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More than a million are without power tonight after hurricane ida tore through louisiana as a category 4 storm. pedram javaheri is tracking ida for us. good evening, sir. thank you so much. what's the latest? >> don, the latest coming in from the national hurricane center putting the final advisory, finally, on this particular storm coming in at 11:00 p.m. eastern time. puts it about 100 miles northeast of jackson. so right around, say, tupelo, mississippi. that's where the center of the storm is. unfortunately, impacts far from over because we know the amount of rainfall forecast even as far ...

Upload your logo or start your design today at customink.com so here's our breaking news. at least two people are dead and more than 1 million are without power tonight after hurricane ida tore through louisiana as a category 4 storm. meteorologist pedram javaheri is tracking ida for us. good evening, sir. thank you so much. what's the latest? >> don, the latest coming in from the national hurricane center putting the final advisory on this particular storm coming in at 11:00 p.m. eastern time puts it about 100 miles northeast of jackson, right around tupelo, mississippi. that's where the ce...

And up towards tennessee and kentucky, the northeast, you're going to feel the remnants of the storm for tuesday and wednesday. the greatest flash flood risk right now continues to be southeastern louisiana, in towards mississippi, in towards the tennessee river and ohio river valley over the next 24 to 48 hours. there's the rainfall forecast, i just saw a measurement of over 13 inches. so over a foot of rain in less than 12 hours for portions of southeastern louisiana and it's going to take at least a day or so for crews to get into some of these regions. we won't see the damage until tomorro...

Next couple of hours and through this evening. and there's also levees that protect morgan city, that protects houma, louisiana. we'll see if those levees hold up over the next 12 hours because that's the test for anyone that stayed behind hoping their levees hold. and then the rainfall forecast, as we've been saying, up to 20 inches possible in new orleans or the southeastern portions of louisiana. and then the winds, this is that extreme wind ban, the core of the storm moving onshore, we think that barely misses new orleans but this extreme amount of power outages. at this point, alex, with ...

Just devastated new orleans. so much of the gulf coast at that point and much of the gulf coast, but that was a category 3 storm. hurricane ida is a 4. it is on the cusp of a 5. and we want to bring in now ken graham, the director of the national hurricane center in miami. ken, we are is so grateful to have you with us. when you look at that radar at this moment, what does to tell you? >> yeah, it's, you know, a long night. really watching this. that rapid intensification that we have been talking about happened and the hurricane hunters out there now near 150-mile-per-hour winds. so i look at...