roads into rivers across new york city. mayor bill de blasio issued a state of emergency and asking people to stay off the streets if possible. the storm nearly shutting down the city s subway system which is still running with limited services. video on social media showing port showing water pouring into the subway station. sandra: massive flooding covering cars and pushing through front doors. john: fox team coverage on ida s devastation. david miller live in the garden state. we begin with brian live in queen, the scene of tragedy. right now we are talking about at least 20 people who have died in this historic rainfall and flash flooding between new york, new jersey and pennsylvania. in new york 9 people died, 8 in queens and in their basement residential dwelling. this is an apartment where 4 feet of water rushed killing a 22 and 43-year-old. it was a mother and son. the father and one son got out. a 2-year-old boy also died in a basement style apartments. we are
to venture out. louisiana national guard is out right now searching for survivors and anyone who needs help. incredibly dangerous conditions. these are pictures from the u.s. coast guard here. an official in jefferson parish says there are downed power lines in the mississippi river after the winds brought down a key and very important electrical tower. you can see that is danger written all over it. we learned president biden will be addressing the hurricane relief efforts this afternoon. let s begin our coverage with cnn s nadia live in new orleans for us. nadia, watching your live shot the last hour was perfect evidence of how challenging the power situation is in town. hopefully we ll stay reconnected. tell me what you re seeing. yeah. hopefully this time, kate, and that s part of the challenge. right? we have issues with cell service here. a lot of people don t have power to let their family members know that they ve survived this storm. and then we have power outages
in thursday a suicide bombing in afghanistan. u.s. has struck back at terrorist, two isis k bombers were eliminated by a drone less than 2 miles from the airport in kabul. the deadline to withdraw is quickly approach, we ll have more on the latest development in afghanistan, we begin with hurricane ida our report mike tobin is with us in new orleans. reporter: we re in one of the ebbs with the wind but it comes and goes, something that remarkable, is here on canal street, as far as the eye can see all power went out. the entire city went dark, about 45 seconds ago, all power came back on. power outages were feared and promised and are materializing, here in the crescents city we saw power out then return. one thing we re watching, are the so many light fixtures here. they are really getting a work out in terms of foundation as the wind picks up, they are moving. some minimal damage is that billboard it is dangerous. because it is made out of sheet metal, it has peeled off and
louisiana governor edwards also last hour with an update on the situation in his state. we have a very dangerous situation on our hands, with hurricane ida, and we can expect devastating impacts to continue for most of the next 24 hours or so, as the hurricane passes through the state. i can tell you right now, we do not anticipate any overtopping of the mississippi river levees or overtopping of the levees in the hurricane-risk reduction system around the greater new orleans area. arthel: that is good news for sure. look at these images. we have fox team coverage of this massive storm. meteorologist adam klotz is live in the fox weather center with the latest, but we re going to go to mike tobin which is fighting and bracing the winds there. i think you are on canal street, the edge of the french quarter. mike, take it away. well, i am on canal street. you can see we are certainly getting buffeted by some significant wind shear. the one thing is that we re not really a
a life-threatening storm. our other big story is the chaos in afghanistan. a u.s. military drone taking out at least two bombers in a vehicle packed with explosives on the way to the kabul airport. but first, we ve got live team coverage of hurricane ida. mike tobin is in new orleans, and casey stegall is in baton rouge. but we begin with adam klotz who s tracking the storm from the fox weather center. adam: hey there, yeah. tracking a storm that continues to at this point slowly weaken but not weak by any stretch of the imagination if, hanging on to a category 4 storm, winds at 130 miles an hour. when this initially made landfall, it was moving at 16 miles an hour, it s now slowed down to 10. it means if you re in the path of this, you re dealing with the winds and heavy rain, you re going to stick with it a little bit longer, it s going to move out of your area just a little slower than hours ago. the center is moving up to the north and west, new orleans off to the easte