150mileperhour winds, Hurricane Ida made landfall as a Category4 Storm near Port Fourchon this afternoon. The Storm Surge has reached four to seven feet in Southeast Louisiana and coastal mississippi. Water has engulfed roads, homes, businesses, and marinas. Right now, ida is holding strong as an extremely dangerous category3, as it makes its way through louisiana. Nbc news is continuing to obtain dramatic video out of the Gulf Coast. Here is the roof being ripped off lady of the Sea Hospital in galliano. Stream flow on the Mississippi River by bell chase, louisiana, reversed for approximately three hours on sunday, according to data from the u. S. Geological survey. In the past, the Mississippi River has reversed flow locally during other hurricanes, including laura, isaac, and katrina. The eye of The Storm is currently approaching Baton Rouge and should hit the States Capital City within the next few hours. Tonight, roughly half A Million louisianians are without power. And fema is p
The destructive Storm Crashing on shore as a category four. One of the strongest hurricanes to make landfall in the state of louisiana. On the same day as the 16th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The storm so powerful, it reversed flow of the mississippi river. Hears what we know. One person is dead. Louisiana State Health says a 60yearold Man died outside Baton Rouge after a tree fell on his home. More than A Million homes and businesses are still without power across the state and that includes all of the city of new orleans. We are Hearing Reports of catastrophic damage. 911 experiencing technical difficulties in certain areas, reports of people still trapped. President Biden Foegsly approving Emergency Declarations for louisiana and mississippi. We have a team of Expert Reporters safely across the region now. I want to start with Jay Gray in new orleans. What is the scene like there this morning . Reporter Finally A Little Bit of sunshine after what has been two days of hell. You
But cases of coronavirus mainly driven by the unvaccinated continues to grow. The u. S. Is now averaging more than 79,000 new infections a day. And more than 4 out of 5 americans live in an area with substantial or high transmission. The Pressure Campaign to get vaccinated appears to be working, because for nearly a week, the u. S. Has seen increases in vaccine doses administered. Cnns Lucy Kauchb has been following the trend. Reporter more than 700,000 doses administered daily for five days straight. The good news, Health Experts say rising Vaccination Rates could help avoid winter lockdowns. The bad news, there may be rough weeks ahead. Were looking to some Pain And Suffering in the future because were seeing the cases go up. We want to avoid lockdowns at all costs, but that means were going to have to do some other things that wont necessarily be welcomed by people. Reporter across the country, Mask Mandates going into place, even for people fully vaccinated. New York Citys mayor, b
Virtual, thats a Completion Kind of model that weve had in place for years. Youre not in touch with a teacher live every day. So what do you do if theres an outbreak at a school without that live interact with the teacher considering you dont offer the state funded virtual option . So we would actually be similar to what weve done in years past when children are out sick. We have some means of connecting them to the school and to the teacher for makeup work, for homework, for trying to get on line and see what assignment have been given. All of that will be in place again. The teacher can also voluntarily if a teacher is still in the classroom and a few students are out, then they can certainly voluntarily allow those students to listen in. But they cannot actually be instructing them at the same time that theyre instructing a class full of students in person. All right. Barbara jenkins there in orange county, florida. Thank you. Pleasure. Brand new hour, same victor blackwell. Good to
Pelosis office. She said that the House Committee will move on in without the buyin of House Leader Kevin Mccarthy. We will mo on, and the committee is in the process of hiring staff to that end. It is my responsibility as Speaker Of The House to make sure that we get to the truth on this, and we will not let their antics stand in the way of that. Now, mccarthy pulled the five appointees after pelosi rejected two of them, congressman jim Jordan And Congressman Jim Banks and both of them voted to overturn the 2020 election, and also the committee that Speaker Pelosi was nonqualifying, and also word on where they will take the election. And now Liz Cheney, the sole republican said that jordan was ineligible to serve, because he may be a material witness. For his part, mccartney accused The Democrats for playing politics with the investigation. This is a Sham Committee by Speaker Pelosi. When we wanted to do a commission in janway, she said, no, it is political. And look, The Democrats ma