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 me. To see the out
Go back to where they were. We have to we have to face the new world, and we have to face the new world with a certain amount of willingness to sacrifice and make change, but anyway, that s just that s what i think. Yeah. Well, what are you going to be performing tonight, can you say? we were going to be performing people of the power, which my late husband and i wrote, which is a song that both celebrates the individual and the and the change that we as a as a human community to make together. And then we were going to do land which was really on h horses. It was it s a you know, an exploration into evolution and i was going to shift the lyrics in terms of focussing on our environment. And then we were to do because the nice with bruce springsteen, which i know would have made the people very happy. Yeah. So it is quite a disappointment, but you know, we re you know, with all the things that are happening in the world and the things that people are struggling and all the strife in the
this storm heading straight for rhode island, parts of the eyewall already on shore and we re seeing the storm move to shore as we speak. more than 1500 people under tropical weather alerts right now concerned about storm surge in the harbors and the bays of rhode island, new york and massachusetts. concerns about flooding in the coming hours and widespread power outages because we re talking about a part of the united states not used to seeing tropical weather barrelling into shore. storm surge as well. we re going live in a moment to derek van dam who is in newport, rhode island who can give us a sense of what s happening on the coast. but first let s go to allison chinchar for the latest on the track. allison, any updates from the national hurricane center? we ve got several, in fact. we re learning it is moving very, very close to shore. landfall is expected imminently here. what we re also seeing is that little bit of downpush in wind. the winds are at 60 miles an hour
On long island. This is coverage of tropical storm henri. Parts of the east coast are already feeling the impacts of this extremely dangerous storm. Imminent landfall is expected in rhode island. You re looking at a live picture from newport. 40 million people are in the storm s path. Tropical storm warnings in effect from long island to cape cod. Chris. Fred, thank you very much. I ll tell you more about what s happening. The story in new york is a light story. We have one part of the storm cell is stalling over new york city right now. That increases the chance of flooding. We mow the story from last night, a lot of rainfall in areas that weren t expecting it, three, four, five, six inches. The main area for us will be in about an hour. That s when henri will make landfall. About 100,000 people without power, only 2,000 in new york. The bulk in rhode island as fred was referring to. About 65, 66,000. That s going to increase. Connecticut, about 12, 15,000, that s going to likely incr
Fox news the taliban is increasing attacks on those at the airport tearing up passports whipping up other vital travel documents as afghans are deaf desperate to escape trade tray has more on this volatile situation. Reporter: concerned reporting from the pentagon tonight indicating that taliban fighters are stopping people once again even one source telling fox his wife s teeth were knocked out by a taliban fighter after stopped at the checkpoint concerning reports away documents are handled by the taliban who now control the entirety of kabul afghanistan the 82nd air force division trying to operate were able to calm down the situation but still very difficult many people try to evacuate today we did get a firsthand look at the airport earlier. Take a look. We just arrived in kabul afghanistan were evacuations are continuing at this hour. These applicants and those who has been approved are here at the airport waiting to take fights out of the country many have been waiting for hours