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New Day Weekend With Christi Paul and Boris Sanchez-20210828-11:49:00

and you know what, it won't be years or decades from now. it will be sooner than you think. >> reporter: the elections bill here in texas passed the house of representatives on friday. it now heads back over to the senate where they will do some hammering out of differences for final language of the bill. and then it will very likely be sent to the governor's desk. and governor greg abbott, a republican here in texas, says he intends on signing that bill. meanwhile, democrats will continue to lobby congressional democrats to push for a voting rights bill that have been passed in several states across the country. phil and christi. >> ed lavandera, we appreciate it so much. thank you. look at your screen. that is one beast of a hurricane. ida, louisiana, is facing a direct hit from what is being dubbed as a potentially

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New Day Weekend With Christi Paul and Boris Sanchez-20210828-11:02:00

good morning. welcome to your "new day." saturday, august 28th. christi, i'm struck by just how significant the news is right now. how important so many stories are, in particular, too. >> yeah. it is a little frightening, to say the least. there's a state of emergency right now, right? along the gulf coast that we have to talk about. >> yes. and the u.s. gearing up for what looks like a monster tomorrow heading to the coast with a direct eye on louisiana. hurricane ida has entered the gulf waters as a category 1 storm. >> the thing it could spin into a dangerous category 4 just before it's expected to make landfall expected tomorrow. what is significant here, this is 16 years to the day that

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New Day Weekend With Christi Paul and Boris Sanchez-20210828-11:03:00

hurricane katrina devastated la louisiana. this is what hurricane ida looked like tuesday as it struck cuba striking twice before heading to the u.s. and what is significant is, it did deteriorate even over land. >> that's part of one of the major reasons that the national weather service is warning this is a life-altering storm for a lot of people. that's a direct quote. for this particular storm that makes it particularly dangerous there's nothing in its path to keep it from getting stronger. new orleans mayor shared this warning. >> this is the sometime to take action, low lying areas out of the system, mandatory evacuation. voluntary evacuation for all others. >> cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is tracking the storm. i know this is going to be a major event, as they're calling it now. people need to take it seriously. i was struck by your reporting

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New Day Weekend With Christi Paul and Boris Sanchez-20210828-11:07:00

head 20 miles of where we're at. we're going to home for the best. in lafourche parish, the best leverage system in the state of louisiana. we've not have a levy break. this is a very dangerous storm, 140-mile-per-hour wind ida, she means business. i hope nobody gets killed and everything turns out to be the best but we'll put it in god's hands and take it from there. >> when you say there are mandatory evacuations, what has the parish done to keep people out of the way? >> we've done everything, we've evacuated nursing homes and people that are sick, you know. we've got a lot of people in this area that know each other. almost everybody knows each other. and everybody helps out at the

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New Day Weekend With Christi Paul and Boris Sanchez-20210828-11:06:00

allison, i know you'll be busy with this a moment, keep us posted. >> let's talk to city councilman daniel loraine from the louisiana's lafourche parish. councilman, thank you for being with us. i know you live along that liven. what can you tell us about evacuations right now and what residents are doing. >> yes, ma'am, we have a mandatory evacuation check for 5:00 a.m. this morning which some people will leave and some will not. as you know, when you have to leave, it takes money and not everybody has funding, you know. we'll do the best we can. most people will probably leave. and we're located about 20 miles from gulf of mexico. and the port which everyone is familiar with, comes through through the port. and the storm is predicted to

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170831:12:24:00

evacuation that's going to happen in that area. air transportation, large aircraft transportation all laid on to begin that operation. pulling people out, getting them to staging area, evacuation hubs and begin to move them out of the area. >> all right. we know that you have your hands full. we know you're keeping an eye on it. thank you very much for joining us and obviously we'll be bringing everybody the breaking details. back to you. >> all right. so harvey's relative. what we're seeing in texas it catastrophic. louisiana, little bit different story. some what spared. people had to be rescued, tons of flooding and not completely out of the woods. the gov they are has asked for the federal government to extend a disaster declaration to more areas. join us is republican senator john kennedy of louisiana. i'm sorry for it to be under these circumstances but that's

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170831:12:50:00

alisyn? >> it sure is, ed. thank you for monitoring all of that for us. so one of the things we want to show you is what's happening in these deluged nab neighborhoods. i had a chance to ride around with the so called cajun navy, this ad hoc team of volunteers and they're descended on texas to help out. they came with their boats from louisiana. the so we'll show you what they've been accomplishing on this ride jalong, next.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170831:12:56:00

updares you have everything. running water. >> are you riding it out here? >> i was going to ride it out but i don't want to be separated from my wife and daughter. i want to tell you in houston texas we had guys from louisiana that were picking up african-americans, caulk occasions, asians, any kind of race you can imagine. they weren't asking what race you were, what religion you were from, what background. they saw you as a human that needed help. and all the racism that everybody's talking about right now, that's one small pocket of ignorant people. but what i've witnessed over these last three day sthas we have more people in this world that care about each other than the small pockets of people that don't care about each other. i'm taking that away as the greatest miracle that you could ever learn in life is to see real people helping people. so, chris, that, of course, is the silver lining to

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170831:12:26:00

they were in houston, now in beaumont, and port arthur just trying to help people get out. we've opened shelters here in l.a. louisiana so people can come over here to louisiana. i'm just so sorry. this whole thing is just, as you put it, horrific. just sucks. i'm sorry. that's the only way i know to explain it. i don't know why bad things happen to good people. but they do. and we have to deal with it. and we're going to deal with it. it's going to take a lot of money. but at a time like this, you don't think about the money. you think about the -- you don't think about the mathematics. you think about the moral aspect of it. >> you -- >> it's not over. >> you shouldn't anyway. that's true. i want to talk to you about that. there's no question that when we see the worst from mother nature we sometimes see the best from human nature and the hope is the people who survive it are

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170831:12:27:00

stronger than ever and people have a better sense like we saw in louisiana and new orleans that that community came back and knew something about itself and how people care about each other that they may not have known as well before. talk about money. there are two different angles of a immediate concern. the one is flood insurance. the what do you hear about the sustainability of programs, payouts, efficiency that's going to happen? because was we both know, that's the first big immediate fear after survival for people in areas that get flooded out is will i get the money to rebuild. >> if you had flood insurance and you paid your hard earned dollars in premiums, by god, you're going to get paid. congress is going to do whatever it takes, yes, the flood insurance program is in debt about $25 billion. that >> that's why i'm asking. >> the line of credit will be extended. people will get paid.

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