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 c
to blackhawk helicopters. that equipment is in the hands of the taliban now. the concern that it could end up with isis, al qaeda, other factions operating in the region. so it would not at all be a surprise if given the high concentration of troops and material at kabul airport, the u.s. is looking around saying what is it that we cannot take with us? that we do not want to fall into the hands of the enemy. so we ll destroy it ourselves. we know at the u.s. embassy in kabul diplomats burning sensitive files. they did not want them to obtain for propaganda purposes. we heard the british defense secretary saying, listen, we left humvees and various bits of equipment left behind in al qaeda to make the maximum amount of room on our transport planes to get people out. we haven t been told that anything was scheduled for destruction at kabul airport. it is a possibility as we wait to learn more about this explosion in kabul. okay. thank you so much for that. and for all of you
rears its ugly head outside a major league baseball game. hear from someone who was there when it happened. tomorrow or a week from now or two weeks from now it ll be someone else. and we begin in western europe where a desperate search for survivors is under way following those devastating floods. at least 160 people are now confirmed dead. hundreds of others still unaccounted for. rising waters, landslides and power outages making rescue efforts more difficult. the dutch red cross supporting residents in the city. 10,000 people ordered to evacuate their homes on friday due to surging river waters. meanwhile cleanup has begun in areas where waters have receded revealing what s been lost to the rushing waters. homes, roads, bridges, even ceme cemeteries swept away. one local official calls this flood a catastrophe of historic proportion. and in the coming hours the chancellor angela merkel will see it first-hand. the search continues for those still missing. what is the l
world. i m kim bruin humaner. this is cnn newsroom. the push to vaccinate all americans is hitting a wall of resistance just as cases once again are rising from coast to coast. we re seeing covid-19 outbreaks in every single u.s. state for the second day in a row. areas with the lowest vaccination rates are at the most risk. 48.5% of the population here is fully vaccinated, when looking at the latest data from the cdc, the problem, herd immunity might not cakick in until 70%. angelinos are told to wear masks indoors again if they re fully vaccinated. the more infectious delta variant is making matters worse. paul vercammen is in los angeles. reporter: the covid-19 numbers in los angeles county started heading back up in the wrong direction, 462 hospitalizations, 11 new deaths and that positivity rate leaping now to 3.7%. it was just 1.5% on the fourth of july. so there s a lot of debate about this new rule that mandates wearing masks indoors at restaurants, movie the
coast, they re up in every single state for the second day in a row. health experts urging people once again to get vaccinated, because the overwhelming majority of people ending up in the hospital or dying because of the virus are unvaccinated. a little more than 48% of the population here is fully vaccinated when you look at cdc data, that means there s a long way to go before hitting herd immunity which starts potentially at around 70%. now in the los angeles county, the more infectious delta variant is making matters worse. masks are mandatory indoors for vaccinated and unvaccinated people. covid-19 cases have gone up by 300% there compared to july 4th and as you can imagine, not everyone is on board with this new mandate. paul vercammen is in los angeles for us. reporter: the covid-19 numbers in los angeles county started heading back up in the wrong direction, 462 hospitalizations, 11 new deaths and that positivity rate leaping now to 3.7%. it was just 1.5% on the fou