Path of the storm brings it over the dominican republic, haiti. It may start to shred because of the high mountains there. If it goes over cuba, it gets even more danger as far as its not being able to survive. Its then out into the atlantic, comes on shore sometime monday afternoon as a weak tropical storm, and then continues on up into the southeast. But again, lester, we still have to watch it. It still could intensify. So people arent out of the danger zone yet to the southeast. Al roker. Thanks very much. Now we turn to the crisis exploding overseas. Enormous waves of migrants, many of them refugees from wartorn nations, fleeing en masse to europe. But the journey is long and perilous with thousands dying along the way to what they hope will be a better life. Ron allen is following the story for us tonight from calais, france. Reporter today the bodies of desperate migrants washing up on shore who drowned in search of a better life. At least 2,500 already lost at sea this year. This man and his daughter fleeing the war in syria were rescued after their boat sank. The boat was in bad condition, he said, and people died. Some fleeing call it the route of death. Across the rough, wide mediterranean sea. From africa and the middle east to europe. More than 300,000 this year desperate to escape war and poverty. This the aftermath of a rescue effort. Several hundred saved but 52 perished. Passengers who suffocated, packed below deck on a wooden ship. It was very, very crowded, and it was also the engine room. We could just imagine what it could have been traveling like that. Reporter today Authorities Say 71 people including eight women and four children died in that truck found abandoned on a highway in austria. The youngest a girl perhaps 2 years old. At least three people arrested, police say, believed to be lowlevel members of a human smuggling ring, preying on the thousands who would give anything and risk everything to start over someplace safe in and here in northern france some 3,000 mihatgrants live in squalid makeshift camps month after month, waiting for their chance. They scale barbed wire fences, try to stow away on trucks and ferries or even walk 31 miles through the undersea tunnel to great britain. I want to go to england. England is nice for me. Reporter this man who fled the war in sudan said he has tried five times to get to england. But with heavy security in place, turning them back, he and so many others plot their next move in the camps, with no place else to go. Its a story we heard again and again here in the camps, men and women willing to risk their lives for the chance at a better life. And tonight many are making their way off into the darkness to try yet again. Lester . Ron allen in france tonight. A 17yearold from virginia is now the youngest person in the u. S. To be sentenced to prison for supporting isis. Ali shukri amin pleaded guilty in june to recruiting online for isis and helping a classmate get to syria to join that terror group. Amin, a onetime honors student, prison. The lone survivor from that horrific in Good Condition tonight, following a pair of surgeries. Vicki gardner was being interviewed when gunman Vester Flanagan fired 17 shots, wounding gardner and killing reporter Alison Parker and cameraman adam ward. Gardner recalls ducking before getting shot in the back and the gun jamming or running out of bullets. According to a family spokesman. Her family also says she was able to walk to an ambulance and call her husband in the aftermath. Now to the race for president. Hillary clinton and her fellow democratic rivals playing to a friendly room at the dnc summer meeting in minneapolis, even as questions swirl about the ambitions of one potential candidate not on the stage, Vice President joe biden. We get the details tonight from nbcs kristen welker. Reporter it was an energized Hillary Clinton in minneapolis today, reassuring democrats that despite the email controversy shes still the partys best bet. Thats whats at stake in this election. Whether our country keeps moving toward opportunity or whether republicans get another chance to rip away the progress. Whatever happened to the tradition of open debates . Reporter but it was an angry former Maryland GovernorMartin Omalley who accused the partys leadership of fixing the game. Four debates and four debates only, we are told, not asked. This sort of rigged process has never been attempted before. Reporter earning a chilly handshake with party chair Debbie Wasserman schultz. Later, vermont senator Bernie Sanders also chastised the party. We need a movement which takes on the economic and political establishment, not one which is part of that establishment. Reporter but after ticking off the points of his liberal agenda, his r eption was much warmer. For clintons part, she skipped over her partys rivals and launched some of her sharpest attacks yet at the republican frontrunner. Trump actually says he would do a much better job for women than i would. Now, thats a general Election Debate thats going to be a lot of fun. Reporter overshadowing it all, the potential candidate whos not here, Vice President joe biden, whos still weighing his options. There wasnt a whole lot of talk about biden here today, but democrats are decision. Kristen welker, nbc news, minneapolis. A powerful hurricane with unprecedented strength is how the National Service weather bulletin read on this date ten years ago, and they had it about right. Hurricane katrina literally changed the face of the louisiana and mississippi gulf coast and nearly drowned this city. Tonight Kerry Sanders takes a look at how far this region has come. Reporter in new orleans today the music is back, but the fresh. When katrina slammed ashore, she was a category 3 hurricane, 140mileperhour winds. The gulf coast took a beating. Katrinas storm surge overwhelmed new orleans levees. Flooded. People fled their homes. This is just an unbelievable scene. Reporter some the superdome, which became a convention of misery. Others stuck it out at home. Tens of thousands who would need rescue or would be beyond rescue. When it was over more than 1,800 were dead, most in new orleans. 70 of the homes damaged or destroyed. Today 80 of those who left have returned. The tourist sections of the city have been rebuilt. In other yaurz like the the lower ninth ward recovery has been slow. More than 142 billion have been spent to restore the battered gulf coast, where more than a Million People were displaced. In waveland, mississippi more than 20 of the population has never returned. There are just a lot of empty lots. Brownie, youre doing a heck of a job. 2005 then president bush had praise for fema director michael brown. Brown is now working host. President bush returned to new orleans today. The Crescent City has risen again, and its best days lie reporter this morning as new orleans celebrated its rebirth, robert green visited the providence cemetery, where his mother and granddaughter are buried. Both drowned ten years ago this week, when the levees broke. Anytime you lose a life, especially when you lose a life the way people lost their lives in katrina, it becomes important to make sure it doesnt happen again. Reporter the federal government has spent more than 14 billion building these concrete walls and reinforcing more than 169 miles of earthen levees, all designed, they hope, to prevent new orleans from ever lester . All right. Kerry sanders tonight. Kerry, thanks. Some of us who were here in new orleans during the early days of the katrina disaster openly wondered whether wed ever see this, tourists filling the streets, businesses roaring back. The successes of the last ten years are abundant to see. At the same time you dont have to look am to see the rebirth of the city has been uneven. Yet there remains here a deep reservoir of hope and determination. The tale of two cities is a familiar one to much of urban america. The haves and have nots. Its just that in new orleans it seemed to be mostly the latter who we remember were left desperate and abandoned in a drowning city. Help we couldnt get out. No transportation. Just was no way. You were left behind. We was left behind. Reporter today some wonder if the contrast isnt more glaring. 15 minutes from the iconic tourist mecca sits the hardhit lower 9th ward, dotted with the overgrown scars of katrina. Who would have believed that it would have taken a decade for a simple Grocery Store to open here . Where would i find a fresh tomato or fresh lemon around here . Right here. This is the only place. This is the only place. The only other Grocery Store, full service Grocery Store we have is walmart, and thats in the next city. You have to catch three city buses. Reporter army veteran b echl rnel cotland spent his life savings to open this store to a grateful community. We appreciate you coming around. No problem. Reporter ten years later were down to what weve got. Weve got one store back in this area. This actually started the operation of shoring up this levee. Reporter katrina didnt discriminate, but some question whether the recovery has. In its recent assessment of the state of black new orleans, the urban League Highlights 2013 figures showing black unemployment more than twice as high as it was for whites. And incomes virtually stagnant for africanamericans at around 25,000 a year. As the Median Income for whites climbed to over 60,000. Now been missed to make this a more equitable city . I dont think its been missed, but i do think it requires a correction. Reporter a course bernel cotland is trying to steer on this lonely block, one customer at a time. In my world youre either a problem of the problem or the solution. Everybody knows what the problem was. The solution was theres no stores, you have to open one. Thats what i did. Reporter bernel tells me his next act, he wants taupe a laundry. Theres not one of those around either. Its the little things, he points out, that make a community, and hes trying his best. Still ahead tonight, judgment day in the trial that has gripped so many this summer. 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Ba for many when the music began to play again here in the French Quarter they knew new orleans was goin to be okay. The musicians of this remarkable city have played a big role in helping to bring it back. One of them is troy andrews, better known to jazz fans as trombone shorty. And before we sign off, troy, first of all, great to have you here. Tell me what you learned about this city in the face of that tragedy fen years ago. One thing i learned about the people of new orleans is that were very strong and we dont give up and we support one another all over the world. So the city of new orleans and the people, really love this city everywhere they go. You remember what it as like the first time you went back to the club dur anind the early days . Oh, yeah, i remember. To be able to be back here and play some music. Heartbeat of the city. And that actually helped a bunch of well, i think certainly you see the people out here, and its almost like a snapshot of what it was like before. People walking around. We can hear music playing down the street, tap dancers around. Even more at home and that the citys going strong. Well, listen, its here. Were glad youre doing well. By. Thats going to do it night. For all of us at nbc news, im lester holt. Have a good night, from new orleans. Justin bieber opening up about his new love, his biggest regret, and who he thinks is out to get him. Now on extra. Justin biebers reinvention. Are you in love . Yes. Before he hit sundays vmas, biebers deeply personal new interview about his mistakes, music and enemies. Do you think theres people who want to see you fail . 100 why Kim Kardashian may not have kids again. Caitlyn jenner ready to date a man . New photos. Jennifer garner with ben and a new nanny. Virginia shooters disturbing ildhood secrets exposed today. 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