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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 sunday's superdome show to monday. hang on to your tickets, they will be honored july 15. we are here with you. we'll 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 rouge coming up next. of savings and service.

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. >> you've 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 tacoma police department in washington, hours after peaceful rally a man caught trying to set the bui...

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 won't 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 don't 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 in an area that normally floods. take a listen to how one volunteer explains it. >> i would rather ...

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 platforms in the gulf have been evacuated. that's 283 platforms and 10% of the rigs were evacuated and m...

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. what's 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 during this time. that's what it's going to take for to us get through an event like this. it takes c...