Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom 20210829 02:54:00

this is powerful hurricane ida making its way toward gold coastline there. many people are heeding the warning. they're getting out. look at that traffic as people try to evacuate. this is video along interstate 10 in baton rouge, a long line of cars as people try to get out of the path of the storm. ed lavandera joins me on the phone. are more people heeding the warnings to evacuate? >> reporter: you really are, poppy. we're just pulling into baton rouge coming along interstate 10 and that long line of cars continues tonight, even approaching the 10:00 hour. it's clear that that long line of evacuation, cars trying to get out before the arrival of this hurricane. a long line of cars backed up from basically lafayette to baton rouge this evening. headed west out of the storm's

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