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Rare pink dolphin was spotted swimming in Louisiana waters. Not one but two pink dolphins were seen on July 12. 'Pinky' is a well-known dolphin from southern Louisiana.

US President Joe Biden pledged robust federal assistance to get people back on their feet. Biden said that the government already had distributed USD 100 million directly to individuals. “I promise we're going to have your back,” Biden said.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said the federal government stood ready to provide "all the assistance that's needed."

Hurricane Ida barreled into the Louisiana coast with mass flooding, power outages and destruction on Sunday. President Joe Biden declared Louisiana a disaster area and described Ida as “life-threatening”.

According to the White House, in advance of the storm, over 2,400 FEMA employees were deployed. Biden approved emergency disaster declarations for Louisiana and Mississippi on Friday and Saturday.

The National Hurricane Center predicted Ida would become an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane with 130 mph (209 kph) winds. The storm arrived on the exact date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier.

Hurricane Delta is a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. It hit the southwestern US region at 6 pm on Friday as per the US National Hurricane Center.

Hurricane Laura made landfall early on Thursday in southwestern Louisiana as one of the most powerful storms to hit the state, with forecasters warning it could push a massive wall of water. Laura made landfall just before 1 a.m. as a category 4 storm, packing winds of 150 mph (240 kph) in the small town of Cameron, Louisiana, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The bulletin added that Lake Charles, Louisiana, was seeing sustained winds of 85 mph (137 kph) and gusts up to 128 mph (206 kph), in the hour after landfall.

Dakota Theriot, 21, is wanted in connection with the shootings, authorities said on Saturday.

The incident took place three miles away from city's famed French Quarter.

Hurricane Nate has made landfall at the mouth of the Mississippi River on the southeastern tip of the state of Louisiana, the National Hurricane Center said on Saturday.

Harvey made its second landfall just west of the town of Cameron, the National Hurricane Center said, with "flooding rains" drenching parts of southeastern Texas and neighbouring southwestern Louisiana.

Two more days of heavy rainfall are expected over parts of Texas and Louisiana as Tropical Storm Harvey churns offshore, preparing to make landfall again on Wednesday.

As of Monday morning, Harvey was hovering on the Gulf coast of Texas, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Houston. 

A bus with an unlicensed driver spun out of control near New Orleans on Sunday, killing two people and injuring 41, while taking volunteers to help with Louisiana flood relief, officials said.

 Over six in 10 Americans have said that racism against blacks is widespread in the US, according to a poll.

The death toll from historic flooding in the US state of Louisiana went up to eight on today, as the expanding flood zone prompted authorities to declare disasters in a dozen parishes.

The heavy rains began Friday, with between six and 10 inches of rain falling on parts of southeast Louisiana, and several more inches on Saturday.

Police also were rescuing people from dozens of cars that were stranded on a miles-long stretch of Interstate 12, which was closed from Baton Rouge to Tangipahoa Parish.

An unarmed black man trying to help a patient with autism was shot and wounded by Florida police while lying on the ground with his arms raised in the air and pleading with officers to hold their fire.