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A growing crisis in louisiana as unrelenting heat grips the hurricane ravaged state. nearly a million customers are still without power and many have also run out of safe drinking water. ed lavandera is there. how bad is it? >> reporter: we're three days into the aftermath of hurricane ida. people load up on supplies ahead of the storm. many people are starting to get to the point where they're running out of supplies. so food and water distribution sites like this one set up by the cajun navy here in this parking lot of the main strip. watch the line, double filed all the way out of this park...
They're celebrating amid reunions. the city is not destroyed, gaza city is the city in the main strip. it is still a functioning city, there are restaurants that are open, people are walking around. but we're talking roughly 8,000 homes or apartments that were either partially damaged or destroyed, according to local officials, about 150 tall buildings that were completely flattened. 100 miles of roads and critical infrastructure that no longer existing according to the mayor. a significant set back for hamas because hamas uses this area for military operations, as its base of operations, but ...
I think we have kristina partsinevelos with the latest and what is happening. it's not getting quieter. that's for sure. kristina? >> i'm the only one on myrtle beach right now. you can see the waves have picked up. there's not one moment of calm right now. we're seeing mileage, 56 miles per hour on north myrtle beach. it's just getting intense. you have ocean boulevard getting slowly covered with the water. the main strip. a lot of tourists are familiar with it. think of this storm though. a lot of people that thought, hey, i can overcome this. i forgot hugo and i lived here all my life. this...
If storm could make some areas un uninhabitable for months. already many without power. and that could be for a long time. look at the greaters storm in modern history possibly. the mayor said this is the most serious threat in the city's history. what are conditions like where you are right now as it approaches? >> it is raining for the first time and raining steadily. not hard but it was also blowing. the wind has been strong. it is getting stronger and stronger and stronger each half hour. we can also tell you we spoke with the police chief. we went for a ride with him up and down the main ...