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Stones fans in new orleans that was supposed to take place tomorrow night at the superdome. the band tweeting. due to the weather, we are moving sundays superdome show to monday. hang on to your tickets, they will be honored july 15. we are here with you. well get through this together. eric: they are in new orleans right now? arthel: they are. my cousin ivan neville and ian neville is opening for the stones in that show. i think nola is ready for it. we are going to talk to the mayor of baton r...

Mayor there, mayor of baton rogue and accidentally labeled her the new orleans mayor, she is not. thank you so much. >> thank you for clarifying, arthel. appreciate that. >> youve got it. eric: deportation raids by ice, they are start today start in major cities as protests ramping up in the nation, kristina coleman with more details, hi, kristina. >> hi, eric, these antideportation raid protests by in large have been peaceful nationwide but i just got off the phone with the spokespersons for ta...

That is the mississippi river. it is full of water right now, and this area very saturated. as the storm makes its way up inland and northwest as they are saying it could, the concern is that all that water wont have anywhere to go. and you will see a lot of flooding in these communities, especially in baton rouge. they are sort of being proactive, i dont know if you can tell. they set up porta-potties, and they set up hand washing stations. and there is no shame if you are worried and you are i...

Continues to remain heavy rains for the city of new orleans. reporter: the mayor urging people to remain vigilant and hunker down in place if possible. there are 130,000 customers without power at this hour. and that number has been rising. new orleans airport is closed along with the baton rouge airport. they hope to resume normal operations sometime tomorrow perhaps if and when this storm lessens to a point. oil and natural gas production has been cut back because of the storm. 42% of the plat...

Arthel: we are showing pictures of the residents helping with the sandbags. and we showed pictures of grocery store shelves that were completely empty. so folks did get supplies for what they would neat the next few days in case of a power outage. whats your confidence level the power will stay on there in baton rouge? >> we are pretty confident that the power will stay on. we had our representative from entergy speak at our most of recent press conference. they are prepared to assist with us du...

Make landfall in the morning, hey, its not too bad but the worst is yet to come and here is what she had to say about what residents could expect. >> i dont want people to be -- be off guard, you know, i want people to continue to be vigilant, watchful, be prepared. weather is unpredictable. >> the mayor also saying that theyre not going to be issuing a curfew here tonight in baton ro, ge, this was never supposed to be event and might not look like the river is super high right here, this is one...

Arthel: its my understanding baton rouge airport is closed. but are most of businesses open? >> to my knowledge, flights are not coming into the baton rouge airport at this time, but the airport is not closed. the airport is open this week. the flights have been canceled. arthel: the airport is open, flights have been canceled. the same in new orleans as well. i know you have so many things on your plate, what would you say is consuming most of of your time? >> i have found it necessary to make ...

♪ flights, hotels, cars, activities, vacation rentals. expedia. everything you need to go. >> four hours weve been reporting on tropical storm barry which is hitting your wonderful hometown of new orleans. >> thank you. it is a great city im concerned about the rain thats going to happen overnight for sure. but hoping and praying for the

My message has been we dont want people to be paralyzed by fear but we want them to be prayeprayerfully prepared. arthel: we appreciate your time, good luck to you and the residents of baton rouge. we are with you. eric: well have an update on barrys path live from the fox weather center next. my experience with usaa has been excellent. they really appreciate the military family and it really shows. with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else? we know their rates are good, we know that th...

The storm was downgrade from a hurricane when it made landfall earlier this afternoon. downgrade to a tropical storm. the heavy rain combined a slow-moving storm, that could cause what is predicted to be dangerous flooding the next few days. the mayor of baton rouge told me people are taking it in stride. >> you can probably hear some of the strong wind gusts moving through. thats been happening all afternoon as we get closer to the evening. every once in a while well get a break. well have stro...