Barge Hit News Today

Quite serious. plaquemines parish we have information one of the levee walls or a floodgate i should say run alongside the mississippi river has failed resulting in flash flooding causing emergency evacuation despite the conditions despite telling people to get out of that area. that is outside of the levee system of new orleans. so the floodgate was very serious water is rushing up highway 23 are also earlier in the evening we had some information that water had overtopped the levee. so theres ...

And an adult male was trapped inside the house. twenty-two barges got loose they are blown around the river. we know in one town one bridge they are or at least a barge hit a bridge and officials are warning people to stay away from the bridge because there is no way for them to check the structural integrity while the storm is so here. in terms of the storm itself , we certainly have seen a lot of wind damage but it is about due east of new orleans according to radar so thats why we have so muc...

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Waistband so the officers say they had no choice but to fire. the man died at the hospital from his injuries. a heart-felt tribute to two hungarian stuntds who died when a barge hit the boat. crews recovered their bodies on friday. everyone involved says its tough to cope. >> im taking it pretty rough, i think. >> its a horrible thing. >> when its a young person and two young people in this case, its almost unbearable. its almost impossible to comprehend. >> that was the hungarian ambassador t...

Deadly tour boat accident in philadelphia. officials identifying the remains of a 16-year-old hungarian girl who was a passenger on that boat. no word yet on whether the second body is that of the other missing person but its widely believed. today crews pulled the duck boat from the bottom of the river it capsized and sank on wednesday after a barge crashed into it the impact tossing 37 people on board into the river. were told the boat, which can go on land and water had been been adrift for 1...

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