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We're back with our hurricane ida coverage. on saturday, the coast guard announced in alabama in preparation for the hurricane. it has crews staged and ready to respond. rescue equipment onside, boats in strategic locations, -- pilots on standby, they are ready to go. however, because of conditions now, it is possible the coast guard may not begin rescue operations in louisiana until the storm fully passes. the situation on the ground remains a very dangerous. ida is still lashing the area, as a category one hurricane. john understand the risk at hand, joining us now is pilot lieutenant comman...

Civilians that are stranded. we have ships that are offshore following the storm. we're gonna provide command control platforms for ships, as the storm moves, or the harbor -- we have report assessments. and there are buoys -- [inaudible] and then finally we're gonna let the ports open as soon as we can. that is a very significant source. >> let's talk about the immediate concern, which is, are the people out there whose lives are in danger, and how do we save? them how to coordinate with local, state efforts, and where

Capital. all of this happening 16 years to the day, since the devastating hurricane katrina, came ashore. joining us now for the very latest on this storm is nbc meteorologist jen a so. up jessica, would you, have wears the storm headed? you know chris. we're still dealing with a deadly and destructive storm system that continues to race in. then the problem that is now for the last 11 hours, it has dramatically slowed down. so this is going to be a prolonged moisture, and the problem, is it's not just impacting southeast louisiana right now. now it is starting to see going into parts of missi...

People have also lost power in this area, that's another issue the capital silly is dealing. with there's about 225,000 people who live in baton rouge, and nearly no one evacuated, the mayor told us a short time ago, she said almost everybody in this city was going to ride out the storm at home. as of right, now there has not been the need for those dramatic rescues, in some of the low lying areas this around this area, there is a need for help, and of course police are going to have to try to sort out those rescues as the night goes. and of course it's very dangerous out right. now not just b...

That have been damaged, are hoping to evacuate dozens of patients as soon as the weather permits, but there are not many places for evacuated patients to go. we louisiana's hospitals are full of covid patients, as are the hospitals in all of the neighboring states, joining us now with the latest on the storm, isn't as bc, -- janessa what can you tell us at this hour? >> chris the good news is that we have a kind stuff a lopsided storm. system things are starting to break apart, now sustained winds are pretty strong at 85 miles per hour. a cat, one but we're starting to see this storm system cr...