The Agenda: Kure Beach budget workshop, Southport tree ordinance portcitydaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from portcitydaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
really busy. lots of people would be going through here to go to work, to take the kids to appointments, whatever. because look, right there interstate 45, this is what takes you to houston. northbound, southbound goes to galveston. hurricane evacuation route. interstate 45 northbound is covered in water. you can t get to houston. when you walk through here you get a sense of how deep the water is and how widespread this is when we are some 27 miles from houston. and you see the pictures coming out of metro area itself and then all the way here much of the same scene. boats crashed into trees. you have a number of first responders that, of course, have just taken off here and they are up there now. see, look, the boat over there. we ve got three of them, look.
really see the visible signs of people making necessary preparations. a big reason for that, that city is protected by a storm defense system built after hurricane katrina, more than $14 billion went into that system. the time people need to be paying attention to there, 7:00 p.m. that s when a curfew will be in effect citywide in new orleans, fred. thank you. mississippi is asking residents along its gulf coast to get out of the way of nate and evacuate. cnn meteorologist derrick joins us now. are you in golf port or biloxi? in biloxi. good morning. that wasn t right. sorry about that. biloxi. reporter: no problem. that s all right. we re in biloxi ask we are right along the famed intersection 90 corridor, a hurricane evacuation route. there has been several events that have either been delayed or cancelled, including a beach boys concert that was supposed