canada and all around the world. i m kimberly, who were coming up this hour on cnn newsroom historic rainfall in south florida leads to serious flooding power outages closing of the fort lauderdale international airport will tell you when the extreme weather will move out of the area, plus a late night ruling by a federal appeals court on the suspension of the abortion inducing drug. we ll have details, and president biden celebrates his family roots during his three day visit ireland just ahead we ll go live to dublin for a preview of today s events. live from atlanta. this is cnn newsroom with kim bruun huber. and we begin with what some call a once and a half century extreme weather event happening right now in florida, up to 20 inches of rain has fallen in parts of south florida the past few hours with more in the forecast. well that led to a flash water emergency, the highest possible level of flood warning. so what you re seeing here is the ford lauderdale hollywood int
our correspondence houses update from washington, dc. after weeks of making the trek to the united states, about 100 migrants in two buses were transported from texas to the residents of the vice president kamala harris here in washington, dc. we spoke to one couple who didn t know where they were until we told them. they had travelled for about one month from venezuela to america, looking for a better life, for economic reasons, they explain. but i don t know what the future holds. translation: ~ ., , ., , ,, holds. translation: ., , ., holds. translation: ~ ., , ., , ,, ., , translation: we are very happy to be here, i translation: we are very happy to be here. i would translation: we are very happy to be here. i would be translation: we are very happy to be here, i would be able translation: we are very happy to be here, i would be able to translation: we are very happy to be here, i would be able to provide - translation: we are very happy to be here, i would be a
president, irish roots. his ancestry really kind of the reason that he has come to the island of ireland in the first place. and really, that does for so much of his political identity. this identity is the ancestor of working class irish immigrants who came to america looking for a better life. you did see that on full display yesterday in county louth, the president, greeted by thousands of people lining the streets and that cold drizzle to catch a glimpse of the american president. he was so enthusiastic about seeing them, he he questioned why his ancestors ever left ireland in the first place because it was so beautiful. of course they left because of the famine in that president did acknowledge that later in the day he was able to climb the tower of carling furred castle lookout over to newry. and that is the ports that has great great great grandfather, owen finnegan left ireland in 18 49 to come to the united states. and so much of this trip to ireland is really
were dropped off near the vice president s residence in washington. 0ur correspondent michelle fleury gave us this update from the us capital. after weeks of making the trek to the united states, about 100 migrants in two buses were transported from texas to the residence of the vice president, kamala harris, here in washington, dc. we spoke to one couple who didn t know where they were until we told them. they had travelled for about a month from venezuela to america looking for a better life, for economic reasons, they explained. but they don t know what the future holds. translation: we re. very happy to be here. i will be able to provide a better life for my family back in venezuela. we were told in texas that we were coming to washington, but we didn t know that we were going to be dropped off outside the house of the vice president. it s no accident that they were sent here. kamala harris angered republicans when she said recently that america s border is secure.