This is just some of the destruction in louisiana, thats about an Hour South of New Orleans. In New Orleans, the French Quarter was hit hard with significant damage. Still dark there but as The Sun comes up well have a better feel for things. In all, more than 1 Million people there are without electricity. The Power Outage could make the area for susceptible to extreme flooding like we see in this video from grand isle, along the coast. Joining us now jay gray. Good morning, the power is out in New Orleans, what does it look like this morning . Reporter willie, it is a mess right now. Once we get some sunshine i think well see more problems in New Orleans. But a break in the conditions, the winds dropped off, the rain thankfully after 16 straight hours has stopped. We have a chance to look at some of the devastation. You can see the Roof Top behind me pulled from a building thrown into the French Quarter, bringing with it an elevated street sign. You can see the brace there bent and p
at seven we ll be speaking to aidan mcquade, who s director the of anti slavery international, about the growth of modern day slavery. we ll also have more on the war of words between the united states and north korea with a report from the us pacific island territory of guam, threatened by pyongyang. and we find out more about the dark history of a tiny scottish island which has now been put up for sale. that s all ahead on bbc news. marriage toepfer sports day. hello, and welcome to sportsday, i m 0lly foster. it s day seven at these championships, three more gold to be one and it will be isaac friday in but one if he can take the 200 metres title. the highjump but one if he can take the 200 metres title. the high jump that katerina johnson thompson down in the highjump can she qualify in the individual final. and i m nick marshall mccormack in salford with the rest of the day s sport, including rory mcilroy‘s bid for his third uspga title in north carolina. we ll have th
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Louisiana. the health hazards numerous, he will get a taste for that offer the ability to raise the nation and sympathies and relief to new orleans. there were regular graphics put up on the screen and various different documents strolling in the convention hall urging people to donate to the red cross to help out people from isaac. this will be the opportunity to show what type of leader mitt romney would be in national disaster of this nation. he ll actually get to the storm site before president obama will who has been gearing up for his own convention coming up next week. so, it s a big, bold move by mr. romney, trying to show that he s ready for the job and ready to address situations and crises around the country and even the world already. heather. heather: what has been the reaction to his speech last
right now at the storm site at the spill site, i m sorry, as you can see on the radar there s some bands already moving through the area, rain. the site right there is point h, and looking at some buoy data, the winds have already picked up to about 15-20 knots at most, but we are expecting those conditions to continue deteriorating through the rest of the night and tomorrow. reporter: all right. so will this become danielle, daniel? well, the hurricane center is forecasting it to become a tropical storm. reporter: well, if anybody knows, they do. we will definitely keep you posted on this one. jen jen day 114 and still a ways to go. rick leventhal for us in louisiana. rick: well, we have some brand new information in the plane crash in alaska that left former senator ted stephens and four others dead. federal investigators now say that the plane crashed into a mountain with such force that it left a 300-foot gash on the slope of that mountain. authorities are looking at