Today is marking a difficult milestone that changed our country and the world. Tributes will be under way at all three sites where nearly 3,000 americans lost their lives. Of course, president biden will visit them right here in new york city where the first two planes crashed into the twin towers of the world trade center. We a commemoration ceremony is set to begin around 8:40 a. M. Eastern. The obamas and the clintons, they will also be attendance. Former president trump says he will visit ground zero, too. Though it is unclear if he will be at the actual ceremony. Of course, later this morning, a ceremony at the pittsburgh. The site of the second terrorist attacks a big american flag, just moments from now, unfurling over the side of the building as the sun rises in our nation s capitol. We will take you there live as it happens. We ll take you to shanksville, pennsylvania, where the fourth plane, united flight 93 crashed before reaching washington, d. C. , thanks to a group of cou
Messages? a restrictive abortion ban and limits on how teachers talk about race. The outcry following a flurry of new laws in texas. What is the worstcase scenario for you? being evicted with my child. A race against time for families facing eviction. The effort to get muchneeded federal help before they re kicked out. In 22 years of doing this, i ve never seen fire conditions like we re seeing now. The caldor fire, ripping through parts of california, destroying anything in its path. The latest on the struggle to contain the fire. Newsroom starts right now. 9:01 is the time. Good morning to you on this saturday, september 4th. I m christi paul. And i m boris sanchez. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning, christi? good morning to you as well, boris. We have to talk about it. The gas shortages, the long lines for food and water and zero electricity. This is what people are facing in the gulf region right now, after hurricane ida blew through. That storm is blamed for at least
Electricity yet again this morning. Residents are waiting in these long lines, look at this. They just want to buy gas and food. President biden says the federal government will do its part. There s much to be done. We re working around the clock with the governor and the elected officials there until we can meet every need you all have. Our correspondents are covering the storm from the gulf coast to the northeast. Let s begin there and bring in cnn s evan mcmorris cant santor. He joins us from new jersey. Bring us up to speed on the conditions there now. Reporter: boris and christi, you both said it best. This is an ongoing emergency. Here in the northeast, we ve seen reports of dry ice being delivered. People without power in westchester county, new york. We have rescue operations still ongoing in passaic, new jersey. Here in paterson, new jersey, where the passaic river is the life blood of the town, we re dealing with what is actually flooding. The national weather service says th
Grossman has been following ida s path and sam brock is in louisiana preparing for the storm surge. How are things looking where you are and how are people preparing? lindsey good morning, joe good morning. It s calm, there s a slight breeze. We re expecting rain to fall here early this afternoon and the winds to pick up as well. Lindsey, to your point about rapid intensification, that means 35 miles per hour or more increase in wind speeds over the course of 24 hours. 80 miles per hour to 145 miles per hour now is a 65 mile per hour increase over the time span which is roughly double the threshold for rapid intensification. The question right now, is ida going to run out of real estate before it actually reaches landfall or will we see another increase in wind speeds because at the moment 150 miles per hour is the record for the state of louisiana with hurricane laura, and as you mentioned back in the mid 1880s that is the historical precedent we re up against right now. The track if
Of flooding at a house in grand isle, louisiana. The extreme conditions continue less than 20 miles west of new orleans. In this video, we will watch as two huge boats crash into each other. This is? st. Rose on the mississippi river. New orleans ems crews counter already suspended operations. The governor just warned that help could not make it out under first flight tomorrow. No doubt we re going to see extreme definite administration in grand isle and elsewhere, but we ll likely be sometime after first light tomorrow morning before we can get up and get in the air and get vehicles down there. President biden is visiting fema headquarters last hour and making the lastminute plea for the 14 million people in the path of this dangerous hurricane. This is going to be a devastating hurricane, a lifethreatening storm, so please, all you folks in the mississippi and louisiana, and god nose, maybe even furse east, take precautions. Listen, take it seriously. We have a team of reporters on t