Rescue efforts begin after Hurricane Ida hits US: Live

New Orleans plunged into darkness hours after storm slammed southern US state of Louisiana, killing at least one person.

Hurricane Ida battered the southern US state of Louisiana and plunged New Orleans into darkness, leaving at least one person dead. Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 storm but weakened into a tropical storm on Monday. More than one million people in Louisiana and Mississippi were without power. President Joe Biden described Ida as “life-threatening” and declared Louisiana a disaster area.