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People of louisiana right now? >> first of all, in many respects, we're a different state, stronger and better prepared. there are $14 billion invested in the protection system around orleans, jefferson parish and elsewhere and you can see the lights are flickering here. but we're better prepared now in terms of that protection system but when you have mother nature throw at you a storm this strong with the surge, the wind, the rain that we are talking about with hurricane ida, there is going to be devastating impacts and we have to do everything we can to save lives in the immediate response ...

Next couple hours. they're going to be dealing with it for several more days. >> that is such an important point, ed. we still don't know what the ripple effect will be from hurricane ida. there is still so much unknown right now including the extent of the damage there. a lot of people we've spoken with tonight are nervous about waking up in the morning, what they'll see, and what lies ahead in the days ahead as you just pointed out. ed lavendera, thank you. we just learned ida is a category 2 storm with sustained winds currently 110 miles an hour. to put this in perspective ida made landfa...

Pumps but the entire parish of orleans went out in terms of the power that's being provided there. but that's true for most of the southeast louisiana. we're up to getting close to 800,000 outages. not unexpected when you have winds that come in at 150 miles per hour. and so this storm, as you mentioned, is everything that was advertised in terms of the wind, in terms of the storm surge and quite frankly, the rain that's falling, as well. so this is a very devastating storm. >> yeah, in fact, last hour i spoke with the president in jefferson parish and she told me people were reporting water u...

Sniffling and we aren't sure whether it is because they are wet or have covid. the biggest concern right now is covid but we have nowhere to bring these people. we were prepared because we have some supplies. we have tons of food, snacks, water, gatorade we stored in warehouses that are ready to go. at this stage we were not prepared for this type of destruction. and even on our scale of having supplies i'm worried. >> you have all these people calling in needing help but you can't help them right now. frankly just too dangerous. todd terrell, thank you very much and for all that you're doing ...

And that always adds another layer of, another terrifying layer to having to deal with storms of this magnitude. and the power outages are starting to pile up through the region. here in the baton rouge area a hundred thousand people already without power. those numbers will continue to grow in the hours ahead. pamela, it is important to point out this isn't just these communities trying to get through the brunt of the storm. it's the rainfall as the storm continues to push north and the rainfall continues to fall it is going to be flooding in the next day or two that is going to cause perhaps...