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Projectile. its good people are out of the is area. with the massive storm there was no mandatory evacuation order in place, but we saw lines of traffic trying to leave new orleans. my uncle trying to get out of here going to mobile, alabama, about two and a half hours and him nine hours yesterday. the mayor of new orleans said not enough time to order people to evacuate. the storm got too big, too quick. the storm will collide with new orleans as the city enters its fourth wave of the pandemic....

To say the levees have withstood. it is too early to say that the pumps have withstood. we hope and pray that the levees and the pumps withstand the intensefication of both the rainfall and the storm surge. >> so is this the real first test that we are seeing of the levees in new orleans since all of this investment to and bring them to a level of being able to be a fortress for the city? is this the first real test? >> this is the test, reverend. this is the real live test as to whether that ne...

They will in a way, send a message to anyone else who also dares to challenge the system. you know, the idea of building hotels inside this same national park they were doing a game count in, its contrary. and they know it, and they dont want me to see whats happening. the structures are already being built inside the national parks. sorry to interrupt, isnt the problem here, you want wildlife to roam free and to pursue their migration routes around kenya and neighbouring countries as if no bord...

Of this country, we go now to those on the ground in louisiana. theyre tracking hurricane ida. that state bracing big time for impact. hello to both of you. thank you for joining me. tom llamas in new orleans there and sam brock in baton rouge. welcome to you both. tom, lets get to new orleans. they know well what a horrific hurricane means with katrina and the 16th anniversary. >> hurricane ida is getting stronger by the second. theyre boarding up up to the last minute. over here we met david w...

Hurricane katrina when 1,800 people died across the gulf region. such a horrible storm. i spoke with the army corps of engineers and they tell me theyre confident this is going to work this time around. two barriers. a primary and a second barrier. we have an up-close look at a canal lock that will block some of the water from lake pawn starting at 8:00 a.m. eastern alex witt picks up hurricane coverage and sharon weston broome will join 16 years

Led statehouses. texas, georgia, arizona will not stop. and so what now is needed is congressional action. im really grateful that were discussing this in relation to the march tomorrow. thats what this is about. keeping pressure on congress to protection our elections, make sure we dont have systemic barriers to the polls. when we call out the targeted, intentionally discriminatory practices for what they are, racist, this is the reaction we get. thats why its important for congress to act, to ...

By an innings and 76 runs. the series now stands at 1—1 with two to play. extremely proud and it shows the character in the dressing room, four players to be able to take a loss like that and come back and play and such a clinical performance shows a huge amount of what the group is about and it can be a difficult place, test cricket, when it is not going your way and you have to really be able to stand up and look at in the face and be ready to put yourself back out there under pressure and d...

Had intelligence that there would be an imminent attack. and americans were even urged not to go to the airport. yet we still saw the tremendous loss of life. how do we move forward with the evacuations safely when once again everybody there is still under the threat of an imminent attack? >> well, of course we have to move forward with the evacuation because there is a deadline. making it a little bit more restrictive as far as going into the airport, having layers -- you know the taliban was t...

Because we told everybody when were leaving so they know they only have a few days left to get through those barriers. that is what led to the target being so dreadfully high in terms of how many troopers we lost. i hate to say it the wrong way, but wed normally lose two or three during one of these ied attacks, but thats when youre doing crowd control as well as security. >> and what is -- the pentagon now says that theyre taking maximum force protection measures. obviously theres stuff that pr...

Judith brown dianis and dean obeidallah, msnbc daily columnist and host of sirius xms the dean obeidallah show. judith, with some of these restrictive new laws, were lag at slashed voting hours, redudus ballot boxes, no vote by mail, no voting on sunday, purged voter rolls. are they hoping that voters just dont pay attention until they want to cast their vote? and are they willing to put up with the political risk that comes with that? >> well, i think, alicea, that they know that these barriers...