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despite china's threats. and a pivotal week for president biden's agenda as democrats aim for senate passage of climate and health care legislation, mindful that the midterms are now just 99 days away. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." let's get straight to the flood disasters in eastern kentucky right now. the death toll as of now, 35. with hundreds, hundreds of people still missing. evan santoro is on the scene for us. the governor who will join us live in just a few moments, said this is th...

And it could strengthen. so a lot of information coming out in the next half-hour. you can see the ridges and the high tops around this. the system is still running on all cylinders. most likely if it's not going through this process, it could be a category 3 at 11:00 p.m. >> wow. we're very close to that, half an hour away. tom sadder, thank you very much. let me bring on daniel lorain from lafourche parish. can you hear me? >> yes, ma'am. how you doing, poppy? >> we're great. we know you're right in the path of this storm. mandatory evacuation orders for your parish with the last two shelter...

Tom? >> we're expecting 11:00 p.m. advisory. we're expecting a category 4 tomorrow. that would make it a major hurricane. it's interesting. we're well within 200 miles of landfall and it looks to be around 1:00 p.m. but the last several years it's been interesting what we watched. last year was a record breaking year as far as the number of storms, which broke the biggest record of the year before. our warmer atmosphere and waters, the storms have been undergoing rapid intensification. most of them last year did. we haven't seen that number -- it's been increasing year to year. it's the warmer...

One of the strongest storms going all the way way back to the 18 fifths. that's what governor john bel edwards says about hurricane ida 16 years to the day after hurricane katrina made landfall there. as the storm gets stronger, president biden is urging people to pay attention and to be prepared. tom sadder joins us from the cnn weather center. >> yeah, poppy, to add on what the governor said, records go back to 1851. if you look at category 4 or higher for the state of louisiana, you had one in the 1850s. one in the 1890s before they were named. then you had betsy, camille in 1969 and laura....

Rescued from fast moving waters that swamped middle oklahoma. we could see more dramatic rescues in the hours ahead with storms expected in the plains and midwest. our meteorologist is at the cnn severe weather center for us. tom are more americans in danger tonight? >> yes. with different aspects and elements. everything you see in red is over six inches of rain. we talked about the outbreak of tornadoes yesterday. oklahoma city and west ward. tulsa had a molden overnight. the other side of the mrj was the swift water of course ares and more rain on the way in a couple days in the same area. ...