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Tornado damage. certainly wind damage, the winds at the airport 60 miles per hour. over 30,000 people without power at this hour. the storm came over the lake across into kenner and down into new orleans proper and still moving down almost to about gretina right now. storm moving to the southeast about 30 miles per hour. right there is the rotation as it travels on eventually toward the northern parts of plaquemines parrish. damage has been reported but most wind damage, power lines down, trees down, 30,000 without poor. >> chad, give us that time window again. for folks down there when does t...

Harm's way to deter potential looters. many hours before anyone in the big easy can risk easy. louisiana is not the only state in trouble. far from it all along the coast in the state of mississippi and alabama, this storm is hammering with people with wind and rain even still. that will not change any time soon because right now isaac is still sitting right over the gulf coast barely moving. 5 or 6 miles per hour. technically bare lay hurricane. maximum sustained 74 miles per hour. rain is still coming down in fits and starts. some areas have already gotten a foot of rain. one town has gotten...

In this region admire about you is that you are a straight shooter. i talked to the army corps of engineers. they have great confidence and i have walked along where the levy was breached in this area. it looks very different than what it was prior to katrina. they walked me through the pump systems here. all of the billions of dollars put in place here. as i started this sentence saying you're a straight shooter, what do you say? tell me straight. do you have confidence in the engineers and in fema as well? >> absolutely. er with evacuating east bay but where the levies finished in the north ...

Blocked to any executive responsible for operations in the gulf of mexico when the oil rig exploded last april. more than 200 million gallons of oil ended up in the gulf. b.p.'s former chief executive is among those who will go without a bonus, we're told. he live the company after a series of public gaffes over the handling of the oil spill. who could forget? b.p. mounted a massive clean up effort in the gulf and a huge p.r. campaign after they found a way to plug the well but a lot of oil is around the barrier islands of indiana and it is collecting in the marshes and wetlands and local fish...

Water oil drilling, plus the "wall street journal" reporting that bp pushing to fix that gushing oil well by july 27th. that would be almost a month ahead of schedule. nearing completion of those relief wells that we heard so much about. but the oil giant is also preparing what the government is calling a backup to the backup plan, including linking that busted well to existing pipelines in two nearby oil and gas spills. phil keating is watching this as he has been throughout this entire disaster, in bell chase, louisiana with more for us. it appears bp is being i guess cautiously optimistic n...