Biden approved a major disaster declaration for louisiana. I came to shore as a category four storm with maximum stints over 150 miles per hour. It has been weakening as it s moved inland but slowly. And it is now down to a category two but the natural hurricane center says that it is still bringing catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding, to southeastern louisiana. And that has brought scenes like this in the city of houma. The extraordinary power of those high winds, meanwhile the entire city of new orleans is in the dark, without power tonight. Except for those with generators. The power company says ida caused quote, catastrophic transmission damage. Across louisiana more than 930,000 people have lost power. We have also had our first confirmed death caused by this hurricane a 60 year old man was killed when a tree fell on his home, just south of baton rouge. Of course this catastrophic storm is taking place during the pandemic in a state that has one of the high
Biden approved a major disaster declaration for louisiana. I became sure as a category four storm with maximum sustained, winds over 150 miles per hour. It has been weakening as it s moved inland, but slowly. And it is now to a category two. The national hurricane center says it is still bringing catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding, to southeastern louisiana. And that has brought scenes like this in the city of houma. The extraordinary power of those high, winds meanwhile, the entire city of new orleans is in the, dark without power tonight except for those with generators. The power companies is ida caused quote, catastrophic transmission damage. Across louisiana more than 930,000 people have lost power. We have also had our first confirmed death, caused by this hurricane. A 60yearold man was killed when a tree fell on his home, just south of baton rouge. Of course this catastrophic storms taking place during the pandemic, in a state that has one of the highest
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most from, i guess the vice president is the history-making as the vice presidential candidate and also the big divide in the country in the democratic party. he supported the surge in iraq and thought it was the right policy. and of course, you don t. barack obama became president because axelrod ran a great campaign. obama was a great candidate, but also because the country was so mad about the iraq war. he was on the side. you know, that people were mad about david actual, i m john king. thanks. the news continues right here on cnn front next a breaking news officials joust announcing they have recovered the bodies of two men we re on the francis scott key bridge when it collapsed, new details as well on the two survivors. and also the investigation is outfront shows you what happened on the ship in the moments before impact plus mike lindell is my pillow, evicted, reportedly tossed out of his warehouse for not paying rent as he s also forced to pay legal bills tied to t
central starts right now she s back and says, nothing will stop her from trying. donald trump in the georgia election subversion case, district attorney fani willis, return to the fulton county courtroom after donald trump s legal team failed to have her removed from the case today, the former president, hoping to get the case thrown out altogether. plus the stars will come out for a massive fundraising event tonight that has already hauled in millions for president biden who you might expect to see tonight and caught on camera the frantic effort to free passengers trapped inside a vehicle. i m sarah sign-in with john berman, fredricka whitfield here for kate baldwin today, this is cnn news central this morning, we are standing by to see fulton county district attorney fani willis enter the courtroom for the first time since efforts to disk qualify her fail. this is a hearing in the state s election subversion case against donald trump. trump is trying to get the case