Governor Kay Ivey warns against price gouging during Alabama's encounter with Hurricane Ida.

Governor Kay Ivey is putting twenty seven Alabama counties under a State of Emergency as Hurricane Ida moves toward Louisiana and the northern Gulf coast. The measure warns against price gouging and opens the State's Emergency Operations Center. The declaration includes counties ranging from Alabama’s coast, inland communities on the State’s border with the Florida panhandle, to as far north as Tuscaloosa. Mobile and Baldwin Counties are currently under a Tropical Storm warning. The National Hurricane Center is predicting Ida will make landfall in Louisiana overnight Sunday. The system is expected to be major storm, at category four intensity or higher. Ida is then predicted to cut a path across Mississippi, northwest Alabama, and Tennessee, becoming a Tropical Storm Tuesday afternoon, and then a depression.