Ida News

Gov. Bobby Jindal has declared a state of emergency in Louisiana ahead of Hurricane Ida.

Schools closed, people in low-lying areas sought shelter and the governors of Florida and Alabama declared states of emergency Monday as a rare late-season tropical storm churned toward the Gulf Coast.

Vermilion Parish officials are keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Ida, but don't expect any problems, Becky Broussard, Office of Emergency Preparedness director, said this morning.

Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks Monday during a news conference at the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Preparation to discuss preparedness efforts for Tropical Storm Ida.

The National Hurricane Center says the center of Ida is headed for the Alabama Gulf Coast and an early morning landfall.

A satellite image from 5:31 p.m. ET Sunday shows Hurricane Ida moving into the Gulf of Mexico.

Wind shear is tearing Ida apart as it moves through the Gulf of Mexico. The National Hurricane Center downgraded Ida to a tropical storm this morning.

Weather Underground 5-Day forecast for Tropical Storm Ida. NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER/5-Day Forecast National Hurricane Center 5-Day forecast for Tropical Storm Ida.

MIAMI - Ida is no longer a hurricane as it loses strength over the water on its way to a landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast sometime early Tuesday.

Tropical Storm Ida nicked the toe of the boot of Louisiana as it moved toward landfall Monday near the Alabama-Florida border.

Ida has strengthened to a hurricane over the Caribbean as it nears Cancun, Mexico.

Authorities feared a 70-year-old man drowned when he tried to help two fishermen stranded in the Mississippi River as Tropical Storm Ida churned ashore, flooding low-lying areas outside levee systems and closing schools and offices in southeast Louisiana.

Here is the 12:00 advisory from the National Hurricane Center : A TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM GRAND ISLE LOUISIANAEASTWARD TO THE AUCILLA RIVER FLORIDA...INCLUDING NEW ORLEANS AND LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN.

Southeast Louisiana is under a state of emergency as Hurricane Ida heads for the Gulf Coast.

In Bluefields, Nicaragua, soldiers bring supplies Friday to residents who suffered damage from Tropical Storm Ida.

Hurricane Ida swiped the resort city of Cancun on Sunday with bands of wind and rain as it steamed north toward the Gulf of Mexico, where officials issued a hurricane watch for coastal Louisiana and Mississippi.

BATON ROUGE - Although it's not likely to be a threat to Louisiana, state officials are watching the storm that was Hurricane Ida for possible strengthening when it moves into the Gulf of Mexico.

Soldiers carry supplies to a military helicopter Friday for people who suffered damage from Tropical Storm Ida in Managua, Nicaragua.

Ida , still a tropical depression, has emerged into the northwestern Caribbean and is expected to strengthen National Hurricane Center Tropical depression Ida Residents in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and western Cuba are advised to monitor the storm's progress.

With just a few weeks left in the Hurricane season, Ida continues to bear down on Nicaragua today, uprooting trees, causing power outages and forcing evacuations.