We have been keeping an eye on a number of alerts of damage from the storm, and power is the primary issue, and entergy is the power company, and they are out of power and its causing an imbalance in transmission. This is a compounded problem because they need that for a lot of things, including Pumping Water away from the levees. Let me be clear, we have no reports of damage to levees. Theres reports of Flash Flooding and an emergency that has been issued by the weather service, but thats not pursuant to damage of the levees. We will keep an eye on that and continue to update you as the evening goes on. We have plenty of correspondents out in the field, and Ali Velshi is in New Orleans, and janessa web, well start with you. What can you tell us . We are dealing with a destructive and deadly Storm System and its dark across Southeast Louisiana, and we saw the storm make landfall eight hours ago and its downgraded to a cat 3. Can you see that were dealing with severe weather tonight, ev
And the worst could be yet to come. Rolling tornado warnings. Highways under Water And Storm surges that could reach more than ten feet. All of this danger 16 years to the day after Hurricane Catrin arrived on louisianas shores. Cnn is on the scene across the gulf coast. Lets start with Brian Todd in New Orleans, a city all too familiar with hurricane devastation. We can see the winds are picking up. A short time ago, Emergency Services were suspended there. What can you tell us . Jim, the intensity has really picked up in the last hour since i last spoke to you. You can see some debris flying down The Street here in the french quarter. Debris everywhere as the winds have really intensified. Take a look down The Street. See some of this debris. Im going to pivot this way and our Photo Journalist is going to take you through this. Look at this collapsed roof. It came down across this intersection. Insulation and all of this stuff, it was a very violent crash just before we got on the sc
Good evening, joshua, were getting the 8 00 p. M. Advisory from the national Hurricane Center that were seeing the center of the storm on radar. Thats the green you see here beginning to show up. Thats about 275, 280 miles from New Orleans at the current time. So the white is the clouds, the green is the Rain Bands and those will be moving on shore as we go throughout the morning hours. This is the satellite imagery, and we color it to see the brighter reds or top of the thunderstorms, lets meteorologists know where the stronger portions of the storm are. The winds did not increase. Thats great. Were 18 hours or so from landfall, we want to keep this as weak as possible. We dont think its going to get weak before a landfall, we think its going to become stronger, category 3 overnight, and right before landfall possibly getting up to a category 4. We should expect a major Hurricane Landfall in Southeastern Louisiana tomorrow afternoon, direct impacts, grand isle, home of Morgan City. Th
Requirement by august 31st. And judges in texas and florida push back against bans on mask mandates. The School Districts are violating state law. Parents rights are very important, but theyre not without some reasonable limitation. Im Pamela Brown in washington. You are in the Cnn Newsroom on this saturday evening. A monster named ida. The hurricane is intensifying quickly and drawing chilling comparisons to katrina. Ida is charging straight toward louisiana right now, and its due to make Landfall Tomorrow as a categoryfour storm. Near New Orleans and on the 16th anniversary of katrinas catastrophic siege of the Gulf Coast. Louisianas governor says ida will be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the state since the 1850s. Parts of louisiana are under mandatory evacuation orders, and time is quickly running out to escape the impact zone. Mississippi, which was also ravaged by katrina, the governor has declared a state of emergency. The national Weather Service is warning that ida co
Today thousands marched through streets of d. C. And other american cities like phoenix, miami, and atlanta. The protesters united against the gops sustained attacks on Voting Rights. Made possible by State Legislatures in gop control. Today new president of the aflcio, the largest federation of unions in the united states spoke to Nbc News onto shrines of a rally in phoenix. We are concerned about what were seeing in terms of Voter Suppression all across this country. And really, in my opinion, the action is out in the community and on the ground. And so thats why i wanted to be here in Phoenix Today because these activists, theyre ready to march, theyre ready to mobilize, educate, register voters. And we want to do whatever we can as a Labor Movement to be good partners on the ground to make that happen. Not many people are aware that that march 58 years ago was for jobs and freedom, because the two are so interrelated. And we fight for Workplace Democracy and the Trade Union Movemen