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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

And today is Monday, August 30th. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning. Ida spent 16 hours over land as a hurricane battering Louisiana

before finally being downgraded to a tropical storm Monday morning.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Ida had maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour.

It hit coastal Louisiana on Sunday afternoon as a category four hurricane with top winds at 150

miles per hour, a tie for the fifth strongest

hurricane to ever hit the mainland United States. Idaho was centered 95 miles south, southwest of

Jackson, Mississippi, and 50 miles north-northeast of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. As of 5 a.m. Monday,

it was moving north at eight miles per hour. The hurricane was blamed for at least one death.

The power outage in New Orleans heightened the city's vulnerability to flooding and left hundreds of thousands of people without air conditioning and refrigeration in sweltering summer heat.

Ida, a Category 4 storm hit the same date. Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier coming ashore about

45 miles west of where Category 3 Katrina hit and struck land. I was listening to an expert this

morning. It was saying the difference between Katrina and this one in New Orleans was that the levees

have held up this time. If you remember, that's what...

I mean, the winds obviously were, you know, destructive and horrible and everything,

but it was when all that flooding came in.

It was a water came in that it was when everything was destroyed and people were stranded

and all that, you know, death and destruction happened.

And if I recall correctly, Katrina sat over Louisiana for a while.

And so I think, but yeah, thank God all the generators and pumps and everything held up.

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