This Parking Garage there, thats at the Hard Rock Hotel and casino and, of course, these firefighters and some of the First Responders trying to get through it in biloxi, mississippi there. Thats one of the hardest hit areas. The flooding took the first floor of the casino under water. The Biloxi Fire Department took this video as the firefighters were wading through it. Minutes ago, nate was downgraded to a Tropical Storm. So far is knocked out power to nearly 73,000 customers in alabama, florida, and mississippi. We are tracking the impact of the storm with a team of meteorologists here in atlanta and reporter in mississippi and alabama. Lets begin with meteorologist ivan cabrera, the newest information from the National Hurricane center, what are you learning about the strength of the storm . The good news is no longer tracking a hurricane here. It is now a Tropical Storm with winds of 70 miles an hour, though as ill show you in the current wind gusts, not finding anywhere near that
realize we need protection. we need levee protection. we need elevation. we can pick up the pieces. we need someone to come along and doing study after study and not doing a god damn thing about it after they study it. we wait too many years for them to do studies. while that s happening we are being washed away, slowly. katie, and chris, we will be checking with you guys here along the way. we send our love to you guys, we are thinking of you, your grandkids, everybody here, alrighty? we will be checking back in. alex, i think katie s words spoke enough there. they did. send katie a heart felt hug from me. i know she s not mic d up to hear me but let her know that was powerful. more now on the coronavirus. the u.s. hitting 40 million cases since the start of the pandemic as the delta variant is sweeping across the country this holiday weekend. millions already traveling over labor day, the cdc issuing a
prepared to be without power for days on weeks. what are you hearing from other people in your community who stayed? how concerned are people right now where you are? well, where i m located, it s what s called the hista system. it s a 100-year levee protection that the corps has done some updates. those are some flood gates that we have closed. we have closed off some of the sections of our levee on our highway. so we ordered a mandatory evacuation on friday, and then we increased that mandatory evacuation on saturday, moving it up north. so we thought we were pretty successful in getting people out. we saw a steady line of people heading north and evacuating to safe ground. so we hope that people heeded our warning and got out. kirk lepine, thank you and best of luck to zblu thank you. as hurricane ida rips across the louisiana coast, we will
power around us. i don t know if a transformer has blown or something but everything got dark around us right now. it does seem the power has come out. we re in a nearby hotel that has generator power and that is not working either. we re now seeing power outages in downtown louisiana which we ve heard reports of from local media around places where there are more trees. the trees have been taking the power lines. we re downtown literally 50 feet from a power station and the lights have gone off here. i want to take us to some new video that we re getting from golden meadow. you see that there. massive flooding. you can see in the distance cars submerged underwater. we can go back to that image of the flooding so people can see the cars there. is that what we were expecting? this is what you expect in the areas outside of the levee protection. people were outside of that area were told to evacuate.