Water Rescues, Wiped Grid As Louisiana Recovers From Hurricane Ida

Ida has weakened to a tropical storm as it moves over southwestern Mississippi.

On Tuesday, Ida is expected to move across the Tennessee Valley. Hurricane Ida made landfall Sunday at 11:55 a.m. in Port Fourchon.

A fearsome Hurricane Ida has left scores of coastal Louisiana residents trapped by floodwaters and pleading to be rescued, while making a shambles of the electrical grid across a wide swath of the state in the sweltering, late-summer heat.

One of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the U.S. mainland has now weakened into a tropical storm as it pushes inland over Mississippi with torrential rain and shrieking winds.