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leland: gillian, nice to be with you as well. the suffering in louisiana, the southern part of the state, it s unimaginable for most of us at home with air conditioning and watching television. i m leland vittert. the president will touchdown first in lake charles. we ll take a look at damage he s going to see. woo we head to the white house where the president just left. hi, david. hi, leland. it s been a difficult day for people in louisiana and east texas. and the president of the united states should be the comforter in chief. that s a role that he will take on today as he meets with people in louisiana and texas. he s in the air right now as gillian said, should be landing at some point in the next hour and a half, two hours, depending how much time he makes up in the air. the president did not stop for cameras as he got on air force one at joint base andrews. sometimes he comes over, but not the case today. he ll makes comments on the ground in louisiana and tex ....
the hurricane there killing at least 14 people and so far leaving hundreds of thousands without power or water and maybe even weeks or in some cases we are told even months before the full service is returned. we have live team fox news coverage for you on all of this. david spunt is standing by at the white house with more on the president s visit, casey stegall is in lake charles, louisiana, where clean-up efforts are underway. casey, you see a lot of devastation and destruction as well as flooding. reporter: yeah, absolutely, eric. the president has no shortage of places to visit when it comes to damage on the ground here in louisiana. we re in lake charles, aty of about 80,000 a city of about 80,000 people, and it s really chaos because so much of this city everywhere you look is devastation. this is a finance office here. you can see the front of it was just totally blown away and look inside there, all of the desks expect computers tossed around, the roof is t ....
on fox news channel. this comes as president trump is set to arrive in texas at this hour in other top story, survey the destruction from hurricane laura. one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the gulf coast. this and what happens to be the 15th anniversary of hurricane katrina s devastating landfall. hello, welcome to america s news headquarters, i m eric sean. arthel: hi, eric, i m arthel neville. the president visited some of the hardest-hit areas. at least 14 people killed. tens of thousands of homes and businesses still without power or water. it could take weeks to restore. damage estimated in the billions. this was tremendously powerful storm and when it came in it was much bigger than katrina. i would say katrina being a landmark. one thing i know about this state that will rebuild and no problem. yesterday i approved a major disaster declaration that helps individuals and business owners which a little bit different but goes right to the individual and ....
the house oversight committee calling louis dejoy to testify. democrats accusing him of deliberately slowing mail delivery and underfunding the agency ahead of an election where a record number of americans are expected to vote by mail. we have fox team coverage on this david spunt following the president in bridgewater, new jersey but we begin with mark meredith reporting live from washington. mark. mark: arthel, good afternoon, democrats are accusing the trump administration of trying to sabotage the post office ahead of the general election and democrats are placing the blame squarely on the newly installed post master general and as you mentioned they want him to testify before congress later on this month. now, louis dejoy was sworn in as new post master general back in june. before that well-known businessman and also a very generous republican donor and also contributing to president trump s campaign. since taking over dejoy has made a number of changes at the po ....
chairman of the harris poll, mark.. so, mark, welcome. your old compadre, doug schoen, told me last week that harris was the best choice by far. do you agree? i agree as well. i also thought that harris would be the choice and that she was the logical choice given all of the facts and circumstances of the campaign and, in fact, i wonder why it took him an extra couple of weeks to make that rcoice.he [laughter] paul: well, let me ask you two particular points about that. one is she s a coastal california progressive, there s no question about that, and i guess the issue is for the campaign is she going to play in wisconsin, in michigan, in pennsylvania, in those swing pstates where middle class vots are there to be had? well, the question is isn t whether she will play, the real question is whether joe biden will play. i don t think she ll be a major factor in those states one way or the other. i think she s a major factor in unifying the party, getting behind the ....