nadia: it is something we continue to closely watch. we don't think that the labor market needs that additional stimulus, as we have seen for quite some time but there's a lot of job openings, but there's also a disconnect in terms of a gap between skills and actual openings, and we think that gap will need to be closed, so we don't think there will be a need for reinstatement of unemployment benefits. we do think also that approval of a full vaccination, of the vaccine, we think that will help encourage people to get vaccinated and help the world return to normalcy. so our concern about the job market, we think it will recover. guy: we've got to wrap it up there. happy birthday to your mother. thank you very much indeed for joining us. we really appreciate it. not a yellow belt of ubs global -- nadia lovell of ubs global wealth management, thank you. coming up, pfizer and biontech's vaccine gets full approval from the fda. we will have details to follow. this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: it is time for the bloomberg business flash. i'm ri

nadia, stay safe. we'll get back to you. nadia reporting. >>> joining us to discuss what's going on is melvin, the president of a historic restaurant in the french quarter of new orleans. melvin, thank you for joining us. i know you decided to stay in the french quarter. first of all, what are you experiencing right now. >> so my last time outside was just probably a couple hours ago, wolf. some definitely some wind blown rain, but not too bad at that point. i'm now in my home in the french quarter just a couple blocks from the restaurant. and i'm hearing some wind through the windows, but all in all, fairly uneventful thus far. hopefully it will stay that way. >> melvin, tell us why you decided to stay. the recommendations from the mayor and others yesterday, and i heard her say it, get out if you can. tell us why you decided to stay. >> well, fairly large investment in the french quarter. the french quarter has historically been very safe, but you know, it makes a difference to be able to go and check on your business and

nadia ramirez on the ground for us in new orleans. very serious warnings from the mayor, from homeland security specialist. be prepared, be prepared to be without power. significant flooding. are people prepared? what are you seeing. you're there in the french quarter. >> reporter: wolf, you can hear behind me, a man came out to play his trumpet and to do what you would normally have happen in french quarter, enjoy that jazz music. we have that outer band make its way through, and because of that, so many people scattered, especially tourists realizing that the hurricane is a real threat. when it was nice and sunny, people weren't taking it seriously. now people are starting to leave the area because we had the first outer band make its way. behind me, business owners have been through this before, boarded up here, ready for the storm. sand bags here as well. there are sandbagging stations all throughout, not just new orleans but throughout louisiana. we heard from the mayor of new orleans saying now is the time to leave. leave if you

let's begin our coverage with cnn's nadia live in new orleans for us. nadia, watching your live shot the last hour was perfect evidence of how challenging the power situation is in town. hopefully we'll stay reconnected. tell me what you're seeing. >> yeah. hopefully this time, kate, and that's part of the challenge. right? we have issues with cell service here. a lot of people don't have power to let their family members know that they've survived this storm. and then we have power outages all throughout the city. we're back on bourbon street just about 10 minutes down the road from where we were the last time we spoke. people are starting to come out and take a look at the damage that was done here. a lot of the shop owners who call bourbon street home are able to come out and take a look and see, did their sandbags work? did the boarding up of the windows work? we saw some shops where they decided not to board up. their windows were busted out. that is what we're seeing this morning as people come out and assess the damage here on bourbon street. we

cnn's nadia romero is in the french quarter for us. what are you seeing and what are the latest conditions you're experiencing? >> reporter: wolf, it's really picking up right now. we're definitely feeling that wind we've been knowing was going to come. it's now happening here. it is so windy out, right now we're right next to lake ponchartrain. there's a bridge that takes you to the other side of covington. this area is being pounded right now by hurricane irma. you can see the trees are taking a beating from that wind. that's the reason why we have -- thousands of people without power. that's one of the fears -- so many people could lose power for what could be weeks because of the storm. take a look. we're also concerned about storm surge. the wind coming over, picking up the water and moving it over the levee system. that levee system some $20 billion that was poured into it all through out this area after hurricane katrina. you know, this is the 16th anniversary of hurricane katrina. so many people remember what happened on that d

nadia romero is joining us now from new orleans. these health officials are really sounding an alarm here, nadia. >> reporter: they are, brianna, and it feels like deja vu in new orleans because we have been here before. remember the first super spreader event was right after mardi gras in 2020. we have had ups and downs in the state of louisiana, and across the south, but right now is a terrible moment today. health officials believe that we could reach the highest numbers of covid-19 hospitalizations in louisiana since the pandemic began. and that's why governor edwards is sounding that alarm as you mentioned, brianna, he is really upset with a number of people in the state who are unvaccinated. there are about 2,000 covid-19 hospitalizations across the state of louisiana. 90% of them are unvaccinated people. the governor is pleading with people in his state to get vaccinated. he says it's the only way to end what he's calling a nightmare. but there seems to be a bit of a silver lining, maybe some people in the south are listening

cnn's nadia romero is along the riverfront for us. last hour when we spoke, a meter there clocked wind gusts close to 50 miles an hour already. tell our viewers what you're experiencing. >> reporter: wolf, the wind has definitely picked up since the last time we spoke. it almost feels like someone with giant hands has taken the wind and the water from behind me and is pushing it towards the city of new orleans. so right there behind me, that's the mississippi river. this way is the city of new orleans, you hit the french quarter, cafe du monde, jackson square. we know that area could flood. it has flooded in the past from much milder thunderstorms, not a hurricane like ida. that's why we saw people boarding up and putting up the sandbags. this city is pretty much shaped like a bowl. around that bowl is the mississippi river and a giant lake, and it's low lying. that's why we had those issues from hurricane katrina. the city spent some $20 billion on levees to try to keep the water out of the city and away from people's homes and neigh

i believe we've reconnected with nadia. can you hear me? all right. i think we'll have to try to reconnect with her. communications in this type of connection has been hard for everyone. police departments saying that they're without communication. you could see the challenge of even kektsing with our reporters on the the ground. this is going to be very major significant issue as they try to get rescue and recovery efforts underway in many parts of the state. joining me right now is new orleans city council member joe jer uso. thank you for -- i'm happy we could even connect. it is been so hard to connect because of the power situation. what is the latest that you know, that what is the damage that you're seeing in first light. >> well i heard jason say in the segment before that in the houma it is a wind event. nadia was saying that there are lines knocked down. she's absolutely right about that. the biggest issue for us is there are about eight trns mis -- transmission lines into the city of new orleans and jefferson parish and all eight have been

kate. >> nadia, thank you for shining a light on this. joining me now is viral specialist jorge rodriguez. let's start in louisiana where nadia is doing the reporting. hearing from doctors that they're out of beds, that they are just getting crushed and especially as nadia was pointing out that there seems like there are so many children coming to the hospital. one doctor saying they're not accepting more children because they're out of pediatric beds, what does this tell you about the variant? >> what it tells me is obviously, that this variant is very contagious. this variant and any virus is going to go where it can infect the host. the people that it is going to infect the most are those that are unvaccinated. that should be clear to everybody. what does that mean? adults that are unvaccinated and unsp unfortunately those under the age of 12 are the most sus settable to the virus. we've been saying that and now unfortunately that is becoming obvious and true. >> and i have to call it the silver lining in this scary moment as you heard

we saw nadia in new orleans. you could really tell the winds are picking up there. as she was saying, they're still waiting on the full brunt of the storm to blow through. >> well, that's right. our primary concern right now is life safety. hurricane ida made land fall a couple hours ago as a ferocious category 4 storm. 150 miles per hour winds. and it is proceeding into south eastern louisiana. folks throughout south eastern louisiana and south western mississippi need to take this storm seriously. they need to be in their safe place now. hunkered down. if they still have power, we want them to plug in their devices to get a full charge in case they lose power. fill up the tub with water and make sure you're in a safe place. this is a very dangerous storm. and we want to reinforce what the mayor and governor and the entire team down there have been saying. get to your safe place now. >> and we just heard from president biden at fema head quarters a short time ago. what was his message to all of you when the cameras were not rolling there? they were rolling just for

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let's begin with cnn's nadia lomero in baton rouge. nadia, what's the latest there? >> reporter: ann a the state just updated us on the statewide numbers for covid-19 and it just keeps getting worse and worse by the day. let's dive in. hospitalizations, they're up. people who need to be in the i.c.u. need help to breathe, that number is up as well. cases are up all across the state. the only good news is that deaths are down slightly today compared to yesterday. for the state's largest health care system, they say they're up 73% in hospitalizations, just compared to last week. that's how bad it is. and we know that this state is lagging behind in vaccination rates, and so the governor's mask mandate now in effect statewide, in schools as well. he's encouraging people to get vaccinated. so we went to a vaccination site to ask people, why now? why in august 2021, why did it take you so long to get vaccinated? well, we spoke with one mother who says she's getting her kids ready for the school year. they can finally get that vaccination so she brought them out. we also t

cnn's nadia romero joining me now from miami. what more are you learning, nadia? >> reporter: fred, if you want to know about covid-19 you have to talk to the people on the front lines battling against the virus to keep people alive. i spoke with a pharmacist and an emergency room doctor, both tell me fda approval is exactly what they need to strengthen their argument about why they believe people should get vaccinated because the motajority of the people they're trying to save in icus are unvaccinated. full food and drug administration approval of the pfizer covid-19 vaccine is, quote, emunanimous emunanimous. the worst of it right now is in the southern states like florida. >> we are seeing a younger group of individuals who are hospitalized for covid in our intensive care units on ventilators. these are healthy, young 20-year-olds, 30-year-olds. >> reporter: the sunshine state sitting under a dark cloud now of covid-19 milestones. there have been more than 17,000 covid-19 patients hospitalized in about six weeks amid severe staffing shortages. florida's governo

>> nadia, thank you. nadia romero reporting. in georgia, mixed mask requirements are sparking lots of confusion and protest. cnn's nick valencia is in atlanta for us. nick? >> reporter: wolf, more georgia schools opreopened this week, b many had a question of how to do that safely as concerns grow of the highly contagious delta variant. last week a group of parents gathered to protest news of a mask policy, holding what they called an unmask our children event. some chatted that they want the decision as to whether or not students should wear masks. in rural georgia, students and teachers would have that choice. berry county opened this week without masks. they said they want it to be a personal decision. their 14-year-old daughter wants the freedom to express themselves, even if that risk comes at the cost of getting herself or other people sick. >>> the former cdc director, dr. tom frieden. dr. frieden, thank you so much for joining us. we just heard that lloyd austin is seeking to make vaccinations necessary for all active du

nadia romero for us, thank you so much. let's turn now to dr. hotez, a professor and dean of medicine at the baylor college of medicine. he is also the author of "preventing the next pandemic: vaccine diplomacy in a time of anti-science." dr. hotez, welcome back. let's start here. the growing percentage of children who are the new case of covid, we're hearing it anecdotally and seeing it statistically. is that because most kids are not eligible for the vaccine, or is there some increased susceptibility that we're seeing in children? >> yeah, well, we don't really know, victor. you know, i think it's probably likely that we're dealing with the fact that -- we're dealing with the fact that many of these kids are getting infected because they're swept up. because so many individuals are becoming infected. w remember, delta is basically picking off anyone who hasn't been vaccinated to date. i don't think right now the delta variant is targeting kids, i just think they're getting swept up in this firestorm of delta covid-19. and i think, you know, yo

nadia romero and ryan young are following this. i want to begin with you, nadia. power could be out for weeks there. how do police manage to keep the city safe? >> reporter: and this is so unfortunate. that is something that tends to happen after you have a natural disaster. there is always a little element in the community who decides to come out and take advantage of the situation. so we didn't see this the night of the storm or the day after. but last night into the overnight hours, there were reports of break-ins and potentially people going in and trying to steal items because businesses are left vulnerable. they don't have power and it is pitch black in the city and so we've seen police cars stationed on different corners monitoring to make sure people aren't walking around where they are not supposed to be going in and out of businesses and breaking in and out. that is something we saw in the overnight hours to prevent that. an the power is out here in new orleans. and for so many other parts of the gulf coast. more than a million people without power and i

>> be careful over there, nadia. we'll get back to you. nadia in new orleans for us. allison chinchar at the cnn weather center. much more coming up on hurricane ida, potentially a category 4 hurricane when it hits louisiana tomorrow. much more on that coming up. >>> we're also following other breaking news. this news out of afghanistan. right now, the u.s. military now says it has conducted a drone air strike against an isis-k militant who was believed to be planning attacks at the kabul airport. right now, at the airport, it is a truly desperate race against time to evacuate all americans with just three days before a self-imposed u.s. deadline to withdraw. looking at live pictures coming in from the airport at kabul right now. let's go to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. barbara, i know there is a briefing coming up at the pentagon at the top of the hour. we'll get more information. but what more do we know right now about this drone strike carried out in afghanistan last night? >> reporter: well, the word came here in washington overnight, wolf, that the

let me go to nadia romero in new orleans. how are things looking there? i see the sun hitting you there. that is obviously not how things are going to be in hours from now. >> reporter: no, you're right, jim. we had an outer band that came through about an hour and a half or so ago. this area just cleared out with people realizing, oh, wow there really is a hurricane coming through. now we have the sun out, which gives people this false sense of security that they have more time to prepare. but we just heard governor edwards there from louisiana telling people now is the time to prepare, to move out if you can, saying that wherever you sleep tonight is where you better ride out the storm because we're not sending emergency crews to your house to help you in the middle that have storm. we're seeing people prepare. so this is obviously a tourist destination. we've seen a lot of people with luggage getting kicked out of their hotels trying to make their way to the airport or on the roads so they can get out back home or to higher ground. take a look at busin

nadia romero is joining us from baton rouge, louisiana. there are not many options for people who need that icu help, nadia. >> absolutely not. not here outside of our lady of our savior. 117 with covid-19 in the hospital right now. as covid-19 continues its stronghold over all of these southern states, here in louisiana, the governor's mask mandate reinstated just yesterday, but he says he will not push for state employees to get the vaccine. he won't mandate that. he also will not support a vaccine passport until the vaccines get fda approval. just next door in arkansas as john mentioned the governor there is trying to roll back his anti-mask mandate ban, but he only could have listened to health experts in his state who pleaded with him not to move forward with that legislation in the first place. and then you have mississippi and you have arkansas, louisiana, all of these southern states that are seeing critically low numbers of icu beds. but along with those rising cases and hospitalizations, we're also seeing dramatic triple digit pe

nadia ramiro is live for us on the ground in new orleans. nadia, we're seeing daybreak since we last spoke to you. what are you seeing now? >> reporter: yeah. it's a welcome sight, brianna, to finally have a little bit of light out here so we can see. we have all been using head lamps and flash lights to get around for the first hours of the morning. now we can see a little bit more of the damage that happened after hurricane ida made her way through. so if you look behind me, the streets are pretty empty but there's just trash. not like a normal morning after on bourbon street. if you go down to the iconic magazine street, that's where you're going to see signs of the power outage, right? so we know that some of those trees fell on to power lines and that helped to knock out the power for many of these neighborhoods, but we also had eight transmission lines responsible for bringing that power to the entire city of new orleans, that was comp romised. it was eerie and spooky to be on bourbon street, really quiet any ways but then not to have

cnn's nadia romero has more. >> reporter: a federal official telling cnn full fda approval of the vaccine could happen as soon as monday. >> this opened up the ability for colleges and universities to really require the vaccine. >> reporter: but the virus continues to take a toll on first responders. at least five south florida law enforcement officers died from covid-19 in a week's time, according to the their respective departments. ♪ and with covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths increasing, some mobile, alabama, funeral homes and morgues reporting a spike in their grim business. >> it is no joke that we have seen the most deaths reported to us in one day. it is happening. it is as bad as it has been. >> reporter: a strong warning for mississippi health officials after the state reports an increasing number of calls to poison control from people trying to treat themselves from covid-19 with a live stock. helping schools with contact tracing. >> as we have seen cases grow, it's overwhelming for the health department to manage the number of cases, especially in our schools. >> reporter:

i want to bring in nadia. the mayor of new orleans says the city didn't even have enough time to issue what are called mandatory evacuation orders for areas inside the levy barrier. what does that mean for the people who live inside new orleans right now? >> reporter: wolf, it means they have to get prepared and they have to do so quickly. there's not a lot of time because we know this is a quickly-moving storm. as it reaches those warm gulf waters, they're expecting it, as s allison said, to pick up speed and be a category 4. we spoke with a shop owner. we're here in the iconic french quarter. he says he has been here 20 years and never seen so much activity. people have been cancelling swamp tours with him. hotels are evacuating. take a look. of all the businesses that are boarding up right now all across the french quarter, they're working to make sure debris doesn't fly in those windows, that the windows aren't shattered. >> nadia, we'll get back to you in a few moments. the pentagon briefing a ing has sta

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nadia, thank you for bringing us that. i appreciate that. my god. >>> i want to turn to capitol hill where sources tell cnn house democratic leaders and moderates are inching closer to a deal on the party's $3.5 trillion budget resolution. this comes after a late night scramble and even phone calls from president biden to try to get past what has become something of a standoff among members of his own party. we are joined from capitol hill with more on this one. melanie, this isn't just a procedural fight. this is over the core of biden's economic agenda and it's a fight among democrats. where does this stand? >> reporter: the short answer is almost resolved. after a tense standoff between moderates and members of leadership, we've learned they're edging closer to unlocking the reconciliation package that contains the economic package. one of the leaders of the moderate resistance said they're closer to an agreement. cnn has new details about what it looks like. number one, it includes a guaranteed passage date of september 27th for the bipa

nadia romero is in baton rouge. the state's largest hospital admitted a record number of covid-19 patients in the past 24 hours. tell us what they're seeing and how they're handling it. >> reporter: this is another bad sign for the state of louisiana, specifically here in baton rouge. at our lady of the lake, the largest hospital, you saw 32 new covid patients admitted to the hospital in a 24-hour period. that's a new record. that means they're at 100% capacity. 100% capacity. 175 covid patients hospitalized. they simply can't take anyone else. they've been turning people away who have nonurgent medical needs. they have this long wait list of people who want transferred into this hospital. when we talk about 175 patients, some are children. we just spoke with the president of the children's hospital here. he tells us there was a 3 week old baby in the icu fighting covid this week. luckily that baby has survived. able to fight off covid-19. he says seeing that day in and day out has taken a toll on him and his staff.

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nadia, stand by as well. president biden is set to receive an update from fema headquarters this hour. cnn's arlette saenz joins us from the white house. arlette, what are you learning about the briefing, federal preparations. >> reporter: president biden is expected to receive a briefing 1:30 on preparations for hurricane ida. the fema administrator will be joining virtually from fema national response coordination center. the president will be at the white house in the south court auditorium. last night, the president approved a prelandfall emergency declaration for state of louisiana, which opens up resources as the storm approaches. could be possible other states are submitting similar requests. we'll see how it pans out during the course of the day. the president spoke with governors of louisiana, mississippi, and alabama yesterday to talk about those preparations. fema has already deployed staff to the region as well as meals, tarps, generators as the storm is approaching. as the president receives the

nadia is in new orleans. where in new orleans are you, nadia? >> reporter: i am on iconic bourbon street. we are starting to feel that extreme wind you heard derek just talking about as the wind starts to pick up and the rain starts to pick up waiting for the biggest impact of hurricane ida. these shops all along bourbon street along the french quarter have all been shut down over the weekend. there are a few shops open. they say they stayed open for katrina, they are not shutting down for ida. there are people all along here as people brace for the storm. this is a tourist destination, and there are a lot of people who are trapped here because they were waiting until the last minute to take that flight back to where they came from. we met people from new jersey and they said, we're used to storms. they never experienced a hurricane. they thought they would be able to get out in time, but yesterday the airport shut down. today people stuck here to ride out the storm. brian? >> we just received this alert from the city of new orleans. the 911 sys

cnn's nadia romero saw the damage firsthand. >> reporter: in this intense cell phone video, amanda shot from her roof the moment she had been waiting for. >> over and over i saw them pick up our neighbors and our family risking their own lives for us and seeing that moment of my mom surfacing because i didn't know if she was alive in there was something i'll never forget. i was sitting on that roof all day. >> reporter: she was looking and screaming for her mother who she thought was swept away in floodwaters. her mother clinging onto a kitchen island worried about her daughter amanda across the street. >> the guy came in and he hollered "anybody in here?" and i said, yes, me. and he came back there and said, are you okay? and i said, yes. what about across the street? she's okay, she's on the roof. and as a parent to see your child on the roof it's heart-wrenching, but it's like, oh, yeah, my child is saved. >> record-breaking rain sent floodwaters surging through rural tennessee saturday, devastating several communities within the county. at least 21 people have been killed. hundreds

>> shows you the power of those storms, nadia romero there, thank you. chad myers has also been covering this. a lot of concerns as this came in. it has weakened, thankfully, but it's sitting there. you always talk about all that rain and the danger that poses. >> this is a tropical system. if you've ever been in the tropics and it rains at 2:00 in the afternoon, you think how can this much water be falling out of the sky. that's what we have here. how much water can fall out of the sky in one hour? it's been one or two hours of two inches an hour. doesn't take long to get to four inches at that point in time. something else we have going on, too, all these flash flood warnings. i counted earlier, 17 different flash flood warnings, some being flash flood emergencies, going on right now, people are in danger. and that's still going on, because it's still raining. and we also have the threat of tornadoes today. from biloxi, between biloxi and gulfport. there's another to the south, pa passgagoula. it's rotating, could possibly be a waterspout that's coming

. >> nadia romero is new orleans right now. i know it was three hours ago where they opened things up and said, listen, now is the time to leave, 5:00 a.m., saturday morning. you have seen that activity right now, have you seen it? >> reporter: absolutely, phil and christi, we're on canal street, the iconic part of the french quarter, new orleans. not a lot of people out and about. take a look at businesses, many of them telling me they were going to shut down for the weekend. knowing how powerful this storm can be. a category 4. you heard allison say it was category 3 with katrina. katrina is almost like a bad word in this part of the country in the gulf coast. it's a time stamp before and after katrina. that's how people tell time here. the mandatory evacuation orders in place. they have voluntary evacuation orders businesses telling us they're not taking any risks. they're going to shut down. keeping employees safe, encouraging everyone to get out of the city, to get to higher ground. when you look at hurricane kat katrina,

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cnn's nadia romero is live in jacksonville. what are you learning about these rapid response treatments? are they strike teams? what is this? >> reporter: jim, there's a mobile unit right behind me. that's part of the response team, and you'll see those -- at least the governor wants you to see them all across the state of florida. right now, though, right here in jacksonville. so if you are covid-positive and you're within the first ten days of having symptoms, you can come to this mobile unit and get an antibody treatment. it's supposed to reduce your likelihood of being hospitalized or finding an early grave. and we spoke with uf health about what their thoughts are on these antibody treatments. they say some of their affiliated clinics are filling up with appointments. there are people who are covid-positive in the jacksonville area that are trying to get any treatment possible to keep them alive and out of the hospital. but i asked one doctor, will this alleviate the stress you're seeing in your icus and the fact they've h

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you know what, nadia, we're facing disinformation. that's what we have to deal with all across social media, people who believe tiktok videos over him in his white coat and his many years of experience. those icu beds are filling up and in that particular hospital, they have an overflow hospital outside, like a mobile unit just in case. here in florida and texas where they have some of the highest numbers, the governors are pushing to take antibody treatments. it's only for if you have covid-19. when it comes to being proactive and limiting the spread with mask mandates, vaccines, social distancing, those governors are not supporting mask mandates. we're seeing that in florida. governor ron desantis telling school districts he doesn't support mask mandates. in georgia he had an executive order giving businesses a pass telling them they don't have to follow any covid restrictions. we're seeing that. >> nadia ramiro, we appreciate the update. thank you, ma'am. >>> cardiologist bernard ashby is with us. good morning. glad to have you bac

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so you stay safe, nadia. we know you will and your crew. great pictures from your photographer as well. thanks for that report. we appreciate it. >>> coming up next -- much more coverage of our live reporting on hurricane ida. that is coming up next. you're live in the cnn newsroom. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ your shipping manager left to “find themself.” leaving you lost. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire visible is wireless that doesn't play games. no surprise fees, legit unlimited data, for as little as $25 a month. and the best part? it's powered by verizon. but it gets crazier. bring a friend every month, and get every month for $5. which is why i brought them. two $5-a-months right here. (both) hey. plus the players in my squad. hey. what's up? then finally, my whole livestream. boom! 12 months of $5 wireless. (announcer) visible. unlimited data as low as $25 a month. or bring a friend and you both get a mon

nadia romero is on the ground. city officials are warning of power outages and significant flooding. are people prepared? >> reporter: pamela, it depends on who you talk to. there is one group of people who say i'm from new orleans. i've survived rita and katrina and i'm not moving for ida. those are the folks planning to hunker down in place. then we have other people, take a look, there's a taxi leaving right behind me. this is what you see all across the french quarter, people getting in a taxi, a ride share, trying to get out of town as quickly as possible. we ran into some tourists who say their flights were cancelled or flights were booked so they couldn't leave so they're stuck here. there are other people trying to get out of the city and these business owners boarded up because they're not messing around. they realize that this could be a significant storm. you can always tell when you're in an area that is used to having storms because they board up their windows and number then or letter them. up 1, 2, 3

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cnn's nadia romero is live in new orleans with more. what are you seeing now that we can see the damage and assess this, and what are officials telling you about what they expect the next few days to look like. >> reporter: good morning, kaitlan, and we have to wait for daylight to look around and see what's around us because we're still without power, and that power has been out for day two, potentially day three for some people here in new orleans. we have about 25,000 workers from power companies all over the country. 32 states and d.c. who are here right now. they have a big task at hand, restoring power for 32 million people. perhaps, kaitlan, the worst of it is in laplace, louisiana, where 350 people had to be rescued from rising flood waters. across louisiana, destruction and devastation in the wake of hurricane ida, but it's still far too dangerous for many to assess just how much damage is done here. more than a million louisianans are still in the dark. >> we have no electricity. we have very little to no telecommunications. w

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get the latest on the situation from nadia romero. what are you seeing on the ground? >> reporter: manu, this storm is rapidly intensifying. we're seeing it now. we're finally getting really heavy rain as hurricane ida barrels toward us. i'm on iconic bourbon street. normally this would be full of people walking about. this place never shuts down except for now because of a hurricane. all of these shops are boarded up, closed up. you can see the sand bags lining these different taverns, bars and restaurants getting ready for the storm. especially when people had you heard this could be worse than hurricane katrina, katrina was a category 3. hurricane ida a category 4 and could go up to category 5. the storm was 80 miles per hour yesterday. now 150. that's how quickly the storm is intensifying. we met people who were plan nin a vacation and decided to come anyways, not really sure if the storm would materialize, deciding to roll the dice. they did. and listen to how one family, a group of family members and fri friends, how they're faring in the storm after surviving su

i'm going to send it to my east in new orleans, where my colleague nadia is standing by. >> reporter: derek, you know this area well. here in new orleans, because of hurricane katrina, tomorrow marking 16 years since the anniversary of hurricane katrina. that storm, a category 3. we now what was more significant was when the levees broke, when the levees didn't work across the area that flooded major parts of new orleans. this storm, hurricane ida, expected to be a category 4. take a look here in the french quarter. businesses are getting ready, putting sandbags out. we've seen people putting sandbags out, we've seen people boarding up their businesses all morning long. and then we talked to a man, his name is jesse, he lives in the area. he says he stayed in new orleans during rita and katrina, he's not going anywhere for ida. but he says he's concerned and so are his employers. listen why. >> i've been boarding up windows for businesses, sandbagging, getting businesses ready to close down, like we're always talking about stanley's, i'll be going there to clean out their freezers, ta

nadia romiro, cnn jacksonville, florida. >>> and israel is expanding the rollout of its third-vaccine dose. the country is trying to shore up immunity for some vulnerable groups, as severe covid cases continue to rise there. let's go straight to jerusalem. hadas gold joins me. so talk us through this booster shot and who is getting it. hi, hadas. >> hi, robyn. as of friday, anyone over the age of 50 # is now eligible for this booster vaccine. in addition, any medical staff, approximate people with underlying-health issues, as well as prisoners and wardens can all get this third dose of the coronavirus vaccine. this comes just about two weeks after israel rolled out the booster campaign for anyone over the age of 60. more than three-quarters of a million people in israel have already received this third booster and this comes as the numbers continue to rise here, robyn, to the levels that israel hasn't seen since the first few months of the year. in the past few days, we have hit several days of more than 6,000 positive cases, per day. and right now, the serious cases in hospital are a