Oh my god. Bill thats the first of many pictures throughout the day. Thats southwest of New Orleans. Ida tearing the roof off the top of the building. Dana one person confirmed dead. Millions of people without power and that includes the entire city of New Orleans. Bill ida moving over mississippi. It has weakened to a tropical storm. Officials saying the Threat Level remains quite high. Dana team fox coverage. Senior Meteorologist Janet Dean is tracking the storm. Jeff paul is live in New Orleans and where are you now . Were in downtown. As The Sun comes up here in New Orleans were starting to get a better idea of the damage caused by Hurricane Ida. This building here knocked down by the powerful winds of that storm sending bricks all over onto the ground. You see metal and pieces of wood on the nearby buildings in downtown, New Orleans. Something were seeing throughout the area. We saw another building in the French Quarter with its roof ripped off. Whether its a building that is fal
Over the next three days tennessee, kentucky, toward the mid-atlantic and northeast. we ll be talking about this storm until friday. bill: how strong are the winds inland in mississippi? at least 30 to 40 miles per hour in some areas. the wind threat is going down. now it s the flood threat. you can see where we have all these flooding advisories. even if it s a remnant low the danger is still going to exist for some of these folks. we had devastating flooding across tennessee that was not tropical storm related at all. that s my concern going forward. bill: i was seeing the storm moving at 8 miles per hour. that s not very fast when you are inland that far. it s not. it has slowed down and one of the main concerns. once it made impact yesterday,
Operational in new orleans and assessing the storm s impact. d.o.d. stands ready to assist as requested by fema. thank you. i don t have anything to add so we ll go to questions. general, one quick follow up and then a question. did they strike and hit all the five rockets or did some land in areas where there were no casualties? the reporting from last night s rocket attack we assess five rockets were in the air and three landed off the airfield, were no effect. c ram was able to affect and thwart the attack of one and the other rocket landed with no effect to the mission or any danger to our personnel. secondly, on evacuees, does
Newday lets you borrow 100% of your home s value. i called and got $54,200. near record low rates means lower payments. turn your equity into cash with the newday 100 va cash out loan. dana: fox news alert. tropical storm ida moving across mississippi pounding the region are trough ention rain and flash floods. it could also spin off tornado. ida made landfall in louisiana yesterday as a category 4 hurricane. it has left millions of people without power including the entire city of new orleans. the storm is blamed for at least one death. john bel edwards said he expects the number to rise considerably. bill: another big story watching this. frantic race to get out of afghanistan. you have americans an afghan
Now it s moving very slowly so you can see the timeline tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday. just relentless rainfall over some of these areas that have saturated ground. there is nowhere for this water to go. bill: thank you. we ll talk to you later. dana: incredible work this weekend by everybody in the fox weather team. bill: one of the things about new orleans we should point out. lake pontchartrain was the problem during katrina 16 years ago yesterday with that lake filled out and nowhere for water to go. the levee system didn t drain the water out as planned. it does not appear yet, however we shall wait throughout the rest of the day to see whether or not the levee system held this time. right now it seems to be okay. dana: we ll keep you updated. president biden was getting briefed on the storm along with afghanistan. yesterday the president was at dover air force base for the