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Outage now that im seeing around downtown, you can look at the buildings around me, theres nothing but emergency lighting on now. this is the harras casino, its out of power. the hotel were in is out. there will not be a restoration of power until tomorrow when the winds are below generally speaking well below 50 miles per hour. then they send these trucks out. these are all over the region, there are probably 10,000 around the region. there are these trucks that go up, they have the buckets in ...

Winds here in new orleans, but still as you can tell, not as much rain as earlier, but its still raining a lot. >> yeah, ida not much faster moving, if we can say that, than katrina was, which lumbered along. >> yes, much. >> absolutely. you know it so well, my friend. ali velshi in new orleans. lets go to morgan chesky, about 60 miles west. just a short time ago, houma was in the western eyewall, how rough has it become now? >> richard, for the first time since about noon today, were finally st...

And see once ida passes new orleans, thankfully, this was on the west of the mississippi. it didnt sort of thread the needle between new orleans and mississippi like katrina. thats what pushed all the water from lake pontchartrain into the city. i had a chance to speak with someone named charles washington who lives in the lower ninth ward. his house was flooded 16 years ago. he said he has faith in the new system. sorry, were getting some crazy sounds. want to make sure were okay. im going to m...

Storm from accidents. carbon monoxide poisoning, falls, traffic crashes. one of the messages is if youre safe, stay there. when the storm passes, stay home. dont get out on the roads. let the emergency responders and utility crews do their jobs. our problem is going to be people are out there getting injured, the hospitals are already under stress from covid without adding trauma patients. >> yes. they certainly are. and thats one of the problems of having to deal with so many people who still w...

In the mast 20 years. >> thats a very, very good point. im glad you made it. what do you say to the more hawkish critics of the president who say, look, leaving afghanistan, especially leaving afghanistan in this way whether we like it or not will embolden our enemies they say. will lead to afghanistan once again becoming a haven for al qaeda and other terrorist groups. what do you say to them? >> i would say a couple of things, that the drone strikes in the past couple of days have indicated th...

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So given everything youve got to give them high marks. >> so you mentioned some of their critics. there have been a lot of critics and these are just republican or media critics. "the washington post" is reporting that even some house democrats have raised the prospect of whether secretary of state antony blinken and national security adviser jake sullivan should lose their jobs. david, this withdrawal has undoubtedly not gone according to plan but should a senior biden administration be forced ...

To live and believe and trust that, hey, something -- one day youre going to catch a break and hopefully thats ahead of us. but above all i think it really important, part of that bad luck is also planning on the part of the administrators and leaders of the country. for instance, we knew -- scientists have warned that this was inevitable, but yet 11 years we did very little to prevent this thing from repeating itself. we know that earthquakes are coming. theres several profiles, by the way, and...

So while were trying to process that piece, you know, this calamity befalls us in terms of a natural disaster. so while this indeed is mother nature at work, there is this social aspect to it in that the infrastructure in haiti that is needed, that people have been crying out for for decades, has never been sufficiently built. roads, schools, health care centers. those have not been at the place they need to be to take care of people when something like this befalls them. even the fact that folk...

Infrastructure in haiti is needed and has never been sufficiently built. that means roads, schools, health care centers. those have not been at the place they need to be to take care of people when something like this befalls them. even though folks were allowed to live on the fault line where the earthquake occurred is something we need to be questioning at this time. because back in 2010, the seismologists warned us that this area, which was the exact same fault line where the 2010 hit, that i...