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Warning residents shelter in place, power is out throughout the city, and the flash flood warning is still in effect in new orleans until 1 am eastern time. nearly, 1 million people in new orleans area are without power tonight, and the city's electricity supplier says their facilities have sustained catastrophic damage. power will remain off line through the rest of the evening, you're not gonna get power until the morning. many have to wait for for many days. joining us now from new orleans, john stat, an editor of the gambit newspaper. john, thank you so much for being there. first, tell us...

If you're in the part of town where it does fluid or just eating food that isn't something you should be eating. there's a lot of challenges that will come from us not having power very very fast. the editor of the gambit newspaper of new orleans, it's very good of you to stay up and talk to us tonight. thank you and stay safe. we appreciate you. it has been exactly 16 years since hurricane katrina struck louisiana, back in 2005. that disaster of course was marked by a major infrastructure failure when the levees and flood walls protecting new orleans broke, causing catastrophic flooding acros...

And one is as essential to the other as can be. you can'tly have a good po boy shop without a bar. if you have a good neighborhood bar, you have to serve food. bar and food is po boy. >> bar and po boy shop, that's life. >> if i ever get stranded on an island, all i need is a po boy or a beer -- >> or root beer. >> and i'm good. >> i'm with you. cheers. >> cheers. >> kent jones spent the day eating. that was clancy from the gambit newspaper. obviously, we're having a great time. we'll be right back with the one and only terrence blanchard. we're live in new orleans. cheers.