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many people they are expecting to bring out of la fitte. we ve talked to a few of the vol volunteers, it turns out these are people who know someone that is stuck there. they have a fear that they re in their attic, they haven t been able to communicate with them overnight. all of those people trying to save lives. it is just remarkable. the death toll at this point stands at one confirmed dead. and this morning the louisiana international guard has begun their search and rescue efforts. more than a million customers in louisiana and mississippi are without lek risity. customers that could be a house hold and lot more people in one house than one person. the power company in louisiana say, quote, it will likely take d days do determine the extent of the damage to the grid. it was drown graded to a tropical this morning. but there is a threat because the storm is sitting there. it is crawling through parts of the state and dumping several inches of rain. the biggest ....
oh my god. bill: that s the first of many pictures throughout the day. that s 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? we re in downtown. as the sun comes up here in new orleans we re 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 we re seeing throughout the area. we saw another building in the french quarter with its roof ripped off ....
powerful category 4 hurricane, 150-mile-an-hour winds making it the fifth strongest hurricane to ever hit the continental u.s. those winds, check out this video, ripping off roofs like this one at a hospital near the coast, easily toppling trees in houma, louisiana. i m hallie jackson in washington along with our team on the ground, shaq brewster in gulfport and meteorologist bill karins. a curfew is still in place for folks there? reporter: that s right, still in place. the mayor saying they will assess that in the coming hours once they get an assessment of the damage out here. hallie, let me step behind this wall, we re protecting from the wind. you re still feeling wind, getting the rain. it s obviously not what we experienced last night but gives you a sense of here in gulfport, mississippi, it was never that hurricane warning that we had to deal with here. always a tropical storm warning and you know ida is a tropical storm gives you a sense of what a tropical s ....
the national weather service warning the storm could hit some places in southeast louisiana and make those places uninhabitable for weeks or even months. that warning just released. hurricane ida is expected to make landfall in that state, louisiana, as a category 4 hurricane tomorrow. almost exactly to the day, 16 years after hurricane katrina landed as a category 3. our team of reporters is covering the storm from all angles. nadia and jason are on the ground for us. let s begin with allison chinchar at the cnn weather center. what is the update from the weather center? brand-new update, showing gusts have ticked up a bit to 105 miles per hour. the forward movement is the same. northwest at about 16 miles per hour. it s a category 1 now, but it is expected to intensify and strengthen as it moves through the very warm waters of the gulf of mexico. likely becoming a category 2 sometime in the next few hours. a category 3 by this evening. then a category 4 by tomorrow ....
evacuation from afghanistan in the latest spirit 68 people have been flown out of the country and the last 24 hour period mark that would represent about half the pace that we were seeing the day before. and it is expected to slow. but by this latest count, we are at about 110,000 who have evacuated afghanistan since the taliban took over. we have got you covered because we are waiting to hear from the pentagon and they will detail us on that evacuation plan and this latest terror threat that seems real enough for them to keep issuing it day in and day out. it goes something like this. and it came late last night from our embassy there that u.s. citizens who are at the abby georgia tech, the east gate, aby gate. north gate. that should leave immediately that complicates how many can get to the airport and ultimately out of the country. we ll get a read on that from top generals on the ground very, very shortly. first to trey yingst following all of this in doha, qatar, ....