with the response, but as we ve been here talking to patients. i was able to catch up with susan. she had a new cell phone. the insurance company is going to help her out with getting a car so she can get back to work. fema will be helping her with housing. layla santiago, cnn, fort myers, florida. we re tracking another powerful storm churning in the atlantic. tropical depression 13 formed in the caribbean located southwest of caraco. it s expected to strengthen into a category 1 hurricane before making landfall in nicaragua on sunday morning. cnn meteorologist joins me now with the latest developments. hi, brittney. good morning. definitely tracking tropical storm 13. it has an undefined center and
the long haul. thank you all for your time. we re going to bring you president biden s address to the united nations general assembly when that happens this hour. it s scheduled to take place roughly 20 minutes from now. plus skepticism today from the special master in the mar-a-lago classified documents case. why it could spell bad news for the trump legal team and their claims that those documents were declassified. but first, hurricane fiona now as we have been reporting a category 4 storm churning toward bermuda after battering turk and cay coats. more than a million people in puerto rico remain without power. i ll speak to the u.s. house delegate for puerto rico about the aid that the people there need urgently right now. need ur.
reporter: in louisiana, the rush to get ready for ida. gas lines growing, food disappearing, and communities left scrambling. like deja vu. new video from cuba offers a glimpse at the fast moving storm, lashing the island with high winds and heavy rain, as ida returns to the gulf where warmer waters could make it even stronger. we believe there s a strong likelihood that this will be a category 4 hurricane at landfall. that s how quickly the storm is developing. the weather crisis comes as louisiana hospitals face a flood of covid patients. with the governor urging everyone to get vaccinated. the fact that we re still in a pandemic makes this much more difficult for everyone, but the pandemic isn t going to leave just because it s more inconvenient! equally daunting, a storm churning towards the coast so fast, mandatory evacuations from new orleans are now out of the question. the city cannot issue a mandatory evacuation because we don t have the time.
gas lines growing. food disappearing. and communities left scrambling. like déjà vu you know what i mean? new video from cuba offers a glimpse at the fast-moving storm. lashing the island with high winds and heavy rain. the real danger coming, as ida returns to the gulf where warmer waters could make it even stronger. we now believe that there is a strong likelihood that this will be a category 4 hurricane at landfall. that s how quickly the storm is developing. reporter: the weather crisis comes as louisiana hospitals face a flood of covid patients. with the governor urging everyone to get vaccinated. the fact that we re still in a pandemic makes this much more difficult for everyone. but the pandemic isn t gonna leave just because it s more inconvenient. reporter: equally daunting. a storm churning toward the coast so fast, mandatory evacuations from new orleans are now out of the question. the city cannot issue a mandatory evacuation because we don t have the time.
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