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Joining us, first the obvious question, how are you? >> i'm fine, much better than we were today. tell us about the storm, tell us, did it hit as hard as you head anticipated it might? >> i don't think it would be this, bed i don't even know it's a call. it was a monster. it's absolute devastation in south louisiana. >> have you been able to see much? what are you able to see? can you assess the damage? >> the wind still kind of glow in about 30, but what we're seeing on social media and my friends, from grand aisle louisiana, and other places. if there's absolute devastation, everyone's house...

Mississippi, all the way to the florida panhandle. and even sections of alabama. you can see from our radar, it's making its way, in and with this is torrential rain. and the spin ups of tornadoes that we are really going to have to watch throughout your overnight hours. the latest update just coming in, we are going to see this turn into more of a tropical storm as we go into tomorrow morning, but look how long this goes, this is going to drag out to about thursday afternoon, four sections of the tennessee valley all the way into the northeast, we will lose the wind flow with this storm syste...

This storm really does tell you just how dangerous it continues to be. janessa we will be checking with you all throughout the evening. thank you so much, stick around. let's turn now to msnbc's reporter who's been on the scene in new orleans is that city has been getting battered. a storm so powerful in reverse the course of the mississippi river. hate, we've been hearing reports from everything from winds taking roofs off municipal buildings, two barges on the mississippi being knocked loose. >> chris they seem to have lost your audio, let me just tell you what i know right now. first of all...

And frankly, from every storm since. very few places have as much experience as new orleans does. obviously, you apply those lessons to try to prepare, like the way the u.s. army corps of engineers showed up the levees, rebuild the levees, but in terms of response, how much have we learned, and how confident are you that the resources are in place for the coming days, weeks, and potentially months, general? >> the federal government of the and the department of homeland security -- we built most of the parish levies. and the incident management system. this governor emergency agreements with o...

Lady is up. >> let me go back to those people in louisiana, who don't have power. and the myriad of problems that come with that. and how that can get exponentially worse, as the days in potentially weeks go on. i know you've been talking to folks, and so, what did you see first of all when you came into the city, in terms of the staging of trucks. and what have you learned from both city officials and power company officials, about how prepared they are, about what kind of spread they have to get people back on power online as quickly as possible? >> so the one thing authorities of been seein...