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Per hours, gusting to 160, moving to northwest at 10 Miles Per Hour, you see the center of circulation falling apart a little bit, maybe it will disintegrate more in coming hours but still packing a punch, you have Wind Gusts in new Orleans Area to 71 Miles Per Hour, close to 50 Miles Per Hour in Baton Wrong Baton Rouge And a lot of rain. As a Category 3, is no the not often you see Hurricane Warnings this far inlAnd. This is the case because the winds will stick with it until 1 00 a. M. , despite the winds it is a rainmaker, look at Deep Reds On Eastern Side of The Storm, an area well talk about downpours possible flooding, And a time stamp in corner, 6 a. M. In morning, it lingers to monday, we could talk about flooding for a while. No surprise here. We have Flood Advisories stretching from Eastern Louisiana across mississippi, alabama, And as far north as tennessee areas where we could see real rainfall, it is additional rain. It has been raining, additionally some areas with purple
Storm this last hour has been the greatest intensity we have seen in terms of a Wind Gust And the volume of water. Sheets And sheets of rain are moving through unfortunately with the sundown i cannot Panic Camera around to let you see what has happened. In large part because power is out for all of New Orleans now. It has been described as catastrophic damage to the transmission system. What that means frankly And then we have to get the details on what that means over catastrophic damage. But we know whenever there is a storm like this the ground get soft in the trees get toppled they take out the Power Lines with them. In terms of damage we now in st. Bernard county, here in New Orleans let me back up And one who house has collapsed And an Adult Male was trapped inside the house. Twentytwo barges got loose they are blown around the river. We know in one town one bridge they are or at least a Barge Hit a bridge And officials are warning people to stay away from the bridge because ther
Of lifethreatening Storm Surge. Mike tobin is live for us in mississippi. Whats the latest. The eye of the storm is north And west of New Orleans. Sow the intensity of the storm seems to have moved on. The Barometric Pressure is on its way Back Up which is an End Case the worst of the storm has gone by. What remains to be seen is what will be here at sunup. We know in john lafite, a barge got loose And hit the bridge. The bridge has collapsed. Emergency crews were able to keep people off the bridge. The problem is you have 300450 people trapped on the other side of that bridge. They rounded up Boat Captains willing to go in And rescue those people. But the conditions are still bad And the conditions are bad. There are even he can dotal reports there are anecdotal reports that people are back on their roofs reminiscent of hurricane katrina. But conditions are a lot too bad. You mentioned the power out. Over A Million people are without power in louisiana. All of New Orleans is without p
In thursday a Suicide Bombing in afghanistan. U. S. Has struck back at terrorist, two Isis K bombers were eliminated by a drone less than 2 miles from the airport in kabul. The deadline to withdraw is quickly approach, well have more on the latest development in afghanistan, we begin with Hurricane Ida our report Mike Tobin is with us in New Orleans. Reporter were in one of the ebbs with the wind but it comes and goes, something that remarkable, is here on Canal Street, as far as the eye can see all power went out. The entire city went dark, about 45 seconds ago, all power came back on. Power outages were feared and promised and are materializing, here in the Crescents City we saw power out then return. One thing were watching, are the so many light fixtures here. They are really getting a work out in terms of foundation as the wind picks up, they are moving. Some minimal damage is that billboard it is dangerous. Because it is made out of Sheet Metal, It Has peeled off and is blowing d