Clerk thank you very much, and welcome. Welcome, everyone, to tonights meeting. I want to welcome this Years Student delegates who are here for their first meeting, reminding us why we are here. We are excited to continue the work we are doing regarding Inperson Learning and student safety. I have been hearing from a lot of families and have been having thoughtful conversations about ways we can ensure safety while learning and decrease the amount of interrupted instructions. We hear your concerns. We are listening to parents, and staff, and students and want to ensure we deliver the highest forms of safety while learning for everyone. A resolution regarding covid is forthcoming. Thank you, President Lopez. I just want to say that as we know, theres been a lot of intense pressure to balance the needing of getting kids back to school and also trying to ensure adequate safety measures, and its sometimes difficult to balance all of that at once. We will be getting air purefiers in classro
The United States and Around The World. In is Early Start. Im christine romans. Im laura jarrett. Its 5 00 a. M. Here in new york. The Breaking News this morning is Hurricane Ida. One person already confirmed dead. More than A Million people without power as the storm slows to a crawl over louisiana. Deputies responding to a scene in prairieville, louisiana sunday evening. Found a tree had crashed into a home killing the storms first victim. All of New Orleans parish, including New Orleans, now In The Dark after catastrophic damage to the transmission system. The Power Company said some of the customers could be without electricity for weeks. Theres extensive flooding across the state. The levies have overtopped around the town of john will feoff. Here is the lieutenant governor. When you see the boats and ves vessels bouncing around out of port fourchon, the wind that has broken those vessels loose and just tossing around like small coins. We havent seen anything like that since katri
Mileperhour winds ripping a catastrophic gash across Southern Louisiana. At least one person is confirmed dead At This point in time. Ida is now a tropical storm but there is still extreme danger with up to 8 inches of rain yet to fall in some cities. The mayor of one Louisiana Town calling this total devastation. The Storm Overtopping Levies and trapping people on roofs, with no way to rescue them. More than 1 Million people are currently without power. This includes the entire city of new orleans, exactly 16 years after Hurricane Katrina hit. And while ida has weakened some, there is still this big threAt That were tracking of Flash Flooding and dangerous Storm Surge and tornadoes. Also breaking this morning, Rocket Fire overnight. Targeting afghanistans international airport. Video obtained by cnn shows the Burnt Out car this was apparently used as an improvised Launch Pad to fire five rocket. Five hours earlier the u. S. Carried out a preemptive Drone Strike on a potential Suicide
The patients will die. And that is what we heard over and over again from these medical groups, from these Hospital Officials who continue to say, this is a matter of life and death. We do not care what else is Going On in the world. We understand that there is a shortage of oxygen but we need help because again this is a matter of life and death. Thank you very much, kristen. New day continues right now. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and Around The World, im Brianna Keilar alongside John Avlon on this monday, august 30th. And breaking overnight, Hurricane Ida downgraded to a tropical storm but not before leaving behind catastrophic damage in louisiana. Right now at least one person is confirmed dead. 1. 1 Million customers are without power. This includes the entire City Of New Orleans. Exactly 16 years after Hurricane Katrina hit. Now, this storm has sent water topping levies. It has trapped people on their roofs. Rescue efforts
Might save one life, maybe 1,000 lives. I dont know. I want his story to be told. Michelle, thank you for telling dannys story. We, too, hope thank you. That people hear it and understand the stakes, as we see this surge in coronavirus cases affecting even people who do not have the disease. Michelle, we are so sorry for your loss. I just firmly believe that everybody needs treatment when they need treatment, especially for lifesaving treatments. Youre right, michelle. Michelle puget, thank you so much for being with us. Youre welcome. Thank you. New day continues right now. Very good morning to viewers in the united states and around the world. It is monday, august 30th. Im Brianna Keilar with john avlon. Good morning. Good morning to you. We have Breaking News on two fronts. Hurricane ida has been Downgrade Ed to a tropical storm after inflicting devastating, catastrophic damage in New Orleans. The day is early. Were trying to get a sense of things and where the damage is. 1. 1 Milli