Officials here. First of all, it is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute catastrophic damage that we thought was likely based on the forecast we had last night but we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage and we have thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens whose lives are upside down because their businesses and or their homes have been damaged and we have lots of challenges around the state to say the least with a variety of things whether electrical power, Water Service or you name it and we have a lot of work to do but we are in better shape today than might have been the case and so we have a lot to be thankful for as well. As you know by now im sure hurricane laura made landfall as predicted last night or i should say this morning at 1 00 a. M. As a very strong category four hurricane with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. This was most powerful storm to ever make landfall in louisiana and it is still a powerful storm that is in the state of lou
Governor John Bell Edward said the storm is the strongest to hit his statement did not sustain the catastrophic damage that had been forecast parties joined at the briefing by other state officials. Good afternoon and thank you for being here this afternoon. We have our usual lineup today the officials here today with m me. Chip klein is going to speak in just a moment. He is of course chairman of the cpra he will talk about coastal flooding we have secretary of department of transportation and development, shawn wilson who will speak in a little bit on roadways. And then we have fire Marshal Butch browning who is here to answer questions that you might have about the fire at the Chemical Plant and west lake. And obviously you can ask questions of any of the officials here. First of all it is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute catastrophic damage that we thought was likely based on the forecast we had last night. But, we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage.
Consulate in the city of chengdu after it shut down in a worsening diplomatic dispute also ahead. Of the biggest thing has be untold suffering. In tanzania an Opposition Leader almost killed 3 years ago returns from exile hoping to run in the forthcoming elections and im stunned how much with all the sport events crowned the italian again christian or another helps his team came to syria title for a 9th straight season. Before we get into our top stories a developing story coming to us breaking news out of israel where the army says theres been a quote security incident along the northern border with lebanon yet to go into any detail of exactly whats happened but israelis living along the border have been told to stay indoors lets take you live to western islam and al jazeera is correspondent there harry forsett harry what do we know. Well as you say the official information coming from the Israeli Military is pretty limited at the moment they say that there has been a security inciden
Region thats corona virus infections there again. Also ahead theyve got a nose for the job the dogs being trained to play a Critical Role in detecting the crew of the us. And in sports qatar has officially expressed an interest in staging a future Olympic Games 2022 world cup house how to bring the olympics to the middle east for the 1st time. Lets begin with the breaking news israel is accusing hizbollah of launching what its calling an infiltration attempt on its border with lebanon it happened in the past couple of hours in the shaba farms region theres no confirmation from hizbollah that it is behind the incident the United Nations is restraint from both sides a short while ago israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted on twitter. Saying what was happening on the northern border was being constantly monitored he says israel wont allow iran to establish itself on the border netanyahu adds that lebanon of hizbollah will be responsible for any attack that comes out of lebanon o
India on the countrys grapples with a raging coronavirus and havoc. And theyve got a nose for the job the dogs being trained to play a Critical Role in detecting the corona virus. And in sport cattle has officially expressed an interest in staging a future lembit games the 2022 world cup to bring the olympics to the middle east for the 1st time. Israels Prime Minister is warning has been all that its playing with fire Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the Lebanese Armed group of launching an infiltration attempt in the border region of shaba farms hizbullah denies that its fight has tried to penetrate the border or engaged in any confrontation the United Nations is being restrained from both sides and speaks well to serious carry forces are joining us now live from west jerusalem but we have a clearer hairiest what actually happened in that border region today. Well there are 2 disputed accounts of what took place israel is entirely rejecting the hezbollah statement in which it said it di