things off but that heat, with the heat index, it feels on some days like 107 degrees. this cooling center is a place of relief. alisyn? adrienne broaddus, thank you. parish leaders also say ida destroyed 25% of their buildings. on phone with us now is the lafourche what does that even look like in la fourche. alisyn, thank you for having us. every interview i tried to talk about this is not a new orleans storm. i m glad they have cooling
stations across the city. there are eight of them. and at those cooling stations, that is where you will find the fema representatives. i saw them yesterday. i even spoke with a representative from fema helping people register for what he called disaster assistance, or excuse me survival assistance. meanwhile, biden will be here later today. he s going to talk with the state s governor as well as some parish leaders and he will see some of the hardest hit areas, jim, across the state. well, listening to people there, they expect help and they want it quickly. thank you very much. as we said, any minute we are expecting president biden to speak. first about the august jobs report and the numbers very disappointing. adding far lower than expected and coming during a week when he s seen several crisis. david gurgen will weigh in on what it all means. plus the storms may be over but the possibility for flooding
governor, i just want to follow up on something you were just saying a few moments ago. it sounds as though you re saying that people who live in this area, in the storm zone where hurricane ida is going to hit, that they really just have hours if they re going to evacuate to make that decision, pack up and go. but the good news is those parish leaders made decisions yesterday around evacuation orders. we have been watching the traffic flow on the interstate system and u.s. highway system out of that area all day. people are heeding that guidance and leaving and they re moving to points north, east and west out of the central area. this is going to be a very large storm so there will be winds that we believe will reach 110 miles per hour sustained, which is category 2 itself, but around baton rouge and as far west as lafayette and as far east as new orleans. and when you talk about rain totals, that could be up to 15,