storm surge was category 5, as you know. so we re hopeful that, you know, it s moving in the direction and with the speed that i think 20 miles an hour plus. that s that will, you know, ease the blow. i think we ll sustain. that s what we re hearing from chad myers in the cnn weather center, that this storm will move through quickly, it will not be like harvey, which sat there for a while. once it makes landfall, it s going to keep going. mayor andrew gilitch of the city of biloxi, we ll check back in to make sure everybody is okay. thanks for being with us this morning. thank you. thank you very much for calling. bye-bye. sure. this is cnn breaking news. we have some breaking news this hour. just moments ago we are being told police began investigating an incident in london. this is something that happened near the national museum. here are some of the pictures we re just getting in. there are a number of people who have been injured.
it. exactly, you took the words right out of my mouth. thank you so much. derek van dam is in biloxi, mississippi. reporter: the national hurricane center official track makes it right through biloxi. this is the boat and casinos and hotels. one of 12 are under a current mandatory evacuations. that was the hotel that our crew was staying at. we no longer have that helotel our availability. of course, there is a cure few tonight that s been issued by the city of biloxi, that s in effect by 7:00 p.m. through 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. of course, land fall tonight expected around midnight here along the coast of mississippi.
and we have the shelter. the great thing to happen so to speak, we have these reminders that we saw down in florida that we saw with our good friends in rockport, texas where we just visited and had people working down there. these were reminders to people that, hey, katrina was a while back when it hit us, but look what can still happen this late in the year. so, that s what we re doing. this is not our first rodeo, we know it s a category 1 but you want to be vigilant in your preparations. just a few minute ago, our hurricane warning sirens were sounding throughout the city of biloxi, reminding people to take this seriously. and we think this is. public affairs manager creel, thank you for joining us. hopefully, all your citizens have gotten out. and everything will be fine. all right. let s now now to las vegas and
martin luther king jr. day. there was a tweet that called it great america s day. in the characterization, the city ordinance as well, and the precedent was the state law, and let me get to the characterization of great americans. does the city of biloxi consider robert e. lee to be a great america, and his goal was to split up the country? my goal here today is to tell you the city of biloxi i got your goal. i have a question. does the city of biloxi consider robert e lee to be a great american being his goal was to separate america? biloxi, mississippi, celebrates mlk day and we are going to do that on monday
unpredictable it only takes six inches of water for the average person to be swept off their feet. if people are trying to salvage their labor day , if they go into the gulf, we have physically felt the winds shift in different directions. the storm making its way up and out of biloxi and southern mississippi here. what they are worried about is people are going to go out in the water rip currents are almost invisable. they are invincible to anyone on land. they are worried about people heading out. we ve seen three deaths so far, weather-related. one in texas, one near mississippi and one in alabama. . the two in texas and alabama were related to people going out in the gulf people sudden be cautious if they are going to try to salvage this labor day weekend. gregg: elizabeth, thanks. heather: nearly 20 years after the bombing of the world trade center and 10 years since terrorists knocked down the twin towers there s