Intense winds swept across the New Orleans area after nightfall on Sept. 11 as Hurricane Francine barreled northward through Louisiana.
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00:00But our coverage begins right now with Ali Reed.
00:03She is live in Kenner, Louisiana, and it has been a nasty evening here.
00:08My goodness, Ali, what are you dealing with out there?
00:10This is the eye wall. It is a body right now.
00:16Jeff, it is extremely hard to hear you, but I can tell you we are experiencing
00:20wind gusts at times 80 to 90 miles per hour here in Kenner, Louisiana.
00:27Landfall we know happened just over three hours ago.
00:30But now the thick of it has made its way to New Orleans
00:33and the surrounding areas to right here.
00:36It is intense at times.
00:38The wind and the rain are extremely thick.
00:41We've got Lake Pontchartrain directly behind me here.
00:45Those storm surges just coming up and over the water.
00:48The rocks here really is such an impressive and incredible sight to see.
00:53I will say these gusts are hard to stay up on my feet.
00:57That is telling you how intense this storm is right now.
01:02Now, as we've been roving about the area here, we have seen a number
01:06a number of transformers blow at least 10 to 15 in this area.
01:10And it's expected that as we've been seeing those blow throughout the area,
01:15that most likely there is power outages happening all over the city and beyond.
01:21Again, many people hunkering down.
01:23There are not many people left on the street at this time.
01:26The only people that we're really seeing on the roadways at this point
01:30are police and city officials
01:32warning people to get inside and stay inside in their homes.
01:36Now, as for me, again, the winds are intense at times.
01:40But wow, Jeff, like I mentioned earlier to you guys,
01:44it really does take your breath away here.
01:46You know, I just think back to 2012 with Hurricane Isaac,
01:502021 to Hurricane Ida.
01:53It brought extreme devastation.
01:55Now, in terms of what we'll see this time around, of course,
01:58we're going to continue to follow this to see what Francine brings in its path.
02:03Right now, most structures are staying in its place.
02:07We haven't seen a ton of movement
02:09when it comes to any buildings being uprooted.
02:12None of that at this time right now.
02:14Again, winds still very strong in this area.
02:16We're going to continue to follow this as the storm pushes through this area.
02:20I think that's all I got for you, Jeff.
02:23I don't know how much more I could speak right now.
02:25This is wild, to say the least.
02:28Nice job putting up with this tremendous conditions right now along the eyewall.
02:32Allie Reed in Kenner, Louisiana,
02:34she's along the shoreline of Lake Pontchartrain with the overwash behind her
02:39and just incredible wind with the eyewall of Hurricane Francine
02:43moving through the area of New Orleans.
02:46And again, the whole shoreline there of the south side of Lake Pontchartrain.
02:50Incredible stuff there.
02:52Great report from Allie.
02:53Nasty, nasty conditions.
02:54So that's why we want everybody to stay in.