Us the lowdown. it gets its name from a prehistoric elephant and shares it. # i ll be there. ..with a heavy metal band. yes, mastodon, an alternative to twitter, has exploded in popularity lately. the first thing you have to do when you sign up is choose a server. there are loads of them and they are themed like things like country, city, interests, uk, glasgow, gaming and so on. it does not matter which one you choose because you can see all the others anyway, but it gives you a starting community of people who are more likely to be sharing the same sort of stuff that you re interested in as well. by the way, you don t tweet here, you toot. one of the attractions of this platform is that it is decentralised. no one person or company owns mastodon. servers all link up to form
we were talking early at night and she got real panicked. and she said, i think they re somebody outside. and then came a rush of disturbing phone calls. no color i. d., disguise voices. it s funny, you just don t get it. she gave her friend jennifer the lowdown. what kinds of things were going on with her? this phone calls, distorted. voices creepy movie kind of stuff? knowing when she s in her house, which lights were on. not just i know we are, i know we re you are in the bedroom. i know what time you came home last night. what time you left today. just watching her every move. it s really a matter of time before we get yourself a number. charles meanwhile told rachel he was getting the same kind of disturbing calls. and in april, it got worse. rachel s vehicle was vandalized more than once. tires slashed, windows broken. charles volunteer to fix her car, even though they were living apart. he gave her a lunar suv to drive. rachael was pretty sure who is behind all this scary nonsense. a guy she d gone out with a few
Orleans. brian, thank you for your reporting. thank you for appearing on the program this evening as well. i know it is hot. most people in louisiana still don t have power. give us the lowdown. what s going on on the ground? reporter: it s striking to us, to me and members of our team here, just how much people are still struggling a little more than 48 hours out after hurricane ida. how much people are struggling just to get some of the basics that they need to survive. and we re talking about just food and water. people are wondering where am i going to go for food and water because i can tell you that my team and i have been roving around this city all weekend and in the two days since hurricane ida, and there are very, very few grocery stores open. there are very few of any kind of stores open. and, you know, food and water are really starting to become an issue. we did visit today a food and water distribution center in the neighborhood of algiers in southern new orleans, and this was set up by the local city councils, plus a couple of private groups.