and it could strengthen. so a lot of information coming out in the next half-hour. you can see the ridges and the high tops around this. the system is still running on all cylinders. most likely if it s not going through this process, it could be a category 3 at 11:00 p.m. wow. we re very close to that, half an hour away. tom sadder, thank you very much. let me bring on daniel lorain from lafourche parish. can you hear me? yes, ma am. how you doing, poppy? we re great. we know you re right in the path of this storm. mandatory evacuation orders for your parish with the last two shelters open, right, at a last resort. yes, ma am. hurricane ida is knocking on the door. we had a mandatory evacuation for the entire parish at 5:00 a.m. this morning. we have shelters at central lafourche high school and
path. we understand on the other side of the storm as well some people heading east as we know the storm is projected to basically pass directly north into louisiana and into people who are heeding these evacuation orders today moving east and west along the interstate. we anticipate that we re going to see this long line of traffic well into the night as state officials here have been warning that by the time the sun comes up tomorrow, people really need to have decided whether or not they re going to ride out storm in their homes higher ground elsewhere and drier ground elsewhere. here at this late hour on this saturday eject, vening, you see thousands of people hitting the roads getting to a safer place. good to see so many people trying to get out. ed, thank you for the reporting. good luck and wishing you and
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out the storm and the storm is going to be very severe. storm surge is going to be up to 15 feet, which is going to test all our protection systems down along the coast, which is why we re evacuating people from those coastal areas, the ones that you were just referring to, is the ones that will billion uninhabitable for some period of time to come. you may have seen that man waving in the shop behind me. he lives in that house right there. he plans to stay. if you look across the street there in the brick building on the second floor, a man by the name of jason the other jason came down to say hello. he plans to stay as well. of course, this is not emergency officials want to harper. they want to hear more from people who are deciding to heed the warns and leave rather than those who are deciding to stay. jason, we appreciate you being there, but be careful as the storm gets closer and closer. thank you. let s go to tom in the weather center. what is the forecast tonight,
this is powerful hurricane ida making its way toward gold coastline there. many people are heeding the warning. they re getting out. look at that traffic as people try to evacuate. this is video along interstate 10 in baton rouge, a long line of cars as people try to get out of the path of the storm. ed lavandera joins me on the phone. are more people heeding the warnings to evacuate? reporter: you really are, poppy. we re just pulling into baton rouge coming along interstate 10 and that long line of cars continues tonight, even approaching the 10:00 hour. it s clear that that long line of evacuation, cars trying to get out before the arrival of this hurricane. a long line of cars backed up from basically lafayette to baton rouge this evening. headed west out of the storm s