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Presidents and other officials. with parish presidents and other officials who believed that the who believe death count that that have attributable to the hurricane contributed to will go up. the hurricane a lot. because they because they see see catastrophic damages in catastrophic damage in certain places certain places. and they have every that they have every reason reason to believe were inhabited at the time the at the time the damage occurred. >> damage occurred there. >> there are are more than more than 2000 people in 2000 people in shelters and louisiana shelters and louisiana tonig...

The past couple of months and that has been exhausting for our personnel and our doctors. the hospitals have been very full, almost every hospital louisiana. and about the lasting in the world that we needed was a category four hurricane, that you know, here it is. we've been locked down since early yesterday morning about 6 am. we brought in a group of doctors and nurses and other health care professionals, and we locked the doors, and we literally wrote this thing out. we had substantial, but not structural damage to our hospital. we were more fortunate than others. we have some water on the...

Has died because of this hurricane in a parish in between baton rouge and new orleans. and also, get this, people have been calling 911 hoping that first responders would get to them but we all know the first responders are not responding, being dispatched to calls right now because the conditions are just not safe at this point. and now, michael, many are actually second-guessing their decision whether or not to stay. >> i wish i would have evacuated. i kid you not. it's not worth it. it's not worth it. >> reporter: hurricane ida making landfall near port fourchon, louisiana just sigh of a ca...

Category 1 storm down from category 2. but it is still battering the state with powerful winds, catastrophic storm surges and flash flooding as it continues to churn its way inland. now, ida's grip on louisiana continues well into the night, knocking out power to large areas, making conditions too dangerous for rescue crews. louisiana's governor says the emergency teams will be deployed as soon as conditions allow. here's the governor speaking with my colleague, pamela brown, just a short time ago. >> we're up to getting close to 800,000 outages. not unexpected when you have winds that come in...

I had to zig-zag through downed power lines and trees and debris and roofs and there's no way at night with the parish completely dark that we could get on the highway and safely respond. >> ida officially ties for the strongest storm ever to make landfall in louisiana. meteorologist pedram javaheri is back with me now. it's just been extraordinary to see how slow this moved and how it held together so far after it crossed the coast. >> yeah. that is what's most impressive to me, michael. and you know, when you think about these storms often in the caribbean, for example, across the island of ...