The bullet the book. Oh. This is deja vu news live from berlin the us Vice President says the migrant detention system on the texas mexico border is overloaded his comments came after he visited 2 detention camps on the border around the country hundreds of vigils have been held calling for those camps to be close to. Their u. S. Correspondent Helen Humphrey is in new orleans where storm barry has made landfall. The storm has brought powerful wind down to rain suit you all ends and all 40 is
a warning that the state of louisiana still faces a significant threat in the coming days. And as india gears up to launch a space probe to the moon excitement is rising among the nations schoolchildren to this next generation of potential astronauts have been attending events leading up to the launch around the capital delhi. Both going to. The bag. Im irish waiter thank you for joining us. The u. S. Vice president mike pence has said that the situation at the Mexican Border is in crisis his words
was felix fleming. opened the door. after the window down. and to see the destruction in as a 1st hurricane and i ve been through quite a few that. actually. the sea had swallowed up his garden where he grew mangoes and other tropical fruits felix fleming also sees similarities between bracks it and irma. i think that s even worse them oh my. you know for us because that s all i really have keep our fingers crossed that . somehow it rouer code favor but we don t. no you know that s the big question for us. on quilla is a 20 minute boat ride from st martin it s nearest neighbor island.
that long slow epic drench of water in the coming days and i will say that one levee one river has already overflowed and levee not here by the mississippi river the river but about an hour and a hoff away from here and there we saw a flash flooding triggered i ve already sold and ground in another part of the state we saw 12 people have to be rescued by helicopter today and even if this storm has been downgraded we normally see the 1st hurricane of the year on the 10th organists already this is one month and it s not just the levees right there are fears that the mississippi river might overflow its banks is that still a concern that has been a concern what i can say right now is that the river is very swollen as you can see it has reached about 5 meters today and the levees are at 6 meters they were significantly rebuilt in the wake of hurricane katrina the governor says right now
a relatively weak storm but weather forecasters say the very slow speed means it can dump a huge amount of rain over the region water levels are already threatening the city s levees as authorities warn of deadly flooding across the gulf coast tens of thousands of people have already lost power in the state of louisiana. and joining us now from new orleans is dubious correspondent helena humphrey helena barry was a hurricane and it s now weakened to a tropical storm but how big of a threat does it still pose to the region where it s made landfall. make no mistake my it is still very much a threat meteorologist say it is normal for a storm to be downgraded once it hit lands and once it hits land because then it is not over the water where it sucks its energy up so this is rather normal but at the same time of course the warre with barry has always been the water in a flood prone area where we are now for example in new orleans we worried about