Louisiana. Looking live out of New Orleans more than half 1 million customers are without power in louisiana and the governor requested a major disaster declaration. Another live look now and minutes ago we learned the storm has been downgraded to a category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 125 miles per hour. The Storms Center 30 Miles Southwest of New Orleans. This is what it looked like inside the eye of the storm and some hurricane hunters flying through it before ida made landfall and we have new video of the storm at the Marina And Ida is hitting on the anniversary of hurricane katrina. The storm has hardly weakened since making landfall hours earlier with 145 mile per hour wind. Reporter the extremely dangerous hurricane made landfall in louisiana as one of the strongest storms in the States History as ida picks up strength. The impact is being felt and feared throughout the gulf. Conditions are changing rapidly, and obviously we have a very dangerous situation on her
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Will see you back here at 6:00 for a full hour of news. the weekend news is next testing for cbs weekend news captioning sponsored by cbs oliver: tonight: global travel ban. countries trying to stop the spread of the new omicron variant tighten their borders. south africa s foreign ministry says the country isder. being punished. oliver: also tonight calming covid fears, dr. fauci advising americans not to panic and get the vaccine. reporter: i m lilia lucianno in los angeles, where a strict vaccine mandate is about to go in place. plus return trip, this could be the busiest travel day of the year. people heading out on the road, trains and planes amid new pandemic concerns. reporter: i am in new york s laguardia airport where planes are packed as millions of americans head home from thanksgiving gatherings. oliver: also, remembering our heroes. the struggle for veterans of the