thank you for coming on. thank you for spending part of your sunday night with us, i hope you have a great week ahead, until next week, you can find us on-line. good night from south carolina. live team coverage of hurricane ida, is next. trey thank you, life, liberty and levin will air at 10 p.m. eastern tonight. we are bringing you special coverage of hurricane ida, slamming the louisiana gulf. right now we have live team coverage, mike tobin and caroline schively live in new orleans, but first meteorologist adam klotz who is tracking the storm. reporter: the storm finally slowing down just a little bit we made landfall 8 hours ago. it just got down to category 3 strength, still 120 miles
their homework, others who could not evacuate in time. they didn t have a mandatory evacuation for people in levee system here in new orleans, a lot of people checked into a hotel, they have radio to ride it out they have to ride it out without electricity and power. yes, caroline, stay safe out there. thank you great reporting. we re going to continue our breaking news coverage of hurricane ida. up next, we ll speak with louisiana senator john kennedy to find out what he has been hearing, is there people are there people in grand isle who need help? what is the strurk rally damage structural damage up and down the coast of louisiana and mississippi, hurricane ida, category 3, is next.
to keep water out. but water coming down that is filling up the bowl. trace: caroline doing great work for us in new orleans, thank you. right now let s bring in fox news senior contract casey stegall with latest from louisiana. reporter: we re in baton rouge. i think about 80 miles from caroline, new orleans is on the dirty side of the storm. as it is called. that is northeast quadrant. that is often the strongest where the most storm surge is. yesterday whether we did live shots talk when we did live shots talking about sandbagging and preparation its look like baton rouge would be on dirty side of the storm but it did shift to the east, we re getting outer bands of rain here in baton rouge. it is nothing like we have
trace: back with continuing coverage of hurricane ida. caroline is on canal street. reporter: the rain is dumping, one thing i have been impressed with on canal street, there has been very little flooding. a lot of folks have these borders. others are stand bagging throughout the street. the streets are not flooded yet but water has been coming in sideways all day, rain bands are maybe a little farther apart it is getting hard to stay on your feet. sometimes i have to grab on to the wall. trace: i am curious, that barrier, what is that? you say they have barriers set up, what are they doing
now in new orleans. caroline is there to give us her perspective. reporter: we lost power about an hour ago, throughout afternoon it was steady rain and wind, coming at you sideways, we heard screeches of meetal, we avoided it. it is dangerous but we could see it coming, but now we re in the dark it will get dangerous. new orleans mayor said stay in place, police chief said, think of our police officers and firefighters, they have families too. now we had steady wind banks in afternoon. and we have tourists still on the streets, that is what the mayor does not want to happen, rescue folks may not