now it's impossible for anyone to get vaccinated in new orleans, who wants to get vaccinated in new orleans, the whole public health system has basically shut down at the same time. >> certainly, and so are encouraging our families who may be a way to get access if they qualify, for our students to be vaccinated. to be vaccinated. but also in the city of new orleans, we believe in masking up. we want our community, whether you're still in the city of new orleans, or if you have left the state to protect yourself, as well as others, that's the best way that we can continue to fight covid-19. and hopefully, just looking at data, we can actually have our students now return to the greek city of new orleans, and be back in our schools, with our teachers. so we can move our school system forward. >> let's listen to what the governor said today, about one power will be restored. >> quite frankly, i will be surprised, not pleasantly surprised, but unpleasantly surprised, if it's 30 days before we start to see power being restored. >> so, we just don't know. but 30 days is one of the possibilities.

he arrived here in new orleans. at about 01:00pm to physically lay his eyes on the damage that hurricane ida produce and parts of southern louisiana. >> 16 years and 5 days after hurricane katrina made landfall, president joe biden landed in new orleans. the purpose of the trip to see the damage from hurricane ida firsthand and meet with local leaders to find out what they need from the federal government and folks. >> i know you're hurting. i know you're hurting. >> his first stop plus and the saint john's parish emergency operations center followed by tour of one of the many neighborhoods that were destroyed. >> to see just exactly what happened on the ground. see what's going on in people's homes. a lot of people fear. for example, because they don't have cell connections. we're all aware of what available help there is right now to get the storm is one of the strongest in american history. destroying communities and leaving hundreds of thousands without power. >> the message that the president wants to demonstra

that is the reason why the crisis in new orleans is so bad. people here cannot rent in new orleans. they can't afford it. not the working poor. they are already making half of what the average white family here is making. i know they can't afford it. every time there is a lot that is empty, you see a house, big beautiful home built in there but nobody is helping the poor families trying to keep -- amy, for over 12 years, i have been living in this house without water. i haven't done no repairs. my garage just about done fell down. the need is -- i am going to tell you, if something isn't happening, don't happen -- we are reorganizing common ground with the assistance of mutual aid and others. maybe they cannot come down, but they know what is needed. to help us. we are looking for respirators. we are looking for gloves and boots that can be used so that we could help people when they have to got out their houses, how to correctly do it and do the mold remediation. but then at the same time, we have to look at the golf -- gulf. i heard you mention the oilfield. during katrina, we're

the new orleans area. orleans parish has reported the highest number of cases. about 9% of the new orleans public school students and staff were in quarantine as of august 20. so you were already facing some very serious challenges because of covid. that's -- there's nothing in what we're seeing now that's making any of that better. now it's impossible for anyone to get vaccinated in new orleans who wants to get vaccinated in new orleans. the whole public health system has basically shut down at the same time. >> certainly. and so we're encouraging our families who may be away to get vaccinated, and also if you left the state, continue to mask up to protect yourself as well as others. that's the best way we can continue to fight covid-19, and hopefully i'm just looking forward to the day when we can actually have our students and families return to the great city of new orleans and be able to be back in our schools with our teachers so we can continue to move our school system forward. >> let's listen to w

parts of new orleans will be without power fodays. dayco and is in new orleans and jos us. welcome. >> so far it has been a positive reception amongopeful leaders who believe theresident is on bod and prepar to bring vast support to the city of new orleans and the state of louisiana for extensive damage. heas arrived in part of the region that was under 12 to 15 feet of floodwater where people had to be rescued, trapped in addicts and on rooftops as ida went. after meeting with officials, he will head down the coast where i don't with its 150 mile an hour winds flattened communities, washing some homes away. they are believed to be washed away into the gulf of mexico. he is going to see with his own eyes of the devastation that 150 mile an hour wind and a 16 foot storm surge can cause, reducing homes to piles of rubble or making the wash away completely. >> how effective has the federal government's response to ida in? -- being -- been? >> we don't know because we are only five days after the storm. people are frustrated. without air-conditioning, cold water, showers my peo

i know i was in new orleans during katrina 16 years ago. there's california highway patrol officers. >> people from across the country coming in to help and they're mostly put up in a big staging area at the louisiana state police headquarters in baton rouge. just wondering a lot of help is coming in. but there's no power. so how are these people who are helping other people getting by. well, that very good question. we have noticed there are some locations like hotels. >> even the one right next to our station that have at least lights on. and that's likely because of the generators you might actually be hearing the generator behind me. that's what's helping us power. some of our live capabilities right now is is those generators. so there is a heavy demand on that. but you then start to ask yourself where is the gasoline coming from. and those so that'll be the growing concern over the next 24 hours. if gas stations don't start to reopen. but i will say yesterday when i was in downtown new orleans. we were bringing you some live reports.

people's desire to be in new orleans is as strong as it's ever been. and, you know, this is just a setback but not a katrina event. cheryl: michael siegel, we appreciate your time today. i do hope you are able to go home soon. >> looking forward to it. thank you. good luck to you guys. cheryl: all right. thank you, sir. >>> well, we're going to move over to something else. it's kind of a hot topic today. well, it is a hot topic today. former baseball superstar alex rodriguez hits a snag in his bid to merge his spac, but he's not the only one having trouble. is the 2021 spac craze cooling off or maybe just getting started? i'm going to ask that question to isabelle free da coming up next. close eye on the markets, as you can see, the dow is up at this point by 65 points. we're looking for new records on the s&p and the nasdaq. we only need 4 points from the s&p, so i'm going to think positive. we'll be right back. ♪♪ t. - ten-x it? ten-x is the world's largest online commercial real estate exchange. you can close with more certainty. and twice as fa

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to new orleans. davis doesn't do it and he will send them out west after the confederate disaster so he gets sent packing west. he will serve under albert sidney johnston. from one johnson to another johnson and he and johnson get along pretty well. by the time he arrives for henry has fallen. beauregard's arrival was met with lots of cheering because he still the premier military commander to johnson and beau are guard decide johnson will receive the evacuation of the army from bowling green kentucky and beauregard will go to western tennessee and see concentration with the mayor picked this one of his finest hours as the commander overseeing that concentration getting his troops organized in securing that area and johnson arrives they emerge at the mississippi man both of them will decide to attack grant at shiloh church. shiloh is the turning point of beauregard's regarding there's a shadow that follows him to run his life and it will follow him even after death. you see for one thing that beaureg

but in new orleans there is at least one piece of very good news. the 192 miles of levees and flood walls did what they were supposed to do. >> if there's a silver lining, and today it's kind of hard to see one, it is that our levee systems really did perform extremely well. our federal, nonfederal levee systems particularly the hurricane and storm risk reduction system in the metropolitan new orleans area all performed as intended. >> that's not an accident. the levees breaking were the most critical failures of hurricane katrina in 2005. and that was really -- that was the worst thing that happened. dozens of flood walls collapsed and as a result 80% of new orleans flood as much as 15 feet. everything that happened was a result of that. and that in turn led to widespread power outages and all the human suffering we saw on television. and in large part why the aftermath of the storm was so devastating. after that federal, state and local government decided to do something about it. every level of government and ngos and citizens of new orleans unde

as you know, in new orleans, some people in new orleans are being told they will have to wait three to four weeks. >> we have heard that. of course hospitals are high pri priority. there's some power that's come up in new orleans and we do anticipate as several of our hospitals we should be on power in next 24 hours. regardless, we'll run on back up generation power until we need to come off that. we've got plenty of fuel and supplies to keep us operating. >> that doesn't take into account your doctors and nurses and your staff and what the situation is in their homes and if they have enough power and water. what is their situation? >> we have evaluating that now. sweat up a hot line for our employees to call into. it's like an employee assistanceline so we can understand their situation. we have secured several hundred hotel rooms. we have been in touch with carnival cruise lines that may be a i believe to bring a vessel into new orleans so we can secure rooms on that vessel. there's baneen a lot of work do to secure these resources for our employees. we are bringing in other suppl

i know new orleans has gotten some power restored. but how many people in new orleans or the greater area are still without power? >> thank you so much for having me on. we've got roughly 200,000 customers here in new orleans. and only about 11,500, last report i got have power back. it's great that we've got some power flowing back into the city because we were completely cut off just a few days ago. so that's encouraging. but really the big emergency we're facing right now is the power situation. the city has had to set up rec centers as cooling centers. so we have generators at rec centers so people can just be there for the day and be in the ac and charge their phones and get some water and get some food. unfortunately we don't have the volunteers and staff to keep them running overnight. so people have to return to their hot homes. i'm sitting right now at city hall. we don't even have enough power to really cool city hall. so i'm sitting here in my hot office talking to you. so that's really our real emergency. we've got people

this is the line for gas here in new orleans. in the chalamet area just southeast of new orleans. look at this line. this line goes down this street, and i'll have our reporter journalist jake scheyer throw his shot as far as he can in the dark. you can see some of the cars on the adjacent cross-street going that way. he with walked down that line. that line goes as far as the eye with see. we talked to motorists who have waited three, four hours to get gas. this is their destination, this racetrack station in chalamet, louisiana just outside of downtown new orleans. we tried to talk to the owners of the station to get an assessment of how much gas they have left, when they think they might run out because there was a shell station that we were at just next door yesterday. he ran out of gas as of last night. and there were long lines of very desperate people to get gas the ahis station. and there were some altercations along the way. so again, it's a very tense situation tonight as the gas shortages continue here in new orleans. now, we did get some good news tonight from the mayo

we'll have a live update from new orleans. this morning. >> on the gulf coast recovery efforts are underway after the wrath of hurricane ida the death toll has risen to at least 5 as crews raced to rescue people cut off by flood waters. there's still no power in many places across louisiana, which took the biggest hit from the storm. take chapman joins us live now from new orleans with a look at the conditions this morning. jake, you've been out there for the past couple of days. what are you learning at this moment. >> right now when the sun comes up, you just get a clear picture of how devastating ida was because most of new orleans and most of the gulf of louisiana is still without power. meaning that thousands of people have water is well, but we want to show you right now we're in the business district of downtown new orleans right now. you can see this part of the district is blocked off by law enforcement. but you can see right there. power crews are going up and down the streets of downtown new orleans. they have a lot

we expect that new orleans area will get power on very shortly. but we're along the coast in southeast louisiana, lafourche, terrebonne, and grand isle, some 62% of the homes down there are destroyed. and so they're not exactly sure where they're going to go or how th're going to rebuild. >> sreenivan: roby, when you're talking about the elderly, what about the nursing homes in the region who have also lost power? what have they been doing? >> you know, one of the extreme challenges during this hurricane was to move some of those folks in nursing homes to a safe area. well, some 800 folks were housed in a mass shelter, in deplorable conditions. this week, the health department went in, shut it down, and had to transport a lot of those folks from-- all of the folks to a different facility. and so those are some of the extreme challenges that folks are just going to have to keep an eye on, especially for those who have some medical challenges. >> sreenivasan: i know last week we spoke briefly about your relatives. how did they fare through this? >>

miguel almaguer, nbc news, louisiana. >>> i'm morgan chesky in new orleans where tonight it's a slow motion disaster leaving more than a million people in the dark >> do you have any idea when you'll get power back >> right now, no it's crazy >> reporter: ida crippling a massive power grid today the energy provider saying it could take three weeks before hard hit areas are back up. >> the schools are not open, the businesses are not open, the hospitals are slammed. there's not water in your home, and there's not going to be electricity. >> reporter: in st. charles parish just west of new orleans, officials now warning residents to prepare for more than a month. >> these are all empty? >> yeah. >> reporter: for clive jackson, fuel for his generator more precious than water. >> i'm on diesel now and i can't get diesel so, i mean, once that goes, it goes. >> what then >> that's it hospitals are still relying on generators, but as ida struck, neurosurgeons faced a patient emergency. >> we brought them into the operating room as i was taking a piece of a skull right off temporarily. >> in

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just outside the downtown new orleans. we tried to talk to the owners of how much gas they have left. there was a shell station we were at just next door yesterday. he ran out of gas as of last night. there were long lines of desperate people to get gas in his station. there were altercations along the way. it's a tense situation tonight as the gas shortages continue here in new orleans. we did get some good news tonight from the mayor of new orleans and from the energy corporation. they believe they are going to restore some power to the city of new orleans by late wednesday evening, tomorrow night. they said in a statement they will do it one of two ways. they will either try to tie the new orleans grid somehow to the larger grid in the leaarger regn or create an island -- somehow create an island of a small power grid to service just the new orleans area. they did say they think they will be able to bring some lights on by this time maybe or late tomorrow evening. that's a welcome sign for the people of new orleans. of

we're in the town of la place just west of new orleans. electricity is still out, there are major power lines still down and some of the major roadways of the city. and there is still no water in many of the businesses and stores are simply unable to operate at this point. very few gas stations have reopened. we've seen long lines for gas stations here. and local officials are telling residents that it will take weeks for things to get back to normal here. so they are really bracing residents to be in for what could be a very long and hot several weeks as they work to get things back to normal here. but local officials say that there have been no storm-related deaths caused by the storm and immediate aftermath of hurricane ida. so that is a definite sliver of good news. but people here really bracing for what is going to take a long time to get things back on normal here in these smaller communities surrounding new orleans. >> ed, thank you for that. >>> the u.s. fighting climate disasters on multiple fronts. hurricanes in the south, droug

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ryan young in new orleans. thanks very much. >> reporter: yes, sir. >>> widespread power outages we were saying impacting millions of people in new orleans. despite that, a business there called new york pizza is still feeding its customers. with me are the co-owners wayne and susan. thanks to both of you for joining us this morning. >> thanks for having us. >> first, can you describe the damage in new orleans right now and what that means for businesses like yours just trying to stay open? >> there's just, i mean, trees everywhere, no power. >> power lines, devastation, roads totally covered with trees, debris, flipped over vehicles, trees on houses, roofs flown off. just reminds me of betsy in 1965, because i came through new orleans and we didn't flood, but we were out of power for about two weeks. so we're going through pretty much the same thing. that's why we're here now. we had to bail out of town to get another generator to be able to get the pizza parlor back up. we had it for that first day and we had

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in new orleans there is at least one piece of very good news. the 192 miles of levies and flood walls did with they were supposed to do. >> if there is a silver lining, and today it is hard to see one, it is that the levee systems we really did perform extremely well. our federal and non federal levee systems, but articulate the flood risk reduction system, of the metropolitan new orleans area, outperformed as intended. >> that's not an accident. the levees breaking were the most critical failures of hurricane katrina in 2005. that was the worst thing that happened. dozens of flood walls collapsed and as a result 80% of new orleans flooded as much as 15 feet. it shouldn't have by the dade. and everything that happened after was a result of that. that in turn led to all the human misery and suffering that we saw. and it's a large part of why the aftermath of the storm were so devastating. and after that the state and local government decided to do something about it. every level of government, and ngos and citizens understood, that a failure like

gasbuddy says about half the gas stations in new orleans and baton rouge are out of gas >>> and the new orleans saints are moving their season opener because of hurricane ida the team has been practicing at the cowboys stadium in dallas. they will play their first game of the season in jacksonville, taking on the green bay packers. >>> thank you very much. let's catch you up on a few stories that should be on your radar. it's time for rapid fire here to break down the headlines, julia boorstin, steve coe vac, and marianne montaigne making her rapid fire debut. it's great to have everybody here welcome. >> thank you >> first up, kathy wood is doubling down on tech innovation and buying on the dip. she snapped up more than 157,000 shares of zoom and 36,000 for arc's next gen fund. zoom, remember, was down 16% yesterday on slowing earnings growth in q2, down 12% so far this year. it's up today, by the way. wood also scooped up 260,000 shares of robinhood for the ark fintech fund hood is down 7% over the past week, up about 2% today. marianne, is zoom or hood in the marianne montaigne etf >

ellison barber is on the ground there in new orleans, and there is a couple of things about new orleans, and i would like a near-term update on the power situation, but it is looking like big picture the levees held, and thinking about all of the investments made post-kra trina, and we beat up the government for not get the job done sometimes burk maybe on this one, we may have figured it out in new orleans at least, and we got through this storm. >> yeah, they did not have massive flooding, but we have hundreds of thousands of massive flooding and without power and this is one of the few places with ice, and these blocks, people are lining up all morning hoping to just get one of these blocks of ice. i can show you a little bit more here, and they are selling each of the blocks for $5 cash only, because nobody has any way to process anything other than cash, and because the power is out, not everybody has access to the cash, and the $5 a block, and they are limiting the amount to four blocks per person, and i wanted to give you a sense of what this line is like. you can look down here,

now, the energy company, entergy, they expect to have the electricity back on for most of new orleans by wednesday, september 8th, and for some people that is still too far away. listen to what we have heard from some people today. >> no help so far? >> no. >> the lines for ice, gas, food, water, the ridiculous. i have to keep my insulin on ice. because i'm a heart patient and i'm a diabetic, and so i have to have my medicine and my insulin cold, and my medicine has to be close to me. >> given the water and the ice and everything is a lot of help, and we need more and more of it. >> without the electricity, nobody can work. >> reporter: geoff, we have talked about the people not having necessarily the means to evacuate or to get out of the situation, and one thing they wanted to remind the viewers of is that the city of new orleans did not open up any temporary shelters when the storm hit. they are supposed to open up a special needs medical shelter, but initially the mayor said it would open thursday, but now they say it is going to open saturday, and for a lot of people, this is way

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metro new orleans. it held. it was strong. it worked, but too many people in too many areas are still unprotected. the storm surge and flooding was devastating. we have seen reports of wind up to 170 miles per hour. it has not yet been confirmed by fema, but 170 miles per hour, causing unimaginable damage with debris and downed power lines making passage impossible and slowing efforts to save folks on property. people continue to shelter in place. tomorrow, i will be traveling to louisiana with governor john bel edwards as well as the parish presidents. governor edwards encourage me to come and assured me that my visit will not disrupt recovery efforts on the ground. that is what i wanted to be sure. my message to everyone affected his we are all in this together. the nation is here to help. that's the message i have been making clear to the mayors, governors, energy and utility providers in the region who my administration has been working closely with over the past few days. working with governors in

sam brock, nbc news, new orleans. >>> tonight a pandemic milestone. the cdc says 75% of american adults have now received at least one vaccine dose but with president biden planning to announce a new strategy to combat the delta variant, there are fears of a new spike from holiday travel here's miguel almaguer >> reporter: just as covid cases began to stabilize in some pockets of the country, tonight there is growing concern the nearly pre-pandemic number of americans who traveled for the holiday weekend could fuel another nationwide surge. it comes just as many young, unvaccinated children return to the classroom for the first time, fearing worries over new outbreaks. officials urging parents to take extra precaution >> i'm concerned about that convergence, that perfect storm of flu, covid, and everything else >> reporter: with more than 100,000 hospitalized tonight, big cities like austin are already facing a serious shortage of icu beds in idaho, some ten medical centers are now activating their crisis standards of care, facing a crushing wave of c

in louisiana, widespread rainfall of five to ten inches is possible including in new orleans. areas prone to flooding the city could see up to 20 inches. it comes as people there still cope with the effects of hurricane nicholas, just over two weeks after that storm nearly 100,000 customers in southeast louisiana remain without power. >> there's still more garbage to come to the street and still a lot more damage to be taken care of. >> reporter: this morning the city of new orleans saying it's picked up only 5% of the debris left over from ida. now officials are worried that debris will clog storm drains making today's flooding far worse. abc's ginger zee is just outside the city. >> look behind me. piles of debris 16 days after ida as far as the eye can see, street after street and now a flash flood watch. >> reporter: earlier tuesday nicholas hammered the texas coast intensifying into a category 1 hurricane before landfall. the powerful storm surge overtaking roads and winds up to 95 miles per hour toppling trees and tearing homes apart. >> it was just howling like the craz

a sliver of new orleans east got the first power today. so the estimated timeline by about 24 hours. of course, the big question then becomes, let's great, how are we going to prioritize there for first responders, hospitals, nursing homes, sewage and water board. typically what happens, jim, is every place that has the largest grid amount by number of people and the population is generally what gets powered next. of course, the distribution lines, the transformers being down will be a variable there. i'm encouraged by the fact that it's 24 hours in advance. everybody wants to know what discuss that mean for my neighborhood. >> we've been talking folks ability what they need in new orleans. i'll play some of their comm comments. i'm sure you've heard similar. have a listen. i want to get your reaction. >> my roof in my living room is caved in. when it rains, we get water inside the house. we lad to move all the furniture out -- it's a four-bedroom house. right now we're living in two bedrooms. >> what's your biggest worry? >> running out o

and then there's this breaking news-- the mayor of new orleans says there will be a curfew tonight for the city of nearly 400,000. well, we are getting a clearer look at the damage. many homes were no match for thh storm's 150-mile-an-hour winds, and the stories we're hearing are just heartbreaking. many have lost everything. there's also some new details about hundreds of rescues made as the storm surge left entire neighborhoods under water. the official death toll is now four. two of the victims were killed when a highway collapsed in mississippi. our team of correspondents is following every angle of this developing story, including where now-tropical depression ida is headed next.s'mallraad off from crown point, louisiana. good evening, omar. >> reporter: good evening. despite the floodwaters and the rain, a lot of people are still trying to go down this road and see their homes for the first time since the storm. but they're learning it's one thing to survive ida's winds. it's another to survive the aftermath. the full impact of ida's direct hit on places like grand isle is only n

fox news. rebecca castor is there tonight with more rebecca. how are people in new orleans doing? frank. fortunately so far this evening we've only seen some light rain and the sun is actually coming out. but the concern is that heavier rainfall tonight could once again it leads to street from flooding. with storm debris, just blocking the drains. and this is after the city had a very busy weekend working towards a recovery. power is back on in the french quarter. the garden district and most of mid city. however, some neighborhoods in new orleans like you mentioned might not see lights until the end of this week. therefore, the city is providing charter buses to state run shelters for those still here, we want to evacuate now. this weekend, 800 people chose to get on one of those buses. the city was encouraging the elderly and those with vulnerabilities to take advantage of this opportunity to get out. i'm grateful. i'm grateful. i want to get on the bus and wherever they take me, it's going to be there. i couldn't sleep and i'm sick. i'm diabetic and everything else and bringing

not only are there 58 looting arrests in new orleans since the storm hit, that's according to a new orleans police chief ferguson but also today, just a few minutes ago, we got reports that a man was killed in nearby metery, louisiana during a d dispute over gasoline in metery, louisiana. tensions are still high here and people are getting very, very frustrated with the lack of power, with the oppressive heat. but we do have good news. the visual behind me will tell you a long line of streetlights back here, downtown new orleans had much of the power restored. the energy power company and mayor, latoy toya pointed to ne week for power. entergy said much if not all of the power in baton rouge should be restored by midway next week. it a slow grind in getting power back, laura, but making some progress. >> at least there is progress. what an awful story at the gas station. that's unimaginable. pete, let me come to you. the death toll sadly continues to climb in the northeast and also in the mid atlantic and you're in fort washington where they sustained heavy damage from a tornado. so what ar

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they need to be safe and get out of new orleans. >> so that is miss mary carter. she was nice enough to talk with us. she was leaving with her grandson who she says is mentally disabled. she's leaving with her daughter and other grandkids who all just need to leave. and her home, she said it was like a river flowing through her home because she had flooding. now she's got mildew and mold all over her clothes and she just couldn't take it anymore. so she's leaving. the good news here is that there are thousands of line men here trying to get the power back on, but for some people, it's not just the power. it's also access to food and clean clothes. fred? >> oh my gosh. horrible situation. and sad on top of all that, it's not going to be remedied overnight. it's going to be many more weeks of heartache, if not months. nadia romero. thank you so much. >>> president biden is pledging his full support to areas impacted by ida's wrath. he toured through some of the areas in louisiana. but the consequences say the federal response has been severely lacking. >> sleeping i

i need to get out of new orleans. i won't deal with new orleans no more. >> reporter: you just heard her, she wants to get out of new orleans. her beloved city where she's been her whole life. she says she has been through so many storms that this storm, hurricane ida, is the last straw. so she loaded up on one of these buses. she's trying to get some relief. she doesn't have any clothes or food but is ready to start over but she says she needs help to do it, jim. >> they need lots of help, thank you very much, nadia. cnn's polo sandoval is tracking the devastation in the northeast. polo, we know president biden will be visiting new york and new jersey next week. what kind of damage will he see? it is extensive. >> reporter: we've been tracking not just the cleanup but also what happens after the water recedes here, jim. the pennsylvania department of transportation crews have been working around the clock just pumping water out of some of those roadways so people can get back on them again. all that water has got to

try boost today. >> o'donnell: tomorrow, coming together after hurricane ida, new orleans style. we visit a bar that feeds everyone who stops by. and if you can't watch us live, set your dvr so you can watch us later. that is tonight's "cbs evening news." i'm norah o'donnell. >>> right now at 7:00 -- >>> a close call in marin county were a brush fire forced evacuations in lucas valley. plus -- >>> i have a close on my back right now, and i have the important papers. that's it. i'm worried to death. >> there's a lot of work to be done down here. >> it could be a make or break day in the firefight to protect south tahoe's tourist towns. >>> the wind continues to drive the caldor fire into the tahoe basin, but there may be good is in the forecast for the fire crews. >>> san francisco's mayor pushing back at suggestions that the city is going to pay people to not commit crimes. >> part of what we are trying to do is to make sure that money is not a barrier to turning your life around. >>> we start with breaking news in marin county, where firefighters have nearly contained a brush fi

the first lights are coming back on in new orleans. crew wurz able to restore power to parts of the eastern section of the city, using electricity from a natural gas plant the utility says transmission lines, damaged by hurricane ida, are carefully repaired ajts texas law banning abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy is in effect considering an aemergency appeal to block the law it directly challenges the roe-verses wade ruling by the high court it was set up to handle the areas around lake tahoe as the caldor fire approaches >>> and after an rbi single, last night's loss against the tampa bay rays, bogarth was pulled from the line up because he tested positive for covid he's the 10th player or coach on the boston team to be sidelined by the virus we do wish them all well a little birdie told me you're huge, huge boston red sox fan. >> yeah. get a different birdie not that i'm celebrating anybody getting covid but i root for the other team thank you very much. >>> let's get to phil lebu he's looking at auto sales slumping in a

try boost today. >> o'donnell: tomorrow, coming together after hurricane ida, new orleans style. we visit a bar that feeds everyone who stops by. and if you can't watch us live, don't forget to set your dvr so you can watch us later. that is tonight's "cbs evening news." i'm norah o'donnell. good night. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >>> i'm errol barnett in washington. thanks for staying with us. the taliban has been celebrating the withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan with fireworks and rallies, but as the group plans to announce a new form of government, their leaders are waking up to serious problems. the u.n. says one-third of the country is already at a crisis level of food insecurity, and afghanistan could run out of food, believe it or not, within a month. a severe drought has gripped the country for years. winter is on its way, and then there is covid. charlie d'agata reports on what the future may hold for afghanistan under taliban rule. he is in doha. >> reporter: the taliban says they are now close to announcing a new government just one or

new orleans has not done this. we are coastal, we do not have the levee system but we rely upon evacuating people out of the flood zones. the question we will have to start asking is should we be looking at building safe areas closer to where people have to evacuate from so they do not have to go as far? with cities like new orleans and houston they have large evacuation areas. should we be thinking about other options or other facilities to shelter within communities for the population? again, this is something that is a challenge that we will have to look at, but again i will not second-guess when people make a decision in this situation. i think we will get more of that when we get past the storm and we look at the after actions and going what were the options and what decisions got made. i always ask this question. i do not ask what went wrong, and i always ask what can we do differently? host: frank in birmingham, alabama. good morning. caller: my call was with reference to the evacuees in afghanistan, could i

adrienne broaddus is live in new orleans. adrienne, the desperation just for basic supplies is growing ahead of the president's visit, isn't it? >> reporter: yeah, the desperation is growing. we're going to remix this for you a little bit. before we show you the long lines, i want you to hear from the people who were impacted. you've heard from the people waiting for gas, but i want you to meet a man who's been camped out here all day. he was here yesterday. and he is one of the employees, in fact the owner's son, administering the gas. one of the first things i noticed, abdula, is that you're packing heat. talk to me about why and what has happened here. >> so there have been multiple incidents where people have pulled guns on us for very belligerent reasons, waiting in line too long, thinking we're ripping them off. we're actually one of the only gas stations in the greater new orleans area that's charging the exact same prices that we've been charmging during the hurricane, during the pandemic. we've been giving out free i

morgan chesky in new orleans for us. thanks so much. >>> president biden will travel to louisiana tomorrow to survey the damage caused by the storm. joining us now, white house senior adviser, cedric richmond. it's good to see you today. i know this is a very personal story for you, your former district as a congressman stretched from new orleans to baton rouge. what are you hearing from the ground from the people you served? >> we're hearing about the destruction and the devastation that's left in the wake of hurricane ida. what we're also hearing which i know very well is the determination and the resiliency of the people on the ground. so we know exactly what we need to do. we know how to help. but more importantly we know to talk to those elected officials that are on the ground. i know the frustration of trying to recover after a hurricane. so the number one priority is to restore power. over a million people in louisiana lost power, 100,000 in mississippi lost power. to date they've restored homes with power but we

so now you have the city of new orleans offering free transportation to people to leave new orleans to go to shelters outside of the city as the largest utility says it's possible they may not have power back up for everyone until september 29th or possibly even longer. we got an update yesterday from the new orleans homeland security director about the progress they're making in getting power up and running. here's what he had to say. >> power is back, again, about a third of the city at this point, which is pretty incredible after the amount of damage that the system received. i mean, i think we're very careful about saying, come back if you have somewhere to go, if you have support, and if you can manage it. but at the same time, realizing we do have a population that this has been a long haul. we want to give everybody an option that needs an option. >> reporter: one of the challenges in bringing people back to new orleans, i can tell you just from driving around the last few days, kendis, the street lights are still out. so even though the streets are clear, there's not debris in