good monday morning. this is early start i m laura jarrett. i m christine romans. about 30 minutes past the hour. ida now a tropical storm and still a threat. at least one person dead. more than a million without power. the national weather service in new orleans now reports flash flooding from a levy failure near alliance, louisiana. some residents have been told to evacuate immediately. what happened now the levy, we heard, is overtopping. there s a lot of things happening we re not prepared for. there are pumps out.
building like we have. we have to think and pray for the people here this morning. yeah. we are listening to the wind. feeling it on the ground, i know, is different. thank you for being there for us. stay safe. we ll come back to you in a little bit. a beast of a storm here. some residents told to evacuate immediately because of a levy failure and high tide in grand isle, louisiana about 30 minutes away from now. the flood threat is active. our meteorologist is tracking this monster storm live with us. cnn weather center. it s good to remind people that, you know, new orleans and some of louisiana had more rain so far this year than they usually do on average. it s a very wet and soggy situation. one reason why when the storm came ashore, it had the organized eye wall. it s so wet there. absolutely. it s a very good point here, as well. metrological phenomena that.
hour? rosemary, we re seeing gradually weakening in the last couple of hours, the system barely hanging on to category 1 hurricane sat status at 75 miler hour. just when you think southern louisiana is in the clear of the system, we re getting reports in the southeastern region and the northern part of plaquemines parish, there is a levy failure in place. there is over 276 miles of levies just in this area. so the levies in lace here, over 3,000 miles of levies make up the protection zone of louisiana that keeps cities like new orleans safe from hurricane flooding. and now a levy is failing at this hour. so it speaks to how much