Unprecedented rain & flooding kill at least 23 in Northeast; Possible tornado damage outside Philadelphia; Biden to visit storm-ravaged Louisiana tomorrow; U.S. Supreme Court refuses to block Texas abortion ban

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Homes underwater, transit shut down as Ida hits Northeast; Rescues ongoing as rivers burst at banks, spill into towns; NYC suburb: 200+ stranded cars block major parkways; County Exec: At least 3 dead in Westchester County, NY; Philadelphia's Schuylkill river swell 16 feet above flood level; Officials estimate thousands rescued from NE floodwaters; More than 900k still without power across Louisiana; Sotomayor: Some justices "Opted to bury their heads in the sand" over Texas abortion law; Biden condemns Supreme Court ruling on TX abortion ban; U.S. Supreme court opens path for end of Roe V. Wade; Biden directs "Whole-of-government" response to Texas law; Mask debate turn usually-quiet school board meetings int shouting matches, fights nationwide; School board member gets death threats from anti-maskers; CDC: Cases & hospitalizations much lower among children in communities with high vaccination rates; Fauci: FDA should have data on vaccines for children under 12 by end of the month; More than 80% of Americans have some immunity to covid, blood survey finds To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	First the Bayou, now the burrows, the lead starts right now.
0:06.1	Tornados, flash floods, rivers overflowing in Philadelphia, rushing rapids in the New York
0:11.8	City subway as the remains of Hurricane Ida paralyze the Northeast.
0:17.4	The war over abortion rights escalating after the Supreme Court fails to stop a Texas
0:22.4	law banning nearly all abortions, and the president tries to step in.
0:28.0	Plus, school board meetings turning into slug fest, setting a stellar example for
0:33.1	the children as some parents lose their minds over masks.
0:43.7	Welcome to the lead.
0:44.5	I'm John Berman, Jake Tapper is on assignment, and we do start with breaking
0:48.1	news in the National Lead, and what has now become the deadliest part of Hurricane
0:52.9	Ida's wrath across the United States.
0:55.0	The death toll keeps climbing, at least 23 people now killed in the last 24 hours
1:01.0	in the Northeast hundreds more rescued.
1:04.4	Seems like this just aren't supposed to happen.
1:06.9	That's flood waters rushing through a home in Montclair, New Jersey.
1:10.9	In New York, the rain fell so fast, it could have filled 50,000 Olympic sized pools, and
1:17.0	this is what happened when all the water pumps and the barrier walls and the sewer lines
1:22.0	couldn't keep up.
1:23.4	That's just unreal.
1:30.8	One river near Philadelphia rose so high today, it flew to awfully close to traffic passing
1:36.0	on the bridge above, and look at this.
1:38.6	This is a minor league baseball stadium in Bridgewater, New Jersey.
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