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Vatandaşların en büyük sorunu olan ve her geçen gün artmaya devam eden trafik, çözüme kavuşturulamıyor.

It kind of depends on where you are. for example, we spent the day in laplace and that is st. john the baptist parish. there were 800 people we're told by parish officials there that were rescued out of neighborhoods. and officials there now say that into the evening hours, it's going into more of a recovery mode. kind of depends on what -- where you are in terms of just how much access crews were able to get to various neighborhoods. you know, i think the further south you are, it's become much -- it's been much more treacherous throughout -- throughout the day. up here, along interstate 10, ...

There. i mean, the wind damage was like nothing i've ever seen. and the flooding just was unreal. >> what's been the biggest challenge? first of all, you've all got to be exhausted. but what's been the biggest challenge so far? >> the biggest challenge for this was really access. when we got there, we were still probably around six to seven miles from lafitte, from the first drop-in point we could even get close to. so in the morning once we kind of figured a game plan out, we actually had to go i would think around five, six miles through highways, taking the boats on highways, side roads, th...

And this far inland, really the amount of rooftop structural damage that we've seen in various communities, it really stands out in this storm. >> and are search and rescue efforts going on throughout the night? >> it's hard to say, and i think it kind of depends on where you are. for example, we spent the day in laplace, and that is st. john the baptist parish. there are 800 people we're told by parish officials there that were rescued out of neighborhoods. officials there say that into the evening hours it's going into more of a recovery mode. kind of depends on where you are in terms of jus...

As of now two people are known to have lost their lives in the wake of hurricane ida. no one pretends that that will be the final number. louisiana's governor saying he expects it to rise, quote, considerably. when it came ashore yesterday as a strong category 4 storm, ida tied hurricane laura last year and another storm as the strongest storm to ever hit the state. which means the damage is extensive. power's out for about 1.1 million people across the area. trees were down, roads blocked, access obviously difficult. in -- west of new orleans and elsewhere outside the city members of the volu...