In southwestern louisiana, about 30 miles east as a cat 4 a storm surge forecasters say could be 20 feet deep. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. The rain is steadily coming down here as hurricane laura moves up the coastline or state line from lake charles up to shreveport where i am the rain is coming down steadily for the past several hours this storm has been downgraded to a category 3. Many concerns remain around heavy rain that could lead to flooding and the possibility of high winds that could impact trees and cause trees to fall and lead to downed power lines and outages much like we are seeing in the southern part of the state. Shreveport is one of the places folks were evacuated to from lake charles we are here along the riverside where folks are staying in hotels to get away from the storm but the businesses here are closed casinos here are closed. The cities in the area, the surrounding area, School Districts all closed for the day as they wait out to see what exac
Focusing whats going on in washington, d. C. , we are after all coast to coast, were going to hear from the president meeting with the National Association of Police Organization, group that is endorsing him for reelection this go around, were also following a number of developments in florida with the hurricane moving in on the florida coast, Governor Desantis says this is going to be an issue for the state well into next week, we are monitoring those developments as it approaches the category two storm and were monitoring as well what is happening in silicon valley, big tech getting bigger, not only in stocks but any time to rain these guys in, google is a big exception to the runup, its stock not doing as well even the revenue is strong and the fact of the matter is, there was a notion that it is not enjoying the ride that the others are. Again, if you look at that the rich and wealth for not only themselves and their own investors, they have been the really only big game in town so
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All parts of the bay area were targeted today including cities like walnut creek and san leandro. Tonight we now know that at least five cities are under curfew including Pleasant Hill where a curfew just started at 9 30 tonight. In san jose people have been ordered to stay in their homes between 8 pm to 5 am. Other cities ordered a oneday curfew. Santa claras began at 830 tonight and begins to left at 5 am. San francisco started at eight and walnut creek imposed the earliest curfew which began at 6 30 tonight and continues until 5 tomorrow morning. Looters ran through the streets and took over downtown walnut creek around 5 30 this evening. The situation turned violent. A group of looters broken to stores such as target and urban outfitters. Many Stores Including apple boarded up today in preparation and officers had an increased presence around Broadway Plaza. In this video was posted on twitter. You can clearly see looters running off with clothes from a vans store. Its located on o