150mileperhour winds, hurricane ida made landfall as a category4 storm near port fourchon this afternoon. The storm surge has reached four to seven feet in southeast louisiana and coastal mississippi. Water has engulfed roads, homes, businesses, and marinas. Right now, ida is holding strong as an extremely dangerous category3, as it makes its way through louisiana. Nbc news is continuing to obtain dramatic video out of the gulf coast. Here is the roof being ripped off lady of the sea hospital in galliano. Stream flow on the mississippi river by bell chase, louisiana, reversed for approximately three hours on sunday, according to data from the u. S. Geological survey. In the past, the mississippi river has reversed flow locally during other hurricanes, including laura, isaac, and katrina. The eye of the storm is currently approaching baton rouge and should hit the state s capital city within the next few hours. Tonight, roughly half a million louisianians are without power. And fema is
Exposure to ivermectin have more than doubled this the year as people continue to use it in an attempt to prevent or treat covid19. Ivermectin has not been approved for treating covid19 in humans. The fda tweeting the other day this, you are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y all, stop it. Of course some of our nbc reporters have called to stores who sell this stuff, they say they can t keep this stuff, it s flying off the shelves because of what we re hearing there. Those words lifted straight from my fifth grade teacher, actually, in mississippi. Y all are not a horse. Y all are not a cow. Seriously, y all stop it. Unfortunately we re talking about people guiding americans to use deworming treatment for cows. And for horses. And it s one of the strange things, willie, that again we talk about this a good bit. Something we ll never understand is this resistance to the vaccine. The safest vaccine, as we heard yesterday, safer if you look at the numbers than aspirin. And peopl
Good to have you along this hour. The biden administration is pushing the president s goal of at least partially vaccinating 70% of the adult population in the u. S. By fourth of july. But so far only 16 states and the district of columbia have met that objective. And while the u. S. Will likely miss that goal, former fda commissioner, dr. Scott gottlieb says that won t have a major impact. Instead, the u. S. Should start thinking about the next phase of the vaccination effort. Now we need to think about trying to push out the vaccine into community sites where people could get it delivered to them through a trusted intermediary. That means doctor s offices, schools, employers. We need to think of a different delivery strategy for those who are reluctant to get into those access points. As people go back to the school and work in fall, they ll be seeking out vaccines. That s when we need to think about the 2. 0 campaign and a different strategy. I want to take a moment to compare china
Border, as you know, temperatures in the southwest have been soaring into the triple digits. It is dangerous and a hazardous preview of what the unfor giving desert summer can bring. We have a live report from the border in la jolla, texas. We may see an increasing death toll, sadly. Reporter: eric, good morning to you. That s what border agents on the ground are tellings us to expect as we head into the summer months and as the surge continues we re really starting to see the length some of these migrants are willing to go, not just to get to the united states but stay in the united states and how ruthless some of the human smugglers are. Take a look at this, this was in texas, this tuesday. Horrible images of 15 migrants who had been locked inside of a train by human smugglers. They had apparently all been locked inside of grain hoppers. Border patrol and texas state troopers had to rescue them. They say it was 110 degrees inside the train at the time of their rescue. Five of the mig
Engagements this week will be all about the domestic diplomacy and the range of challenges he faces at home. He will confront complications on much of his priorities from election reform to his economic proposals. A pivotal week ahead with a major test set for tuesday on voting rights. Though republicans have said they ll sink the measure holdout joe manchin now open to a compromise, uniting his party behind a bill that would make election day a federal holiday, ban gerrymandering, and require voter i. D. And in a significant endorsement from a leading voice in this battle stacy abrams said she would support the proposal. It is only through federal legislation we can mitigate the harms. Reporter: there s no clear path forward, a problem the president is hoping to avoid on another key priority, infrastructure. A bipartisan group will unveil a new framework with a $1 trillion price tag. Democrats are preparing to use budget reconciliation and others on their own. President biden optimist