Category: Hurricane Ida

At Least 23 Dead, 200,000 Without Power in Tri-State Area Historic Floods

At least 23 have died as Hurricane Ida ravaged the Tri-State area on Wednesday night, including a toddler from New York City. “A record set two weeks ago, another record set now,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a press meeting. “This is the biggest wake-up call we could possibly get,” he said, referring to the…


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Sept. 2)

Locals in Louisiana help each other other cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Ida. We have some inspiring stories of donation efforts popping up in New Orleans. New York City experienced huge impact from storm Ida. Major transportation systems completely under water, and entire homes are destroyed. The debate on Afghanistan has started in the…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Sept. 1)

President Joe Biden confirms that he’ll visit Louisiana at the end of the week following Hurricane Ida damage, the White House has a new plan to combat the rise in housing prices, and a judge says the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma are now shielded from all opioid lawsuits in the future.    


Insurers May Take $18 Billion Hit From Hurricane Ida: Industry Experts

Insurers are bracing for a hit of about $18 billion from Hurricane Ida in the United States and the Caribbean, catastrophe modeling company Karen Clark & Co (KCC) said on Wednesday. The number, closer to the lower end of the initial estimates given by insurance analysts while the storm was still raging earlier this week,…


New Orleans Imposes Curfew to Prevent Crime After Hurricane Ida

The city of New Orleans imposed a curfew following Hurricane Ida in a bid to prevent looting and other crime, according to Mayor LaToya Cantrell. Cantrell, in a press briefing on Tuesday, said that the city’s police and the Louisiana National Guard will enforce the curfew. The mandate, according to her order, lasts from 8…


Louisiana Town ‘Uninhabitable’ After Hurricane Ida: Parish Leader

Hurricane Ida left a Louisiana community so devastated that it’s not possible to live there at the moment, a parish leader said Tuesday. Grand Isle is “uninhabitable,” Jefferson County Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng told reporters in a briefing. Grand Isle is on the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 108 miles south of New Orleans. Ida struck…


Corn Crashes as Hurricane Ida Devastates Busiest US Export Hub

Kim Chipman and Megan Durisin Bloomberg News Corn prices in Chicago sank to a seven-week low as broken grain elevators and power outages in the U.S.’s busiest agricultural port raised concerns about grain supplies with nowhere to go. Hurricane Ida left more than 1 million homes and businesses without electricity in southern Louisiana and also…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Aug. 31)

Over a million Louisiana residents are struggling and two in Mississippi have died in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, President Joe Biden says the war in Afghanistan is now over, and two senior officials from the FDA’s division in charge of regulating vaccines are stepping down.


Hurricane Ida’s Aftermath: No Power, No Flights, Scant Drinking Water

NEW ORLEANS—Louisiana communities beginning the huge task of clearing debris and repairing the damage inflicted by Hurricane Ida are facing the dispiriting prospect of weeks without electricity in the oppressive, late-summer heat. Ida ravaged the region’s power grid, leaving all of New Orleans and hundreds of thousands of other Louisiana residents in the dark with…


Rescuers Save Hundreds Across Louisiana Trapped Amid Devastation of Hurricane Ida

Hundreds of Louisianans trapped by Hurricane Ida’s floodwaters were brought to safety on Monday as boats, helicopters, and high-water trucks worked as part of rescue efforts after the furious storm ravaged the coast and left more than one million homes without power. Residents retreated to their roofs or attics after a rare flash flood emergency…