Tracking Ida

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Hurricane Sally Heading for US Coast, Louisiana Braces

Louisiana bracing for anothrr hurricane.

Terrible Destruction Left By Hurricane Laura

Leaving many without homes.

Chimpanzees Get Pregnant Despite Males Chimps Having Vasectomies

It sounds like something out of Jurassic Park.

Female chimpanzees are going on birth control and male chimps are getting another round of vasectomies at a sanctuary in Louisiana after workers discovered two pregnancies they weren't planning on.

The director of the retirement home for research chimpanzees says an employee noticed one of the chimpanzees, Flora, had given birth on Valentine's Day earlier this month.

Linda Brent, the head of Chimp Haven, says that prompted pregnancy tests for seven female chimpanzees. An ultrasound confirmed that 42-year-old Ginger is pregnant and due in the summer.

Brent says five males will get another, more complex vasectomy. She is not sure if at least one of them was able to grow back tubes that were originally cut out or if the initial operation was not done as well as it could have been.

Tropical Storm Lee's Storm Surge and Louisiana

Tropical Storm Lee's storm surge begins to inundate Southeast Louisiana around 5PM Saturday, September 3, 2011. Carr Drive beach and a nearby fire department in Slidell, Louisiana are swamped by Lake Pontchartrain as Tropical Storm Lee hovers in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Within 30 minutes, this area went from virtually no presence of standing water to being entirely flooded under more than a foot of water from Lake Pontchartrain.

The president of Plaquemines parish in New Orleans, Billy Nungesser, told Fox News his biggest concern was whether the levees would hold.

"Twenty inches of rain, which is expected - we're hoping that's spread out over three days, as nowhere (here) can take that heavy rain in a concentrated timeframe," Nungesser said.

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported several Louisiana parishes were distributing sandbags and issuing evacuation orders for the lowest-lying areas.

"It's not like the entire place is underwater, but certain places are," Jefferson Parish president John Young told the Los Angeles Times. "Right now, we're acting out of an abundance of caution. We don't want to have people trapped in there."

Lee was battering the Gulf Coast six years after the region was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

The levee system around New Orleans failed after Katrina, submerging much of the city. More than 1500 people died.