are under way, but they are struggling with no power and no water as well. so joining me now the parish president curt lupeen. thank you for joining us. how are you guys doing right now? what does placaman s parish need the most? the end stretch tuesday the gulf of mexico. if you look at the boot of louisiana, we re the end of the road. so our biggest challenge now is 100% of our residents are out of power. i am in the bell chase area which is the northern part of the parish. we do have water supply now. we didn t last night after a generator problem, but we re back up and running. but we re trying to pump water down to my southern end of my
no irish gig down the street at midnig midnight. it s a nightmare for carnival cruise line. it may not be as bad as the one last night. but it s filled with thousands of vacationers. a generator problem shut off power on dream cruise ship. causing some toilets to stop working. passengers had to stay onboard even though the ship was docked in st. maarten. all of the passengers were flown home. we re learning that the carnival legend is being cut short, too. a problem with a device that controls the ship s speed. that means the ship will skip stuck in cruise control. it will skip a visit to grand cayman and head back to port. the people on the ship are saying that the morale is extremely low. they name the cruises dream, and legend, we need one that s named the latrine. what kind of deal is it going to be? buy one ticket and get ten free?
charleston, south carolina. tonight, newt gingrich whose performance in tomorrow s primary election here will make or break his run at the presidency. no doubt, he s surging in the polls. you look that left right and center. the latest show him in striking distance of mitt romney. he s also ignited the fire storm, slamming the media of his ex-wife s accusation he wanted an open marriage. the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern the country, harder to attract decent people to runfor office, and rm i m appalled you would open a presidential debate with a topic like that. i caught up with newt gingrich today, about an hour and a half away from here, in a town called orangeburg, south carolina, to talk about the race, the issues, and yes, his private life. do you feel the momentum has changed for you over the past two days? i think it really began to change dramatically after monday night in myrtle beach. you could go b
a war. and the latest from a cruise ship that ran aground off the coast of italy. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett, and outfront tonight, we re live in charleston, south carolina. tonight, newt gingrich whose performance in tomorrow s primary election here will make or break his run at the presidency. no doubt, he s surging in the polls. you look that left right and center. the latest show him in striking distance of mitt romney. he s also ignited the fire storm, slamming the media of his ex-wife s accusation he wanted an open marriage. the destructive, vicious, negative media of much of the news media makes it harder to govern the country, harder to attract decent people to run forophilfor office, and rm i m appalled you would open a presidential debate with a topic like that. i caught up with newt gingrich today, about an hour and a half away from here, in a town called orangeburg, south carolina, to talk about the race, the issues, and ye
jenna: fox news alert, incredible video coming in from inside the doomed cruise ship in italy. watch this. we are getting amateur to the average filmed by a passenger as they wait for information. this is during the height of the evacuation. they ve got their life jackets on, this is minutes after the ship hits these rocks off the italian coast. you can hear one crew member in italian, this is being translated. we are being told that the direction of this woman here is to a life boat while another crew member is telling them to go back to their cabins saying there was some electrical problem that they fixed. a woman who appears to be a staff member is saying that, this is the woman, they are saying they had a generator problem. everything is now resolved she s saying. mind you that the ship is sinking at this point. eleven people are known to have