Mississippi River which has broken records this year for weeks of flood stage water levels the levees are mostly about 20 feet high and expect water levels near the top the storm is expected to develop into a low level hurricane over the weekend packing winds capable of pushing river water over the top in levees between New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico for n.p.r. News I m Eileen Fleming in New Orleans American financier Jeffrey Epstein s asking a federal judge to let him out of jail while he defends himself against new charges of sex trafficking under-age girls in a filing in federal court in Manhattan today Epstein s attorneys tried to persuade the court that Epstein is not a flight risk Epstein was arrested last weekend after his private jet landed in New York City from Paris from Washington this is n.p.r. News. A white man is now charged with 1st degree murder after he allegedly stabbed a black teenager at a suburban Phoenix convenience store because he thought the rap music the
You re listening to n.p.r. The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Barry has formed in the Gulf of Mexico a little more than 100 miles south of New Orleans top sustained winds are 40 miles per hour Forecasters say it could develop into a hurricane by the weekend senior hurricane specialist Lexy on obviously warns flash flooding is a danger but the most so significant They would this system would probably be a model rainfall that we re going to get in and portions of the Louisiana area from the next couple days he says as much as 10 to 15 inches of rain could fall the federal government is out with new numbers about college graduates N.P.R. s Claire reports that more of them are going to for profit colleges and leaving with much bigger debt about 6 percent of all college grads in 2016 want to for profit colleges that number has grown 8 years ago it was 4.6 percent the majority of all students who graduated from college in 2016 took out loans to go students who went to public