Hurricane, the first of the year, and while the storm system has lost a little of its kick, tonight, Tropical Storm barry continues to hammer the gulf coast. Barry is packing winds of up to 65 miles per hour. Torrential rains and flash flooding remain a major problem. States of emergency have been declared in louisiana and in mississippi. The storm came ashore just before 2 00 this afternoon eastern time near morgan city, louisiana, 85 miles west of new orleans. Less than an hour later, it was downgraded to a Tropical Storm, but this is still a fierce weather system. David begnaud begins our coverage tonight from morgan city. Reporter its been nonstop rain all day, jim, but the wind has become the story. The mayor says we all thought this was going to be water event so far, it has been a wind event. Downtown here in morgan city, it is a ghost town. But the mayor says 90 of people decided to stay here, refusing to leave. We are on the river wall. This protects the city from the atchafal
Im like flop sweat through the whole rest of the show. Its very exciting. Did you watch of course. Wouldnt miss a minute of it. I watched the entire thing standing up and jumping up and down. So it was a workout for you, that game. The only one ive had all week. Thank you, rachel. Thank you, lawrence. Well, here is something weve never seen before, and that is something we say a lot in trump world, the attorney general of the United States says on monday hes recusing himself from the case and the next day, today, he says hes not recusing himself from the case. Attorney general william barr has changed his mind and decided he will supervise the new sex trafficking case against Donald Trumps old friend Jeffrey Epstein. We will consider why the attorney general should recuse himself, including the fact that his father hired Jeffrey Epstein many years ago and why the attorney general has decided to unrecuse himself. Well discuss that later in this hour. Also later in the hour, former cia d
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