To three hours a week. Hello and welcome to the programme. It is some storm that reverses the flow of the mississippi river! hurricane ida landed a category 4 hurricane and blew through south east louisiana with such force that at times they recorded sustained winds of over isomph. Today the search and rescue teams were fanning out across the state to assess the scale of the damage. And it is widespread. There have been reports of people climbing into attics to escape the rising waters flood. The rising waters. It s not as bad as katrina, which devestated new orleans 16 years ago it would appear the levees, barriers and pumps have done theirjob but still, there are i million people in and around the city without any power, and they will be for some time. From new orleans here s our correspondent, neda tawfiq. This was the force of hurricane ida s wins. A hospital s roof was lifted off by ease by the gas. Low lying areas were overwhelmed by the tidal surge. This footage from a fire
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Earning potential? hello there. Let s return to our top story the g7 summit in the cornish resort of carbis bay, in the south west of england. Leaders of the rich democracies will be trying to agree how to lead the world out of the pandemic. The host, the uk prime minister, borisjohnson, wants the g7 to pledge to have the whole world vaccinated by the end of next year, with a promise to ramp up global production of doses. He s pledging 100 million doses from the uk for low income countries over the next year. President biden got the ball rolling on thursday, appearing with the boss of us drugs giant pfizer to announced a donation of half a billion of its vaccines paid for by america for 100 of the world s poorest countries. This isn t the american economy, it is in all of our interests to have the global economy recover well. That won t happen unless we get this pandemic under control worldwide. As a said inmate joint session to congress in april, america will be the arsenal of vac