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just look at this video here on your screen. flooding is wide spread. and some areas could see up to 20 inches of rain. more than 700,000 homes and businesses are now without power. and that number is sure to climb. officials say it could take weeks to fully restore power. now within the next hour or two, new orleans will be seeing its highest winds and heaviest rain. the levee system was vastly upgraded after katrina and holding as of now. south of the city, the rainfall and storm surge have pushed water over our levee in plaquemines parish. a flash flood emergency is in effect. i spoke to a critical care doctor in baton rouge bracing for the worst. we would be able to be the most significant event of our lifetime. we currently have a full hospital, but we re the regional medical center and so we are essentially acting that role. we have over 700 providers in the hospital. 50 of those are physicians. 400 are nurses. 300 are non-clinical. we re split into two staffs. ....
let s go back to hurricane ida. our meteorologist tom sater is in the cnn weather center tracking the path. we re supposed to get an update from the national weather service. just moments ago, the 11:00 p.m. advisory is giving us interesting information. there is no change in the sustained winds that have been holding at 105. it s quite interesting because this has been over very warm waters, what we call the gulf of mexico loop, a stream of very warm waters. it hasn t changed its intensity. however, it s moving into much warmer waters. that s fuel and it s going to create intensification. the pressure, however, is dropping 2 millibars an hour. it takes a while for the winds to react to the dropping pressure. so it is strengthening. still a category 2. the new track has come out and it jumps from a category 3 to a category 4 by morning. there s your intensification. still looks to have landfall around midday, roughly a 1:00 p.m. hour central daylight time, local time. ....
protecting voting rights as states look to retract them. a heated president biden said that makes him sick. and expanded background checks after yet another mass shooting in america, killing ten innocent people in boulder, colorado. whether republicans get on board with the issue, president biden said that s up to them. all i know, i ve been hired to solve problems, to solve problems, not create division. reporter: cnn s jeff zeleny now reports from the white ho house. no other country in the world has even come close, not even close to what we were doing. i believe we can do it. reporter: as questions in the east room of the white house turns from covid to crisis on the border. the president decried the crowded conditions in detention centers at the border as unacceptable and insisted his administration was working on controlling the number of migrants coming to the u.s. he said he would treat them humaneely, which his predecessor did not. we re not going to ....
to just breeze through airport security in seconds, but might this be yet another example of handing over all your private information to the government? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. the politics lead. in a matter of hours, president biden is scheduled to leave for europe. best case scenario for the president he ll leave after securing the biggest legislative deal of his presidency and an agreement among all democrats on the social safety necessary package that would give biden legislative victories on universal pre-k, expanded medicare coverage, and more, not to mention the bipartisan infrastructure bill. that s the best case scenario. but as of this hour, it seems that biden will be departing empty handed. his party deadlocked like a hung jury, unable to reach consensus. jeremy diamond starts us off from the white house where the chances of a deal have changed by the hour. reporter: less than 24 hours before he leaves for europe, president biden still d ....
translator: we were very scared. my heart was beating very fast. i thought we would die there. the russians fired indiscriminately. the fighting only eased when russia withdrew from the entire kyiv region. valentina emerging from the basement to find shell casings in her garden and whatever else the russians left behind. so all of these things, she says, the russians left behind. so this for washing your hands, another cup of some kind here. this, some sort of life jacket that the russians used. and then even here, you have old meal boxes, even with some things left inside there that you can see. for nearly two months after the fighting, residents stayed away. a trickle have now started to return. for them, russia s lasting effects here more than just bullet holes and bomb craters. not only do people who are trying to rebuild so often have to start from scratch, but there remains so many mines and pieces of unexploded ordinance that authorities are considering clo ....