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North and west, new orleans off to the eastern side of this storm. it's east side, the right quadrant, is where you see typically the worst conditions, and that has been what we're seeing with where all the action has been. very heavy rain, everything here in this red polygon, that is a tornado warning, it means the ingredients are there for tornadoes to spin up. i think that'll continue here into the evening hours. here is your future radar. what you're going to notice is up in the corner, very little movement with this storm over the next couple of hours. this is not something to hit quickly...

Hours. it includes all the way over to the florida panhandle, so a large area where you are going to be seeing very heavy rain, with those winds, maybe some isolated tornadoes. obviously the strongest winds are going to be towards the center of this storm. 62 miles-an-hour was a recent gust there in new orleans. i do think those numbers are going to continue to climb, continue to intensify as the system lifts up to the north. you don't typically see such strong winds lift so far, but this was such a big powerful storm, it is going to take a lot longer for this to weaken. these are future forec...

Terrebonne bay. grand isle had that 146-mile-per-hour wind gust. one thing that's interesting with the structure of the storm, we're now seeing dual eye walls. the storm had been about 20 miles wide. that's the clear eye here. then another ring on the outside of that. so that's what we call a double eye wall that is 50 miles wide. the max winds will come down with the storm a little bit so you think that's great but the problem is then the wind field expands so the damage path could be even wider so instead of just an extreme damage path of 20 miles now we're talking about maybe not quite as e...

Ida for us at the weather center. i know you've covered so many of these devastating hurricanes over the years. this is shaping up to be a very significant hurricane because of the fact that the winds have not let up to a significant degree and just the duration of what we're seeing right now. it's unbelievable. >> it's mind blowing, jim. this is going to be no doubt in the record books. the last one like this, laura -- records go back to 1851. louisiana is now the only state to have consecutive years where hurricanes with winds of 150 miles per hour or greater have made landfall. two main fac...

Power outages, heavy rain, tornados and more. ken graham, the director of the national hurricane center in miami, joins me now. so help us understand this. if ida slows down enough before landfall, what are the chances ida could become a category 5 hurricane? >> well, pamela, i think at this stage just looking at the latest data from the aircraft, we've got aircraft out right now and i was listening to the conversation back behind me. i think the biggest story is it looks like the wind field is expanding. it's not just about this intensification and getting to la larger, but this is a signific...