Tegan Wendland

The power company failed to build a stronger system after hurricanes repeatedly pummeled Louisiana. Then Ida knocked out power for more than a week. “I don’t think it’s just Mother Nature,” said one resident. “This is neglect.”

Forecasters expected the storm to weaken at landfall. It hasn't.

Hurricane Ida is now a tropical depression as it continues to move through Mississippi, according to the National Hurricane Center’s final advisory update on the storm.

Hurricane Ida has strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane in the National Hurricane Center’s latest update. The storm is expected to continue strengthening before moving inland over Louisiana and the U.S. Gulf Coast later today, forecasters said Sunday morning.

Tropical Storm Ida will strengthen into a major Category 3 hurricane just before it moves over southeast Louisiana, forecasters said Friday morning.

On the day before the anniversary of Hurricane Laura, and as Louisianians eye another storm forming in the Gulf, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell toured storm-ravaged southwest Louisiana Thursday with Gov. John Bel Edwards and discussed federal disaster aid with local officials.

Advocates say the Formosa plant would pollute the environment and the air in St. James.

The company will receive tax breaks for the new $170 million plant. It was not fined for the chlorine fire at the plant last year.

Attorneys from five East Coast states say the Army Corps needs to do more to assess the potential health and environmental impacts of the proposed $9.4 billion plant.

It's going to be another above-average hurricane season.