Praises of survivors who have shown remarkable strength in the face of this disaster. As tough as this was, its been a wonderful thing. Even for the country to watch in the world to watch most apparently, the governor of the relationship with the governor mayor has been fantastic. Were signing a lot of documents now. Molly we have Team Coverage on this. Adam is in the Fox Weather Center following the path of another hurricane. Steve harrigan has the latest on the cleanup efforts. Well begin with peter who is following the president s trip. What kind of help and hope was the president able to give concerned evacuees . At one point while the president was handing out hotdogs and a man came to him about a complaint about fema he cut through the red tape and basically became the chief Customer Service representative for the government. But now theyre saying here, there been denied assistance. Where are they . Get them up. The president made a stop at first church which is been a Distributi
Late tonight or early morning. Our team is standing by in new orleans in mobile, alabama both understand hurricane warnings already this morning. We want to go straight to meteorologist chad miers. What are you learning. Just in at 8 00. 85mileperhour winds found with the Hurricane Hunter aircraft, tweeting about this, showing the radar that the aircraft is finding now, trying to get an eye. We talked about this earlier. As long as it doesnt have a really good defined eye, its not going to rapidly intensify. Its trying to get the eye. Its trying to intensify. The water is insanely warm here. 85 degrees in the water. Its not going to die but the only option it has is to get stronger. But does it have time . From new orleans to pensacola, thats the hurricane warning. Anywhere in that area, youre going to get damaged. This is the storm coming on shore in the next 15016 hour to hours. Youre going to have storm surge, kind of the surge of katrina. Just not as big as the surge of katrina. He
Arranged for Jeffrey Epstein. And Steve Hartman, two girls, one soul. Soul . I was just, like, thrown by just that word. Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. And this is our western edition. Forecasters say Tropical Storm barry continues to gain strength and should be a hurricane when it strikes the gulf coast tomorrow morning. Its on track to punch Louisiana Square in the mouth of the Mississippi River, which has never been as high as it is right now during a hurricane. Combine that with a chance of more than two feet of rain and a surge of seawater, and thats why the National Hurricane center is warning of life threatening flooding. Lake pontchartrain, just north of new orleans, was starting to kick up late today. And those who did not get out of new orleans by this evening are now advised to shelter in place. Well have the latest on the track and timing of the storm in just a moment, but we begin with David Begnaud in st. Marys parish where barry is expected to make landfall. Repor
Louisiana, first casey live from new orleans where levy system have perhaps biggest test since hurricane katrina, hey, casey . Eric, you can say that again, government leaders say that the post katrina Hurricane Protection system passed the test with flying colors, they say the pumps worked and they say that the gates that were closed, 244 of them helped keep the storm surge at bay and all of the federallymaintained levies along the Mississippi River held, you mentioned some problems with overtopping of levies down, emergency repairs have been successfully made to those as we were showing you yesterday, however, this was certainly not smooth sailing, there were a lot of problem areas for lower line perishes down here, look at the video, 12 rescues, 14 if you count two family pets were carried out by the u. S. Coast guard on morgan city, louisiana, rising water closed roads and communities where we were live yesterday particularly along the north side, the storm surge warning for lake p
Backyard and they told us that they built this wall here, this concrete wall is 7 feet above sea level, and back in that direction their dock, that is about 5 feet above sea level. So you can see how the water is literally started to get over the 5foot marker and lapping against the 7foot tall wall here, but as we were telling you in the last hour, the thing about this is, this is a lowlying area, so you can see the house back there, its built up on stilts, all of them around here are, in fact, if we keep panning fully around, you can see the house back there, all under stilts, living is all raised. You have places where people can raise boats, they can raise their cars, all belongs off the ground to try and keep the water at bay, now, we want to show you some video because we are hearing reports of some issues we will levies, its not breach of levies, they just had conference and they we wanted to emphasize that zero levies in the state of louisiana have breached or broken but they ar