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Category 4 storm, it is forecast to pummel the louisiana coast sunday, the same date hurricane katrina hit the state 16 years ago. power outages are a major concern. fema says that it is moving supply trucks and generators into louisiana ahead of ida's landfall. there are 10,000 linemen in the state already and another 20,000 on standby. and making matters worse, many hospitals in the area are already maxed out due to covid-19. health officials are asking residents to not go to the hospital unless it is dire emergency. let's check back in with tyler mauldin. what is the latest? >> preparations...

Afternoon. let's check out this video. this is ft. morgan, alabama, where the waves are starting to pick up. winds intensified overnight increasing to 155 miles per hour. those winds that are directly related to ida. ida is hitting louisiana as a powerful category 4 hurricane. moving on over right now to msnbc meteorologist bill karins for the latest update. where is the storm right now is this we have some interesting developments. we are watching the first land area now going through the eye and actually went through the eye wall and into the eye itself. here is grand isle. the radar will u...

Northeastern side of the storm and whoever goes through that will see the most extensive wind damage. winds right now, we're going to lose our wind gauges. 47 at the airport there. from pensacola through mobile to hattiesburg, biloxi, the feeder bands can produce tornadoes into tomorrow. you notice the heavy rain is knocking on the door of new orleans. the core will be moving in the next few hours. the worst weather conditions from about 2:00 p.m. this afternoon until about 10:00 p.m. this evening. that's when the peak of the rain will be and the strongest winds. 150-mile-per-hour winds. it wi...

>> in the next half hour we'll get the update from the hurricane center. they'll tell us if it's actually moving instead of being stationary. it will also give us that new forecast path. i know a lot of people in south carolina and north carolina are going to be very, you know, interested. watching it closely for good reason, too. i'll explain that in a second. so these are the numbers. 120's the max winds right now in the northern eye and the thunderstorms. it's stationary. it looks like it's starting to drift maybe a little bit. i mean, not a lot, but eventually. here's going to be the inter...

At this point in time? but this storm will make an eye wall landfall. whether the center of the eye stays offshore there will be enough wind along the coast of 115 to maybe 145 miles per hour with that eye wall right onshore that anyone from fort pierce to stuart to in the atlantic beach to daytona to new smirma all the way up the coast this is a category 4 hurricane. the eye is getting smaller right now. the pressure is going down which means the storm is still strengthening. and this is where the forecast cone is supposed to be. from fort pierce right up all the way to cape canaveral. and by...