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Is what you are hearing now. well have reaction from kabul and westminster and speak to afghan refugees. good morning, a fresh warning about a shortage of seasonal workers and how a failure to harvest hops like these would affect the price of your pint at the pumps. sarah storey makes history in tokyo as she claims her sixteenth gold medal — becoming britainsjoint most successful paralympian of all time. good morning, today it is going to be cloudy, — good morning, today it is going to be cl...

Hear about new orleans. stories being written is the levee system worked. in katrina it was ancient and not upgraded in decades. what reports have you gotten from the levee system this time and was it even necessary to help drain lake pontchartrain using the levee system? >> i think draining part of lake pontchartrain was a necessity. with these hurricanes you have no idea whats going to happen. what we were hearing is about the pumps in new orleans and a few of the pumps were not working. if th...

City. its a roofing this is from a nearby building, a roof from a nearby that has collapsed. im building. here in the french quarter, this is which you know, would look from french quarter like this if you had which you know it would lights. but there look like this if you are no lights. nowhere had lights. but there in new orleans. are no lights anywhere new or thats new orleans, and because well the citys thats because while the levies and pumps citys levies and and all of, that which pumps, w...

Compromised as you heard. across the region fuel is in very short supply. many gas stations simply closed with no electricity to run the pumps. thoefs that are open have either run out or they get a tanker truck delivery and it is a total zoo. we were caught up in that yesterday trying to get some fuel. there is also a heat advisory in effect both today and tomorrow. the heat index will be in the triple digits. thats going to add to the misery on the ground here. >> bill: devastating pictures, t...

Make it habitable. we have trends going on at the same time, and as a state we need to figure out how to grapple with it. seems like it will have even further enforcing of levees and pumps and everything else, and its a question of how were going forward in the current environment. >> i dont want to keep you too much because if the power is up it means you are talking to me on a cell phone, and you need that for other things, but i want to ask you about if there are particular parts of towns or ...

Assist families and i believe theres going to be some assistance for folks that need to evacuate the area after the hurricane. to evacuate the area after the hurricane-— hurricane. new orleans has suffered before, _ hurricane. new orleans has suffered before, hasnt - hurricane. new orleans has suffered before, hasnt it, l suffered before, hasnt it, with hurricane katrina? and there is a fear now that hurricane ida will test the flood defences, the infrastructure that was put in place after tha...

Believe needed to be operated through at an event we did it with power. so they have their own fuel source in their own generators. and their own pumps. essentially we built this system knowing that it would be operating in the worst conditions possible. >> tell us about the upgrades and improvements that have been made over the years to make sure that something like what happened in 2005 does not happen again. >> we completely redefined how we look at building a hurricane system. we knew from t...

Powers. so each of our pumps stations had their own fuel source, their own generators, and their own pumps. essentially, we built this system knowing that it was gonna be operated in the worst conditions possible. >> tell us about the upgrades and improvements that have been made over the years, to make sure that something like what happened in 2005 does not happen again. >> we completely redefined how we looked at building a hurricane system. we knew from the lessons of katrina, that one thing,...

Systems to the test. also, does it mean because i understand if the speed of the wind has fallen slightly, but it may yet get more rainfall as a result? brain is definitely a concern in new orleans. i do not know how many of your viewers are aware but it is largely at sea level and rainwater has to be pumped out on a normal summer day. any rain has to be pumped out. those pumps are dependent on power. they had backed up power systems. the main power grid is down and they are having catastrophic ...

Over the bridge. and here. minimal wind damage. roofs have pilled off, and degree moved around. but, you have to anticipate. it is. storm surge was 16 feet. flooding damage will be significant. but here in the town of new orleans, water just continues to come in, we have to assume that the pumps are overwhelmed. any of the low lying areas there will be significant flooding. the thing is a lot of people did not leave new orleans. heard mayor say ahead of time, evacuation here was optional, as i o...