particularly from coastal areas, barrier island off the coast, and other low lying areas where hurricane ida came ashore, it is not looking good now. they cannot conduct search and rescue. it has been some eight hours since hurricane ida made landfall, and anyone who stayed there, the descriptions the conditions are being described as undescribable. it is dire, at best. it is not done with us, it is slowly trudging across the region. let s just hope for the very best. as for the flood protection system, the floodgates, this is putting them to the test, and the sense we are getting is that they will withstand at that test? yes, it was 16 years ago today that they failed miserably when a category three hurricane katrina came in and devastated the area, flooding 80% of newlands, killing some 2000 people across the gulf
hit hard by covid with low vaccination rates and very high hospitalization rates as well. there is what is called the moraganza levee system meant to protect this parish with a 1 in 100 year storm surge event. of course we have a category 4 forecast at landfall, that particular levee system and flood protection system is set to withstand a category 3 hurricane. so we ll be testing the limits of this particular flood management system. i m cnn meteorologist derek van dam in tarabone parish, back to you. and that wraps this hour. i m kim brunhuber. new day is next with the latest advisory on hurricane ida. please do stay with us.
her house to katrina, she s now planning on riding out ida in the home she rebuilt. there ll be damage. but i don t think it will be i hope not as devastating. so many hoping for a different outcome this time around. victor oquendo joins us now from the 17th street canal on the edge of new orleans there that breached during hurricane katrina. victor, what are officials saying about the threat from ida now? reporter: new orleans upgraded its flood protection system after katrina, including the 17th street canal. governor john bel edwards saying this is not the same state it was 16 years ago, but it is going to be tested. whit? it sure will. victor, thank you. let s get right to abc s senior meteorologist rob marciano. rob, when do we expect the gulf coast will start to feel the impact? reporter: this is moving quickly at 16 miles an hour. tropical storm force winds in new orleans likely before sun-up, and it s rapidly intensifying now. you see it on the satellite picture. yo
hurricane protection system here within the terrebonne parish. in new orleans they spent around $15 billion post katrina to build up their hurricane levee and flood protection system. here it s called the morganza to gulf hurricane protection system. that was designed and built in 2013. it is meant to withstand category 3. when we re talking about a powerful category 4, teetering on category 5, that s when we start testing the limits of what it is capable of. derek, be careful over there. we ll get back to you. derek van dam on the scene for us. further inland ed lavandera is joining us. it looks relatively calm so far. i suspect it will be getting a whole lot worse. reporter: port vincent is one of dozens, if not hundreds of towns here in southern louisiana that are praising for not just the wind impact from this
based on the hurricane prak and the wind rain and surge forecast for the remainder of the hurricane, the cpra is anticipating some over topping of the southeast portions of the la rose to golden meadow levy system. nonfederal backed and alliance and nonfederal levies in lower st. bernard perish as well. obviously overtopping is concerning but i want to make sure that everybody understands, overtopping and levy failure are not the same thing. a levy failure can be more catastrophic. they re not the same thing. obviously we re going to continue to monitor the flood protection system. i can tell you right now we do not anticipate any overtopping of the mississippi river levies or overtopping of the levies in the hurricane risk reduction