To three hours a week. Hello and welcome to the programme. It is some storm that reverses the flow of the Mississippi River Hurricane ida landed a category 4 hurricane and blew through South East louisiana with such force that at times they recorded sustained winds of over isomph. Today the Search And Rescue teams were fanning out across the state to assess the scale of the damage. And it is widespread. There have been reports of people climbing into attics to escape the rising waters flood. The rising waters. Its not as bad as katrina, which devestated New Orleans 16 years ago it would appear the levees, barriers and pumps have done theirjob but still, there are i million people in and around the city without any power, and they will be for some time. From New Orleans heres our correspondent, neda tawfiq. This was the force of Hurricane Idas wins. A Hospitals Roof was lifted off by ease by the gas. Low lying areas were overwhelmed by the tidal surge. This footage from a Fire Station i
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