her memoir is saved by the spirit of lafayette may got to wondering, is the spirit of lafayette? how was it carried forward? that's when i discovered it was women's generation after generation who carried on the spirit of lafayette and his amazing wife, adrian in history's darkest hour and i wanted to bring that story to its fullness and tell the tale of this extraordinary capitol in the deepest part that served as a beacon of hope in history darkest hours. >> while, that's incredible. i am already intimidated by having to go down the research while i'm sure you did but we will get to that next. erica, tell me how you discovered this story, you bring about women in literature from my favorite books, famous writers from how did you move away the litter world and discover this? >> writing community steer me a little, i was going down with another famous writer, which i think is great to go because i like to elevate their stories that happen hidden, i was writing about his wife and she said, could you just write about a woman whose phenomenal in her own right not just because submis

her memoir is called "saved by the spirit of lafayette", and i was wondering was there a spirit of lafayette and how was it care -- carried forward? >> and it was the women who carried it on in history's darkest hours and i wanted to bring that story to the page in its fullness and tell the tale of this extraordinary castle in the deepest part of france that served as a beacon of hope in history's darkest hours. >> wow. i'm like already intimidated by having to go down the research well, but i'm sure you did, but we'll get to that next. erika, tell me how you've discovered this story. you've written so much about women in literature and one of my favorite books, wives of famous writers and how did you move away. >> and writing for healthy was going down another famous writer worm hole, which is a wonderful place to go i was writing about bram stoker's wife. and they said can you write about a woman in her own right and not-- and i'm not sure how she was on the radar, but virginia hall. i couldn't believe i'd never heard of this woman from my home state of maryland and did the things that she

and lafayette is also in american founding father.i did want to tread a little bit carefully although he was the most fun of the founding fathers. but then when you are dealing with someone who is more modern, i desperately want to please them into dealing with world war ii is even more harrowing because it is a recent history, and it's still w very emotional for so many people. i don't think i ever stop being scared. >> never. every book as a whole new world that you have to go into. with virginia hall it's described as intimidating and scary. i kept having editors say but let's make her more likable. she's not likable. i love how she dominates people, but i understand that not everyone does, so it was a challenge and you can usually figure out if i speak in the voice of whether i choose first person or third because i try to crawl into their skin, but virginia hall i will never be able to believe. i just have to keep a little bit of distance and watch her through the point of view. so that is kind of the trick that i play. >> there'

her memoir essay by the spirit of lafayette. i began wondering if there is a spirit of lafayette?and how is it carried forward? that is when id discovered women, generation after generation who carried on the lafayette and his amazing wife, adrienne. i wanted to bring that story in its fullness and tell the tale of this extraordinary castle in the deepest part of france that served as a beacon of hope in history's darkest hours. >> while. that is incredible. i am already intimidated by having to go down the research a while that i'm sure you did. we will get to that next. erica, tell me how you discovered the story. you've written so much about women in literature. you have the whys of famous writers, how did you move away from the literary world and discover? >> the writing community help to steer me a little. i was going down another famous writer wormhole, which i think is a great place to go. women i like to elevate their stores and have been hidden. as write about grant stouffer's wife. she said, could you just write about a woman who is phenomenal in her own right not becaus

she saved lafayette life she risked her own life again, and again, and again.t all of her described her as being without jealousy and of this sort of perfect saintly temperament. you see a little bit of less than saintly temperament peak out and some of her letters. she complains to lafayette at one point when he snagging her about getting back there property she's essentially saying listen buddy i'm doing the best i can. i am walking around france on foot. and you can just sit down, shut up and wait for me to it finish. she said infinitely nicer than i just did. but we see those little teeny peaks of impatience you know there's a real flesh and blood person behind them. so you tease those threads out if you can in the story and with adrienne i might have exaggerated just a little because she probably was a saint. [laughter] on the other characters in the novel beatrice chandler i had her letters. she is extremely funny she is an actress in her day. that really comes through production mention she's also an author. at one point she wrote she had submitted a man

lafayette receives the letter, realizes, i must immediately dispatch this news to lafayette who is in connecticut. to get it to him is enough of a challenge. lafayette has to get it from there over to rhode island. that's a complicated operation. it works quickly enough. and they were able to warn the french. the british do not wind up actually attacking new port. they staten island to call it off for whatever reason. maybe they've been tipped off. we just don't know. that in fact is not the case because their intelligence came in two days later, same intelligence that the british were leaving, it just wasn't as punctual in its announcement. the famous treason of benedict arnold. major general benedict arnold is of connecticut. born in norwich, lives as a wealthy merchant in new haven. and he is beginning his communication, one of the common misunderstanding is that his trader's activities are confined to september of 1780. it had been going on for 16 months. it goes on for 16 months. this portrait to the right is the only known proven portrait of benedict arnold from life, all the ot

washington, lafayette and tilden. another interesting thing is the three officers standing on morristown green, and we're talking about this statue and it represents lafayette on the left, the five foot seven hamilton in the middle, and the ever so tall giraffe like george washington on the right. was george 63? no he was probably more like six foot one like myself. to there's been some new scholarship on his height. one of the things that gets overlooked is his provisions mission into philadelphia. it gets overshadowed by better field actions. and we have to feed the army if they're going to go anywhere they have to march on their stomach. you know you have to feed them. so slates of timber 77, and hamilton's sent by washington and other officers to go on horseback and to go into downtown philadelphia and gather as many horses, general supplies that you can think of food basically. clothing and blankets and the city of philadelphia. why? because they know that they're going to lose the city to the british. they decid

so lafayette's castle is well-suited for that in the mountains .d we know took over the chcteau at the whage of 24 when her fatherbaron was arrested by the gestapo . he was in charge of detecting tall of these children at a time when they were hiding weapons under the floorboards of the children's beds and thatpresent tory . so i want to mention that anne's sister was married to henry hyde who erica probably knows about because she was one of wild bills associates in america's version of the cia. so i deeply believe that and not only knew that the french resistance was hiding gums under the floorboards but she knew that jewish children were hidden in the present tory and i can prove none of this. and on top of not being able to prove it, her father baron had a lots of times ties to the dc puppet regime in occupied france. so i faced a choice, do i lie lie and eyes someone who might have been a collaborator, had collaborationist instincts or do i and eyes someone who lionized someone who was quite heroic, believed she was a heroine, i really do but

lafayette gets the letter and realizes i must immediately dispatch this news to lafayette would was in connecticut. to get it to him was enough of a challenge and then lafayette those get it from there over to rhode island, a complicated operation and it works economically enough and they were able to warn the french. by the way, the british do not wind up attacking new port. they decide to call it off for whatever reap. maybe they were tipped off that the americans now. we just don't know. often the culla spy ripping is given credit for warping the french but that's not the case because their jens came in two days later, same intelligence that the brit wish reaching but it wasn't as punctual as the announcement in dayton's. now the infamous black as betweenon of benedict arnold. major general benedict arnold is, of course, of connecticut, born in for one of, lives as a wealthy merchant in new haven, and he is beginning his communication, one of the common misunderstandings is that his trader's activities are all confined to september of 1780. that is not the case. it actually had abou

live from lafayette, back to you in the studio.e center says damage from ida will be significant. steve bender on the scene. thanks very much. fox weather coming in october. watch for it. jacqui: 16 years to the day after hurricane katrina made landfall in louisiana, hurricane ida is slamming ashore, threatening the same communities. retired army lieutenant general russell oderey was responsible for coordinating military relief efforts after katrina in 2005. he joins us with more. thank you for joining us. appreciate your time. >> good to be with you. jacqui: in your view, has there been enough preparation for a storm of this kind of magnitude to mitigate its impact? has there been enough evacuation efforts, structural improvement, resiliency efforts, things like that? >> well, we have made a lot of progress in resilience. i don't think we are ever really ever ready for a category 4 or 5 storm or the wind and damage that it can provide. we are a lot better than they were before katrina as you indicated in the he question. we're nev

we have the story from an icu in lafayette hospital. >> reporter: 24 years old.o, she is one of the sickest patients in the main icu in the medical center in lafayette, louisiana. her mother is amy. >> we let our guard down. we started venturing out. we booked a family vacation. we thought like the rest of the world, this isn't that real of a virus. it didn't attack our family. >> but it did. when the rao family returned home from vacation, everyone in the photo tested positive for covid. all of them were unvaccinated and all of them recoveredm virt the time. >> she said, i'm are very, very weak. and she had two purple circles, bigger than silver dollar bills on her cheeks. >> that was eight days after being diagnosed with covid, her mother rushed her to the emergency room. doctors delivered her baby, crew and five days later she was placed on a ventilatorer. >> so kaylee is doing okay, she is not doing better or worse. >> that was the update from the doctor. >> from me personally, i want you to know, thank you. >> you said thank you. but something about the way

lafayette is about two hour drive or so west of new orleans.u're on the west side of the storm. thanks, steve. louisiana is taking a direct hit from ida, but millions in mississippi, well, they are also bracing for potentially catastrophic damage in that state. fox weather coverage continues now with live in gulf port, mississippi work the latest there -- gulf port, mississippi, with the latest there. >> i'm on the opposite side of the storm is what steve was explaining to you. my impacts are dramatically different than what he is showing you because of my positioning. this is really where things start to get real for gulf port and for biloxi. a curfew was instated here at about 8:00 a.m. today. one of the things we have been observing, this is highway 90 behind me. even you see a big old oak tree behind me, we are waterfront. we're here to document these impacts as they come in right off the water. one of the things we're noticing happening around us is deputies are having to stop vehicles right now and have them get off the road and let them

here's the lafayette escadrille. if you don't know who they are, about 250-ish pilots, americans, that volunteer long before america enters the war to fly for france. and they create the lafayette escadrille. they're the most famous unit but keep in mind, about that many more americans also volunteered and were spread out among other squadrons. they didn't all have a cool marketable name like that. and actually, more americans are going to fly with the british than in the lafayette escadrille. but they're the famous one that you hear the most about. one of their pilots talked about how he used to look for german anti-air fire and fly right into it, hoping that he would be seen so that an enemy pilot could come up and he could get in a dog fight. that's the kind of aggressiveness we're talking about. and these lafayette escadrille pilots, i noticed that almost every presentation we've heard today has involved puppies in some way. i don't have puppies because these are fighter pilots. their mascot was two lion cubs. on

, louisiana. >> we have three of them right now currently waiting. >> reporter: he took us to lafayette general medical center where there were ambulances lined up. he said recently paramedics waited between 30 minutes and three hours. >> we kind of just have to tell the hospital, like, "look, find something. we don't care where you put this patient. you have to put them somewhere because we need to run emergencies." >> reporter: despite transporting covid-positive patients weekly, medic britney decou is not vaccinated. you're up close with it. does that not change your opinion? >> no. me and my family are very religious. we pray a lot. we trust god. >> reporter: you know, louisiana set another record today-- highest covid hospitalization rate of any point at the pandemic. and that's impacting non-covid patients. just yesterday, a man in central louisiana had a heart attack, went on a community hospital and they said, you have to go on a larger hospital for advanced care. they called around for two hours. they looked 100 miles around and they could not find a single available bed. norah

and they create the lafayette escadrille. now, they get a lot of credit, they're the most famous unit. but keep in mind, about that many more americans also volunteered and were spread out among other squadrons. they do not all have a cool marketable name. and actually, more americans are going to fly with the british then in the lafayette escadrille. but they are the famous one that you hear most about. one of their pilots, allen winslow talks about his wanting looking for german air foreign flying right into it hoping that he would be seen, so that an enemy pilot come up and that he could get into a dogfight. that is the kind of aggressiveness that we're talking about. and he -- these lafayette escadrille pilots, i noticed that almost every presentation that we've heard today has involved puppies in some way or another. i don't have any puppies for you. these are fighter pilots, they're more aggressive than that. their mascot was to line cubs. one was named whiskey, and one was soda. because of course... but you see this ag

. >> so, welcome to lafayette. born and raised. >> reporter: one of the beauties of south louisiana is how people rally together to help people after hurricanes and floods. but with only 40% of the area fully vaccinated? >> there's fighting and division and hatred, if people come and spend the day with me, i assure you they wouldning to get vaccinated. >> reporter: there's lies about the vaccine. >> there's another part of me that doesn't understand how the public can so easily believe random people on social media who have no medical background. >> reporter: shannon ivey is a covid icu nurse and so is her husband, benjamin. >> to say they are making it out to be way worse than it is, it's not that bad. you know, i wish we were making it up. i wish i was not holding the hands of somebody as they are about to be intubated and they say, am i going to die? >> since the on set of delta variant casesdoctor has only has come off the ventilator and survive. it's something kaylee's family is praying for. they have left a r

the lafayette school district and the oakland school district several others open later this week and after a year of distance learning a lot of parents are also preparing to send their kids back to school kron four's. gayle ong spoke to one family out in lafayette about how they feel heading into a brand new school year. >> the time was really valuable. and i think we're actually going to miss it a little bit all running around again, are separate activities after a year of distance learning camille weeks will be dropping off her children to school monday morning the year. for me, it has yeah. okay. they've been damaged or then i guess with 9. it was my nanny and staff and my for greater donovan week says he's looking forward to meeting his new teacher and seeing his friends again, his sister moving on to the next school up his middle school and is the fact that it's a new school so that can be >> scary boat donovan and giuliana our students of the lafayette school district covid protocols are in place for the classroom from guidelines on if a studcnt or teacher has covid symptoms. >

so please evacuate further west, further north than the lafayette, baton rouge area if at all possible. when you evacuate, evacuate with essential items you're going to n need. if you're away from home for an extended period of time, including water, food, ppe, medicine, your pets,. if you have questions about what you need to do to prepare to evacuate, to include any oxygen needs that you might have because of a health issue, you can call 211. i don't have all the covid numbers for you today because it's a saturday. we don't typically report them, what i can say is currently we have 2,450 individuals hospitalized across the state of louisiana with covid-19. and i'm very thankful that that's a drop. that's a drop of about 20% in the last ten days. that's very -- >> that's governor edwards of louisiana holding a news conference there on the developments regarding hurricane ida, urging people in the area in the past of the storm to start making preparations now to either evacuate or if they have to stay in place, they understand what they need to do in order to survive. i want to bring i

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if you're in lafayette this morning, you'll see a whole lot of this. pump after pump tapped out and bagged up. this station alone has 36 pumps that have run dry and are now out of service. they've got in a little bit of only regular fuel. they're already starting to grab it here. the reason we're seeing gas stations solo is people are stocking up and troves of people trying to get out of this storm. as we were heading in yesterday from houston, we saw miles and miles of vehicles lined up going westward on i-10 to the texas state line. we're talking 240 miles west of new orleans. here in lafayette they've been testing out their water pump systems. they know ida is putting them to the test. we're on the western portion of the storm. we're expecting about a foot of rain and high risk of flash flooding. janai? >> certainly some wide ranging impacts there. trevor, thank you so much. joining us now is the mayor president of baton rouge, sharon weston broome. mayor president, this is already a category 4 storm. that's looking to be even stronger than initiall

military medical team arrives at lafayette general. the footage of the team of navy personnel showing up to that hospital in lafayette yesterday, ready to work, ready to pitch and help the doctors and nurses there who have been inundated by covid patients for weeks, as you can hear, hospital workers greeted them with not just a sustained but loud standing ovation. the defense department sent this team because the hospital asked fema for federal help. fema resource that was deployed here is a military resource. the defense department announced this week that they have four more active duty military medical teams like this one staffed up and ready for deployment at overrun u.s. hospitals. we don't exactly know where the other four teams like this will be going, after this team went to louisiana, but we do know there are plenty of american hospitals that could use emergency help right now because the huge numbers of covid patients that have swamped them, and that have seriously had deleterious effects on the medical help that can be admin

we saw a small navy team dispatched to a hospital in lafayette.are going to be able to staff 16, 18, 20 beds maybe, tell us about the match between the magnitude of the problem that you're living through and what kind of external resources might make a dent, might help. >> well, i think right now, we do need help from outside, no doubt about that. and we have a phenomenal leader of our alabama department of health, scott harris who was in meetings all day today with the white house representative, a vaccine coordinator, leader from the white house who's here in alabama, and this was one of the lead issues that they were discussing throughout the day today. he's going to be here tomorrow as well. we welcome the input from the white house and from the national level to be able to try to get us the resources that we need. and in addition to that i will say this in a somewhat hopeful kind of a way, we have seen this play out maybe not to this extent in our part of the country, but we've seen it play out over and over again across the last 18 months in

lafayette is about 70 miles west of baton rouge. we're not getting the winds or rain that we thought we would get but still taking it very serious. we're getting gusts of tropical storm type winds and that's serious. we have a curfew here in lafayette and it's a little extra sensitive in this particular storm because we have so many of our neighbors evacuating new orleans, baton rouge, southeast louisiana on i-10, interstate 10 and highway 90 going north on i-49 and they go through our city. it puts a little extra strain on the first responders. this tropical storm gust winds and heavy winds can come out of nowhere and doesn't take much to knock down a tree on a power line or house or road and we have to keep these roadways clear for the first responders to respond. >> as you pointed out, you have a curfew in place until 7:00 a.m. tomorrow. are most people heeding that order? >> right now, yes. it doesn't take much enforcement because we've been through this so much. we had several tropical events last year. this year, you know, we'

remember, this is a sunday afternoon in lafayette.ic, people are moving along, this is quiet life for a weekend here. many people are heeding the warning. we talked to local businesses and they are closing at noon today at the very latest here local time. so we're mainly seeing the last of everybody kind of gathering what they need before hovering down for -- hunkering down for the rest of today and tomorrow. i've been watching radar quite closely. you're noticing the eyewall almost making on land, nearnd grand aisle and golden meadow. you notice the dirty side of the storm which is the northeastern quadrant, that's where they're getting the most rain and the heaviest wind impact. you look at shell beach, just off of lake bork there and there is 6 feet of inundation there. that is the main concern as we track this this afternoon and evening is that storm surge initially reaching up to 16 feet and then the heavy rain throughout the day. we'll keep you -- continue to stay live and keep you up-to-date with this storm system. reporting li

that is the main threat for us here in lafayette.th the steady burst of rain which could lead to flash flooding on some of the roads. the worst hit area will be coastal louisiana and coastal portions of mississippi like bay st. louis. they're starting to see storm surge in saint bernard parish going over top of the lea levee. that is the concern. when you're looking at the northeastern quadrant, that's the strongest wind impact. the wind is coming from the south to the north and that will pull in the gulf moisture, force the waves potentially up against the levies and this will be a true test for the newly established levies in new orleans. they spent $16 billion on this. this is a strong storm that's coming in and right now we're seeing the outer bands hit the coastal part of louisiana. reporting from lafayette, howie, back to you. howie: one more question for you. given the legacy, 16 years ago today of hurricane katrina, is there concern bowed flooding in the low -- about flooding in the low lying areas where it's sometimes the af

here at our lady of lords in lafayette and the wife of a man on a ventilator with covid walked out of his room and said "david, when i heard the news that pfizer's vaccine had been approved by the fda, she said i thought to myself, what is their excuse now?" today's f.d.a. decision is being seen as a shot of confidence for the pfizer vaccine. >> this vaccine has gone through the gauntlet and it is highly effective. >> reporter: with covid cases at their highest level since january, and first dose vaccination rates down 14 percent in the past week alone, president biden today quickly seized on the chance to get more shots into arms. >> the moment you have been waiting for is here. it is time for you to go get your vaccination. >> reporter: already today the department of defense promised mandatory vaccination guidelines for its 1.4 million active duty service members. while in new york, the nation's largest school system is now going to require all employees to receive at least one vaccine dose by the end of september. more companies and public employees are expected to follow suit. >>

meanwhile, the lafayette school district is set to return back to in-person classes starting tomorrow. it comes after a year of most lee distance-learning kron four's. gayle ong spent the day there and talk with one family about going back to school. >> the time was really valuable. and i think we're actually going to miss it a little bit now. all running around again. are separate activities after a year of distance learning camille weeks will be dropping off her children to school monday morning the year. for me, it has yeah. okay. they've been score, then i guess with 9. it was my nanny and stuff and my for greater donovan week says he's looking forward to meeting his new teacher and seeing his friends again, his sister moving on to the next school up his middle school and is the fact that it's a new school for that can be >> scary boat donovan and giuliana our students of the lafayette school district covid protocols are in place for the classroom from guidelines on if a student or teacher has covid symptoms. >> test positive for covid and reporting the case to the local health de

one of these teams will be provided to a hospital in lafayette, louisiana.here could be additional requests from other states for other teams, so that's why it we are being prepared to stand up five teams, but one will be dedicated to going to lafayette, louisiana at the request of fema and the state of louisiana, so we are continuing to move forward to help our fellow americans in the pandemic. as we have more information, more things to report to you, we certainly will. with that, i will turn it over to general taylor. >> the teams, they are all military personnel? sec. kirby: these are military medical assistance teams, yes. ok, general, is it ok if i leave my stuff on the podium? i will turn it over to you. gen. taylor: good morning. nice to see you again. thank you, mr. kirby, for the opportunity again to give you an operations update on current operations in afghanistan. michael is to provide you with details for my last time -- my goal is to provide you with details from my last time in here. a number of things have occurred overnight, which i will pr

one of these teams to a hospital in lafayette, louisiana. there could be additional requests from other states for other teams. that is why we are being prepared to stand up five teams. one of them will be dedicated to going to lafayette, louisiana at the request of fema and the state of louisiana. we are continuing to help our fellow americans deal with this latest surge. as we have more information, more things to report to you, we will. with that i'm going to turn it , over to general taylor. >> for clarification on the teams. they are all military personnel? >> these are military, medical assistance teams. general if it is ok i can leave , my stuff on the podium, i will turn it over to you. >> good morning. nice to see you again. thank you mr. kirby for the opportunity again to give you an operations up date of current operations in afghanistan. my goal is to provide you with details from my last time in here to ensure that you have as much information as possible. a number of evacuations occurred overnight, which i will provide more det

military medical team arrives at ochsner lafayette general.have footage of navy personnel showing up at the hospital yesterday afternoon, ready to work and pitch in, help the doctors and nurses there who have been inundated by covid patients for weeks. as you can hear, they greeted the navy team with a loud standing ovation. the defense department sent this team to lafayette, louisiana, because the hospital asked fema for federal help and the resource that was deployed here was a military resource. they have four more active duty military medical teams like this one staffed up and ready for deployment at overrun u.s. hospitals. we don't know exactly where the other four teams like this will be going after this team went to louisiana, but we do know there's plenty of american hospitals that could use emergency help right now because the huge numbers of covid patients that have swamped them and have seriously deleterious effects. for example, in alabama, this is the front page of "the montgomery advertiser." e.r. has patient traffic jam. frustra

the lafayette school district and several others open later this week. we go to the east bay. now. we spoke to one family lafayette about how they feel heading about about heading back into the classroom. let's hear from what lets the year has been a lot of adjustment. everything is just kept changing. and so we have to keep going back and figuring out what we're going to do next. >> i'm trying to stay safe. but trying keep the kids motivated and engaged trying to find new ways of them being able to socialize. >> just be safe is middle school and its effect that i'm saying new school so that can be it's scary. >> covid guidelines are in place for schools and lafayette including wearing masks in school and protocols for if students or staff gets sick with covid. and this is a back to school season like no other. so kron 4 and kronon want to help you get ready to all week for updates on covid protocols at various bay area school districts also advice for parents and information on how students are dealing with various challenges to get kronon ready for school. you can scan the qr cod

the lafayette school district several others are opening later this week over in the east bay. we spoke to one of the families in lafayette about how they feel about heading back into the classroom. take a listen. >> the year has been a lot of adjustment. everything is just kept changing. and so we have to keep going back and figuring out what we're going to do next. i'm trying to stay safe. but trying keep the kids motivated and engaged trying to find new ways of them being able to socialize. >> just be safe is middle school and is the fact that it's a new school for that can be it's scary. >> covid guidelines are in place for schools and lafayette including wear a mask in school and protocols for if students or staff get sick with covid. now take your phone out and scan that qr code because we have all of the information you need as kids are going back to school kron 4 and kron on what help you get ready? so tune in all week for updates on covid protocols. very school areas districts also advice for parents information on how students are dealing with various challenges to ge

and another one here to 37 westbound east of lafayette street in santa clara. so we're keeping a close eye on that. but we are seeing some delays in the south bay head into the city this morning. no major issues down under 12 minutes as you're traveling from the east bay into the city and because traffic is light here, it's pretty light along 5, 1880, if you're traveling heading across towards the peninsula under 14 minutes for your drive time. not tracking any major issues. if you are taking part this morning and the richmond sandra fell commute. as you travel out of richmond. a little under 12 minutes daryn, james, back to you. thanks a lot at 8. oh, one and the breaking news that we're covering this morning. a violent night around the east bay. 2 deadly shootings. >> yeah. one happening conquered the other in pleasant hill. you're looking at video from both scenes. we have team coverage on what happened. we will start with kron. four's will tran. he's out in pleasant hill this morning at the very latest on what happened and what the situation is now. well. >

the lafayette school district and the oakland school district several others open later this week and over the east bay or in the east bay. we spoke with one family in lafayette about how they feel about heading back to in-person learning in the classroom. >> the year has been a lot of adjustment. everything is just kept changing. and so we have to keep going back and figuring out what we're going to do next. i'm trying to stay safe. but trying keep the kids motivated and engaged trying to find new ways of them being able to socialize. >> just be safe is middle school and is the fact that it's a new school for that can be it's scary. >> yeah. covid guidelines are in place, though, in schools and lafayette, including mask-wearing and other protocols to for if students or staff gets sick with covid. so they're trying their best to keep everybody safe. >> free backpacks. school supplies and covid-19 vaccinations. the 9th annual stuff. the bus school supply giveaway helped hundreds of families in antioch over the weekend on 4 all was in attendance and has more. shopping for school supplie

we spoke to one family in lafayette about how they feel heading back into the classroom. take a listen. >> the year has been a lot of adjustment. everything is just kept changing. and so we have to keep going back and figuring out what we're going to do next. i'm trying to stay safe. but trying keep the kids motivated and engaged trying to find new ways of them being able to socialize. >> i'm just the same middle school and its effect that i'm saying new school so that can be it's scary. >> yeah. a lot of apprehension. the air covid guidelines are in place for schools and lafayette including wear mask in school and protocols for students or staff get sick with covid. now, again, you want to go ahead and take out your phone right now scan this qr code because we have all the back to school information. you're gonna need over on kron. 4 kron. we both want help you get ready. so tune in all week because we have updates on covid protocols areas they area schools for you. also advice for parents and information on how students are dealing with a lot of the challenges there. ge

a couple of the lines are to the left, more toward lafayette. the hurricane center is splitting the difference in the middle. we still have fine-tuning to do in the next 24 hours as the storm approaches. that's why everyone in new orleans is watching this so closely, and obviously the implications with the flood walls and pumps and everything that went into that and all the improvements since katrina 16 years ago. by the time we get into early monday morning, the storm is parallel or near to lafayette and baton rouge and heading up into areas of mississippi. we know where the category 3 or 4 hurricane we're going to get a storm surge that is going to be life-threatening, extremely dangerous. the area of pink. that is going to be to the right of landfall. if that shifts more east, all of a sudden we take the red and adjourned 10 to 15 feet to that. this is the current forecast from the hurricane center and it does have 4 to 7 foot surge on the north side of new lens and the levies will be tested. they were built africa trina to survive a storm li

but speaking of the lafayette school district over there in the east bay. we had a chance to speak to one family member about their feelings about coming back to the classroom. take a listen. >> the year has been a lot of adjustment. everything is just kept changing. and so we have to keep going back and figuring out what we're going to do next. i'm trying to stay safe. but trying keep the kids motivated and engaged trying to find new ways of them being able to socialize. >> just be safe is middle school and is the fact that it's a new school for that can be it's scary. >> yeah. covid guidelines are in place for schools in lafayette, including wearing masks inside the classroom and protocols for if students or staff gets sick with covid-19. they've got some things to follow. if that happens. elsewhere in the east bay. trying to make it easier to come back to school with free backpacks and school supplies and covid vaccinations being offered at the 9th annual stuff. the bus school supply giveaway which helped hundreds of families in antioch over the weekend.

so washington appoints lafayette. lafayette accepts. lee is now upset that a junior officer has been placed in command rather than him. and then he demands the position. so he accepts it, he marches out and his force is facing british grenadiers and ultimately he is under orders, the question is is it direct or implied orders, but the sense is he is supposed to attack and he retreats instead. washington catches wind of this, it's actually a drummer who is running back and washington sort of grabs hold of him, what are you doing? i don't know, sir, we're retreating. what do you mean? and washington charges forward and he gets -- runs into a retreating lee and he says to lee, what are you doing, sir? you know, paraphrasing a bit. and he says, your excellence, and he calls him you damn paltroon. okay. what does that mean? it means you damn coward publicly. and there's all sorts of these mythical languages that the tree shook at the sound of washington swearing. anyway, washington relieves him of command and personally charges in riding a p

taking a live look at lafayette. this is one spot that could see shifting winds that could make the smoke more widespread this is the problem. gusty winds causing fires to explode near lake tahoe. the city showing the massive plume of smoke you can see over glizzly flats. how can you prepare for the bad air? we get expert advice from the air quality management district coming up live in a little bit. >>> with the delta variant now accounting for nearly 99% of the coronavirus cases in the united states more people are wanting to get tested. in response to rise in delta cases san francisco is opening up a high volume testing site in the city's soma neighborhood. it has the capacity to give 500 tests a day. tests by appointment only. >>> also happening today in san francisco, the mayor joining the city's labor and health officers to talk about the new vaccine requirement for businesses and large events. >> that takes effect in two days on friday, people are going to be required to show they are fully vaccinated before g

steve bender is live in lafayette, louisiana with a look at the destruction. >> the death toll is continuing to rise from hurricane i do. overnight we go to mississippi where highway 26, just outside loosedeal collapsed, the scope two and injured 10 others, this is something we will continue to track for you, state troopers on both sides of the collapse, emergency crews still on the scene searching for survivors and this is something we are battling with her again i as we know the two people have died in louisiana and another died in mississippi earlier yesterday, leading up to hurricane ida the biggest question is when the levees hold up in new orleans, they did hold up in the crescent city but in other areas the levees did not hold up to the 10 to 12 foot storm surge and high water rescues are still ongoing. >> somebody tells me sometimes you live on the water and some days the water lives on you. unfortunately this is a situation where the water is living on them but they have a great quality-of-life down here, these fishing communities, we want to make sure we can protect their livelihoo

. >>> tambiÉn otros distritos que regresaron a clases son (hablan en inglÉs) en lafayette.a pagar la renta. >>> defender la familia de bajos recursos, si no hubiera sido por ello nuestra familia perdÍa riesgos de perder la vivienda. >>> la moratoria de desalojos termina este 30 de septiembre. la presiÓn para el cierre del aeropuerto en (hablan en inglÉs) sigue creciendo, organizaciones dicen que supervisores deben tomar cartas en el asunto. >>> sabÍamos que habÍa algo malo, no habÍa un estudio enfocado. >>> lÍderes comunitarios confÍan en que le estudio de plomos en sane josÉ es la pieza clase para cerrar el aeropuerto (hablan en inglÉs). >>> este estudio es contundente y es extenso, tiene el respaldo de expertos que no se pueden cuestionar. >>> reunidos frente a esta base organizaciones recalcaron que las emisiones de plomo proveniente del combustible estÁn contaminando a los niÑos. >>> residentes como alejandro castaÑeda firmÓ una carta mostrando su apoyo a esta. >>> por otro lado quin se oponen al cierre del aeropuerto como la organizaciÓn (hablan en inglÉs) dice que lo

the bay area waking to another day of high fire danger as we look live over the east bay hills in lafayette. it'll be smoky out there. let's get over to mary lee. taking a look at the latest conditions. >> we are looking at critical fire weather conditions for today. that red flag warning could get extended in to tomorrow. i'm tracking a second burst into tonight and tomorrow. gusts this morning up in the higher elevations up to 40 to 55 miles an hour up in the mountains. that's why that red flag warning is in effect for today. again could get extended. we are looking at the north bay mountains, east bay hills under that red flag warning. the areas highlighted in red. relative humidity down to ten to 15%. very dry air with those record dry fuel vegetation and brush and with that a big concern. with the northerly winds it'll transport and push a lot of smoke into the region. widespread smoke expected. we are looking at temperatures seasonal for this time of year. >>> thousands of people here in the bay area are waking up in the dark this morning. pg&e shut off their power because of that hig

now our david begnaud takes us inside one icu at a lafayette hospital to show us how health care workersre's the pandemic and also the spread of misinformation. >> reporter: 24 years old, this is kaighlie reaux. she is one of the sickest covid patients inside of the main icu here at our lady of lourdes regional medical center in lafayette, louisiana. her mother is amy. >> we let our guard down. we started venturing out. we booked a family vacation. we thought, like the rest of the world, this isn't that real of a virus. it didn't attack our family. >> reporter: but it did. when the family returned home from vacation, everyone in this photo tested positive for covid. all of them were unvaccinated, and all of them recovered from the virus except for keighlie who-months pregnant at the time. >> she was very, very sick and had two circles bigger than dollar bills on her cheeks. >> reporter: that was eight days after she was diagnosed with covid. her mother rushed her to the emergency room. doctors delivered her baby, crew, and five days later, keighlie was placed on a ventilator. >> she's do

jillian: we have team coverage with steve bender on the ground in lafayette, louisiana and senior meteorologist janice dean tracking the storm in the studio. we start with jeff paul live from new orleans where the entire city is out of power this morning. jeff, what's the latest? >> reporter: yeah, jillian, all of new orleans and much of the southern part of louisiana is in the dark. we woke up this morning and the power was still out. it went out early last evening. i can tell you, not only is it tough to just see and navigate where you're going but there's debris all over the road and you see images like this as you start driving around, spots like the french quarter, this was a roof that was ripped off the top of a building and it ended up crashing onto a traffic light, snapping the metal traffic light in half there. it's a scene we're seeing play out all over the state, as much of ida was incredibly power and continues to be, especially along the coast. now, more than 1 million are without power throughout louisiana and because of that, emergency crews are unable to safely get people who ne

. >> reporter: he took us to lafayette general where ambulances were backed up because no e.r. beds were available. they had to wait with patients 30 minutes to three hours. >> we have to tell the hospital, like, look, find something. we don't care where you put this patient. you have to put them somewhere because we need to run emergencies. >> reporter: the supervisor is keisha. >> they're all drowning. we're all drowning and sucking air for sure. >> reporter: people will say it's not as bad as you're saying it is. >> i would tell them they might want to come work in e.m.s. come in the e.r., because the nurses feel it. we feel it. >> reporter: this covid surge has also forced acadian to transfer patients out of state. louisiana has a call center in baton rouge that is focused on finding available beds and advanced care for patients around the state. >> all right. y'all can accept? >> reporter: we were there when trauma coordinators david and alison tried finding a bed for an elderly man in central louisiana who had gone into cardiac arrest. there were 15 hospitals within 100 m