And the worst could be yet to come. Rolling tornado warnings. Highways under water and storm surges that could reach more than ten feet. All of this danger 16 years to the day after hurricane catrin arrived on louisiana s shores. Cnn is on the scene across the gulf coast. Let s start with brian todd in new orleans, a city all too familiar with hurricane devastation. We can see the winds are picking up. A short time ago, emergency services were suspended there. What can you tell us? jim, the intensity has really picked up in the last hour since i last spoke to you. You can see some debris flying down the street here in the french quarter. Debris everywhere as the winds have really intensified. Take a look down the street. See some of this debris. I m going to pivot this way and our photo journalist is going to take you through this. Look at this collapsed roof. It came down across this intersection. Insulation and all of this stuff, it was a very violent crash just before we got on the
Louisiana. Jason, it just gets worse and worse where you are there in houma, louisiana. You are just getting pounded right now. What s the latest? yeah, i just wanted to confirm something. We were talking about the wind gusts out here. Checked in with our weather department here. Just to confirm before i said it. We ve been experiencing wind gusts topping 100 miles per hour. Out there. Not right here where i m standing because we ve moved back next to a solid brick structure, jim. Just to give us a barrier from the brunt of what is happening out here. You can look out there and you can gauge for your own eyes what we have been experiencing as the eye wall descends upon houma. The wind literally takes your breath away as it howls through here, taking with it trees, power lines, damaging structures in the area as well. We ve been hearing from emergency officials who say that s what they ve been receiving so far in terms of their assessment of the damage. Hard to make it out because all o
Bracing for ida. Already near capacity from covid. Doctors are preparing for a dual emergency. We ll talk for one of those doctors coming up. And ida from the inside. One hurricane hunter has been flying in and out of the storm all morning. He is going to talk to us live from the air. Plus, president biden vowing more strikes against isis as the u. S. Warns of another credible attack near kabul airport. Swollen service members arrived back in the u. S. Today as we learn the names of all 13 of them. You re looking at them on your screen right now. And we will honor each of them as we say good morning. It is sunday, august 29th. I m lindsay reiser. I m joe in four candace gibson. We want to give you a live look right now at what is happening in new orleans as the brace for hurricane ida. It is come very no but it is a different story in the gulf right now where this storm has really intensified. Overnight, many people have already evacuated. Others are staying put and hunkering down, bra
Good morning, charles it s a weekend away for washington, for president biden after a week away in europe. The white house says next week, the president will be talking with democrats and republicans about the potential for an infrastructure compromise there s a group of senate democrats and republicans who were negotiating a $1 trillion infrastructure proposal, but there are significant disagreements, in particular, how to pay for it on one side you ve got democrats who want to increase taxes, on the other side you ve got republicans who want to use unspent covid relief funds. I, myself, do not think we should be taking money out of the pockets of people of unemployment or take money out out of the rescue package, because it s there for a purpose his own proposal, as you know, is a huge new package, $2. 65 trillion with $2 trillion of new taxes, particularly taxes on american businesses and american workers, which makes no sense coming out of this pandemic. Reporter: and to close the
vaccine for every american byjuly. and 3,000 sticks of dynamite bring down donald trump s long doomed casino in atlantic city. hello, i m laura trevelyan in washington. christian fraser is in london. the brutal winter storms across the south and east of the us have left millions without power, and more snow is on the way. nowhere has been hit harder than texas, where nearly three million people are facing their third day without light or heat. the state has its own electrical grid, and it s been unable to meet the increased demand for power. it s striking these power outages are happening in a state with such abundant energy resources. texas produces more electricity than any other us state, almost twice as much as florida, the next closest. but because it has isolated itself from the rest of the grid, it can t import any, and so there is a very public row under way over who is to blame the public private partnership that operates the grid or the state politicians who overs