you need, if we can. >> joining us now, ali velchi in new orleans. ali, what is the latest tonight. >> reporter: the latest is this is a dark, dark city. this is a roofing from a nearby building that collapsed. but i'm here in the french quarter that would look like this if you had lights, but there are no lights anywhere in new orleans. that's because while the cities levies and pumps which they spent about $16 billion on since katrina worked to keep this city dry during this storm, there are no lights anywhere. there is no power going to anywhere in this city whatsoever. the company that produces the power here says all eight transmission lines are dead. so there are bucket trucks and people going around fixing trees that have fallen on power lines. they're repairing all of that. but it doesn't matter because there is no power coming from the source.