Four deaths and multiple severe injuries have been confirmed as crews began fanning out in boats and off-road vehicles to search communities cut off by Hurricane Ida.

Four dead, multiple injured in sweltering aftermath of Hurricane Ida

Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana on Sunday as Category 4 storm destroying power lines in New Orleans as it caused "catastrophic transmission damage." The storm hit on the same date as Hurricane Katrina which had wrecked Mississippi and Louisiana in 2005.

Hurricane Ida pummels Louisiana; power lines in New Orleans destroyed

US President Joe Biden toured New Orleans’ Carrollton water treatment plant on Thursday as part of his visit to the city to promote his $2.3 trillion infrastructure spending plan. Biden pitched his infrastructure proposal as way to secure excellence on the global stage.

Joe Biden tours Carrollton water treatment plant in New Orleans

A person fatally shot two people on Saturday, prompting customers and staff of a gun store to open fire on the shooter in a New Orleans suburb of the US. The shooter also later died.

Three dead in shooting in a New Orleans suburb in US

Three people were killed and two others were hurt after a shooting at a gun store in a suburb of New Orleans on Saturday (February 20).

Three dead, two hurt in gun shot shooting near New Orleans

On Saturday, 3 people were killed and 2 people were injured in a shooting at the gun store in Louisiana. The shooting happed at the Jefferson gun outlet in the suburbs of New Orleans. The suspected shooter reportedly gets into an argument with the clerk for entering the store with a loaded gun.

The argument at Jefferson gun outlet led to the fatal shootout

Despite cold temperatures, canceled parades and closed bars, there were signs of celebration in New Orleans on Mardi Gras. Some costumed revelers strolled the French Quarter, though most businesses were closed.

Crowds subdued in cold, pandemic-era Mardi Gras

In the weeks leading up to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, revelers would normally attend dozens of parades rolling on city streets, replete with colorful floats and marching bands. But in November last year, the city announced there would be no parades in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. So residents and visitors have come up with a way to reimagine the celebration a bit more safely.

Decorated 'float houses' fill the Mardi Gras void in New Orleans

All around New Orleans, thousands of houses are being decorated like carnival floats. The coronavirus outbreak has cancelled the traditional elaborate parades, where crowds shout for plastic beads and other trinkets during Mardi Gras season.

New Orleans: Thousands of houses decorated for Mardi Gras

New Orleans in the city of Louisiana is helping those who have laid off during COVID-19 shut down and this is being done to try and help improve their work skills. Watch report.

COVID-19 Pandemic: Retraining the jobless to work in healthcare

When pedicab operator Sarah Grant and French Quarter street violinist Anna Roznowska realized about five weeks ago their livelihoods and lifestyles were threatened by New Orleans stay-at-home orders caused by the novel coronavirus, they were initially at a loss.

New Orleans violinist and pedicab operator take show on the road to lift spirits

The United States, the world's most powerful country, has unfortunately become leaders of coronavirus infections as well with over 200,000 cases and 5,137 deaths.

Why New Orleans coronavirus death rate is leaping? Diabetes, obesity a reason

Thousands of people thronged the streets of New Orleans on Fat Tuesday (25 FEB. 2020) reaching for beads, shimmying to the music of marching bands and celebrating the end of a Carnival season tinged by tragedy after two bystanders were killed by floats this year.

New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras on day known as Fat Tuesday

American singer-actor Justin Timberlake was hanging out with 'Palmer' co-star Alisha Wainwright but there is nothing going on between the two. The co-actors were seen taking a break from filming and hanging out at a New Orleans bar late at night, the news agency reported.

'Palmer' co-stars Justin Timberlake, Alisha Wainwright hang out in New Orleans

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Barry rolled into the Louisiana coast Saturday, flooding highways, forcing people to scramble to rooftops and dumping heavy rain that could test the levees and pumps that were bolstered after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005.

Barry makes landfall in Louisiana, weakening slightly to a tropical storm

New Orleans officials warned city residents to stock up on supplies and prepare to shelter in their homes on Friday (July 12) as "life-threatening" Tropical Storm Barry was poised to come ashore as possibly the first Atlantic hurricane of 2019. While the storm did not yet have hurricane-force winds, it was forecast to bring torrential rains of up to 25 inches (64 cm) in certain places, which officials said risked flooding along the already-swollen lower Mississippi River.

'Life-threatening' Tropical Storm Barry heads towards New Orleans

Tropical Storm Barry, poised to make landfall as the first Atlantic hurricane of 2019, churned ever closer to Louisiana's shore early on Saturday as most New Orleans residents huddled at home, or in bars, bracing for the threat of severe flooding.

New Orleans residents huddle at home, and in bars, ahead of hurricane

As government officials set up emergency centers and warned New Orleans residents on Friday (July 12) to prepare to huddle indoors, Tropical Storm Barry was poised to make landfall as the first Atlantic hurricane of 2019.

New Orleans prepares for 'life-threatening' Tropical Storm Barry as it grinds to landfall

Some residents and visitors prepared to flee New Orleans on Thursday as Tropical Storm Barry closed in and officials warned of "extreme rainfall" and flooding if the storm makes landfall by early Saturday as the first Atlantic hurricane of 2019.

Storm Barry bears down on New Orleans with 'extreme rainfall,' flooding risk

New Orleans braced for severe flooding with residents told to hunker down as a growing tropical storm in the US-Gulf of Mexico headed for landfall late on Friday or early on Saturday as the first Atlantic hurricane of 2019.

New Orleans braces for flooding, Trump declares emergency ahead of Storm Barry

Tropical storm Barry could strengthen into a hurricane by Friday night or early Saturday when the centre is near the coast of Louisiana, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

Tropical Storm Barry to hit Louisiana may develop into hurricane: US weather forecaster

A potential tropical storm brewing in the Gulf of Mexico presents twin troubles for parts of south-east Louisiana: the possibility that a high Mississippi River will be lapping at the tops of levees this weekend and a danger of flash floods like the one that hit New Orleans on Wednesday.

Today Tonight: Louisiana storm brings twin threat of rising river and flash floods

New Orleans was hit with widespread flooding on Wednesday from heavy rain spawned from a weather system that forecasters warned could grow into a hurricane capable of causing severe inundation of the low-lying US city.

Heavy rains flood New Orleans streets; forecasters predict hurricane

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