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Good evening.

We're closely monitoring tropical storm barrier, which could reach Hurricane Forest by the

time it hit the Noreland area sometime tomorrow.

Now, whether it does or doesn't, the rain it is carrying could do some serious damage.

We've got correspondence on the ground in New Orleans and in the scene in Weather Center,

gathering the very latest information about what could be some very dangerous days ahead.

We'll have more on that tonight.

Also ahead, the latest cabinet level departure.

Number 14 from the Trump Administration, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, gone in the controversy

over his handling in the Jeffrey Epstein child sex case when he was a U.S. attorney.

So there's a full night ahead.

We begin though with breaking news in the upcoming ice raids on migrant families this

weekend, set against the condition some of the captured children may soon be experiencing

while in custody.

And many others already are.

The latest development addresses, but doesn't fully answer a question that we raised last

night.

Why would the president publicize these raids before the fact, announcing when they were

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