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To three hours a week. hello and welcome to the programme. it is some storm that reverses the flow of the mississippi river! hurricane ida landed a category 4 hurricane and blew through south—east louisiana with such force that at times they recorded sustained winds of over isomph. today the search and rescue teams were fanning out across the state to assess the scale of the damage. and it is widespread. there have been reports of people climbing into attics to escape the rising waters flood. the rising waters. it's not as bad as katrina, which devestated new orleans 16 years ago — it woul...

Trapped in their houses with some extent of water from a foot deep to some people in attics. so it's going to be a pretty bad scene with a lot of work to do to move quickly and safely. so we can take care of everybody in the best way possible. >> can they even contact you at this point in time? >> some people have been able to. i'm not sure how they're getting through, but it's a lot of family members calling saying they're in contact with family who is stuck in the house or apartment building, whatever the case may be. but they are getting out some way. i think at&t was experiencing some prob...

0 get him to the island and as long as there's communication, we'll be able to communicate with him and see what's going on there. but it's very hard to not have any word from that island and the people on it since that time. in lafite, the water was very high. our first responders, the sheriff, firefighters, louisiana national guard, some coast guard are there doing search and rescue. they're having to get boats in and out. we are sheltering those people at a playground and then i believe the state is going to coordinate, governor, for a pickup and move them out to alexandria is my understand...

Planes in houston and galveston. our coat guard is at a three point stance, ready to respond. i'm proud of our preparations. eric: do you know where the assets will be needed and what you will send there? >> we don't yet. we don't have a good understanding yet of who is in distress, how many people didn't evacuate. but as soon as we're able to, we're going to fly over-flight surveys, we're going to get aircraft up and moving, we're going to launch from mobile where i'm located and also in houston. and then as weather permits we'll move those closer to the impact area so we can respond more qui...

Look out a window because it's not safe, and evacuating. many people will have to go up high to attics, to rooftops, not knowing if the helicopter that they hear in the distance will be able to help them. rev, this is truly something on thisanniversary, you know, you could never, ever, ever want to prepare for this. but i hope that we have got some safety net for people to get back -- you asked about the biden administration. they need to not only be sending health care resources. they need to be sending integrated mental health resources to not just the effected areas, to the surrounding area...