canada and all around the world. i m kimberly, who were coming up this hour on cnn newsroom historic rainfall in south florida leads to serious flooding power outages closing of the fort lauderdale international airport will tell you when the extreme weather will move out of the area, plus a late night ruling by a federal appeals court on the suspension of the abortion inducing drug. we ll have details, and president biden celebrates his family roots during his three day visit ireland just ahead we ll go live to dublin for a preview of today s events. live from atlanta. this is cnn newsroom with kim bruun huber. and we begin with what some call a once and a half century extreme weather event happening right now in florida, up to 20 inches of rain has fallen in parts of south florida the past few hours with more in the forecast. well that led to a flash water emergency, the highest possible level of flood warning. so what you re seeing here is the ford lauderdale hollywood int
question, kim and you know, i think we ve got live pictures of the constitutional council right now, and this is an extraordinary scene. you are seeing barricades being erected by police around the constitutional council and this is unprecedented. we ve never seen this before. and it goes to show just how charged this ruling is and obviously they are expecting more protests. today there is a ban around the constitutional council. they re not meant to get anywhere. here it hence the barricades, but we do expect protestors to show up probably in other parts of paris and indeed across the nation. but we won t know the ruling until later on this evening. now, president macron has already asked to meet with trade union heads after that ruling, but it s hard to see what kind of common ground they may be able to find. kim interesting we ll be following that story throughout the day. saskia van dorn in paris. thanks so much.
streets thursday and ongoing protests against the government s controversial plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. all some demonstrations were peaceful, but others weren t have a look at this. smoke bombs, projectiles and tear gas were fired as protesters clashed with police during us live now from paris is cnn senior producer saskia van dorn. so take us through what we ve seen so far. some of that chaos that we saw on the streets there and what we re expecting when it comes to today s crucial decision by the constitutional council. well as you just said kim. indeed all eyes are on the constitutional council ruling today and on the nine members who will be voting now they ve been deliberating for the past four weeks, and we expect the decision to come this evening. now they could either green light the law or they could approve some parts of it and ask for changes to certain aspects. they could also throw
scale as protests, they will probably be a bit smaller, but they will be happening nonetheless. now, even if they do die down eventually we must talk about macron and how weakened he has been by this pension reform. he is still in the first year of his second term. he s got four years left, and he has ambitious reform plans. but a lot of people are saying, how is he going to push those through when he doesn t have a parliamentary majority and no longer has popular opinion on his side, kim all right. we ll be watching this story throughout the day. saskia van dorn in paris. thanks so much. north korea has fired off yet another ballistic missile, and this one set off an evacuation warning for the northern japanese island of hokkaido. have a look. the siren there. that warning was later lifted with the japanese government said it wasn t a false alarm that that was meant to inform people about possible dangers like falling objects
episode will lead the hike our court to finally adopt some formal rules, or at least to respond to questions and be more transparent about their off bench behavior. john biskupic, cnn washington. a new round of nationwide protests in france against the government s pension reforms escalated into clashes and scuffles with police on thursday, the french interior minister says more than 150 police officers were injured, some of them seriously. authorities detained more than 100 people across the country. nearly 600,000 people took part in the protests. this was the scene as protesters targeted a well known financial company in paris for its ties to private pension funds. cnn senior producer saskia van dorn joins us from paris images we saw last night looked really dramatic. how did it turn out, saskia? yes well, max, you know there was a big turnout yesterday has been lower than previous protests,