's going to be a very rough next few hours as the eye approaches this particular region. we know that the inner eye wall, we keep talking about it. that is the area where the winds will be strongest and then what will happen, winds are calm in this area. the sun may come out. birds will fly around and the destruction unfolding behind me will lay flat on the ground but then be picked right back up again on the back side of the hurricane. and what makes it particularly dangerous, jim i...

More reports coming in from throughout houma. more downed trees. power lines. damage to structures. tough to see out there as you can see the eye wall of hurricane ida coming down on houma at the moment as we speak. emergency officials are basically telling folks that you are sheltering in place. once the eye passes and there might be a bit of a respite, a bit of calm, continue to shelter in place and to stay in place because you'll have the back side of the storm that's going to come in as well. when speaking to emergency officials i asked them, what's going to dictate what you do next and ho...

Again, eye wall is just about upon us. that is going to be even more severe than what we're seeing now. then there's going to be a moment of calm or so. and then we'll get the back end of it as well. and so there might be some folks out here might think as the eye wall comes over us and there's a moment of calm -- hard to imagine in all of this. there's a moment of call, you think you can come out but that's what emergency officials say you should not be doing. they want people to stay and shelter in place. not come out and to stay in place. already just from being out here, again, power lines...

As they try to put all of this water out. of course, we remember when katrina came, it was a big blow. but it was the return flow that brought water from lake pontchartrain way in. so, we are going to be watching for that. as the system ramps up. a big lightning strike just to our west. there we are watching a lot going on and this is just getting ramped up. we expect that we could be in the eye wall later this morning or early afternoon. because it has sped up a bit, joe? has sped up a bit joe?>> all, we're now seeing reports that storm surge could be 12 to 16 feet. what are you watching us f...

We are about, i think, to get part of the eye wall coming onshore here. and the other thing that we've been watching, alex, is that the eye wall can recycle, regenerate itself. so that you end up getting two eye walls in a sense. the good news is that weakens the system. the bad news is it makes for a bigger center. and so if that's what's happening right now and it's still too early to tell but we think that's what might be happening, we could be in for a long haul over the next several hours. >> okay. we will welcome you back when you can get to us. in the meantime, clearly sunday brunch bei...