i want to give you an update on the latest on hurricane ida, which has been slamming into louisiana. this is a monster storm. we re getting a number of reports of flash flooding, but we re now also getting information that a levee might have failed. i m going to go straight to pedram javaheri. pedram, hi. if you can tell us, what is happening on the ground? it s middle of the night. it s difficult to assess the damage, but emergency services are issuing a warning that is very ominous in one area. it is very ominous. it is across the highway 23 region there in northwestern areas of louisiana, and this is an area that s been very hard-hit the last couple of hours. the levee failure being reported in this region by local police officers that have been patrolling the region, kind of seeing the damage take place. we have additional reports as well from trained weather spotters that we re getting here at the cnn weather center saying multiple houses on fire across
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Duchess Court and Somerset Drive in Toms River during Isaias. (Photo Courtesy of Douglas Tortorelli)
There was a nasty weather storm on April 22 and another on August 4, this one left a ton of damage across the Jersey Shore and beyond.
thank you, larry mackey for the expertise. we are getting word of dangerous weather spotters reporting a tornado northwest of wichita, kansas. and chad meyeryers is tracking it, and what are you seeing? the most dangerous part of it is that it is nighttime and you can t see them or hear them and you may be wanting to go the sleep soon, but you want to make sure that the noaa radio is on. and there may be storms popping up all night long, and the nighttime tornadoes are the most dangerous there. sis the one for wichita, and it did miss the town of wichita and this is andale and way northwest of the city, but it is rotating and still may be on the ground and now that it is nighttime, you don t get the spotter network that you would like. that is the storm mo ing tooing to the northeast and another one popped up not that far from north andover and this storm here to the west is small now, but it had three separate tornadoes on the ground earlier today, and so still a dangerous night