BREAKING: Ida weakens to tropical storm over Southwestern Mississippi; Louisiana officials warn of 'life threatening' floods as 1M homes and businesses still without power.
" in the town of Jean Lafitte and the unincorporated community of Lafitte, in Jefferson Parish, after a levee failed, the National Weather Service office in New Orleans said late Sunday, citing local law enforcement.
Hurricane Ida made landfall Sunday, the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, as a Category 4 storm near Port Fourchon, Louisiana. Gov. John Bel Edwards described it as"one of the strongest storms to make landfall here in modern times."The National Hurricane Center warned of"dangerous" storm surges. Authorities said a 60-year-old man was found dead after a tree fell on his home.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards told residents who didn't evacuate to keep loose mattresses within reach — in case powerful gusts ripped off home's roofs, which he said in a news conference was likely because"this is one of the strongest storms to make landfall here in modern times." "This is going to be devastating — a devastating, a life-threatening storm," Biden told reporters after he was briefed by officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency."So please, all you folks in Mississippi and in Louisiana ... take precautions, listen, take it seriously."
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