Along the Gulf Coast we expected from such a storm. It ripped the roof off the lady of the Sea Hospital in galliano which is south of New Orleans. You can see the damage in louisiana there. Tonight, as we mentioned, the power is out for hundreds of thousands of people. Louisiana Governor John Bell edwards says his states entire National Guard is activated. More than 4,000 are out in support of the emergency effort, but officials are warning residents to prepare for at least three days of sheltering in place. This historic hurricane comes on the 16th Anniversary of another historic hurricane, katrina. Thankfully, officials expect the levees in the new Orleans Area to hold this time. From nbc News World Headquarters in New York, im Joshua Johnson continuing our special coverage of Hurricane Ida. Welcome to the week. Let us begin with the latest on Hurricane Idas path. Meteorologist Bill Karins joins us now after a very long day, and bill, we just got the latest update from the national h
This is just some of the destruction in louisiana, thats about an Hour South of New Orleans. In New Orleans, the French Quarter was hit hard with significant damage. Still dark there but as The Sun comes up well have a better feel for things. In all, more than 1 Million people there are without electricity. The Power Outage could make the area for susceptible to extreme flooding like we see in this video from grand isle, along the coast. Joining us now jay gray. Good morning, the power is out in New Orleans, what does it look like this morning . Reporter willie, it is a mess right now. Once we get some sunshine i think well see more problems in New Orleans. But a break in the conditions, the winds dropped off, the rain thankfully after 16 straight hours has stopped. We have a chance to look at some of the devastation. You can see the Roof Top behind me pulled from a building thrown into the French Quarter, bringing with it an elevated street sign. You can see the brace there bent and p
Grossman has been following Idas Path And Sam Brock is in louisiana preparing for the Storm Surge. How are things looking where you are And how are people preparing . Lindsey good morning, joe good morning. Its calm, theres a slight breeze. Were expecting rain to fall here early this afternoon And the winds to pick up as well. Lindsey, to your point about rapid intensification, that means 35 miles per hour or more increase in Wind Speeds over the course of 24 hours. 80 miles per hour to 145 miles per hour now is a 65 mile per Hour Increase over the time span which is roughly double the threshold for rapid intensification. The question right now, is ida going to run out of Real Estate before it actually reaches lAndfall or will we see another increase in Wind Speeds because at the moment 150 miles per hour is the record for the state of louisiana with hurricane laura, And as you mentioned back in the mid 1880s that is the historical precedent were up against right now. The track if it w
nato about whether or not you have to bring ukraine into the nato family now. also this how, did and the presidential hopefuls are taken more swings at president donald trump. if we want to lose to joe biden again, and have an 82-year-old joe biden in the white house, then let s nominate dump. we are going to begin with president biden s critical european flip. and having tea with rishi sunak at ten downey street. no surprise that ukraine is expected to top where they re also we are learning more the kremlin now says putin and prigozhin met days after the alley, after that meeting, the spokesperson for prime minister said this about cluster bombs. we stand by our obligations. how is the biden administration responding? and what are the larger expectations hitting into the summit? yeah, lindsey, the president phasing pushback, and also from, like you said, the uk, germany, spain, other nato allies, because of the threat they posed to civilians. the president is still d
they played the national anthem. biden and king charles inspected the troops before going inside, having tea, and one of the larger conversations about climate change. it s a topic that s near and dear to king charles heart. this is something he has been campaigning and advocating for for more than five decades. earlier in the morning, before arriving at windsor castle, he met up with rishi sunak, the prime minister of the united kingdom at 10 downing street, where the majority of the conversation was about ukraine, continuing to give weapons in the hopes they beat russia. this comes on the backdrop when president biden agreed to send cluster munitions to ukraine, and look, it s controversial. the united kingdom is just one of more than a hundred nations that bans those cluster bombs because there s the potential that they could kill civilians. nevertheless, biden says it was a difficult decision, but one that he decided to make in the end, and then of course he flew off to