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Knocking into bridges. interesting to see the extent of the damage where you are. thank you, morgan chesky in houma, louisiana. let s make our way east to new orleans and ali velshi who is standing by in a somewhat less windy parking lot near harras casino. how does it look where you are, particularly since you re near a part of downtown new orleans that s very built up, right near a major casino resort, not far from the convention center. but the power had still been blinking on and off where you are despite all the tall solid structures around you. it s gone. the power is all gone. in fact, there s no light anywhere in downtown louisiana. the light you re looking at here on the white trucks behind me is coming from us. it s a generator. everything else is dark. right behind the trucks, across the road, not 100 feet from us, is the casino, completely in the dark. the convention center completely in the dark. we have a new problem here in louisiana. the first concern was flooding. ....
yeah, it s not over. we re nowhere near done. bill karins, thank you for the analysis and update. we ll check back with you later this hour. let me bring in richard lui who is checking in with team coverage. let s go straight to our reporters in the area and the field. only 7:00 local time. our team is spread out across the gulf today. ali velshi is in new orleans. morgan chesky in houma, louisiana. shaquille brewster in gulfport, mississippi. let s start with ali velshi, who is standing right in the middle of everything. as i was watching the reporting over the last couple hours in new orleans, you were noting that the power was going out in your location. it comes and goes. looks like also maybe wind and rain has gone down a little bit, too. yeah. yeah, in fact, an hour ago when bill karins was saying he thought he saw a gust at new orleans airport of 95 miles per hour and he thought i might be getting about 75-mile-per-hour ....
Winds here in new orleans, but still as you can tell, not as much rain as earlier, but it s still raining a lot. yeah, ida not much faster moving, if we can say that, than katrina was, which lumbered along. yes, much. absolutely. you know it so well, my friend. ali velshi in new orleans. let s go to morgan chesky, about 60 miles west. just a short time ago, houma was in the western eyewall, how rough has it become now? richard, for the first time since about noon today, we re finally starting to see a little bit of relief. wind wise and rain wise, but i have to tell you, we re only getting a glimpse of the damage that this storm has left behind. the reason we re still standing under this parking garage is it s still gusting strong enough to throw debris, and it s still too dangerous to stand out in the open at this time. but what we have essentially witnessed is this stalling of the eyewall over houma and the surrounding area that resulted in an incredible lashing of ....
reporter: in houma, winds ripping apart buildings, sending this roof crashing into a power pole, snapping it in half. hurricane hunters flying into ida s stunning 17-mile-wide eye. towering thunderstorms swirling around as the storm approached land. these images of destruction showing the power of the storm. ida, one of the strongest hurricanes on record to hit louisiana. the state s third major hurricane in just over a year. making landfall 16 years ago to the day that hurricane katrina slammed the state. new orleans mayor warning residents this is a very dangerous and a very real situation. this is the time. heed all warnings. ensure that you shelter in place, you hunker down. reporter: our ginger zee on the ground in the crescent city. reporter: right behind me, the whipping winds on canal pst. the site of the mardi gras parade. you would have dancers lining these streets. ....
This man found someone else s roof had landed on his car crushing it. thankfully it missed most of his home. i heard a big thump on my house. reporter: it could be from this building over here or that one over there. we re not sure where the roof came from. reporter: so, jake, some out here in houma were luckier than others. some came home and found out that they had just lost their roof or part of their home. others came home to a scene like this. the man who lives in this house at one point yelling out for help. he survived the storm. he, like so many other people here, now figuring out what to do next. jake? all right, jason carroll in houma, louisiana, thank you so much. joining us on the phone right now is the sheriff of terrabonne parish. ....