Martin savidge has been monitoring the situation. Martin, what do we know . Reporter well, we have some positive news coming directly to us now in the form of information from the county Sheriffs Department. They coresponded to this event taking place at mt. Tabor High School on the northwest side of the city. They report that one student has been wounded and that police and the sheriffs deputies are now actively searching for a suspect. They say that all the other students are safe. Now, that school continues to be in lockdown and authorities both from the city and from the county Sheriffs Department are methodically going through the buildings of this campus. Its about 1,600 students, grades 9 through 12. The initial report came in around noon according to local news reports. They say there was a Resource Officer who called in the shooting. But again, Forsyth County Sheriffs Department twieeting out that one student has been injured, the suspect is being sought but all other students
All eight Transmission Lines into New Orleans are down. Officials estimate the outages could last three to four weeks in some areas. Ed is live in louisiana. Whats happening there . Reporter going into a storm, the people know to stock up on supplies but the food is starting to wind down. This one is run by volunteers with the cajun navy. You see the stacks of water. Theres food, diapers. The Line Snakes out of the Shopping Mall Parking lot and winds down to the street. At up with point it was blending into a line with the Gas Station is like everything coming to a Logger Head here. I dont know. I dont know. Im at A Loss For Words now. They always say were resill yents, but i dont know. Its going take a whole lot. Thats all i can say its tough. Well get through it but it will be tough. It will be a palestinian. Reporter every one kind of dealing with the concern over the supplies in their homes. The Gas Lines are crucial. Many people running whatever they can off of generators that req
Hello and welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Topping our world lead this hour, President Biden grappling with the fallout from the way the u. S. Withdrew from afghanistan. A senior State Department Official telling cnn that the majority of afghans who worked for the u. S. And applied for those special Immigrant Visas or sivs, well, they were likely left behind. Pentagon officials saying that the Siv Program was never meant to be used in a hurried evacuation. The Siv Program is obviously not designed to accommodate what we just did in evacuating over 100,000 people. And so perhaps this program should be looked at going forward. It is designed to be a slow process. Indeed it has been a historically slow process, one that a former Trump Administration official claims that the Trump Administration, quote, sabotaged. But that said, President Biden took office in january, and his administration failed to expedite the process to get these afghan allies out, despite months of warnings. This
Intensive care bed units left. our hospitals have converted other spaces to be used as contingency icu beds. those are filling up, too. reporter: the toll on the nation already steep and rising. average daily covid deaths now topping 1,300. more than doubling since mid-august. there are growing concerns about rising cases among children who are already being hospitalized with covid at the highest rate in more than a year according to cdc data. most either unvaccinated or under the age of 12 and unable to get vaccinated. the numbers have been three or four times what we were seeing last winter at its peak. reporter: school districts in two counties in northern florida shutting down for several days, either due to a spike in covid cases or quarantine-related staffing shortages or both. neither district mandates masks. governor ron desantis has banned school mask mandates in the sunshine state. [ chanting ] reporter: still, volusia
Several days citing a spike in covid cases or quarantine related staffing shortages or both. neither district mandates masks. that s the problem. if you don t have masks, your kids have to go home, which one would you prefer. exactly. if you want to keep the kids in school, you have to take precautions. thank you for the reporting. top of the hour now. victor is off today. just in to cnn, the white house says president biden will go do louisiana on friday to survey the damage from hurricane ida. the national guard says it has rescued nearly 400 people at this point. here s some new video for you. this is a cow stuck in a tree. rescue trues are trying to get the cow out. this is up with of the strange things after a storm like this. almost a million customers are without pow r across louisiana.