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hour. >> there will be catastrophic flooding and life threatening storm surge. if you are in tampa bay and counties north and south of that it could be something that happens. if you're under an evacuation order. evacuate to higher ground that will be safe from the type of surge and flooding. >> bill: our fox weather team coverage considers. adam klotz standing by to tell us the latest. >> dana: first we'll go to phil keating. he is in a beach community a half hour southwest of tampa. sounds like a good place. >> it is. it is old, classic florida. the time to get out of town is now. ...

Reichmuth in the weather center, thank you. jacqui: hurricane ida is expected to hit louisiana as a dangerous category four storm. our correspondent casey stegall is in baton rouge where officials are urging people to brace for this arrival, casey. >> reporter: yeah, they are, and, for the, we're going to give you a live look at what's going on which is the preparation phase. as you heard, the window quickly closing. as you know as well, the two biggest threat with this storm to life and property would be wind and water. ida expected to bring a whole lot of both, and you've got major sandbaggi...

Some a major sandbagging operation. 400 cubic yards of sand in this one location over the past three days, some sandbagging operations we were told will be up and running tomorrow in volusia county. but that will probably be the last chance for anyone to bag their homes because the storm is expected to get pretty bad starting around midnight tomorrow night, we could have tropical storm force winds into the early morning hours and they are telling us hurricane force winds here in daytona beach by sometime late sunday night, depending on which way the storm goes. >> melissa: rick, thank you. mia...

We have talked to a lot of folks here. some plan to evacuate. as we are heard in prior storms, some plan to ride it out. i asked multiple people. they said, you know, some think it's stupidity, but they are planning to stay here and ride the storm at home. >> ashley has the right perspective right now. get in a few more rays of sunshine, but heading out of town soon. thanks for bringing that to us. appreciate it. to central florida, brynn gingras is joining us where sandbags are being handed out. even in orlando? >> reporter: yeah, even in orlando, kate. there's no evacuation orders in orange ...

You can ad florida, alabama and mississippi to that. isaac is expected to make landfall somewhere between the florida pan handle and new orleans. nbc's lester holt is in new orleans for us today. good morning, lester. >> chris, the hurricane as a category 1 is what they expect to hit the new orleans area presently late tuesday. that would be a day in advance of a 7th anniversary of hurricane katrina. katrina, mind you, was a category 3 hurricane. right now, new orleans under a state of emergency. they do not anticipate a mandatory evacuation here based on the current data. however, the parishe...