you have the best pizza in town and the worst wait times. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire you re seeing video come in from golden meadow, louisiana, feeling the brunt of ida. a reporter from one of our affiliates holding up a wind gauge. look at these structures. the home right there just seeing that roof being peeled off as that wind is just hammering this part of louisiana. here s another structure. looks like maybe some apartments where the officer has just completely blown off there. our thanks to that reporter there with the affiliate who
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strength of this storm. the more symmetrical the eye is, the more powerful the storm is. the more organized the storm is, so it s a sure bet that we definitely have winds of 150 miles per hour right around that eye wall. it s remarkable. i think a lot of it has to do with the amount of marsh and water that is in south louisiana. so it was able to hold onto its intensity. and it s able to hold on now even after landfall. so it s incredibly unfortunate all these towns in south louisiana, very special places that are experiencing winds like this for this long of a duration. so we are going to see catastrophic damage across many of these towns in south louisiana, jim. and as that storm heads inland as well. jennifer gray, thanks so much. hurricane ida now ties laura as he strongest storm to ever make landfall in louisiana. joining us on the phone is
mandatory evacuation because there wasn t time to get everyone out. the storm intensified so quickly. and they didn t want people to get stuck on the highways in conditions like this, jim. so this is where you see the dynamic really changing with this storm. we re getting clobbered here. we have to keep our sorry. got to keep our eyes out for flying debris. it s getting a little dangerous. absolutely, brian. be careful. great reporting as always. you can see those winds really picking up in new orleans. just a nasty scene in the big easy right now. brian todd, thanks. now to houma, louisiana, not too far from where hurricane ida made landfall. jason carroll is there. things have really gone downhill since the last time we spoke with you. how are things on your end? well, i tell you, jim, as you said it, the conditions here have deteriorated to a point where it s really become severe. the eye wall now just about upon us. still not here yet. but you can see these bands of
calls from folks in need of assistance or needing help and he says so far, at least so far, he still has not received they have not received emergency calls for people needing assistance. again, there s been about 60 to 80% of the folks who live in houma heeding those evacuation warnings knowing this was going to be upon them and got out. that still leaves a significant number of people sheltering in place. so waiting now for the eye of the storm to pass over. then perhaps a bit of a break and then we ll have the back end of this storm as well. right now houma is right in the center of it. jim? certainly is. jason, you re in the center of it. we re hearing now from louisiana officials about 400,000 power outages in louisiana. that is up from the number we had earlier this afternoon. when you re looking around the area off camera, what are you seeing, jason, in terms of, are emergency responders out and