This is just some of the destruction in louisiana, thats about an Hour South of New Orleans. In New Orleans, the French Quarter was hit hard with significant damage. Still dark there but as The Sun comes up well have a better feel for things. In all, more than 1 Million people there are without electricity. The Power Outage could make the area for susceptible to extreme flooding like we see in this video from grand isle, along the coast. Joining us now jay gray. Good morning, the power is out in New Orleans, what does it look like this morning . Reporter willie, it is a mess right now. Once we get some sunshine i think well see more problems in New Orleans. But a break in the conditions, the winds dropped off, the rain thankfully after 16 straight hours has stopped. We have a chance to look at some of the devastation. You can see the Roof Top behind me pulled from a building thrown into the French Quarter, bringing with it an elevated street sign. You can see the brace there bent and p
that biden is declining trump s request to withhold records from the january 6th committee. nbc obtained a letter saying, quote, an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the united states. trump is now formally exerting executive privilege over the documents. biden is expected to reject it setting up what could be a legal showdown. trump could sue biden or congress or both and try to keep those records hidden. remember, trump and his allies tried to bury this probe and the question is why? why are they hiding from fact finding if they didn t do anything wrong? after he told them to defy the speems, it appears one lawyer is listening. steve bannon saying he won t comply with the request. his lawyer writing, we must semitrump s direction and honor his invocation of executive privilege. committee responding, they will swiftly consider advancing a criminal contempt of congress referral. bannon calling the committee a, quote, charade today. the democra
workers and pay their bills. hard working employees can breathe easier as well. no losses this is an important point. no losses will be borne by the taxpayers. dana: fox news alert. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. dana: a great monday morning. bill: good morning at home. president biden last hour reassuring americans the banking system is in tact after the second and third largest bank failures in u.s. history in the last couple of days. silicon valley bank in california. new york s signature bank yesterday. dana: they issued a joint statement saying depositers will get their money back at both banks. here is janet yellen yesterday. whenever a bank, especially one like silicon valley bank with billions of dollars in deposits fails, it is clearly a concern from the standpoint of depositors, many of which may be small businesses. dana: the market has been open for 31 minutes. what do we know? to avoid a re
been. i told president zelenskyy when we spoke in kyiv yesterday, i can proudly say that our support for ukraine remains unwavering. meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin is dialing up his rhetoric against the west, suspending participation in the last nuclear arms treaty with the u.s., even using the word war as he sends a clear message about what russia has long called a special military operation. translator: i would like to repeat, they started the war and we used the force in order to stop it. complicating questions about the future of this conflict, china s top diplomat is now in moscow this morning. live reports from russia, poland, and ukraine in moments. meanwhile, back here at home, a compounding crisis in ohio, the head of the epa is back in east palestine today as a clinic is set to open to address the community s health concerns following the derailment of the train with toxic chemicals on board. can they treat the mistrust building in the community
and russian media reports a car explosion has killed the daughter of an influential russian philosopher and key putin ally. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brun brunhuber. we begin with the extreme weather threat across the central and southwestern u.s. a tropical storm warning has been lifted for far southern texas, but rain from that system could spread into oklahoma and louisiana through midweek. strong winds are expected as the storm moves further inland. meanwhile, more than 12 million people across the southwestern and central u.s. are under flood watches. in parts of arizona, new mexico and texas, the risk of flash flooding is high, with these areas expecting heavy rain and thunderstorms throughout the day. in new mexico, residents are doing what they can to prepare for the worst. water backs up into our yards and also so far we made almost 50 sandbags. we have some that we made last year, but we re making more to prepare for that rain. an