quite serious. plaquemines parish we have information one of the levee walls or a floodgate i should say run alongside the mississippi river has failed resulting in flash flooding causing emergency evacuation despite the conditions despite telling people to get out of that area. that is outside of the levee system of new orleans. so the floodgate was very serious water is rushing up highway 23 are also earlier in the evening we had some information that water had overtopped the levee. so there s trouble in documents period. also in the earlier in the evening a number of barges got loose the report is one barge hit a bridge and have made impassable we don t know the extent of damage.
voodoo bus tour and the plantation swamp tour. even ironically, the hurricane katrina tour. it s a tour that takes you to some of the infamous sites from 14 summers ago, the hurricane that devastated the city and louisiana where up to 1,800 people died. this could have been the culprit of the storm, this was the major concern if levels got over 20 feet. the thought was it would go over the levee walls of the city that would protect up to 20 feet. it did not happen. the reason they were so concerned is because the levels are generally below 20 feet, but as the storms came they were at 16 1/2 feet. it started off at that level. the concern was there would be so much rain, up to 20 inches of rain in new orleans, that it would go over these banks and get to this wall, go over the wall and inundate new orleans. but they ve got much less rain in new orleans. they ve gotten 4 inches,
that s what the republicans did at the last shutdown. we ought to give them the same opportunity. open the government, put it up for a vote and see if it passes. that s the will of the american people. in terms of what you would be willing to concede in negotiations, would you, congressman, be willing to concede or would you advise house leadership to be willing to concede any new fencing, any additional spending on border security or additional spending on new fencing? listen, if you take the premise that the wall is the only way to secure the border then that s the wrong premise to start off with. personnel, technology, technology that s worked for the military has been very important to us. why play defense on the one-yard line called the u.s. border where we spend over $18 billion a year? let s help secure the mexican board were guatemala, work with our friends in central america. the last thing i want to say, yeah, we did compromise under bush. the levee walls which is
there is no money for the wall. it s all repairing the fencing that exists and the levee walls that are already there and some of them crumbling. but, can you can you shed any light on that for me? because i have got to frankly buy a vowel. i don t really understand it. it s very unfortunate that we can t get a border wall, a much needed wall that we need so we can do our job. that wall is going to save american lives. it s just very unfortunate that some of these representatives are actually playing games with our jobs and with our security. we need to stop playing politics and we need this wall. it s no secret our border patrol agents have actually reached out to president trump through the national border patrol counsel and we told them we wanted a wall. the president has done the same thing. he has spoken to our agents directly. the agents have told him president trump we need a wall to secure the border. that s what we need so we can do our job and so we can save those america
for a variety of things and maybe 33 miles or different reports. i think it s 33 miles for reinforced double fencing and some levee walls that are already there. but this is no new construction. brandon, i m hearing you guys. you guys are on the front line, the cartels are coming. we have the human trafficking. people just trying to cross because they want to work here. others we don t know what their motives are we are like well, we will have some sensors and some roads and maybe we have some more detention facilities. the republicans are shooting themselves in the foot. the president ran on a campaign of domestic policies that were going to secure the american interests which and one of those was the border. the republicans aren t doing what the constituency wants them to do. and if they don t jump on board and if they don t get behind this president. if they don t secure the border, they stand to lose huge in the mid terms. laura: i agree.