30. this driver was able to just take a few shots. you can see the flames, the black plumes of smoke. we can tell you now that there is a shelter in placed on, meaning do not leave your home. stay where you are for a two mile radius around this plant. they re calling this i think obviously a hazmat situation. all of the people within that radius were notified by the telephone, this coming to us from the ascension parish. this is dire enough to have everybody in the two mile radius shelter in place. if you re wondering what is burning in that fire, this plant was apparently producing ethylene and also polymer grade propylene. those are chemicals that not only are used to ripen fruit, but also used in plastics anden
we blocked a majority of the wind. there is a place where families have come to evacuate from this storm z this hotel in front of me. there are families with small children up running around down hallways. and they re trying just to hunker down and ride out the storm as well. can t see up to highway 30 here. i don t know if you can see behind me there is a section of highway 30. probably two, three traffic lights and some businesses on each side where lights are on is an indication of why people tend to come to this area. that is still there is power there. beyond that ridge is where it landed here, we ve seen video. we re down there earlier today with portions just washed away.
career qantas grounded all of their planes because of a labor dispute. a lawyer for missing baby lisa s parents just got the boot. the parents of the missing 11-month-old girl cut ties with one of their attorneys. it came just hours after the couple cancelled a scheduled police interview with the baby s two half brothers. baby lisa disappeared from her home on october 4th. the st. louis cardinals are the world series champions. they defeated the texas rangers 6-2 in game seven of one of the most exciting world series in years. the cards third baseman david freese was named the most valuable player. more now on our top story. afghanistan. for u.s. troops it is one of the deadliest days there since the war began ten years ago. our nick walsh is in kabul. nick, what more can you tell us about how this happened? reporter: well, it appears that this incident was caused by a suicide bomber driving an explosive laden vehicle into a convoy in the center of kabul. a clarificatio
new trouble for vermont this morning. heavy rains are in the fort cast and they could cause new flooding because the ground is still saturated from hurricane irene. a flash flood will watch, rather, will go into effect tonight and throughout most of the state. msnbc craig melvin remained up in vermont over night and moved to bratle borough. you and i were talking about the vital tourist season for vermont s economy. all of the beautiful leaves that come out, yet they ve got impassable roads, miles of them, right in. reporter: it s rough going for a lot of folks here in vermont, specifically highway 30 and highway 100 here in vermont, alex. talked to folksiest who say those are the major thoroughfares for would-be tourists and a lot of parts of the roads now that are blocked, that are unpassable. it s already drizzling. the prayer even that is that does not turn into a complete downpour because the last thing
in some sense on trying to get the regulations down, trying to deal with this spending and the scary debt situation. i think it d be great if we at least ruled out tax increases down the road. as you know, the administration is calling for tax increases, and i think that is a harmful thing for the economy. jon: john taylor is an economics prof at stanford university. mr. taylor, thank you. thank you. patti ann: a big mess right now on the highway in texas. we have a truck that crashed and caught fire, apparently multiple vehicles were involved. it happened in mesquite, we re looking at new video right now from kdfw. this happened on a very busy intersection. the welcome back highway 30 at westbound highway 30. no fatalities, thankfully. the driver was apparently pulled out to safety, but what has happened now is this has heavily tied up traffic in this area. the truck was hauling scrap metal. the service roads are starting to open up again as this