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Side of the storm, the rain continues to be at eastern side of the storm. i think in portions of louisiana another 10 inches, it has been raining for a long time there today, we could see this rain pile up, that will run through the ohio river valley to pennsylvania and midatlantic, this rain will be a story that sticks with us. trace: it is turning out not to be a wind event but a water event. adam great work thank you so much. back to you as news warrants, we should know when he talked about 115 miles per hour. 111 miles per hour below you get to a category 2, hurry we're close to hurricane ...

Hurricane ida did that. what we're seeing here is scared evacuees in the shelter here we talked to some of them. they know how to ride out category 1, 2, 3 hurricanes, but when you start talking about a category 4, that really changes the game here. they expected storm surge to be a concern, but when that storm, when the hurricane pivoted over this region, kept us in the outer eye-wall of hurricane ida, the relentless winds never stopped. we never got the break that we anticipate and that is why this will be a wind maker or a wind event and catastrophic wind event within the houma, louisiana l...

State. joining me right now is new orleans city council member joe jer uso. thank you for -- i'm happy we could even connect. it is been so hard to connect because of the power situation. what is the latest that you know, that what is the damage that you're seeing in first light. >> well i heard jason say in the segment before that in the houma it is a wind event. nadia was saying that there are lines knocked down. she's absolutely right about that. the biggest issue for us is there are about eight trns mis -- transmission lines into the city of new orleans and jefferson parish and all eight h...

0 helicopter with the state police to get him on the island and as long as there is communication, we will communicate with him to see what is going on there, the but it is hard to have no word from the island and the people on it. in lafitte, the water is very high, and from the louisiana national guard and others are there doing the search and rescue. they are having to get the boats in and out, and we are sheltering the people at the park playground, and then the state is going to coordinate the pickup and move them out to alexandria is the plan. and our systems are down and we have no comm...

0 get him to the island and as long as there's communication, we'll be able to communicate with him and see what's going on there. but it's very hard to not have any word from that island and the people on it since that time. in lafite, the water was very high. our first responders, the sheriff, firefighters, louisiana national guard, some coast guard are there doing search and rescue. they're having to get boats in and out. we are sheltering those people at a playground and then i believe the state is going to coordinate, governor, for a pickup and move them out to alexandria is my understand...