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Calls for residents needing help streaming into emergency centers as night falls. >> the water is rising. people are in their homes and we're getting reports of people with water up to their chest. they're asking to be rescued. so very, very dire situation and we just can't get out yet. >> reporter: louisiana's coastal parishes now pummeled for hours by ida. the size of the storm's devastating force felt across the state. homes and businesses throughout the state without power. new orleans losing power sunday night. the only electricity coming from generators. president joe biden pledging fede...

Itself the second wettest year on record prior to ida coming ashore they'd seep 62 inches of rainfall so far in 2021. and of course this system passes we expect it to push 2021 into the wettest year of all time for the city. an incredible amount of moisture already locked into the soil. that's why the flood warnings here are really populating this renal. the estimated rainfall that have come down in the 24-hour period, some areas estimated as much as 10 to 12 inches already on the ground in 12 hours. you do the math here we're talking one to two inches per hour in some spots continuing for a g...

Airport bombing. we will bring you their stories. >> he was helping those that are less fortunate, those that can't help themselves, serving his country. the one thing that he's always wanted to do. and in new orleans residents begin evacuating 16 years after hurricane katrina made landfall ida is set to hit louisiana as a category 4 hurricane tomorrow. all against the backdrop of a deadly fourth covid surge in the south. >> the prospect of sheltering potentially thousands and thousands of people at the height of the fourth surge is very daunting. and a day to fight back as voting rights a...