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The men and women of the national hurricane center nailed it, 72 hours out had a bead on it, they knew it was going to be in louisiana. they even had the intensity up to a major hurricane and a category 4. but look at the areas in red. this is the track. it made a turn to the east. that's good news for baton rouge but it was terrible for houma. put them pretty much in the eye wall. they were expecting the eye to move over them. that would have given them lightened winds for several hours. but unfortunately they were into the winds. it was also bad news for new orleans and points to the west. t...

Assess the damage. >> they're going block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood. no one will be left out. >> reporter: the city's levee system rebuilt after it was destroyed by hurricane katrina 16 years to the day, this time held firm. but the entire metro area will be without power for the at least several days. >> it is going to be hot here. so i know that people are going to be making accommodations to go some place where they can get air condition. >> reporter: we power outage is hitting hospitals hard. many filled with covid patients. one hospital lost backup generators forcing the staf...

>> think it has everyone made it out. think for watching tonight it's at th clock. captioning sponsored by cbs ♪ >> o'donnell: tonight: america's longest war comes to an end, after the u.s. completely withdraws from afghanistan. also tonight: hurricane ida leaves a path of destruction. why the worst of the flooding may be yet to come. a deadly storm: 150 mile an hour winds tear the roofs off hospitals and homes, entire neighborhoods underwater, and more than a million without power. the warning tonight that power outages could last weeks. hospitals in duress, already overwhelmed with covid...

Final number. louisiana's governor saying he expects it to rise, quote, considerably. when it came ashore yesterday as a strong category 4 storm, ida tied to hurricane laura last year as the strongest storm ever to hit the state. which means the damage is extensive. power's out for about 1.1 million people across the area. trees are down. roads blocked. access, obviously, difficult. in west of new orleans and elsewhere outside the city, members of the cajun navy are conducting rescue operations with the other volunteer and other official agencies. one fleet captain telling us he believes there...

72 hours out had a beat on it. they knew it was going to be in louisiana. they even had the intensity up to a major hurricane and a category 4. but look when the areas of red. this is the track. it made a turn to the east. that's good news for baton rouge but it was terrible for houma. put 'em pretty much in the eyewall. they were expecting the eye to move over them. that would have given them lightened winds for several hours but unfortunately, they were into the winds. it was also bad news for new orleans and points to the west. that's why we had those flash-flood emergencies, which is a big...