are ready to do it again. joining me now, the thing captain of the louisiana cajun navy, captain, thank you for joining us tonight. i know your boats are at the ready, tell me what your expectation is. what are you going to need to do. just try to get where we re going as fast as possible. trying to leave as soon as we can, but we have to wait so daylight, so we make sure the roads are passable you don t have trees or power lines down or things like that. we have some work to do. i know you ve talked about the fact that your organization has the technology, that you need to identify and get to people. tell us a little bit about what is going on, so that when the moment comes, that you can safely go out you are ready to go. what happens between now and then? starting earlier, tonight some of the storm surge came up in those quarters, and it s been pretty much devastated. so i ve been coordinated with the sheriff of st. johns parish,
priority is always in a storm like, this is the preservation of, life what s your biggest concern as you watch the next several hours? then of course s are major concern, preservation of life. with the heavy rains, the strong winds, many have evacuated, to other areas, out of state. but we still have many people here, and we asked that they continue to watch the weather and weather the storm. they have to stay in place, until we can in the morning, hours assess the damages, assess the trees that are down. so that we can get the roadways clear, so our power companies can begin to long task of restoring power. which we feel will be out for days. we were listening throughout the evening, to various counterparts of viewers for
the mayor told us all of the local hospitals are already packed with people, they cannot take on anyone else who gets her in these weather conditions, so they are hoping for the, best as the storm certainly continues to roll through, baton rouge. chris. please tell me my depth perception is not so, good in that tree that s behind you, that looks very poor curious, is not as close as it looks. no it s not too terribly, close it s in a pretty big planter, a couple of these trees are. they ve been blowing for quite some time. we think they re pretty secure. but it may not be a bad idea for us to take a couple steps away from him as the night goes on in the wind starts to pick up. take care out there, we ll check back in with you as well. thank you so much. nbc s reporter in baton rouge. in st. tammy parish about an hour north of new orleans, a paris right curfew went into effect at noon on sunday, and is expected to stay in place until the danger passes. joining us now, the presiden
do. there is one of these gusts, that eunice is talking about. very few of them now. there s virtually no rain. this feels like a typical new orleans, gusty, night where it s humid, it s a little bit of, agus this will go, away and it s over with. in fact one of the things we ve been seeing increasingly as police vehicles around the city. typically seeing they wait until the gusts are below a certain level, so they are not walking around while they re having trees fall on them or things like, that it is not common enough to have those bucket trucks out there, repairing power lines in trees, there are a lot of trees down around here, and generally speaking, if the hurricane finishes overnight, they wait until firstly anyway, so that people are not driving over things and creating more problems. it looks like things are getting a bit more still here. you can still see, it s been 12 hours since this thing made landfill in louisiana and it s
once the wind goes down. i think the difference today and between a 16 years ago, there is a lot of personal communication. the cell towers have gotten stronger. the people of the community are communicating, more which means we should be able to know where they are, especially the ones that are still to navigate and get into them. that being, said we still got the challenge of roads that are closed with downed trees, so this is gonna be a challenge for certain rescue missions because the area that we are looking at is so large. all over from the gulf coast up to new orleans and even more north. right, now there are few reports to a place called luck laugh, which is just east of new orleans has a low spot there. the good news is we have not