Surge and torrential rain all slamming louisiana 16 years to the Day Hurricane Katrina made landfall. More than 400,000 customers without power right now. That number expected to keep going up as ida makes its way inland. Ida is tied with Hurricane Laura as the strongest storm on record ever to hit louisiana. The Storms Strength no match for the Mississippi River, partially reversing its flow. Lets begin with Jason Carroll In Houma, louisiana. What can you tell us . Reporter jim, we have shifted position again to an area thats even closer to this brick building, because the conditions have deteriorated to a point where we just need to be more mindful of our safety. Thats where i was standing during the last live report we did with you just a few moments ago. You can see another tree as come down over there. Looking from that Vantage Point you get a real sense of just how strong the wind is. I could stand there ten minutes ago. Ten minutes later, no longer. If you look right out here, y
Remains a big space of air that we crawled, we crawled in those tunnels. Were standing by for an update from the top officials on the Search Effort which now enters day seven. The Death Toll could go up, sadly, significantly later this morning. It now stands at 12 dead, 149 other people still unaccounted for. Were also learning critical new clues about the collapse from residents who made it out alive. One survivor tells cnn that she saw part of the Pool Deck and a Parking Area Collapse first, then minutes later the building came crumbling down. Lets begin our coverage this hour with cnns rosa flores, shes covering the Search And Rescue operation. Still a Search And Rescue operation, day seven. Reporter you know, wolf, the biggest development is from that israeli commander saying that they found tunnels. I can tell you from being here from day one, one of the biggest worries that Search And Rescue teams have was the fact that this collapse happened in the pancake fashion, and it was so
This information it is as you said big deal its not going to happen immediately dont expect that the probation of parliament will go ahead tonight for 5 weeks this will happen sometime after part returns on october the 14th. Thank you for the update jonah how in london. The peace talks are underway in south sudan between the president and the exiled rebel leader reg mashad which i landed in juba on monday to sit with president salva kiir a meeting seen as an important step towards the implementation of a stalled peace deal member at least 400000 people have died since the countrys civil war started in 2013 after salva kiir removed as Vice President s. Thousands of School Students have been forming human chains around hong kong in solidarity with antigovernment protest as authorities are condemning what they call the illegal behavior of radicals and ive warned to demonstrators to stop trying the patience of the government. From friday to 5 pm am today we arrested 157 people aged between
Serial killer nurse is sentenced to life in prison for murdering 7 babies in brussels. On far smell with the latest sports match with the united release for Mason Greenwood following an internal investigation failing international who leaves by mutual agreement says its the best decision for all part of the legal team. A former us President Donald Trump has agreed at 200000. 00 bond with authorities in the state of georgia. Its linked to allegations that he and 18 others tried to overturn the states 2020 president ial Election Results. All those named in the indictment were charged last week. They have until mid day on friday to surrender, voluntarily to Georgia State Court Officials is the 4th criminal case against the former president whos campaigning to retire and the wi fi is in 2024. But for more than this, were going to go to all them fisher in atlanta, georgia. So theres a ton to about 200000. 00 button, which is being posted. If we get any idea when he might appear on the well,
action in what will be the biggest ever nhs walk out in england. we are still hopefully on track and getting waiting lists below a year at the end of march. the more strikes we have, the more challenging that becomes. at the moment, ourstaff challenging that becomes. at the moment, our staff are working incredibly hard to get the waiting lists down. let us know how the strikes are affecting you and do you support them? you can get in touch with your thoughts on this story and the rest of the days news by contacting me on twitter @annitabbc or using the hashtag #bbc your questions we re bringing you special coverage of breaking news this hour a powerful earthquake which has struck northern syria and south eastern turkey, killing more than 640 people. the tremor had a magnitude of seven point eight, and struckjust before dawn. the epicentre was in the turkish province of gaziantep but buildings collapsed hundreds of miles away, and there are also reports of many casualtie