Louisiana governor edwards also last hour with an update on the situation in his state. We have a very dangerous situation on our hands, with hurricane ida, and we can expect devastating impacts to continue for most of the next 24 hours or so, as the hurricane passes through the state. I can tell you right now, we do not anticipate any overtopping of the mississippi river levees or overtopping of the levees in the hurricanerisk reduction system around the greater new orleans area. Arthel: that is good news for sure. Look at these images. We have fox team coverage of this massive storm. Meteorologist adam klotz is live in the fox weather center with the latest, but we re going to go to mike tobin which is fighting and bracing the winds there. I think you are on canal street, the edge of the french quarter. Mike, take it away. Well, i am on canal street. You can see we are certainly getting buffeted by some significant wind shear. The one thing is that we re not really at the worst of it
Reporter: it appears we are making a connection, understandable with weather conditions. Let s go to adam he was also in the fox weather center. Reporter: this made landfall six hours ago and is still a category four hurricane. Rarely do you see such a thing with 130 miles per hour made landfall. It is weakening of the and has slowed down quite a bit moving to the northwest at 10 miles an hour. So the slower the storm moves the more you will see the rain if there is wind in your area it will be there longer because this will be crawling as it continues to move up to the northwest. This is a path as it made landfall 150 miles an hour. Not a whole lot slowing down so far the wind speed into the new orleans area we have seen gust between 70 and 80 miles an hour. Typically it is the right quadrant with the most severe weather the strongest rain and that continues to be the case so then to continue to batter that will go anywhere soon the future forecast model does forecast what we will see
Dr. Fauci. There s a tenant that everybody knows in virology. There s a likelihood you will get another variant that could, i m not saying it will, that could be more problematic than the delta. Now, dr. Fauci strongly supports vaccine mandates once the vaccines earns full approval from the fda which is something that could happen this month. This morning cases are rising sharply in the united states driven by the delta variant. The average daily number of cases is now at more than 100,000 for the first time since february. Hospitalizations continue to rise as well to more than 66,000. One out of every five people hospitalized in the u. S. Is in florida right now. Cases and hospitalizations there are setting new records daily. Even more troubling the state is seeing an alarming number of sick children. One florida doctor says that children s hospitals are overwhelmed while republican governor ron desantis resists calls to allow schools that want to to require masks in their classrooms.
Maybe he figured it out years ago when he was positioning himself to be a producer of jeopardy. Maybe this was a long game. But actually he has hosted game shows in the past for gsm, cw, reality shows as well. So he does have a hosting track record and did get pretty strong reviews when he did fill in. I think something that s going on here, john, is interesting the producer of jeopardy i m told want a fulltime host, somebody committed to the show, known for only doing jeopardy. That s a hard thing when you re trying out some of the biggest stars in the world like iron rodgers, for example, who really wanted the job. The reality is a lot of people really wanted this job. Maybe choosing the producer is the easy way out. Maybe. It s hard to get the job when the producer wants it. Just saying. Just saying. No sour grapes. You were a great contestant. Brian, awesome to see you this morning. Thanks. And new day continues right now. Welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around
Released later this hour. Stand by for that. Meanwhile, crews are working around the clock, despite problems complicating their efforts. We ll get more when the fire chief joins me live in the next few minutes. And the complex north tower, identical to the one that collapsed, what our crew documented. Significant differences in maintenance. Lots going on. First, let s go straight to cnn s brian todd. We expect an update on the search from officials soon. You have been working your sources. Update our viewers. Reporter: wolf, tonight, we can report a man named the former official for surfside assured residents of the south complex that their building was in good shape, despite having information it was not in good shape, that gentleman, ross priato is on leave of absence by the city he currently works with, doral. Hired as an interim building official for doral. As of yesterday, he is placed on leave of absence. He has not responded to cnn s request for comment. This comes as other resi