we will bring you that speech live. and in florida, grim new details about how many people were killed by a different hurricane, ian of course. and the new number just coming in. some officials now responding to criticism about their initial response to ian. we ve got our team standing by live on the ground. also this hour, we re live in district court in dc with opening statements happening now, in the conspiracy trial of leaders for the oath keepers. why the defense is hanging its case on something former president trump didn t do, and what prosecutors are saying today about what the defendants said were not enough weapons. we will talk about it coming up. and october, not spooked yet. rare good news lately from the market. the dow up 800 points. we will talk about what is behind the rally on wall street later in the show. i m hallie jackson on assignment for a story you will see later on in the month. joining me is gabe guiterrez in san germane puerto rico and shaq bre
Massive. Forests and money. Tragic reality behind. The exploitation starts july 24th. The United Nations is calling on europe to restart my current rescue operations in the mediterranean and to stop returning refugees to libya the e. U. s operations the fear ended in march because Member States could not agree on how to divide up migrants arriving from north africa. U. S. Regulators have reportedly agreed to fine facebook 5000000000. 00 for data breaches
the penalty relates to the lake of private information about millions of facebook users to cambridge analytical last year it would be the biggest fine ever imposed by the federal trade commission. The us City Of New Orleans is bracing itself for the most destructive storms since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 residents have been warned to expect 48 hours of nonstop brain Emergency Services say the Mississippi River is close to breaching the levee system which protects the city. Police in japan all to have released 4 crew members of any rain
wasn t so much the wind as the water. i tried swimming to higher ground, but there was no higher ground. reporter: according to the national hurricane center, storm surge flooding measured 10 to 28 feet above normal tide levels. the storm surge that poured into lake pontchartrain breached the levee system, flooding most of new orleans. catastrophic flooding spread for miles inland, destroying residential neighborhoods. it came in so fast. it was from 1 inch to 10 feet in the matter of ten minutes. reporter: nearly 1400 people perished during the hurricane and the floods that followed. most of them drowned. katrina is a prime example of how deadly a storm surge can be. in 2008, hurricane ike made landfall as it swept over galveston island on the texas coast. i was a category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour. much of the area saw devastating storm surges of 15 to 20 feet
here, the storm surge. it s known as storm generated water over and above the predicted tides. our randi kaye puts this anticipated surge in historical perspective. reporter: this is what it s like in downtown new orleans right now. it s hard to estimate how much water that is. reporter: in august 2005, hurricane katrina barreled into the louisiana coast. the storm was a powerful category 3 hurricane when it made landfall with winds near 127 miles per hour. but what made katrina so deadly wasn t so much the wind as the water. i tried swimming to higher ground, but there was no higher ground. reporter: according to the national hurricane center, storm surge flooding measured 10 to 28 feet above normal tide levels. the storm surge that poured into lake pontchartrain breached the levee system, flooding most of new orleans. catastrophic flooding spread for miles inland, destroying residential neighborhoods. it came in so fast.
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