What remained of hurricane ida slammed into louisiana sunday brought unprecedented rain and flooding to the new york area last night. The storm drenched public transit, highways, streets and homes in just a few hours and brought much of the city to a standstill. Ida s aftermath wreaked havoc across much of philadelphia, swamping road ways and forcing rivers to rise by feet. In new jersey, towns were swamped with water while tornadoes rampaged across several communities. This storm has now killed from maryland to connecticut at least 43 people. Nearly 1 million homes and businesses remain without electricity as we head into the holiday weekend. Tomorrow president biden will be on the ground in louisiana to see the damage of close. Today the president offered what was an urgent warning about the dangers of climate change. The past few days of hurricane ida and the wildfires in the west and the unprecedented flash floods in new york and new jersey, it is yet another reminder that these ex
As we track the hurricane it is pummelling louisiana. It is a massive storm. It s a category 4. It made landfall just about an hour ago and port four shun with winds of about 150 miles per hour. As we give you sunning video this is from a flight right into the eye of the storm earlier this morning. You hear about the hurricane hunters? this is what they see. The national hurricane center issuing an update. Nbc s meteorologist bill carans will brik break it down for us. We are in new orleans as the sewage and water board reports power out ans at the sewage pump stations at this hour. That s not the kind of news they want to have to deliver to the rents. Governor gen john bel edwards will be holding a briefing in the next hour on the state s response to ida. Duly noted, this hurricane comes on a historic day, 16 years to the day after katrina devastated new orleans in louisiana. Residents are being urged to stay indoors to stay safe. Stay inside. Do not venture out. No sightseeing. This
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Eighties. Do you remember the movie the princess bride? and billy crystal s character, miracle max? he came to mind for some of us when we were thinking about the few days in congress. Especially with infrastructure. We could soon know if the bipartisan deal is alive or dead or maybe, as lyrical max would say, it s only mostly dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. Senators from both parties say that they re close to finalizing a deal, maybe as soon as tomorrow. We are down to the last couple of items and i think you re gonna see a bill monday afternoon. We re about 90% of the way there were kind of legislative language with colleagues and with staff and i feel good about getting it done this week. We have one issue outstanding. But that outstanding issue is big. How much to spend on transportation projects. Democrats want to follow what s known as the 80 20 rule. 20% will go to public transit and 80% would go to highways but many republican senators are advocating for a smaller share to
Elsewhere. Remember, this the same council that the trump administration left in part because their membership accused human rights abusers like china and cuba. A short time ago,etoo pressed the white house on this. Watch. Why is the secretary of state blinken trying to address human rights in the u. S. By inviting experts from cuban and china here? he s believes responsible nations must not shrink from scrutiny of human rights records. They should acknowledge it with improve it and push and lift up and shine a light on other countries that need to do better. That s the role that we re playing from the united states. Martha: here now, morgan ortega, tomi lahren, fox nation host and david tufori. Welcome to you. Great to have you here. Morgan, what went through your mind? the goals of the biden administration laying out saying we don t want to shrink awhy from our human rights record from racism, from other things we re trying to fix as a society, i agree with that. That s why we have f