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tournament would he consider pulling a tom brady and unretiring >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt good evening, everyone hurricane fiona now a major category 3 storm and likely to get stronger as it sweeps across islands of the caribbean. days after puerto rico took a direct hit, that island's residents are facing difficult and harrowing days from long gas lines to limited access to drinking water more than 1.1 million power customers without electricity. 55% of the island territory has no running water. for many it's a flash back of the days of crippling mi...

Hurricane warnings in effect, winds will be 115. there will also be land falling waterspouts and tornadoes with this storm along the florida coast. even inland possibly as far inland as ocala, orlando. this is kind of the right side of the eye here toward tampa and inland. so, yes, so many things are going to go wrong. not will. the things that could go right, the water could be cold. it is not. there could be a lot of shear. right now there is but that will end tonight. there could be some land interaction. there won't be. there could be some dry air. there is not. so those are the four thing...

Category 1 storm down from category 2. but it is still battering the state with powerful winds, catastrophic storm surges and flash flooding as it continues to churn its way inland. now, ida's grip on louisiana continues well into the night, knocking out power to large areas, making conditions too dangerous for rescue crews. louisiana's governor says the emergency teams will be deployed as soon as conditions allow. here's the governor speaking with my colleague, pamela brown, just a short time ago. >> we're up to getting close to 800,000 outages. not unexpected when you have winds that come in...

And it is incredibly dangerous as well when the trees fall on the houses and damage the houses and people get hurt that way, too. >> director, is there anything at this point that could slow this storm down, that could reduce the power of the storm before it makes land fall? >> you know, sometimes i have seen, you know, cases where they slow up a little bit towards land. but we got to focus continuously on the impacts. even if you have an eye wall replacement, usually what happens is you will have an expansion of that wind field when that happens. that will throw more storm surge into these ar...

Water table that can fill up with water very quickly in a rain. i had a home in edmond, oklahoma, didn't have a shelter at all. it was knocked off its foundation before i lived in it and then rebuilt. but i think you can actually get aboveground safe rooms. there are enough places in this school that in interior rooms -- this is the school we're talking about, interior rooms are still there. if you put some type of a safe room, these are all the safe rooms we know about so far that have been funded by grants right through the tornado path. there's more. look to the north and south, but right t...