Unsurvivable. Lets get straight to jay gray live in lake charles, louisiana, in the direct path of this storm. Jay, i know its going to be tough to hear us and we probably have a little delay. What are you seeing right now . Richard, intensity of this storm really picking up as it approaches the shoreline and moves closer to lake charles. We had severe rain gusts. Wind picking up as well. That storm surge, we are told from the National Hurricane center they expect a surge of to feet or more. A wall of water moving inland and it could push 30 miles inland or more. That would put it on the other side of interstate 10 and really in the middle of lake charles here. What have we seen, trees are down, the power went out about 15 minutes here and we expect if thats the situation were getting a pretty good gust it will continue to develop as these conditions get much more intense through the night. Were going to see the eye wall of this storm, the front eye wall which is going to be the rough
Now winds topping 100 miles per hour, or 160 kilometers an hour as the storm approached. The National Hurricane center says the storm surge up to 20 feet, or 6 meter, is unsurvivable. Well, that unprecedented warning came as flooding already engulfed coastal areas. Officials expect the devastation to be immense over very wide area. Anyone who did not evacuate is told to prepare for hours of destructive winds, heavy rains, no power, and record flooding that could last days. Tom sater joins me now with more on the path of the hurricane as it moves ashore. I know youve had a busy night. The superlatives in trying to describe this hurricane as it makes landfall are also out of this world, catastrophic, unsurvivable, apocalyptic. What do we know is happening right now . First of all, interrupt me at any time, robyn, because there so much to talk about here. There is. The term unsurvivable, im glad that was used. Ive never heard that used from the National Hurricane center, probably because
Person to wisconsin for appropriate charges. Welcome. I am jake tapper. Youve been watching an update from officials in kenosha, wisconsin, giving an update on the unrest in us with following the Police Killing of jacob blake earlier in the week and violence afterwards. For the first time the chief of police spoke about jacob blake, saying he cannot talk about the incident. This comes as weve gotten brand new information in the last few minutes about the suspect taken into custody for separate shootings that occurred last night. According to the Police Department two people were shot and killed. Another one was injured. Cnns sarah sidener joins me on the phone from kenosha, wisconsin. What do we know about the suspect . Reporter its really interesting to note that so far we havent heard the police nor the sheriff of kenosha talking about the violence that erupted last night where two people were shot and killed and one Person Injured here. The have you had yo there is of one of the vid
And regarding reports detailing actual d. H. S. Assistance an in e completion of smuggling illegal alien minors, in that case a child in many cases would transferred to illegal alien parents actually by h. H. s office of refugee sext in those cases, the federal government was completing the object of a criminal conspiracy, was not stopping the smuggling, not punishing the smugglers, but completing the operation. Now again, its another classic case of sending exactly the wrong message, a message that will increase the flow and increase the problem, not decrease it. And ultimately, that goes back to the humanitarian issue, too, because encouraging human smuggling enriches drug cartels, allows them to continue to use violence as a means to and he, and it wages war on mexican and american citizens alike as well as the folks involved from central and south american countries. We need to change that basic message. We need to turn around those basic incentives. And the only way to do that is
Catastrophic flooding before making landfall again in the next few hours. Somewhere along the texas, louisiana border. Cnns Paul Vercammen live for us in houston be along the interstate. Youre first up tonight, first up at this hour. I understand that youre with volunteer rescue organizers. Whats going on . Reporter yeah, just as we speak right now, im standing on interstate 10, and we will call them the texas armada. Volunteers all coming together because theyve heard there are people down in this neighborhood. This is greens bayou. They understand it is flooded out. This is one of the men who organized this. Youre going to go ahead once again as it seems like a week almost now, jump right into the middle of this and try to get in there and rescue folks. Thats what im trying to do rescue whoevers out here. I havent had a chance to rest the way i want to rest. You know what . Whether he i was in my neighborhood north green river and mesa, you know, i came with a big rig helping people