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elect a 25-year-old to congress like maxwell frost and we elected the first gen z member of congress and after his election and that amazing success, i talked with kevin, his campaign manager and i said it would be great if we could work to elect more people like markwell and justin jones and others to state lures to take the charge rate to people like ron desant is, to lead the fight to give them a voice in the state legislature and more in congress. so that is why we're doing this work. to get people elected to understand the anxiety of what it is like to go through a school shooter drill and not knowing if the planet is gooing to be inhabitable in the future. >> and you're going to focus on state candidates. they are not as shiny of a race as the federal races. but oftentimes that is where the work is. at that state level. understand your thinking. i know you got at it in your answer there, but it seems like
together to support the strong tornadoes and, once they touch the ground, they are really causing destruction for hours at a time step that's one reason we didn't have as many fatalities as you'd expect. it's because they were on the ground for so long. we could give lead in advance and people got the warnings and they took it seriously and i certainly think the work of the national weather service, providing these warnings, is a large reason why we didn't have more deaths. find why we didn't have more deaths. and the scene of — why we didn't have more deaths. and the scene of destruction where you are and in so new places is so devastating. what help is there for the people who have been made homeless? fix, the people who have been made homeless?— homeless? a lot of folks are homeless. _ homeless? a lot of folks are homeless, hundreds - homeless? a lot of folks are homeless, hundreds of- homeless? a lot of folks are l homeless, hundreds of homes homeless? a lot of folks are - homeless, hundreds of homes are inhabitable, if not destroyed entirely. the federal government is involved. president biden has made phone calls to the local mayor and
this poison has to china and china and the relationship in mexico with cartels and that flow that continues to come in here, we need to designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations to do something about this. no longer are days of investigating cartels for two years and i arrest you and i will build the case, that doesn't work anymore, todd. we have to go above and beyond to take them out. >> this comes down to joe biden securing the border. assuming he doesn't do that, what would you do if you were in charge to target these cartels, which basically according to my sources have become nation states, it is like mexico is two countries, the government and cartels. what would you do to target them? >> first off, you are right, there is parallel government being run by cartels in mexico and first thing i designate them
thing, like ashley said is as big as a bus, right? so, it's not like it was a small little thing and, todd, they recollected drop a nuclear bomb from a balloon just as easy as they could from a fast-moving plane. so i don't know if anybody has even considered that yet. but, it seems like if this thing -- if it's hovering, and they shoot it down, it's probably going to fall pretty straight down to the earth. and i don't know how vast this area where it's above. but i'm pretty sure that they would be able to track and kind of come up with a place that this may crash if it's just loitering in one place. and the fact that they keep saying that it's over this airspace, they have been saying that since yesterday. that does cause me great concern because if they have the ability to control where that hot air balloon goes from china, then maybe it's not being blocked from seeing what it wants to
sites. >> ashley: jonathan fill yam joins us with the latest. so far we know the balloon has been floating above air force base higher than commercial air traffic and it's the size of three buses and includes a technology bay. how did u.s. officials not catch this? >> i think that's the question out of all of this. i'm not worried about weather they have the ability to jam this thing and its ability to capture whatever it is looking for. but, how did it get over the united states? i mean, we can look at golf balls and see the dimples on golf balls from satellites track meter rights traveling 50,000 miles per hour into the united states. we don't have the ability to see a balloon moving slower than an airplane moving towards the united states before it even gets here? and it really makes you question
and luckily, they like each other. i think they're going to go on a second date, simone. >> all right. a terrible experience, but i am so happy that people are finding hope, even in this tragedy. nbc's liz mclaughlin, thank you so much. >> i want to bring in now the city manager of the barrier island town that was hit head on by ian. dana souza of sanibel, florida. thank you so much for being here. first, our hearts go out to you and all of the people of sanibel. you've a population of about 7300, but the island is no longer inhabitable. you have been a evacuating the residents who chose to ride out the storm on the island. lee county, which include sanibel, reports 42 deaths. that is almost half of all the deaths so far in florida. do you think it would have made a difference if emergency managers in lee county gave the evacuation order on monday?
to have power for months. and now the focus is safety, search and rescue, getting people out of these places that are no longer inhabitable, and safety is the number one concern of myself, the sheriff, local law enforcement, and we can't even worry about putting tarps on roofs because we're still trying to save people from these dangerous conditions. pete: yeah, we were showing those images of i-75, the traffic jam that was the attempt to get out, and there her for our viewers late last night. so you're saying it was a shelter in place during the hurricane or as it was approaching or initially after -- >> right. pete: finish but hen as word spread that the levee may possibly break, local residents were informed to tray to get out, and one of the routes they used was taken over by flood waters in the levee did break? >> so we're three days in. it was a shelter in place in north florida at the time of the hurricane. and after the hurricane the a massive amount of flooding in
larger question may be weather human impact is making the earth less inhabitable as president biden signs the climate program over the no votes and republicans in congress. so we welcome bill nye the science guy. he might even help us see the forest from the trees. his new series is "the end is nye" premiering tomorrow on peacock. welcome back. >> so good to be back. >> your thoughts on the tree question and more importantly the climate. >> well, it's the same -- it's part and parcel the same thing. mr. walker i'm sure is passionate, but the places where we need trees are in the same places where lower income people live. in this case the inherent problems associated with low income people and their neighborhoods and so on. and part of the inflation reduction act is to plant trees in urban areas. this is not what the main part