Take a look at these pictures. This morning, this is what residents are waking up to. This is new orleans. Many homes are flooded. Roofs have been torn off. We re hearing reports that some people are still trapped in their homes as waters rise. Governor john bell edwards urged residents to stay where they are. All of this, as we re hearing that levees across the state are strained. Some have been overtopped. Many have withstood the rising waters around new orleans. Unfortunately most of new orleans is without power. On the ground there, nadia, tell us how those levees are holding. Reporter: the street to my right is the french quarter. We re finally get ting an idea f what happened. The aftermath of hurricane ida. You can see the destruction behind me. Let s take a walk as we go down the street, which is normally a very nice neighborhood, but it s just been trashed by all of these trees. And this here, you can see this lamp here that s slanted over on top of this car. You can also see
For. And now there are growing concerns over the safety of some other older buildings in the area. Multiple buildings have been evacuated, inspections orders. Natasha chen is in surfside, florida, with the latest. So how much of a difference does it make that the rescue and recovery teams could access the full site of the collapsed building now? reporter: well this is going to be a big deal, jim. Because prior to the demolition he were were told that search and rescue teams couldn t access the part closest to the building, the remaining parts of the building itself and that was because of the instability of the structure. They were concerned about the storm potentially taking the building down for them in the wrong direction, making that an immediate threat on the people on site. So this is a controlled way of bringing it down and as you said, now they have more access to the rest of the debris pile. Of course a very nervewracking things for families to see because when you re watching
Alleged tax crimes. Sources tell cnn that charges are expected to be unsealed just in a few hours from now and weisselberg is set to be arraigned later today at a lower manhattan courthouse. A attorney for president trump said he is not expected to be charged. Let s go to kara scannell outside of the white house. What do we know and what happened today? reporter: good morning, poppy and jim. Allen weisselberg did surrender to the manhattan district attorney s office. Later this afternoon he and the trump organization will be arraigned on the charges. That is when we expect the indictment will be unsealed and we ll know the details and the breadth of the charges and how much money the company and allen weisselberg is alleged to have apparently not paid taxes on. But we re waiting for those details. Now we just got a statement in from allen weisselberg s attorneys saying mr. Weisselberg intends to pleads not guilty and will fight these charges in court. We also got a statement from the t
Thanks for staying with us. I m victor blackwell. I m alisyn camerota. Truth or trump, that s the choice facing house republicans as we speak. They are getting ready to vote on a bipartisan deal to create an independent commission to investigate what exactly happened leading up to january 6th and then during the deadly insurrection and why it took so long for backup help to arrive. The top republican in the house, kevin mccarthy, does not want a commission to look into that. Neither does senator mitch mcconnell. Mcconnell opposes the bill now after directly blaming former president trump for stoking the riots. This was just a few months ago. It s not at all clear what new facts or additional investigation yet another commission could actually lay on top of existing efforts by law enforcement and congress. What is clear is that house democrats have handled this proposal in partisan bad faith. I ve been an outspoken critic about all of the episodes of political violence that our nation h
Wait, a minute? but what have you been doing for the last two hours?. Delegating? oh, good one. Move your xfinity services without breaking a sweat. Xfinity makes moving easy. Go online to transfer your services in about a minute. Get started today. President biden just hours away from his critical summit with vladimir putin. The stakes could not be higher with both leaders admitting u. S. Russia relations are at a new low. Plus the same day that the house holds hearings on the security failures of the january 6 attack, 20 house republicans voting against offering the gold medal to the policeman what saved the capitol. And the one in the trump organization could face charges this summer. We ll talk about what that means for that president. I m here with amanda carpenter and john. Good to see both of you. President biden will meet with vladimir putin in just a few hours. What would make this a success for biden? what s the word? don, we expect it to be long and tense. It will start abou