More than a million people are without power as Hurricane Ida battered New Orleans and the Louisiana coast on Sunday. 

Ida was one of the strongest hurricanes on record, in terms of wind speed and pressure, to make landfall in Louisiana. The timing of landfall was on the 16th anniversary of Katrina, a Category 3 hurricane that swamped the Gulf Coast with torrential rains. 

After making landfall early Sunday afternoon, Ida has since been downgraded to a tropical storm and was moving eight mph with the storm's eye about 50 miles north-northeast of Baton Rouge. Winds have dramatically decreased and sustained around 60 mph.