state in u.s. history to see back-to-back hurricane seasons with 150-mile-per-hour storms making landfall in that state. certainly hearts and prayers go out to our friends here across the state. you ll notice widespread coverage. areas indicated in red with flood warnings in place whether it is in new orleans, itself, points just to the west, points just to the south even into houma at this hour seeing flood warnings which means flooding is imminent or occurring. with the amount of rain that has come down on top of what has been the wettest year on record around this region, this is going to be a major story through the overnight hours with the amount of water that is going to be running across the region and flash floods taking place. all right. thank you so much for bringing us the latest there on hurricane ida. for residents who didn t evacuate, louisiana s governor says it could be, quote, days, perhaps even week before help arrives. my next guest heeded warnings and did evacuate
it s a good question, i would say. with ida, and it s really difficult in order to predict with absolute certainty as to where and when perhaps those tornadoes may be coming off. i would say that people just need to be careful in this case. this has been a busy season. even with ida in the gulf, there is tropical depression ten. there s tropical storm julian that just formed. there s another disturbance that is off the coast of the carolinas, whether or not that s going to materialize remains to be seen, but it seems like the tropics are as active as we expected. what do you see in terms of the longer term trends? the year to year trends of what our hurricane seasons are looking like? so there s been a lot of work done on what to expect into the future when it comes to these hurricanes, as well as looking to the past. the overall trends and the frequency of hurricanes are often difficult to pick out because we have so there s so
we told everyone this was coming, that western temperatures, drought, water supply were all under danger, and republicans scorned it, and now here it s the new reality. meanwhile back in washington, republicans are preventing president biden s we have got to get a handle on the climate crisis or we are going to undermine the public health and safety of people not just in california, throughout the west this drought and wildfires are affecting us and it s also going to be one of the worst hurricane seasons in the southeast of the united states, the farm belt is impacted. this is an entirely it s not just red states or blue states, it s all of us. is there anything hopeful about the climate now, paul, to point out? there is. we now have 25 years ago we didn t have cheap solar power
receipt at the grocery store before long, sadly. absolutely. we haven t gotten into what this hurricane season will do, the remains of tropical storm elsa is soaking the east coast right now. we already had five named storms in the record to have that many already at this point in the year. every year or every so often, every few years we re having that kind of streak. is this the new normal now these stronger storms happening earlier in the year and then making these hurricane seasons just last a long time and just, you know, any grueling experience for people living in hurricane country? reporter: absolutely. a planet made hotter by activity holds more moisture in some places and not enough in others as we re seeing it at both end of this country. nobody was thinking about stronger storms and higher seas in the 80s when they had the housing boom. beach sand that had salt in it that erodes the rebar. you just did the story of people
i think it s an emotional toll on survivors to watch this on tv all this time. they need to turn this into recovery. we need to get those urban search and rescue teams reset for hurricane season. they have enough capacity in florida to do this recovery and i m not saying this as a criticism. it s an observation. but the reality is we have to get ready for the next for the rest of hurricane seasons. these teams are significant. on the water, water will have a big impact on this mission. the hearts go out to the survivors and their families. the rain bands and lightning are going to get bad. you think it s a better move for officials, politicians and others to describe this as a recovery effort, to switch into that mindset so they can accelerate and move faster with the process of bringing closure to the families?