City of houma, louisiana. Ida now considered one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the u. S. Wind of 150 miles per hour. That s like an f3 tornado hitting for hours. Now, on the left side of your screen, what s left? we know at least one person has died. But louisiana s governor says he expects the death toll to climb considerably in the coming hours. And we re getting reports of people trapped in attics and on roofs and the water is not done rising. A couple of people behind me have a lot of friends and family out there. I got a fairly decent sized boat. If i can get a couple people to ride with me, we ll get out there. No one has any cell phone service. It s just a waiting game. Let s begin our live team coverage of ida first with brian todd outside of new orleans. I understand the entire city is right now without power and entire buildings are gone? reporter: that s right. We re just outside new orleans in st. Bernard parish just outside of new orleans. We can show you one of
To vote, unsiege right now in many state legislatures nationwide. We have reporters out in the streets on this historic day. It is just one of the major stories we are following this hour. We are also tracking hurricane ida as it takes aim at louisiana, and we are keeping a close eye on afghanistan where the u. S. Launched a deadly response to the recent suicide bombings at the airport. More on all of that in just a moment. We begin this hour with breaking news and a sea of voting rights marches across the country under way right now. I m going to show you a live look at the crowds in washington, d. C. Right now tens of thousands of people flooding the streets in more than 40 cities, all to commemorate the 58th anniversary of the historic 1963 march on washington, to call on congress to pass federal legislation to protect voting access. Nbc s josh letterman among the rally crowd at d. C. s national mall. We can hear the speaker loud and clear behind you. Talk to me about the atmospher
The stands and heckling overpaid athletes with their favorite four letter words. Juan has been practicing en masse all month, beaches reopening for the summer, you can already see tiny bits of sand falling out of jesse s hair. Bars and restaurants finally filling up, people partying in the wee hours, dana was seen drawing up outside a club, it seems everything will be okay except for that fire hydrant. But it makes sense after being locked down for so long, people have to learn how to be normal again, deodorant and teeth whiteners are flying off the shelves apparently because for the past year we stopped brushing and bathing. Of course the weather is heating up, more people outside enjoying nature and communing with the beautiful animals within or in katy s case, shooting them and eating them. Meanwhile, a surge in membership with customers returning to the gym, good news for chris cuomo, what s the point of flexing if no one is watching, have you seen his ratings? they are lower than
Wreckage. We have confirmed that fox news that 51 people remain unaccounted for. Steve harrigan s live in surfside florida. This is live after it took place at 1:30 a. M. , this condominium tower had 136 units, the northeast side of it, 55 units gone, they collapsed just after 1:30, they form now a pile of debris three stories high, the big question is how many people still remain in that debris and how many are still alive? officials remain clear that this is still search and rescue operation and rescue officials were at work over nine with dogs, drones, listening devices trying to save who they could. 36 people were saved in the rubble, among those rescued was a 10yearold boy, a passerby walking his dog, found the boy and alerted security workers to rescue him, the boy called out that he did not want to be left alone, the search and rescue operation continues now, they hope to find people allied and they their using tunnels under drones and dogs to try to save whoever they can. Harri
swift boats, all ready to move in and begin to go door-to-door when it is clear enough to be able to do so. power outages have slammed half a million. that is the latest number that we have over the course of this hour that we re now in. floridians on the ground as ian barrels towards their homes, their businesses. we have people all across the state with updates about different sections of the state, what it feels like, what s going on there. fox team coverage with all of our great weather team out there spread across the state as well. we begin with katie burn who is in orlando. katie, what can you tell us from where you are? all right. let s go to max gordon first. max is in tampa bay. max, tell us what you re seeing where you are. hi, martha. so we ve been hearing a lot about the storm surge concerns in the fort myers area. but up here where we are on the north end of the storm, we ve seen an erie sight along old tampa bay. we ve seen what is known as reverse storm surg