I will just tell you that I had a number of conversations overnight and today with parish presidents and other officials who believe that the death count attributable to the hurricane will go up because they see catastrophic damage in certain places that they have every reason to believe were inhabited at the time the damage occurred.
Governor Edwards discusses the expected increase in the death toll due to Hurricane Ida's catastrophic damage.
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