And Unemployment Benefits have run out for millions the questionof is will it hurt help the economy . Its way too early for this. Y good Morning And Welcome to way too early, the show that wouldnt wear white after or even before Labor Day. Im Jonathan Lemire on this tuesday, september 7thon. Well start with the 7 news. The United States has hit another grim new milestone in the Coronavirus Pandemic. The Case Counts across the country now tops 40 Million as the Delta Variant causes infections to casurge. New cases have climbed steadily in weeks and the country is averaging more than 1,500 death as day for the first time since march. When it comes to vaccinations, about 270 Million people have received their first dose. More than 175 Million have been fullymi vaccinated, which is abt 53 of the total population. Millions of americans are returning home Afterer Travelin over the Labor Day Weekend And Health experts fear a Covid19 Surge could already be brewing after several days of Potenti
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
We have been keeping an eye on a number of alerts of damage from the storm, and power is the primary issue, and entergy is the power company, and they are out of power and its causing an imbalance in transmission. This is a compounded problem because they need that for a lot of things, including Pumping Water away from the levees. Let me be clear, we have no reports of damage to levees. Theres reports of Flash Flooding and an emergency that has been issued by the weather service, but thats not pursuant to damage of the levees. We will keep an eye on that and continue to update you as the evening goes on. We have plenty of correspondents out in the field, and Ali Velshi is in New Orleans, and janessa web, well start with you. What can you tell us . We are dealing with a destructive and deadly Storm System and its dark across Southeast Louisiana, and we saw the storm make landfall eight hours ago and its downgraded to a cat 3. Can you see that were dealing with severe weather tonight, ev
With Ali Velshi weathering The Storm. Tonight, Hurricane Ida is a category 2 storm, but a powerful one at that. Lets begin with ali in New Orleans, where the power has been out for some time, and it looks like its going to be out for a while. Reporter yeah, joshua, were in the 11th Hour since landfall of this storm, and its still whipping up. You can see this water behind me in New Orleans, which wasnt sort of inside of the center of this hurricane to start with. So its a very, very powerful storm, and its mostly hitting New Orleans on the backside of this thing. We saw It Pop Up in wind about 2, 2 1 2 hours ago, to pretty intense. It started to let off for a little while, and were still getting big gusts and bands. What ended up happening about a couple of hours ago is we lost power. We lost it in the local area here downtown. I thought it might have been central to this block or building. We learned there was a much bigger problem. It was what they call a catastrophic problem in ener
It has been 12 hours since i had a reuters sure in louisiana, on the 16th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. But even as it has been downgraded from a hurricane for two hurricane one, over those 12 hours ida is wreaking havoc, especially from the Storm Surge its leaving in its wake. Authorities the last hour reported a Levee Failing about lafitte just south of New Orleans and officials warn that more than 200 people are in intimate danger there and need to seek higher ground. One death has been confirmed elsewhere in the states, a 60yearold Man was killed when his house was hit by a fallen tree near Baton Rouge. And the entire city of New Orleans is in the dark tonights, the Power Companies say its catastrophic transmission damage. The number of people without power throughout louisiana, is now more than 1 Million, and rising. And there are fears that some of those people could remain without power for weeks. One area of particular Concern Tonight is louis knit louisianas hospitals, wev