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Winds here in new orleans, but still as you can tell, not as much rain as earlier, but it's still raining a lot. >> yeah, ida not much faster moving, if we can say that, than katrina was, which lumbered along. >> yes, much. >> absolutely. you know it so well, my friend. ali velshi in new orleans. let's go to morgan chesky, about 60 miles west. just a short time ago, houma was in the western eyewall, how rough has it become now? >> richard, for the first time since about noon today, we're finally starting to see a little bit of relief. wind wise and rain wise, but i have to tell you, we're only...

The hurricane bearing down on the u.s. a record tenth named storm to strike the u.s. just this season alone. delta gaining strength tonight, back to a cat 3 now, 115-mile-an-hour winds. on track to hit nearly the same spot in louisiana where hurricane laura struck. ginger zee and rob marciano both live from louisiana tonight, and ginger, i know you've got the newest track? >> reporter: i do, and where i'm standing here in louisiana could see up to nine feet of inundation. so, storm surge is going to be a big problem. and i want to take you to that track, which goes just east of cameron. so clo...

Could come with life-threatening storm surge, up to 18 inches of rain. then the mountains of mexico shred it apart. wind-wise, not moisture wise, because it could pull into the hill country of texas, dumping four inches in an area that had 12 to 15 inches just last week. >> all right, tracking it through the night. ginger, thank you. well, just two weeks left tonight until the crucial midterms. will democrats be able to take back the house? do they have a chance at the senate? with republicans controlling the white house, the senate and the house, of course. tonight, one key race in texas, t...

We've had recorded wind gusts up to 130 miles an hour. keep in mind, we don't have wind meters in every place. a lot get blown offline. they have verified that 150 miles an hour winds when that was coming right on shore there. now you take a look at it. starting to weaken a little bit there over all of the northeastern area of alabama, moving in towards georgia right now. still with the well-defined center. that means the hurricane force winds now are extending very, very far off towards the north. radar picture shows the same thing. behind us, more bands. likely along the coast we'll calm dow...

Atmosphere but also have to keep in mind we can potentially track it and we could see, say, possibly some of that radiation working up toward the aleutian islands. the threat it to make its way towards the east we need something for it to get higher in the atmosphere. we are talking -- dealing with leaks right now. we need something along the lines of an ejection that is certainly what we don't want right now. things are looking favorable and not expecting it to make its way over the pacific right now. the environment we're talking wind wise is looking pretty good. lack over to you. >> thank y...