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Water up at a maximum of 3 to 5 feet. those things are over with. the winds are quickly dying down. it's now a tropical storm. it's no longer a hurricane. you see houston above where the tropical storm system is. out to the right of that, the red, the heavy rain, that's going to be heading up toward port arthur and beaumont and lake charles later on today. that's my biggest concern. obviously houston is flood-prone. you're going to get heavy rain early. but the wind is to the east. i don't think you'll get power outages. the highest wind is at 51 miles per hour. the rule of thumb is 40 and abo...

What have the impacts been of hurricane ida? >> after the storm started making landfall, we started to see power outages around town. that brings the first wave of patients to the hospital who are looking for extra care. maybe have a concentrator at home for oxygen. we have so many people who have oxygen needs during this covid surge at home who are looking for extra medical care. we tried to get that out to them as much as possible. but you start to see some of that wave of patients. and then as the storm got worse, people really did hunker down. the hospital became very quiet. we slept about...

Miles per hour winds look like. they are were built to sustain big hurricanes and we'll see how they faired. >> bill, stand by for me. i want to get to al roker now, as i understand you're driving in new orleans, what are you seeing? >> you know it is interesting, there is downed trees. we can see it over here. there is national guard folks right on the corner here, and you see a lot of tree damage. but you don't see a lot of structural damage. there are no traffic lights because let's face it there is no power in the city. you don't see any buses or mass transit. so people are milling about,

To transport patients to other area hospitals. i want you to see this tree directly behind me. notice the water inundated at the root structure of this tree. gives you an idea of how saturated the ground s we've had a lot of rain. some of the wettest start to the year and that has added to the potential of catastrophic tree damage as well as property damage throughout the region. i'm cnn meteorologist, derek van dam from houma, louisiana. back to you. >> derek van dam in the middle of it all in east baton rouge parish. search and rescue crews are out looking for residents who may need help now...

It's going to rain a lot with this storm too. more on that in a second. you can see the clear eye to the north, northeast, northwest of number 2, it still has 18 hours over very warm water. we still think it's going to be become a major hurricane later tonight and may make landfall as a category 3 or a category 4, not much difference between the two. it will land at grand isle, louisiana and head toward houma. then the storm will begin to weaken as it heads northward, still a category 1 by the time it gets to baton rouge. in baton rouge we could have significant tree damage and power outage. n...