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Have better protections in place and learned a lot from that, but there's no real preparation for a storm of this magnitude, one that we have not seen the likes of since the 1800s. this message has been repeated. thankfully to your network and many others we've been able to get that message out to people and hopeful they have heeded those warnings. >> the governor says louisiana today is not the same louisiana as 16 years ago. will the levy system hold up. >> my prayer is that it will. we don't know that. my prayer is that it will. we certainly know that we're better than we were before. this ...

It. michelle, let's bring you in here. what is the latest on ida's track right now? >> hi there, guys. yeah, it looks like we're going to make landfall in about seven hours and bill karins, our top-notch meteorologist here, said ida is challenging the records to be one of the strongest storms ever to hit louisiana. certainly looking good on satellite. you don't need to be a meteorologist to know that picture on satellite is showing us a very strong, textbook, classical hurricane. category 4 storm. al mentioned this, sam mentioned this, that it took that leap overnight to 145 miles per hour. it...

This was not necessarily expected? >> we were expecting landfall. this is a preliminary landfall, richard. part of the storm center passed over the mouth of the mississippi river. keep in mind, a second lawful is forecast later tonight. this will be the more impactful one of the two, we can see some thunderstorms, judging by the cloud tops there, rolling through areas of louisiana, mississippi and coastal alabama right now. the actual center of circulation is still 100 miles south of biloxi, mississippi, winds have weakened, now they're at 85 miles per hour, as the storm continues to deteriora...

Out a beam that reflects back the raindrops. so, we're actually able to see a picture where we are getting the heaviest rain. when the towers go down, we can't get that picture from the ground, so we rely on satellites up in space, but they only show us the clouds. we know the way the storm is designed that the higher the cloud tops, the better chance we're getting of heavier rain. but it's not giving us as good a picture of where the torrential downpours are occurring, which affects how we know just how much rain certain areas are getting. >> dylan dreyer, meteorologist, keeping a close eye o...

Farmers this time of year begin to burn land to cheaply free land and the wind pattern picks up the smoke, carrying it downstream. seeing satellite images from about 38 million kilometers up showing the haze and smoke. we put the thermal energy of fires in place here. seeing reports of 70,000 respiratory infections reported in this region. eye irritation, cough. it's the name of the game for people in this portion of the world. in fact, look. you can easily pick out the smoke and haze, differentiation with the cloud tops on the bottom corner of your screen. the images coming out of indonesia, ...