Once again, the U.

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State of Louisiana is under a state of emergency.

Hurricane Delta is our first subject this Friday on CNN.

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I'm Coral Jesus.

This would be the fourth named Storm to strike Louisiana in a single Atlantic hurricane season, and that hasn't happened since record keeping began in 18 51.

But let's back up a moment when we put this show together, it hadn't happened yet.

Hurricane Delta was whirling in the Gulf after making landfall on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Wednesday morning.

It was a Category two storm when it hit between the resort towns of Cancun and Playa del Carmen.

That was significantly weaker than forecasters had predicted it would be.

And while there was some damage, early news reports indicated that it didn't appear to be major, and thankfully, no deaths were reported.

After crossing the Yucatan hurricane, Delta had weakened to Category one status with wind speeds of around 90 MPH.

But it regained strength over the Gulf, and meteorologists expected the storm to hit Louisiana on Friday or Saturday, with category to force wind speeds of between 96 110 MPH and a storm surge of ocean water as high as 11 ft over normal tide levels.

That would be wherever Delta makes landfall.

There are no good populated areas for Hurricane to do that, but the Louisiana coast is especially vulnerable because that's where Hurricane Laura made landfall in August.

Residents there are still dealing with the damage from that Category four hurricane, which killed 15 people and damaged or destroyed 45 homes.

CNN meteorologist Chad Myers says the loose debris that's still scattered from Laura could cause more damage When Hurricane Delta hits, we're gonna bring him in now to explain why forecast differ in terms of where exactly hurricanes will strike.

Well, you hear us talk a lot about the models, the European versus the American and how are they different?

We're trying to model an atmosphere that has an infinite number of layers from where we live.

To the top of the atmosphere is not 9 12 13 different layers.

It's an infinite number, but you can't put infinity into a computer and expect an answer because it will just hang up and keep running.

The difference between the two models is trying to get a model run that's accurate and timely, timely meaning.

We can have a perfect forecast for a two day snowstorm, but it might take 24 hours worth of running the computer to get there.

So it's a two day forecast.

That's only good for one day.

Is that worth it?

No.

We try to get it to run in four hours or less.

Now the European model does take longer to run.

There's more data in the European model, and so therefore, it can be slightly more accurate.

But the American model is pretty close.

Originally, three presidential debates were planned between incumbent Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

But a lot of question marks popped up yesterday concerning the second debate.

It was originally set for October 15th in Miami, Florida But yesterday, about a week after President Trump was diagnosed with coronavirus, the Commission on Presidential Debates said the October 15th event would be virtual.

The Biden campaign agreed to that the Trump campaign did not.

The president said he wouldn't hold a debate virtually if the commission postpones next week's event.

Both campaigns have agreed to the debate on October 22nd But the Biden camp wants that to be the last one.

While the Trump camp wants that and a third debate rescheduled for the 29th.

So less than a month before the election, the debate schedule is up in the air.

10 second trivia

What are the names of the two full moons that occurred this month?

Harvest and hunters Wolf and Harvest Corn and Buck or Wolf and Blood, October 2020 sees both the harvest moon and a hunter's moon.

The harvest moon is the full moon that occurs closest to the autumnal equinox.

This year's equinox was on September 22nd.

The closest full moon to that was right at the beginning of October.

But there's another full moon coming up later this month.

The Hunter's Moon, named for when people hunted meat to use in the winter, and a CNN 10.

Contributor Tyler Mauldin reports That's not the only nickname for the second full moon this month.

Tyler Carl.

A full moon will occur on Halloween this year, making the night extra spooky for trick or treaters.

Can you think of anything more?

2020.

This will be the second full moon to occur this month.

This rare occurrence of having two full moons in one month on Lee happens about every 2 to 3 years on average.

The reason every month features a full moon, yet the lunar cycle and our calendars aren't perfectly synchronized.

Every few years, the stars align and we get two in one month.

This is the modern definition of a blue moon spoiler alert.

Though it's in name only, the moon won't actually be the color blue.

If you see any images floating around on social media of a moon that is blue, it's probably been filtered.

The last time we had a Blue Moon was back in March of 2018.

The next one will occur in about three years from now in August 2023.

0, and it's been quite a while since we last had a full moon on Halloween for all U.

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Time zones.

You'll have to go all the way back to 1944 for that.

So Carl, go ahead, Martha Calendar and get your camera ready.

It should make for a really boo too full but eerie.

Once in a blue moon Halloween night, we have a report on news writing.

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It's part of our partnership with A T and T s Youth Voices Collective.

We've been assembling a Siris of special editions featuring this guy who writes and anchors CNN 10 plus student questions about journalism.

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A badger, some snakes, birds, guinea pigs and a pony.

These air some of the animals that roamed around the White House during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, and they weren't pests.

President Roosevelt really liked animals.

Now, though, some White House residents of the uninvited variety are wreaking havoc or at least really distracting some reporters.

Raccoons.

There's an invasion crawling around the media cables on the White House lawn sniffing at bags of gear.

Is there food in there making a beeline for CNN's Joe Johns in the middle of a live shot?

Get there, he is rah now.

No events on the president's schedule today and Maybe you think Joe has seen too many movie raccoons.

Someone need a hug.

You too might lob a footstool just to scare it.

No, no, raccoons were harmed in this exercise.

If this was your second run in with a raccoon just the week before is Joe was about to go live.

I felt something on my leg and the first thing I thought Waas It was a cameraman from another network, and I looked down and it's a raccoon that I just grabbed my leg.

Law enforcement is on the hunt, spotlighting them with their flashlights, throwing some sort of sandbag, which the raccoon actually tried to drag away.

One ended up in a Secret Service Security shack.

Dogs have joined the search.

Even broomsticks have been deployed.

But like in the movie the Nutjob too far, raccoons keep coming.

Is he still there?

Can somebody chase him away?

Jeannie Moos, CNN.

What a ring tale to tell.

Of course, they might be looking to co Ottis the reporters, and they did kinky choose kind of a dangerous place.

So they can't linger too long because even with their masks on their Bassa, risking being identified by the Secret Service Fridays are awesome.

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I'm Carl Jesus for CNN Mhm.