west. here s what s happening. big apple blackout. why the lights went out and how people coped in the dark. coastal communities under water, cut off by flooding. how the threat from tropical storm barry is far from over. [ crowd chanting ] and outrage over immigration raids. the latest on i.c.e. plans in cities across the country. plus, what s worse, republicans bashing trump behind his back but not confronting him publicly, or the rift between the house speaker and the squad? answers ahead. we re starting with the very latest from a gulf coast tropical storm barry, downgraded from hurricane strength but still packing a pretty big punch with 45-mile-an-hour winds, drges storm surge and flash flooding remains serious threats in louisiana with a total of about 8 to 15 inches of rain expected. flash floods pressing the coast guard into rescue service southwest of new orleans
of georgia about her country s renewed tensions with russia and its long time if it s to join the european. hello i m christine want to welcome to the program. the 1st major stroll off the u.s. atlantic hurricane season has made landfall along the gulf coast tropical storm barry is a slow moving system with the potential to deliver record rainfall and flooding across the region officials they hope the improved the levees will hold up against rising water levels it s america s 1st major storm of the season. despite full costs new orleans has so far been spared the worst of it but tropical storm barry now no longer hurricane strength only recently made landfall.
hopefully, hopefully that works. the wind blowing from the south and we ve been working around the clock. the most we can do is flood fight. we can keep the water out in the sections of the levees, thaen we ll have done our job. there s states of emergency in louisiana and mississippi. the long lasting downpours expected to affect more than 3 million people this weekend, including residents in alabama. while a storm surge is hitting louisiana, in mississippi, it s flooding, already leaving people and alligators stranded. you can see that there. meteorologist bill karins here. what are we expecting here? flood fight is the word on the street. we re waiting to see where it sets up, the heavy banding. the biggest thing overnight is that this storm barry shifted further west when i woke up this morning, barry was almost in texas. i had to do a double take, it was supposed to be over the top
all of our computers were pinpointing baton rouge with the possibility of 15, 20 inches of rain. what happened is, see the jog the storm took. barry is much closer to the texas/louisiana border than it was supposed to be. that has taken the heavy band of rain that was going to be narrow and it shifted it towards lafayette, louisiana. if there s one city i m concerned with and the surrounding areas, it s laugh yechlt you can see the heavy band of rain off the coast and centered over the top of lafayette. that s the area of greatest concern and we have a high risk of flash flooding. doesn t mean we can t have flooding in the baton rouge area. but your totals have definitely come down. as far as where the storm heads, it s becoming a tropical depression later on today and shift to areas of arkansas. it will be completely dead and we won t track it anymore by the time to monday night and tuesday morning. it will have dissipated by then. this takes us to the rainfall
this morning. he had mentioned that it took five hours, but the power is back on. you know, certainly a vulnerability, not as widespread as some power outages like back in 2003 or 1977. incidentally, the 42nd anniversary yesterday of just a weird fact that it happened on the great new york city blackout of 1977. lot worse outcome then than now, jo ling. chris pollone, surviving the blackout in new york city. thanks for joining us. now to the latest on tropical storm barry. strong winds and heavy rains ripping through the gulf coast states. downgraded now, the storms blew off rooftops packing winds of 45 miles per hour. the threat of a dangerous storm surge and flash flooding remains. barry is now expected to dump 18 to 15 inches of rain over mississippi and louisiana. increasing the risk of overtopping levees like this one near lake grove. it s a risk that some residents were willing to take to find the