Tag: Louisiana

New Orleans Residents Rely on Each Other After Hurricane Ida

In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, New Orleans bakes in a strange silence. The muffled buzz of a few generators and the splatter of cars cutting through inches-deep water are the only modern noises. A thick pudding of bayou mud covers the ground. For a while, there’s no barrier between nature and the bayou’s people….


Biden Visits Louisiana After Storm Damage, Promises Federal Aid

President Joe Biden has visited Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida and promised federal aid to recovery efforts in affected communities. Hurricane Ida made landfall on Aug. 29 near Louisiana’s Port Fourchon and headed northward, eventually sweeping through the U.S. East Coast with heavy rain and flash flooding in parts of states including Maryland,…


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Sept. 3)

President Biden visiting Louisiana on Friday, to survey the damage and meet with state and local officials. And we hear from some New Orleans residents. Dozens of people lost their lives due to hurricane Ida across the United States this week. The storm unexpectedly hit the northeast especially hard. We hear personal stories from locals….


Ida’s Death Toll Grows After 4 Nursing Home Residents Found Dead in Warehouse

Four nursing home residents died in a warehouse in Louisiana this week, adding to the death toll from Hurricane Ida. Over 800 nursing home residents, including those who died, were evacuated to a facility in Tangipahoa Parish ahead of the hurricane, the Louisiana Department of Health said. Inspectors with the state tried visiting the site…


Bipartisan Delegation of Louisiana Congressmen Ask Biden, Congress for Emergency Aid

Following the landfall of the monstrous Category 4 Hurricane Ida into Louisiana, a bipartisan delegation of U.S. representatives and senators from Louisiana have sent a request to President Joe Biden for disaster relief funding. The delegation—consisting of Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Reps. Clay Higgins (R-La.), Steve Scalise (R-La.), Mike Johnson…


Biden to Visit Louisiana in Aftermath of Hurricane Ida

President Joe Biden will visit Louisiana on Friday to survey damage from Hurricane Ida and meet with state and local leaders from communities that were hit. Biden plans to travel to New Orleans, where the storm knocked out power for days. Electricity began returning to the city on Wednesday, but most residents remained without on…


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…


Hurricane Ida Leaves Indelible Mark in Louisiana

The one thing Debbie Russel of LaPlace, Louisiana, remembers about Hurricane Ida is the wind—“It was unreal.” “The wind was so strong,” she said. “We just got in the hall and prayed. I had my hands over my ears—the wind.” With gusts blasting in at 150 miles per hour, the Category 4 storm made landfall…


Louisiana Power Outages Could Last for Weeks

People living in the areas hit by Hurricane Ida could be without power for weeks, a large utility provider said Tuesday. Entergy, which delivers electricity to some 3 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, said it restored power to 85,000 customers who were affected by the hurricane, which slammed into Louisiana on Sunday—plunging…


Highway in Mississippi Collapses, Leaving at Least 2 People Dead: Officials

Two people died and 10 were injured when a highway in Mississippi collapsed following heavy rains from Hurricane Ida, now a tropical depression, said officials on Tuesday. The collapse affected portions of Highway 26 in George County, about 50 miles northeast of Biloxi, said highway patrol spokesman Calvin Robertson. A crevasse opened up on the road…