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unforgettable rules he played. he was also chalky white in "boardwalk empire." he earned an emmy nomination in the drama. former co-star alec baldwin calling williams raw and powerful actor. the city medical examiner will determine his cause of death. williams was just 54 years old. thank you for joining us tonight, "ac 360" is now. good evening, hope you had a great labor day weekend. the unofficial end of summer. it begins with a rise and death toll after hurricane ida. in the northeast where president biden will visit tomorrow. 52 people reported death across six states.

stories of people trapped in apartments and others unable to hold onto loved ones. a trooper in connecticut swept away. the floods used to come every 20 to 25 years. now, they're coming every three or four or five years. in a moment, we'll have a live report from louisiana. athena jones is showing us the latest from new york city. what's going on. >> reporter: we are in queens, one of the areas hardest hit in new york city. both in terms of damage. people are clearing out, cleaning up and try to begin to rebuild their lives and a lot of loss of lives. many of the deaths occurring in flooded basement apartments. >> reporter: heartbreaking story of loss. new york police show the rescue

of the family of three later found dead. two other residents died when the wall in their home collapsed. administer touring storm damage on monday. >> what we saw was heartbreaking. the amount of damage and destruction these families experienced. >> communities across the region beginning to put their lives back together after the devastation of ida. >> if you drive around queens, it looks like a bomb went off. everybody's personal belongings on the streets. we need someone to help us out. >> reporter: help is on the way with president biden set to visit new york and new jersey on tuesday. >> we are at least $50 million in damages and we anticipate the numbers to cooperate. that did trigger a threshold we

are able to apply for declaration of assistance. ida claiming at least 50 people across the region. at least four died in pennsylvania and 27 people lost their lives in new jersey. governor murphy plans to ask the president to provide federal disaster relief to more counties. >> we are in there fighting and other counties impacted. >> reporter: state officials are focused on how to be better for the next storm and putting better warning system in place to alert people of the danger. >> we have seen walls that need to be raised and we have -- we really need help from the federal government to get back from our feet and get ready for the future.

>> athena, how do people need storm relief get it from the federal government? >> reporter: one way, anderson, the stay, mayor de blasio said today the city will be sending teams door-to-door to people's homes to make sure they are aware of these benefits and if they sign up to get this relief. we are talking about grants for test temporary housing and valuable aid. and want to make sure everyone should get it could get it. >> thank you so much. the president visits the metro area. half a million people are still without power and the intense heat after the storm claiming more lives among seniors. mar martin sadvidge.

>> reporter: once they got into the first building, they found deplor deplorable conditions. temperatures soared inside the building. many of the seniors were trapped because the elevators did not work and they could not use the stairs to get down to the ground floor. all weekend long they continue to look at building, after building that was housing el elde eldeel elderly. and sadly they also found five people who died and they say in some cases these buildings did have a staff but the staff evacuated and leaving the senior citizens all on their own. >> what did the mayor say about this? >> reporter: mayor cantrell is upset about this today.

she was fired up and here is more of what she said about it. >> when you leave, nothing but a sign that says call 311, when they're responsible, i have a problem with that. we are not going to get into a blame game scenario. it is negligence and it is not on the backs of the city of new orleans. >> well, in fact, it is on the backs of the city of new orleans. it is coming from some of the own owners of the buildings. the diocese and the catholic church owns a couple of that building. they reach out to the city before friday, the city should have known. christopher holmes' leadership repeatedly requested assistance. after the death of one of our residents reported, five days later, september 3rd, civil

authority finally responded. in other words, why did the city wait until friday. when the storm had hit on sunday, suddenly say we should investigate the welfare of seniors. they don't want to blame game but it is a full force here. >> how are things in new orleans and louisiana? >> you are talking about the city of new orleans that's getting better. 70% of electricity is expected to be restored and they hope to have most of the power back on wednesday. elsewhere, still about half a million people without electricity and many of the sort of rural or distance perishes, it is going to be problematic because where the power lines come down is so remote, they'll need boats or airboats just to get into find the system. that's why they say not until the end of the month. there are grocery stores that open today and more gas stations open that have gasoline. hospitals are up and running.

the national guard is handing out food, water and ice. it is improving but still a lot of stuff going around. >> yeah, martin savidge. >> mr. adams thank you so much for being was. this morning you drew a comparison between president carter visit to the south bronx in the 1970s which brought a lot of global attention to the place in the city to president biden's visit to queens. do you think it is that significant? >> yes, i do. if you look at the 13 lives that were lost here, devastation. property damage. i am going to highlight our inner cities, how we did on climate change. >> most of the deaths in new york city happened in converted

apartments that flooded and people are trapped and drowning in their own homes. how do you stop that if you are a mayor? >> of course, also in vehicles and -- the basement apartments. we also have about 100,000 people are living in apartments and many of them are low income new yorkers. we can be smart about this with warning systems and legalize some of the apartments and we can transition people into permanent housing. we have to be smart about this issue that we are facing dealing with climate. >> do you think this city and other american cities are

prepared for what potentially lies ahead as the climate continues to change? >> i say this over and over, we crewed up our plans. let's be honest about it. we have to prepare for the future. we look at our sewer system in new york, made out of brick. when you see something like that, you are ready for the rainfall, i was out there last night and i saw the level of rain was unbelievable to witness. let's be honest and look at what other countries have done. how do we live with water? we thought we can build walls around our shores and now water areas, high waters where it is

lo located. this came from in land and the sky. i think we need to rethink about living with border and now we do it correctly. i am thinking immediate help. i was happy that the governor decided to deploy a national guards to help in the clean-up effort and we are going to do new things of warning systems and technology and let everyday new yorkers know when a storm is coming. >> it is obvious though the last thing new york city needs given the economic issues and public safety issues. you and i often discussed problems with police department in this city and across the country, you were a captain in new york city police department, i got to say, to watch these videos of where the police officers out during the storm diving under water and trying to get people.

it is just one of those moments where you thankful for the folks who are out there and police who are out there and firefighters as well. >> right. >> we should never mix of the two. call for proper police respond has nothing to do with our immigration of our men and women who put on the blue uniform and put themselves in harm's way all the time. i believe that we had one of the most amazing law enforcement on the globe, not the entire country and i am proud of what they do any time there is an emergency, they place themselves in harm's way. we don't have to mix up the justice we deserve and the safety we need. the police department did an amazing job as well as our first responders saving the lives of our new yorkers >> eric adams, i appreciate your time tonight.

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scene. they have been doing that for a couple of days now. you can see the polk county sheriff's trailer there and the burned out pickup truck that was on fire when the deputies arrived. they said the suspect caused that fire. there is a path from the street leading up to the house here behind me. the suspect put some glow sticks trying to entice the deputies as they arrive to enter the home just trying to peak their curiosity apparently. the sheriff here had said this is suspect was prepared for armageddon. that's why they have so much to process here. they said there were three guns inside. they were going to look closely at those and process those. there were bullet holes all over the house and doors and windows and plenty of blood was left behind at this horrific scene.

we are getting more and more details about this, anderson. ip i want to warn you some of those details you may find disturbing. >> evil in the flesh. he was a rabbit animal. >> reporter: grady judge is talking about the 30-year-old ex-marine who's charged in a horrific shottoting. it happened at about 4:30 at this lake house in florida. >> the house we discovered a man and woman and infant in the mother's arms all shot to death. the baby boy was just three months old. also dead, the baby's 62-year-old grandmother who was hiding in the closet in another property and the family's dog also shot and killed.

when deputies arrived, there was a shoot-out. windows and doors left riddle with bullet holes. >> reporter: investigators say the suspect was wearing body armour but signatuurrendered af was shot. >> it would have been nice if he would come out with a gun. when someone chooses to give up, we take them into custody peacefully. you see it is easy to shoot innocent children and babies and people in the middle of the night when you got the gun and they don't. he was not much of a man. >> reporter: when deputies got inside, they discovered the bloody scene along with the 11-year-old girl been shot multiple times but expected to recover.

investigators say it did not appear that the shooter knew the victims. >> that's the scary shot. it could have been me. my family. >> reporter: the suspect faced four charges of murder as well as other charges including attempted murder. the sheriff says the suspect told them he was a survivalist and high on meth and this terrifying details. >> he explained they begged for their lives and he shot and killed them anyway. >> reporter: the suspect recently started to believe he was communicating with god. >> she said he had ptsd and i have seen him depressed and he said god spoke to him and now he can talk directly to god. she said i never seen that kind of behavior. >> reporter: according to the criminal's affidavit, the suspect told authorities voices

and god told him to do it. he shot the infant because i am a sick guy and adding i want to confess all of it and be sent to jail. >> randy, you and i were talking about the other show full circle earlier, he actually showed up at this property hours before the shooting and came back. >> reporter: absolutely, anderson. nine hours before and this really all started on saturday night when the suspect according to the sheriff came by here, he was talking to the man out front who now turns out is one of the victims. he was mowing his lawn and the suspect said he was looking for r a girl named amber and saying he had a message with her and been communing with god. the man says there is nobody here by that name and someone

else came outside. and he said that he's communicating with god. they didn't believer him and h left and quite angry. he went home and drove 45 hours and found his way back here at 4:30 in the morning high on meth and shot the people he had the altercation with on the front lawn and the others who were inside. >> the 11-year-old girl shot mil multiple times and she survived? >> reporter: yes, she was shot seven times in her legs. it was really incredible that she survived this. it is a wonder she survived this. the sheriff says he spoke with her aunt and she told him that this girl had prayed and played dead and that's how she managed to survive this.

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they are safe and cnn now has details. what happened? >> this information is from the oklahoma congressman mark wayne mullen who says these four americans who the state department announced earlier today made their way out of afghanistan are in fact of three children and their mother.

he spoke with our colleague brianna keilar. he said this family was not able to get out at the airport in the scene of chaos that we remember. they were not able to fly out from there or another location in afghanistan so they made their way out of the country on foot by theover land route. we did ask the state department about this earlier today. they did not offer much in the way of confirmation. i want to read you part of their statements. we provided guide ance to them d embassy officials greeted the americans once they cross the border. we are not in a position to offer additional information. andreas l and anderson, these are four of the 100 americans who want to leave the country since the weight dr withdrawal. >> this is a huge test of that

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out of the country. many of them are trying to get to the u.s. and they are covering how hard it is. >> reporter: as the taliban swept across afghanistan. getting your aircraft and get out of the country. the pilots many of whom are trained by the united states took dozens of planes and helicopters flying north to safety into ubekistan. now they are stuck. >> reporter: i spoke with a u.s. trained pilot in ubekistan. he was rescued by an afghan helicopter pilot and flown across the border. >> i turn back for hundrlaunchl.

>> i am in the hospital. >> the pilot is a colonel. we are not naming for security reasons. he's one of over 60 my pilots and other in ubekistan. many of their families are still in afghanistan trying to get out. >> there is rarely a day that goes by where there is not an af afghan air force members that's detained or killed by the taliban. david hicks is working with part of a larger network, trying to get them to the u.s. >> all volunteers, former servicemen and some civilians that actually jieoined the team. trying to get these folks out and it has been a roller coaster

for the last three weeks. >> hicks said he's also in touch with -- for help, hicks reached out to lawmakers in congress including representative austin scott. people understand these are people that fought with the united states on our side of two decades war. i would like to see them allow to come to the united states, fully vetted, come to the united states, protect our troops and did the right thing that the united states asked them to do. >> scott says ubekistan want people out the -- each of those locations, there is personnel there and my best knowledge, nothing had been done to move. >> alex, what the state department is saying about that? >> not very much.

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board meeting in william jennin erupted. >> we know who you are. >> the local police had to step into control the crowd. >> shame on you! >> reporter: this school board in loudoun county, virginia on critical race theory in gender and students' rights. teaching it has been restricted and at least 28 states according to the new york times and the non-profit educational news outlet. >> attendees say the crowd here was so upset they screamed and threw things at board members. >> you are teaching children to hate others because of their

skin color. i am disjgusted by your depravity. it is time to replace -- [ applause ] >> reporter: one attendee arrested by police for threatening to hurt someone. >> this has san diego county board meting on vaccines is one more example on how children with are being placed at front and center in these debates. >> how many vaccines have you had? >> reporter: sunlen sfarty, cnn, washington. >> secretary kocordona --

>> we need to focus on what's best for students. we are talking about making sure students have an opportunity to be in the classroom safety and making sure our staff feels safe going to work so we don't have another year of directive learning. students focus enough. >> you have two decades of public school educator. have you seen a political division from the country seeped so far into the world of -- >> parents are getting fistfights and imagination. >> we need to stay focused on getting our students back in the classroom and letting the school leaders do their jobs. it is unfortunate to see what's happening but across the country we are seeing also great examples of students coming back to school after a year of absence. educators and leaders are doing

the right thing. >> all cheildren have an opportunity to come ensafely. >> should be mandatory evacuation for teachers? >> i support state when they do that. we don't mandate vaccines or masks, we want to make sure we are doing everything in our power to keep our students safely. i do support those places where they are requiring it. >> we know it helps keep our children safe. i do support it. >> the department of education opens into investigation of five states that bans mask mandate. >> you may have a higher risk from covid-19. one of those states, iowa's governor, he said, he decided to pick a political fight and we'll continue this sport over individual liberty. is this what it is about?

>> i support the ability for local districts to make decisions on this. we did this last year, i was commissioner of a state last year and we opened schools by working well together. communicating regularly, we are prepared, department of education to work with every state and governor to do what we can to support their safe reopening. we have done a lot of department in terms of happndbooks and guidance. we need to keep our constituents safe and number one, learn ng the classroom. they suffered enough, they have been disrupted. we can't let this be a year of disr disruption. >> those places that are less likely to enforce the mitigation strategies that we know work. we are seeing sad stories. >> icus being felt up. we could do better. >> what do you say to parents who say this is a matter of

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on this labor day, there is a new cnn film airing in just a few minutes. it's called "lfg" and it captures members of the u.s. women's national soccer team and their battle for equal pay. they won four olympic gold and four world cup championships. and the players allege they are not receiving pay that's equal to what the men's team makes. a federal court disagreed last year, throwing out the players' equal pay claim. the judge found that the women's team negotiated a different pay structure than the men's team. and that the women's players were already paid more than the men's team. the players are now appealing. earlier, i talked with becky, captain of the u.s. women's team. so, becky, thanks so much for joining us. talk about the -- the thought process that you and your teammates went through about bringing this suit for equal pay. >> yeah, sure. so i have been on the team for a decade and i have been through a few rounds of collective bargaining. and each time, we were making some strides in working conditions and better pay. but it seemed like the gap, in a

lot of cases, was still widening when it came to our male counterparts. and so, we started to explore different avenues of how could we close the gap? and in 2016, we decided to file a complaint with the eeoc. and we were really excited about that. it was a huge move for us. and it was just going so slow, they had not come to any sort of judgment or results. and so, we decided then, in 2019, that we were going to withdrawal the eeoc complaint and actually file a lawsuit. and so, we kind of escalated pretty quickly. >> the -- the -- i mean, the u.s. women's soccer team has been incredibly successful. four olympic golds as we mentioned. four world cup championships including, obviously, 2019. was it a hard decision to effectively decide to -- to sue -- i don't know if you are suing your boss but your -- to -- to sue, i guess, your boss? >> yeah, very much suing your boss. and surprisingly, it wasn't that tough. the program -- the women's program's been around for a few

decades now. and really, it was -- it was time. it really was time. and so, when we brought this to the team and kind of tried to explain what this would look like, how long it would take, the energy and the asks of effort from the players. everyone was onboard and it was really, pretty astounding and astonishing and it makes me really proud to think about but we were like full steam ahead, let's do this. >> so a federal judge dismissed the equal pay claim of the u.s. national women's team lawsuit. i am wondering your reaction when you heard that news? >> oh man, very, very disheartening. i think we all kind of had a minute where we held the pity party and we were like, oh, this is terrible. how could they think that? and, you know, we disagreed with the judge's arguments. um, and then, really it was, okay, what are our next steps? and i don't think anyone actually thought, okay, that's it. let's just clap our hands and be done with all of this. it was very much like okay, how does this appeals process work? um, do we need to bring on a new

legal team? it was all like, okay, what's next? what's next? what's next? this fight is not over. >> so we should also point out that the judge ruled that the u.s. women's national team earned both cumulatively and on an average per-game basis than the men's team during years the lawsuit is suing over. did his reasoning make sense to you? >> unfortunately, it did not make sense to us. what we are really arguing is about rate of pay and so unfortunately we had to play about 30 more games and have to be very successful in all the games that we played in to even make a comparable wage to what the men have. so for us, it's not about the accumulative amount. it's actually about the rate of pay and in that respect, there is discrimination. >> just to be clear, the prize money amounts for world cup specifically, they are determined by international soccer association, not u.s. soccer, is that right? >> fifa is responsible for the bonuses that get paid to each federation. and so, if we win the world cup, that money then goes to the

federation and the federation decides how that's dispersed to the players. >> and working condition -- there's a working condition settlement that's been reached. did that give any kind of -- was that a forward step? >> i think so, yes. i think working conditions are extremely important and luckily we did come to a very nice settlement where we have equal working conditions to the men. i would say that that was a long time coming. we are very, very happy that we got to that point. and now, it is onto the equal pay and making sure that there is no more wage discrimination between us and our male counterparts. >> i mean just why were working conditions different between women and men? just -- as an outside observer, that makes no sense. >> exactly. it made no sense to us, either. >> when you say different, in what -- in what way were they different? >> well, we are basically a traveling circus. and so, we have all this stuff that we have so schlep from one location to the next location to play. and for the most part, the men were getting better travel conditions. they were getting the charter flights and even their staffing was better and they were traveling with better equipment.

and so, it's all these things that really add up when you consider that our job is to travel the world playing soccer. >> yeah. and to someone listening to this, they -- maybe, they think well, you know, it sounds glamorous that you are traveling the world. and you are complaining about how you're doing it. when you're traveling the world, i mean, i can speak from experience, this stuff really matters. like, how you get from point a to b when that is your entire life. when your entire life is spent in hotel rooms and getting from one place to another, you start to, you know, notice when other people are doing it in a way that's much more -- much easier for them. and actually, helps them play better probably and you have to expend all this energy dealing with all this dcrap that no one else does. >> yeah, very much so. i mean, you hit the nail raight on the head. it is a competitive advantage and it goes from travel to hotels to staffing of your medical stuff. so it kind of runs the gambit.

>> so you have said the -- what you are doing isn't about you and your teammates involved in this lawsuit. it's not only about that. that it's something much bigger. what is your message for young players, both men and women, boys and girls getting into the sport on the future of equal pay? >> yeah, i very much feel that there's 28 plaintiffs in this lawsuit. and for the most of us, for the most part, we will not be getting any sort of advantage from getting equal pay. we're gonna phase out. we are going to get older. we're going to be done with playing soccer so it's really about doing this for the next generation. and so, i am hoping that the young girls and young guys out there that are getting into the sport, that they are not going to have to fight this fight. that it's already been fought. for the young guys, and for the grown guys, um, be allies. you know? like, if you see something, a questions. why is it run this way? don't -- don't put your head in the sand. we need allies and men fighting for us and fighting for women, that has a huge impact.

>> becky, i appreciate talking to you. thanks so much. >> thank you so much. >> the news continues here on cnn with "don lemon tonight." ♪ get some whipped cream ♪ ♪ on the top too ♪ ♪ two straws, one check, ♪ ♪ girl, i got you ♪ ♪ bougie like natty in the styrofoam ♪ ♪ squeak-squeakin' in the truck bed all the way home ♪ ♪ some alabama-jamma, she my dixieland delight ♪ ♪ ayy, that's how we do, how we do, ♪ ♪ fancy like, oh ♪

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this is a special edition of "don lemon tonight." i'm laura coates in for don lemon. and this labor day, president joe biden is just hours away from a visit to new york and new jersey where at least 52 people lost their lives. this after ida slammed the region with flooding and tornados just last week. the president declaring major disasters in multiple counties in both states. that as hundreds of thousands of people are in their second week without power in a sweltering louisiana. and the president is facing one challenge after another. the deadly storm coming on the heels of the end of america's longest war. and the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan. president biden's job approval rating dropping to just 44%. then