It came onshore last night as a category 4 storm with 150mileperhour winds which would make it the strongest storm tied for the strongest storm ever to hit western louisiana. Its now a category 1 storm still, straight due north of where it came onshore. More than 450,000 people at last report in texas and louisiana are without power. These reports come in fairly slowly. Weve seen bucket trucks getting out there because the winds on the western side of the storm have died down enough for emergency crews to get out. There are still winds inside the storm. Hurricane force winds that are not allowing crews or Emergency Management to get out. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards confirms the storm has killed at least one person. It was a 14yearold girl in leesville, louisiana, when a tree fell on her. Thats a major source of the damage. Water tends to be the most dangerous part of these things. But after the wind an rain, the trees fall. Thats generally what results in the Power Outages. Acc
This is 2020. And we are not going to tolerate this anymore. The shooting could leave jacob blake permanently disabled. He remains in the hospital with major injuries to his vital organs. Despite being immobile he had been handcuffed to his hospital bed. Those cuffs are off now. Also today President Trump toured the damage from hurricane laura in louisiana and texas. He had referred to rioters who disrupted protests as thugs and anarchists during a Campaign Event last night in New Hampshire. Mr. Trump is also taking credit for the calm in kenosha after wisconsins governor activated the National Guard. Joe biden called that out in a speech to the National Guard association. By standing and recommending that you should be deployed to, quote, dominate your fellow citizens threatening if governors didnt do something the president would, you know, were so much better than this. You deserve so much better. Let us begin in kenosha where nbcs janelle ross is standing by. Whats the latest from
Moment in the 2020 campaign. More on that in a moment, but first, tensions mounting after a deadly Portland Shooting between clashes of Trump Supporters and protesters against police brutality. The New York Times reporting the victim of saturdays shooting was wearing a hat with the ig snsignia, local authorit are still looking for the gunman with assistance now from the fbi and atf. President trump quick to offer public sympathy and support for his followers after the Portland Shooting, but the same president who previously said there were good people on both sides of a neonazi rally in charlottesville has yet to say a good word about Racial Justice protesters including two who were shot and killed in kenosha. The president is again, zeroing in on portlands mayor for things getting out of control. Ted wheeler is forcefully pushing back. Its you who have created the hate and the division. Your campaign of fear is as antidemocratic as anything youve done to create hate and vitriol in our
Ill ask him about israels peace deal with the uae. Is kushner rewarding the emirates with f35 Stealth Fighters . Also, we will talk about the 2020 campaign in which he is playing a major role. Then the worlds eyes were on russia this week after the suspected poisoning of Alexei Navalny, a major thorn in Vladimir Putins side. Plus, will russia take advantage of belarus, the former soviet nation that has been racked by unrest after a contested election . Also, bill gates told me americas covid tests are worthless and an insanity. The most worthless test results of any country in the world. A harvard epidemiologist has a plan to fix the system. He says we can have millions of instant tests administered daily. He will explain how. First, heres my take. The Democratic National convention began with a mosaic of americans reciting the preamble to the u. S. Constitution. It was a striking display of ethnic, racial and gender diversity. More importantly, this time around, the democrats took car
Bidens first trip to that state since becoming the democratic nominee and since the first trip to kenosha became a white powder keg after a Police Officer shot jacob blake in the back search times. This afternoon the Vice President will do what the president did not do and meet with blakes family. More on bidens trip and the potstirring ahead but first the coronavirus challenge. In a new interview last hour with dr. Anthony fauci the headlines a Coronavirus Vaccine will not likely be ready by october, fauci says, and americans should let data guide everything on coronavirus decisionmaking. Thats what dr. Fauci says. The president thinks differently and dr. Fauci urging americans to have faith that the fda will do the same and career officials will not be swayed by politics when it comes to vaccines and there is this, a warning about the coming Labor Day Holiday weekend. We dont want to see a repeat of the surges that we have seen following other holiday weekends. We dont want to see a