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Orleans. Tell us how things are looking there right now. Hey, look, the river is closed to all traffic at this point. You can see it is behind us here. Barry, a troecal storm, you a talking about. Forecasters believe it will be a category 1 hurricane. Water is the main concern here. Reporter the rush to get ready just about over now. Time running out as barry moves in. There are three way louisiana floods, storm surge, high rivers and rain. We are going to have all tee. Time is short. If you have preparations you need to complete, now is the time. You doot have much more time at all before the impact of barry will be here. Reporter a dangerous triple threat, the misriver is normally 6 to 8 feet. Already 16 feet in climbing. The levies arelimbing. Visitors are packing the airport hoping to take off before barry lands. I like new orleans a lot but i didnt want to sleep here tonight at the airport. Reporter the National Guard has been called in. Water is already in severa lowlying parishe
Feet, the forecast is to get very closeo that. In addition, we are talking about storm surgein floodg. Long the louisiana coastline. The0 to 20 inches of rainfall there. That really hasnt changed all that much. It is strengthening. Maximum winds now. This storm is slow moving. You can get the latest forecast for the wesher clot to home. When President Trump came out of the white house today with the labor secretary p acosta. Hey assumed they were about to hear the president defend the cabinet. Secretary even aew twist taken to twitr. Acosta, iddle praising he announced the labor secretary has resigned. His choice. Ok mr. Trump to questions from reporters while acosta stood nearby. He has inn under scrutiny for his role in a plea deal for convicted sex offender jeffery epstein. Cabinet member out. I submitted my resignation to the president effective seven days from today. He told donald trump he doesnt want to districm f the president s agenda. It would be selfish for me to stay in thi
Reporter happy fourth to you. Were here at pier 50 where you can see workers with pyro spectaculars by sousa are prepping the four barges for tomorrow nights show that will take place out on the bay. You can see right there theyre positioning the launch tubes. In a couple hours theyll start loading those tubes with fireworks that will be brightening the night sky in just over 24 hours from now. As i mentioned, there will be four barges. Two off pier 39 the other two off aquatic park. The best place is anywhere along the San Francisco waterfront to catch the show. Our question for the shows producer who we just caught up with in the past half hour is how do you oneup yourself from last year . How, he admits its been a few years since theres been a new innovation in fireworks effects. That said, hes come up with a new sequence new music promises to wow the crowds with the roughly 10,000 fireworks that will be blasting off during a short 25minute span. So yeah quite a bit of stuff. And it
Reporter happy fourth to you. Were here at pier 50 where you can see workers with pyro spectaculars by sousa are prepping the four barges for tomorrow nights show that will take place out on the bay. You can see right there theyre positioning the launch tubes. In a couple hours theyll start loading those tubes with fireworks that will be brightening the night sky in just over 24 hours from now. As i mentioned, there will be four barges. Two off pier 39 the other two off aquatic park. The best place is anywhere along the San Francisco waterfront to catch the show. Our question for the shows producer who we just caught up with in the past half hour is how do you oneup yourself from last year . How, he admits its been a few years since theres been a new innovation in fireworks effects. That said, hes come up with a new sequence new music promises to wow the crowds with the roughly 10,000 fireworks that will be blasting off during a short 25minute span. So yeah quite a bit of stuff. And it