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with ali velshi weathering the storm. tonight, hurricane ida is a category 2 storm, but a powerful one at that. let s begin with ali in new orleans, where the power has been out for some time, and it looks like it s going to be out for a while. reporter: yeah, joshua, we re in the 11th hour since landfall of this storm, and it s still whipping up. you can see this water behind me in new orleans, which wasn t sort of inside of the center of this hurricane to start with. so it s a very, very powerful storm, and it s 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 we re 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 c ....
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bill. good evening, joshua. we are getting in the new 8:00 p.m. advisory from the national hurricane center. we are also now for the first seem seeing the center of the storm on radar. that s the green you see here beginning to show up. that is about 275, 285 miles from new orleans at the current time. so the white is the clouds. the green is the rain bands. and those will be moving on shore as we go throughout the overnight hours. this is the satellite imagery and we color it to kind of see the brighter reds. kind of lets meteorologists know where the stronger portions of storm are. this is the new advisory. 105 miles per hour so the winds did not increase. that s great. we want to keep this as weak as possible. we don t think it is going to get weaker before a landfall but we do expect it to get stronger. hurricane center still thinks it could become a category 3 hurricane overnight. it may be right before landfall, possibly getting up to a category 4. so we should ....