derek, thank you very much. reminder this storm reversed the direction of the mississippi river. just a monster. thank you. ida has weakened and still remains a real danger, though. let s check in with our meteorologist chad myers. okay, chad, give us a sense of where things are and also, look, i know it s a tropical storm, but the fact is this thing is hovering over places that don t need this rain. that s right. there will be much, much more rain. this switched from a damage surge maker, a wind damage maker, now to a rainmaker and a flood event. we have so many counties here that are under flash flood warnings and flash flood emergencies, all these red squares are octagons are all flash flood warnings and flash flood emergencies right now. here is how we got here. yesterday morning offshore, making landfall very close to port bouchon. the worst was over grand isle.