Two. Reporter mardi gras is well under way in new orleans, two weeks of nonstop parades, booze and beads. But this year, the festivities serve as bookends for the super bowl. We control crowds better than anybody in the world hands down no question about it. And this year, we want to do something even more. Reporter thats because 150,000 people are expected for the big game alone and even more for the last week of mardi gras. Our Police Department has more experience than any other Police Department in the nation in managing large crowds because we do mardi gras every year. Its the equivalent of a super bowl every year. Reporter they are working around the clock including the dozens of mounted officers lining the streets in the French Quarter. Here safety is priority. Theres one trick to keeping the peace in new orleans. Our officers learn from their first days of service that when youre in a huge crowd of people by yourself, you have to make friends and talk to people and work with pe
Supposed to come down on you peretti good. Yeah, they had to make a contingency plan because of this weather thats coming in. We have been checking the doppler and its coming. Its not too far away. So were ready. Were prepared. Were under an awning. So hey were cover, were on bourbon street. But yeah, all of the media there, they are making other plans today. Yesterday though it was a pretty big event and its a big event in any super bowl and that is media day. And, of course, the harbaugh brothers are in town. They got a lot of attention and scrutiny. The new Orleans Times counted smiles during the media session. The 49ers jim harbaugh smiled 18 times. They actually counted this. His brother john from baltimore 47. So hey, whats up, jim . Each brother, though, they praised the other. Said it many times that i think im half the coach that he is. Im proud of what hes done. Proud of the accomplishments. Im very impressed with their team. Both want to desperately win and be part of a cham
They eat. Oh and cheese and truffle and thank you so much for joining us as we find out more about what exactly happened at the time of the acts again anger continues to grow among families of the victims ip and is thus in a studio to tell us by the end. That evening i just did a brief recap of what exactly happened during that time of the acid in the face of what the American Police have said all fifteen crew members along with the captain had been hiding in the steel mill until the rescue team arrived in that room there were sixteen lifeboats but none of them and even cars. Even the passengers in the room the pasta from the funeral was calling out for help and he rescued us and as a rescue boat to ride the crew were the first one to get online while the coast guard official caught on the sinking ship and went to meet the life flow of the basilica able to take a look alike with the embassy now along with the comments from the Maritime Police clean shot off the site of the acting confi
Has been a very very colorful Election Campaign with candidates giving blood tests to test for drugs so the debates on friday in the countrys biggest stadium so this is just part of that excitement tension that weve been seeing of the past weeks. In a debate last week selenski said he would seek to break this system what exactly did he mean by that. So solecki is pitching himself as the face of a new generation someone to really do away with the corrupt status quo after all poroshenko and to machine code for Prime Minister who came in third place theyve all been told at school scene for twenty thirty years and he is someone who on the one hand is known to everyone as a star of t. V. And comedy so he had no problem getting people to recognize him but he quit some of his not associates with all that baggage and all the disappointments of ukraines politics and ukraines failure to live up to its huge potential of the past years so that is really his ticket not going to too much detail the
To do it in. A day. I watch. 2 this is news live from berlin and hong kong protesters gather for a mass prodemocracy rally tens of thousands braved heavy rain to take part in the protests the turnout is being closely watched as a gauge of public sentiment after more than 2 months of violent clashes are sending precisely stern warnings from beijing also coming out. Funerals are being held for
the victims of a deadly suicide bombing in the Afghan Capital kabul the blast targeted a Wedding Party killing dozens of people and injuring many the socalled Islamic State is claiming responsibility. In this league of Football Goodman opened it season with a 5. 00 to 1. 00 pumping out sport to show that its a serious contender for taking the championship title. Unlike the local thanks for joining us we begin in hong kong where prodemocracy demonstrators are marching through the city center for a major rally its the 11th consecutive weekend of protests youre seeing live pictures now as tens of thou