Chief justice john roberts join the three liberal justice in the decent. One of the strictest in the nation and bans abortions before many people know they are pregnant remains on the books. We have a big couple of hours ahead for us, all live here on cnn with our breaking news. I want to get to our meteorologist though to tell us about what s going on. This water came in fast and furious as we heard here in new york city. As we heard the governor talk about and the mayor of new jersey declaring a state of emergency and the governor as well. This area is being uniinundated with water. Look at this number, almost 200 miles stretch of land there of emergencies of portions of new jersey and onto new york and in place there going onto thursday morning. Flash flood emergencies only a handful with issued per year and often you will see them with over topping of ada dam or levy. You have catastrophic flooding taken place. Those are some what common. These won t happen every single day, this e
Just look at this video here on your screen. Flooding is wide spread. And some areas could see up to 20 inches of rain. More than 700,000 homes and businesses are now without power. And that number is sure to climb. Officials say it could take weeks to fully restore power. Now within the next hour or two, new orleans will be seeing its highest winds and heaviest rain. The levee system was vastly upgraded after katrina and holding as of now. South of the city, the rainfall and storm surge have pushed water over our levee in plaquemines parish. A flash flood emergency is in effect. I spoke to a critical care doctor in baton rouge bracing for the worst. We would be able to be the most significant event of our lifetime. We currently have a full hospital, but we re the regional medical center and so we are essentially acting that role. We have over 700 providers in the hospital. 50 of those are physicians. 400 are nurses. 300 are nonclinical. We re split into two staffs. We will do one shif
Oh my god. Bill: that s the first of many pictures throughout the day. That s southwest of new orleans. Ida tearing the roof off the top of the building. Dana: one person confirmed dead. Millions of people without power and that includes the entire city of new orleans. Bill: ida moving over mississippi. It has weakened to a tropical storm. Officials saying the threat level remains quite high. Dana: team fox coverage. Senior meteorologist janet dean is tracking the storm. Jeff paul is live in new orleans and where are you now? we re in downtown. As the sun comes up here in new orleans we re starting to get a better idea of the damage caused by hurricane ida. This building here knocked down by the powerful winds of that storm sending bricks all over onto the ground. You see metal and pieces of wood on the nearby buildings in downtown, new orleans. Something we re seeing throughout the area. We saw another building in the french quarter with its roof ripped off. Whether it s a building th
It has been 12 hours since i had a reuters sure in louisiana, on the 16th anniversary of hurricane katrina. But even as it has been downgraded from a hurricane for two hurricane one, over those 12 hours ida is wreaking havoc, especially from the storm surge it s leaving in its wake. Authorities the last hour reported a levee failing about lafitte just south of new orleans and officials warn that more than 200 people are in intimate danger there and need to seek higher ground. One death has been confirmed elsewhere in the states, a 60yearold man was killed when his house was hit by a fallen tree near baton rouge. And the entire city of new orleans is in the dark tonight s, the power companies say it s catastrophic transmission damage. The number of people without power throughout louisiana, is now more than 1 million, and rising. And there are fears that some of those people could remain without power for weeks. One area of particular concern tonight is louis knit louisiana s hospitals,
Biden approved a major disaster declaration for louisiana. I became sure as a category four storm with maximum sustained, winds over 150 miles per hour. It has been weakening as it s moved inland, but slowly. And it is now to a category two. The national hurricane center says it is still bringing catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding, to southeastern louisiana. And that has brought scenes like this in the city of houma. The extraordinary power of those high, winds meanwhile, the entire city of new orleans is in the, dark without power tonight except for those with generators. The power companies is ida caused quote, catastrophic transmission damage. Across louisiana more than 930,000 people have lost power. We have also had our first confirmed death, caused by this hurricane. A 60yearold man was killed when a tree fell on his home, just south of baton rouge. Of course this catastrophic storms taking place during the pandemic, in a state that has one of the highest