The statewide tour involved 1,000 three-day inaugural Scholarship First Bus Tour which took the president and special guests on a winding route around Louisiana.
louisiana s lieutenant governor billy nungasser. lieutenant governor, we have spoken before. it s been some time. you have so much experience dealing with these storms over the years. you have been a public servant in your state for a long time. you are in baton rouge now. i suppose it s not that bad yet, but i from what my colleague jennifer gray was talking about, it sounds like this may still be a very well defined and dangerous storm when it gets to where you are. absolutely. you know, we usually don t see a hurricane get that far inland as a category 1 or 2. this will surely bring that to baton rouge where a lot of structures that have never been through this before. so along the coast it s expected. so it will do a lot of damage as it travels through louisiana. and it s just being on the anniversary of katrina makes it a little more unsettling knowing what people are going through. i just spoke to dean blanchett
activated. the governor s team, cajun navy, wildlife fisheries, all of those people are ready to deploy to rescue those left behind. hopefully we ll be able to rescue them and not find them perished because they stayed behind for something they shouldn t have. and that is just going to be a desperate situation when rescue crews, first responders head into those communities and parishes. but i want to ask you, lieutenant governor. we know because of covid-19 and the delta variant that the hospitals were already in pretty dire situation. they were in dire straits before hurricane ida made landfall and started to wreak havoc across your state. what about the hospitals? are they prepared? what kind of conversations are you having with those hospital officials about how they are doing? well, you know, i know the governor has reached out to the president and knowing that we may need additional resources deployed here in louisiana to
the water is coming over in such volume and came on so quick it doesn t matter. it is 5 or six or 7 feet over the levee . so far under the water it doesn t matter. we have area in that area. wood land is an area that had no water from katrina and we have five foot of water in woodlandd area. and so even that area was evacuated and not a safe haven for people trying to get out. 92 billy, are there residents trapped in their homes? i know you had two parish employees on the levee when the water overcame them and they are trapped. who else are trapped. a woman on the roof and our fire department has several calls of people trapped in their homes that didn t heed the warning of the evacuation
and are trapped. until we get light, the wind is blowing so hard and the rain, we have emergency personnel ready to go rescue them. but we can t see the wind is blowing so hard and the rain, and we also have the coast guard and national guard trying to come up with a plan to get people out chris: man, i know you have your hands full. we ll let you get back to your job. billy, nunguesser. thank you. gretchen. gretchen: gretchen: governor chris christy telling americans it is a choice election between the republicans and democrats. american people don t want to heart truth and extent of fiscal difficulties. they believe the american people need to be coddled by big government and they believe the american people are content to live the lie with them. we believe in telling our seniors the truth over our