America is still the land of the free because were the home of the brave. And thats your reality check. John avalon, thank you very much on this 9 11 eve. New day continues right now. Good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. It is friday, september 10th. Im John Berman with Brianna Keilar on this new day. President biden with new aggressive Vaccination Requirements that could affect as many as 100 Million americans. This is a new attempt to contain the latest Covid Surge and the president is clearly running low on patience. My message to Unvaccinated Americans is this. What more is there to wait for . What more do you need to see . Weve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin and your refusal has cost all of us. So please do the right thing. President biden announced that all unvaccinated employees at private companies with more than 100 workers, they have to do Weekly Testing. The way to get out of Weekly Testing, get vaccinated. Hes also
The little town of lafitte. And a flash flood emergency warning has been issued. The town s mayor spoke about the harrowing circumstances residents find themselves in right now. A whole bridge was taken out. Our levees were topped. Our surge levees were topped. T the school system, government buildings and hundreds of homes. It s never happened before. And all the outside areas were just hit so hard. We suffered storms before, but i ve never seen water like this in my life, and it just hit us the worst way possible. It was such a massive storm that it just totally devastated us. So all of orleans parish, which includes the city of new orleans, is without power. Statewide, more than a million customers have no electricity, and at least one person we know has died in the storm so far. Pedram javaheri has been tracking this dangerous storm as it moves across louisiana. Where is it right now, and what can you tell us about the strength? hi, pedram. Good to see you. Hey, robyn. Good seeing
Good to have you with us. We are getting down good to have you with us. We are getting down to good to have you with us. We are getting down to business. When the ever given ran aground and blocked the suez for a week in march, it halted roughly 15% of global trade in the process it was the culmination of a perfect storm for global supply chains. The ship finally made it into port in felixstowe yesterday to the relief of businesses whose precious cargo has been trapped for four months. The ever given saga highlighted our reliance on global supply chains for just about everything and exposed the weaknesses in seaborne transport. Here s our business correspondent theo leggett. Four months later and still bearing the scars of her encounter with the sandy banks of the suez canal, the ever given finally got into the port of felixstowe. This giant of the seas became stranded after negotiating one of the narrowest part of the canal, she was stuck fast and the waterway was not for six days. Hu
murdoch s role in all of this chaos? brand-new reporting about that coming up. but, first, it is a literal political storm in the south. this week showed that the problem of parallel news universes, the problem with alternative realities of information does not just apply to politics. it even applies to the weather. it even affects the way that natural and man made disasters are perceived. texans were left in the dark and the aftermath is just starting. thankfully, the power is mostly back on. the weather is warming up in texas this weekend. but the water crisis is massive. disruptions in water systems are affecting 14 million texans right now. and don t forget about louisiana or oklahoma. both of those states also hard hit as well. so let s truth sandwich what happened in the past week. truth sandwich. start with the truth. the power outages in texas were largely due to problems at coal and gas fired plants. wind farms ran half of what was expected with some turbines frozen.