>> reporter: well, mayor landrieu says that he recognizes this is new orleans and they're not about to to handcuff people on the streets because they are out pass that curfew. it is a strong encouragement from the folks here. there is a man hollering on the streets here saying who's going home at 7:00. you can see the group behind me have any intentions of staying. i hope they'll be save through it. >> exactly, you took the words right out of my mouth. thank you so much. >> derek van dam is in biloxi, mississippi. >> reporter: the national hurricane center official track makes it right through biloxi. this is the boat and casinos and hotels. one of 12 are under a current mandatory evacuations. that was the hotel that our crew was staying at. we no longer have that helotel our availability. of course, there is a cure few tonight that's been issued by the city of biloxi, that's in effect by 7:00 p.m. through 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. of course, land fall tonight expected around midnight here along the coast of mississippi. booi behind me, a landmark within biloxi, the lighthouse, 1969 and 2005

mayor landrieu who is again my friend, but you've got to call them like i see them. wrote you back an unprofessional letter. i apologize for that. he called you caustic. he suggested you were a mere politician. he said you were scapegoating immigrants. he called you a fear mongerer. and he basically called you a liar. and i don't consider that to be productive discourse. so i apologize on behalf of louisiana. would you agree with me we're a nation of immigrants? >> well, virtually the vast majority have emigrated here at one time or another for sure. >> but we're also a nation of laws, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> now, if i don't agree with the law, do i have to follow it? >> yes. >> i hate traffic cameras. i don't agree with them. do i have to follow the laws about traffic cameras? >> yes. >> now, if i don't like the laws about the traffic cameras, i need to change them, is that right? >> that's correct. >> would you be willing -- would you make yourself available if i could arrange a meeting with you and your colleagues and mayor landrieu, we're about to

your office wrote a letter to my friend, mayor landrieu, asking city'sstions about his compliance and let me cut to the chase. there have been allegations that new orleans is a sanctuary city. you have asked for information. mayor landrieu, who is again my friend, but you have to call them as you see them, wrote me back a very unprofessional letter. he called you caustic. he suggested you were just a mere politician. he said you were scapegoating immigrants. , andlled you a fearmonger we he called you a liar. i don't consider that to be productive discourse, so i apologize on behalf of louisiana. me, that weree with are a nation of immigrants? well,ey general sessions: virtually the vast majority have immigrated here one time or another, for sure. senator: we are also a nation of laws, is that correct? attorney general sessions: that's correct. senator: if i don't agree with the law, do i have to follow it? attorney general sessions: yes. senator: i hate traffic cameras. i don't agree with them. do i have to follow the laws about traffic cameras? attorney general sessions: yes. senato

joins us live from san landrieu right now. interesting case here, bob. >> reporter: good morning for you, laura and marcus. this is the second time this year the mother has allegedly abducted her daughter. just like last time, the sheriff's department here in san la landrieu. that the daughter is supposed to be if not already reunited with her grandmother who is her legal guardian. the mother, 34-year-old la quita davis. she does not have custody of her 6-year-old daughter. only alled supervised visited. yesterday, she picked up her daughter and took her to davis' mom's home in oakland. she allegedly knocked down her mother a couple of times going in and out of the house and fled with her 6-year-old girl. an amber alert was issued early this morning. davis, who is a transient, was out on the streets early this morning when a citizen recognized them from the amber alert and called 911. again, they are both safe. the daughter being reunited, the mother in custody. davis allegedly took her daughter in mid-july as well, and at the

encouraged people to be prepared.mayor mitch landrieu, new orleans: "i want to stress there's no needo panic, we just need to be ready for heavy wind and heavy rain."some people are already filling up their gas tanks and stocking up on whatever they might need if the power goes out.bill scott is tying up his boat, before the marina closes.bill scott, boat owner: "it's like anything else. you've got to secure your property. you hopefully prevent missile damage: that is chairs and things that get blown up in the air and sail forth to hurt other people."nate isn't anywhere near the size and power of irma or harvey or maria, but officials still aren't taking it lightly.gov. john bel edwards, louisiana: "don't underestimate this storm, because you think it may be a tropical storm or a category one. those are serious enough. it could be worse than that, however." ...and they're making what preparations they can as well. gov. rick scott, florida: "as we find out where this storm is going, then i'll work with the white house to make sure that fema provides everything that they can provide."i'

mayor mitch landrieu is ordering a evacuation for the city. we have our correspondent there. are people heeding the warnings? >> reporter: the people not within the levee protection system, victor, is of concern. mitch landrieu says they need to be out today. within the confines, no mandatory evacuation. those people within the city need to heed the curfew at 6:00 p.m. tonight through 6:00 a.m. tomorrow. the worst of the fostorm will h the city. picking up strength. alert went out from the national weather service. all preparations along the gulf coast should be rushed to completion this morning ahead of hurricane nate. the mayor here in new orleans is confident in the preparations with the city. the city's preparations won't matter if citizens don't do their part in all of this. one of the big questions in the city of new orleans after a summer in which a couple of flash floods affected the city. there was confident shaken in the drainage system with the pumps and turbines which power the pumps. the mayor says people have been working 24/7 to get the situation under control.

sot: mitch landrieu / alcalde nueva orleans one of the things that happened last night is that in a reasonablyeather service decertifying that we were going to be subject to hurricane one winds and we lifted the curfew exactly so you know i'm always worried about inconvenience but i'm much more worried about life safety issues and i think we made the right decisions at the right time." yo siempre estoy preocupado por mi comunidad.... no estoy arrepentido por las ordenes de evacuacion. menciono esta maÑana el alcalde de nueva orleans. track: ahora los esfuerzos de las autoridades del rea se enfocarn en labores de limpieza y reconstruccin... mientras... sot lee smithson / director agencia de emergencias mississippi "those rivers are not predicted to go below flood stage" track: el gobierno de mississippi, le record a la ciudadania que siendo este lunes un dia festivo, tengan especial cuidado al salir al agua con sus embarcaciones ya que los rios continuarn en sus niveles mas altos. nancy miramontes.... telemundo somos la autoridad en el tiempo y pasamos con ''vianey arana'' para que nos cuente c

and restore their lives. >> that's true >> yeah, if you are cutting the fundi funding. >> mayor landrieuorial, what you say is true if you read dream land, you know that opioids are a bit expensive then medicaid offered a copay card allows people to buy effectively unlimited amount of entrepreneur yo opioids. so, there is a response,don't you admit that the federal government while now people look to it for help did have a role in making it work than it needed to be. >> they need to clone that situation up there is a lot of responsibility to go around from pharma to doctors and the government the recognition is we should take all steps necessary to interrupt the situation and correct the course that the nation is on it is unacceptable if it is a national crisis than the president and congress and mayors and governors and medical community and pharmaceutical community should take every step necessary. >> we appreciate it, mayor morial and mayor landrieu. >> absolutely. >> amen, we are still waiting on president trump's announcement on the opioid crisis, we'll bring it to you live >> a new

charity two cans all around at the stores in town it is like donate whatever is in your pocket to help landrieu get of bacon stuff triple patty melt. the ad also doesn't mention the number one killer of men in this country is a heart disease where would surprise me those autoerotic a fifty six he said. because there's a youtube video on how to do it doesn't mention that you should ask a friend of your father all right you don't want granted that's an awkward. it's a real friend they'll understand. anyway burger man here also doesn't mention factory farming contributes more c o two and methane than or in cars do so this is an advertisement for a mass murdering gadget spy role that we all subsidize with our tax dollars but don't worry the clown in the burger rather than on the phone yet. heart attacks always show up in silly hats because otherwise no one would buy of their oil and the narrator also talks log this as he describes melted cheese and supposedly saw us to have been into some primal need. just because the narrator is a voice deeper than slava in a basement where there's no there's no d

. >> reporter: mayor mitch landrieu: can you guarantee the people of new orleans that that pumping system will work as it should? >> as a matter of fact, i can. we have plenty enough power and plenty enough pumping capacity to handle those potential rain events. >> reporter: as nate bears down on the gulf coast, power crews are prepping for outages. still, kathy adams says she survived katrina. she'll survive this, too. so there's giving up for you. >> no giving up. after katrina, i wanted to come back home. but now this is what i'm facing again. so you can't run. >> reporter: city officials are just as concerned about wind as they are rain. and if the power grid is knocked out, that could make this pumping system far more vulnerable. anthony. >> mason: michelle miller with the preparations in new orleans. thanks. the body of a fourth u.s. service member was recovered today in the african nation of niger. the soldier's name was not released. american troops were ambushed wednesday during a counter- terrorism patrol. al qaeda is suspected. three army green berets were killed. staff sergean

flooded roads and some buildings in cities like biloxi, mississippi, and mobile, alabama.mayor mitch landrieu / new orleans, louisiana: as you know this has been one of the busiest seasons that we have had. our thoughts and our prayers continue to go out to the folks that received the brunt of the storm.nate is the first hurricane to make landfall in mississippi since hurricane katrina hit in 2005 and the third to hit the u.s. mainland in the last six weeks. residents from louisiana to florida say they took those warnings seriouslyfather colten symmes: i think we're pretty prepared just in general for hurricanes. we know the protocol, what to do. you go get your gas, you get your water, your food and all that.treyvon hodge, biloxi resident: i got extra prepared, bought all the water, all the snacks, all everything.mississippi, i'm natasha chen (justine) turning to weather now, meteorologist lawrence karnow has our forecast. (anny hong): offshore wind event for the hills and some of the bay area valleys developing late this afternoon and overnight will be the short term concern with red flag w

mayor mitch landrieu / new orleans, louisiana: there is no reason to panic, but there is reason to prepare.mos: it might be hard to get it later. gas pumps are busy and the city government is repairing water pumps saying 108 of 120, are now fully operational, all as nate gets closer to landfall.i'm emily schmidt, reporting. (grant) joining us now is chief meteorologist brittney shipp... she has been tracking tropical storm nate and has the latest details... general warming trend with dry weather through the end of the week and into the weekend. dry offshore winds will impact some of the higher peaks and ridges off and on again late this week into early next week. slightly cooler weather expected next week. (grant) (grant) now to puerto rico where the death tollcontinues to rise following hurricane maria. two more people have died...brining the total number of lives lost to 36. a body was discovered under the ruins of a house...and another person was killed by a falling tree while clearing a road. the hurricane left the puerto rico's infrastructure and communications crippled, with electricity

. >> thank you again, mayor landrieu. and let's turn to the white house.ent tweeted earlier this afternoon on north korea. "presidents and their administrations have been talking to north korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid, hasn't worked. agreements vie eigolated before ink was drying making fools of u.s. negotiators. sorry, but only one thing will work." here's what the president told a group of reporters on the white house lawn about those north korea tweets. listen carefully. >> reporter: what's the one thing that work? >> you'll figure that out pretty soon. >> "you will figure it out pretty soon" when asked what is the one thing that will work? kaitlin, the president is talking about this one option in his tweet regarding north korea. but you heard something different from the white house press secretary, sarah sanders? >> we reached out to the press secretary to ask what the president meant by the one thing that's left for north korea. she didn't add anything further to the president's remarks but did confirm that al

the mayor of new orleans, mitch landrieu said that's allowed. any sort of parking violation, those are off the books for the period of this storm. parking cars on the median like that, that's high ground for people to need to take advantage of. any time ta there's a tern for flooding, in new orleans, that's going to make head lines, but the mayor has made a point of stressing to people here this is likely to be a wind event. he wants everything securing any outdoor furniture, anything that could be used as a projectile. while there were mandatory evacuations outside the 200 froot gates built to surround that city, inside the city center as we know, new orleans, like the french quarter and what not, the time they need to pay attention is 7:00 p.m. that's whoa a curfew will go into effect. we're coming up on 3:00 where they want everyone to shelter in place by that time. we know the storm is moving fast. we sought the effects of that as we got on the road. we'll be standing by for you. >> the governor of louisiana saying do not underestimate this

you make yourself available if i could arrange a meeting with you and your colleagues and mayor landrieu -- we are about to elect a new mayor in new orleans -- to sit down and work with the department of justice to resolve these allegations of being a sanctuary city in a way that the justice department is comfortable with so we can keep that money? a.g. sessions: absolutely i would. and i would just say senator kennedy that there were 10 cities during the last attorney general's tenure that were noted as being cities likely to be in violation of federal 1373 cooperative law that requires cooperation on detainers or at least communications with federal law officers. new orleans was one of those. about a half of those now have gotten off the list. we would love to see new orleans get off the list, but we are not there yet. the mayor has talked openly about how some of these strategies where he describes what we are asking them to do is to go out and arrest people in the city that are here illegally. we are not asking that. we are asking that when the city arrest somebody that is illegally

you make yourself available if i could arrange a meeting with you and your colleagues and mayor landrieu -- we are about to elect a new mayor in new orleans -- to sit down and work with the department of justice to resolve these allegations of being a sanctuary city in a way that the justice department is comfortable with so we can keep that money? a.g. sessions: absolutely i would. and i would just say senator kennedy that there were 10 cities during the last attorney general's tenure that were noted as being cities likely to be in violation of federal 1373 cooperative law that requires cooperation on detainers or at least communications with federal law officers. new orleans was one of those. about a half of those now have gotten off the list. we would love to see new orleans get off the list, but we are not there yet. the mayor has talked openly about how some of these strategies where he describes what we are asking them to do is to go out and arrest people in the city that are here illegally. we are not asking that. we are asking that when the city arrest somebody that is illegally

flooded roads and some buildings in cities like biloxi, mississippi, and mobile, alabama.mayor mitch landrieuew orleans, louisiana: as you know this has been one of the busiest seasons that we have had. our thoughts and our prayers continue to go out to the folks that received the brunt of the storm.nate is the first hurricane to make landfall in mississippi since hurricane katrina hit in 2005 and the third to hit the u.s. mainland in the last six weeks. residents from louisiana to florida say they took those warnings seriouslyfather colten symmes: i think we're pretty prepared just in general for hurricanes. we know the protocol, what to do. you go get your gas, you get your water, your food and all that.treyvon hodge, biloxi resident: i got extra prepared, bought all the water, all the snacks, all the food, everything.in biloxi, mississippi, i'm natasha chen reporting. ( justine ) a florida neighborhood gets a hungry visitor... a black bear! but wait until you see what one family decided to do when they spotted the animal rumaging through garbage cans. <> coming upsound of glass hitting the

and mitch landrieu, cory booker, tim ryan. i mean, the list goes on. not one right now. maybe you will come out of the woodwork and knocked trump off. i would be careful. i think he is a stronger political force than that. mara: one alternative theory to the idea that donald trump is so overwhelming, so outrageous that we have to react to everything 24 hours a day to trump. that is true, but there is a completely opposite reaction happening around the world, which is that they do not listen to him because whatever he says does not matter because he does not follow through. he does not do it. foreign leaders hear him say this and they go he is not going to pull out of nato, he is not going to pull out of the euros nuclear deal. -- iran nuclear deal. and in congress, i think that is happening a little bit. congress did something amazing. they passed the russia sanctions bill, 98-2. he did not want it. he was forced to sign it. he issued a signing statement. he did not want more sanctions on russia. he wanted the opposite. he issued a statement about all the ways he disagre

here is the big easy mayor mitch landrieu. >> we are now feeling the impacts of the hurricane. i felt them personally myself at 1:16 today which was a bit earlier than expected. slight adjustments in the track or the intensity can change all of the recommendations that were made. you have to stay focused and you have to stay involved and prepared. hit you fast. if you are in the way, you are not going to be able to get out of it. jillian: we have fox team coverage on this casey stegall on the ground in lake pontchartrain. we begin with adam klotz in the fox extreme weather center. adam? adam: it's a fast moving storm. we just heard that mentioned going at 23 miles per hour. powerful storm as well. 3 mile-per-hour winds. category 1 storm. will it jump up to cat 2? that would take winds of 95 miles per hour. we are right on that border line. either a weak cat 2 or strong cat 1. either way a powerful storm as it makes its way closer and closer to shore. make its way along the mississippi river. when is it going to make landfall? looking at landfall late tonight really early into t

he might have bernie sanders and elizabeth warren running, and then mitch landrieu, cory booker, tim ryan. i mean, the list goes on and on. and not one right now, maybe you will create the obama character that will come out of the work and not donald trump off. i think he's a stronger political force the net. >> can i offer what alternative to the idea that donald trump is so overwhelming, so outrageous and discussed between he and with drag everything and 24 hours a day trump. that's true but also completely opposite reaction that's happening around the world, which is they don't listen to them because whatever he says doesn't matter because it doesn't follow through. he doesn't do it. foreign leaders during say this and they go he's not going to pull out of nato. he's not going to pull out of the iran nuclear deal. in contrast i think that's happening a little bit. when he signed, congress did something amazing. they passed that russia sanctions bill something like 494 to zero or 98 to two. he didn't want it turkey was forced to cite but he issued a signing statement. he didn't wan

have bernieen sanders and elizabeth warren running mitch landrieu, cory , booker, tim ryan. i mean, the list goes on and on . not one right now. maybe you will create the obama character who will come out of the woodwork and knock trump off. i would be careful. i think he is a stronger political force than that. ms. liasson: can i offer one alternative theory to the idea that donald trump is so overwhelming, so outrageous that we have to react to everything , and you know, 24 hours a day trump. that is true, but there is a completely opposite reaction happening around the world, which is that they do not listen to him because whatever he says does not matter because he does not follow through. he does not do it. foreign leaders hear him say this and they go, he is not going to pull out of nato, he is not going to pull out of the iran nuclear deal. and in congress, i think that is happening a little bit. when he signed -- congress did something kind of amazing. they passed the russia sanctions 494-0,omething like 98-2. he did not want it. he issued a signing statement. he did

. >> reporter: taking no chances in the big easy mayor mitch landrieu declared a state of emergency in orleans. the city's drainage issue was revealed during flash flooding back on august 5th when a storm drenched the city with 8 to 10 inches of rain in one day. the problems included pumps and turbine power stations not working and a shortage of personnel at the sewage and water board, the agency that runs the drainage system. the city has a total of 120 pumps. 19 were not operational during the august storm. 7 of them are back online and 26 backup generators are also in place. >> starting saturday at noon we'll have 140 pump operators and 42 personnel activated operating 24/7. >> reporter: the main concern of this system remains storm surge. some low-lying areas of louisiana have already been ordered to evacuate. louisiana governor john bel edwards has activated 1300 national guard troops across the state including 15 assigned to new orleans to monitor those pumps. >> this is a storm not to be taken lightly. this is not an exercise and if we get exactly what's forecast, it will be ser

here is the big easy mayor mitch landrieu. >> we are now feeling the impacts of the hurricane.rlier than expected. slight adjustments in the track or the intensity can ge

now your office wrote a letter to my friends, mayor landrieu, asking him questions about the and let me cutce to the chase. there allegations that new orleans is a sanctuary city. friend,ndrieu who is my but you got to call it like you see them, wrote you back a very unprofessional letter. i'm sorry for that. he called you caustic. he suggested you were a mere politician. he said you were scapegoating immigrants. fearmonger and basically called you a liar. not to beider that productive discourse. i apologize on behalf of louisiana. would you agree with me that we are a nation of immigrants? a.g. sessions: well, virtually the vast majority have emigrated here at one time or another for sure. sen. kennedy: we are also nation of laws, is that correct? a.g. sessions: that's correct. sen. kennedy: now if i don't agree with the loft, do i have to follow it? a.g. sessions: yes. sen. kennedy: i hate traffic cameras. i don't agree with them. do i have to follow the laws of traffic cameras? a.g. sessions: yes. sen. kennedy: i do like the laws about traffic cameras so i need to go change them,