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Of that total, $341.2 million are to, quote -- and this is what it says in the bill. to replace approximately 40 miles of existing primary pedestrian and vehicle border fencing along the southwest border using previously deployed and operationally effective designs, such as currently deployed steel designs that prioritize agent safety. so that's your answer, charlie. hold on. we have -- we have a porous border right now. with broken fences, things that can be cut through, places that can be driven over. and to replace this with 20-foot-high ballard wall will protect our country. something that...

Designated the most effective way to do this. so that's what we got out of this bill. >> photos of fences or walls? >> that is called a ballard wall and that is called a levee wall. there are various types of walls that can be built under the legislation that was just passed. it allows us to do that. as we've mentioned, that is called a levee wall on the left and that is called a ballard wall. >> it's the name of it. it is called -- >> the fencing? >> in this current bill, it allows us to do the following. so to be clear, in several areas along our southern border, we have what was in the firs...

Sector. that's mostly land that the federal government already loans. but in texas, which you already had up on the screen, they want 28 miles of new levee wall system, so that's a combination of a levee wall and border protection, and also six new miles of more border wall in that texas region. really, this is low-hanging fruit. this is obviously places where customs and border protection says it really needs this kind of wall. but it's pretty darn expensive when we calculate this out. this comes out to roughly $16 million per mile extrapolate that out and you're surpassing all the estimates ...

Greater new orleans area without power. today it's a very hot, humid day. if you can imagine that with the elderly and some of the special needs communities right now, it's a very hot situation, without power, there's no air conditioning. about 5,000 people in louisiana right now are still evacuated in shelters. and that's the situation. but take a look here. this is one of the reasons why things are relatively calm here at this point. this is one of the major pump stations in the lakeview area. just seven years ago, this was an area that was basically ground zero for hurricane katrina. that l...