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huge path of damage, but the wrecking power is obvious. just look at this video. listen to the winds. flooding is widespread. some areas could get 20 inches of rain. more than a half million homes and businesses are without power. that number is sure to climb, and officials say it could take weeks to fully restore power. the levee system in new orleans was vastly upgraded after katrina and is holding as of now. south of new orleans, the rainfall and storm surge have pushed water over a levee in plaquemines parish. a flash flood emergency is in effect, and residents are urged to seek higher ground. let s begin our coverage with cnn s jason carroll. he s in houma, louisiana, not far from where the storm made landfall. what are you experiencing, jason? reporter: well, pamela, just within the past hour, we ve seen emergency crews for the first time make their way through the parking lot beside me. so that s some indication that perhaps, you know, this storm the eye of t ....
just look at this video here on your screen. flooding is wide spread. and some areas could see up to 20 inches of rain. more than 700,000 homes and businesses are now without power. and that number is sure to climb. officials say it could take weeks to fully restore power. now within the next hour or two, new orleans will be seeing its highest winds and heaviest rain. the levee system was vastly upgraded after katrina and holding as of now. south of the city, the rainfall and storm surge have pushed water over our levee in plaquemines parish. a flash flood emergency is in effect. i spoke to a critical care doctor in baton rouge bracing for the worst. we would be able to be the most significant event of our lifetime. we currently have a full hospital, but we re the regional medical center and so we are essentially acting that role. we have over 700 providers in the hospital. 50 of those are physicians. 400 are nurses. 300 are non-clinical. we re split into two staffs. ....
devastated the state 16 years ago today. it s too early to assess ida s huge swath of damage, but the wrecking power is obvious. just look at this video right here. flooding is widespread in ida s path and some areas could see up to 20 inches of rain. more than a half million homes and businesses are without power, and that number is sure to climb. officials say it could take weeks to restore power. the levee system in new orleans vastly upgraded after katrina is holding so far. the state s governor says hurricane ida will be the levee s most severe test. let s go to the cnn weather center and meteorologist tom sater. tom, are you surprised this is still a category 4 storm hours after it made landfall? very surprised really. we knew it was going to hit with a punch, and we knew because it was kind of small and compact in its size that it would act as a cannonball and shoot inward. just moments ago, we can now say it s weakened to a category 3. that s still amazing to ....
clogged with traffic from texas to alabama. mississippi s governor has declared a state of emergency. his state was also ravaged by katrina. the national weather service is underscoring the dire stakes warning that some places might be, quote, uninhabitable for weeks or months. we are covering all the angles of the approaching hurricane and the growing sense of urgency tonight. let s begin with meteorologist tom sater and the cnn weather center. how is it looking? well, we just received the 8:00 p.m. advisory from the national hurricane center. there are some changes, but the track doesn t change with this. we re going to get a lot more information for the 11:00 p.m. advisory. when you look at an infrared satellite imagery, the bright colors, they re the cold or higher cloud tops. a lot of convective activity around the core, as you would expect. when it really starts to circulate you know it s still a breathing machine, but also on, of course, the feeder bands. rain ....
u.s. service members. two high-profile isis targets were killed. zero civilian casualties. meantime, the mission to get american forces and their allies out of afghanistan reaches its final phase. we continue to evacuate american citizens and vulnerable afghans to meet the mission requirement by august 31st. and judges in texas and florida push back against bans on mask mandates. the school districts are violating straight law. they re not without some reasonable limitation. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. a monster named ida. the hurricane is rapidly intensifying and drawing chilling comparisons to katrina. specifically and ominously, ida is charging straight towards louisiana. right now as we speak, it is due to make landfall tomorrow as a category 4 storm. near new orleans and on the 16th anniversary of katrina s catastrophic siege of the gulf coast. this afternoon, louisiana s governor doubled down. he ....