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Coming to address the scale of damage from hurricane ida. it made land fall as a category four slamming into the coast with devastating wind and rain. it is one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit the mainland. officials say at least two people were killed. search and rescue operations are still underway in communities along the gulf. >> ida came on shore with everything that was advertised. >> yep. >> the surge, the rain, the wind. all of our levy systems, particularly federal systems performed magnificently. having said that, the damage is still catastrophic. >> catastrophic. the sto...

Preland fall declaration and last night signing the major disaster declaration. that's going to be very helpful. hurricane ida came on shore with everything that was advertised. >> yep. >> the surge, the rain, the wind. the good news first is all of our levy systems, particularly our federal levy systems and hurricane risk reduction systems performed magnificently. they were not overtopped. none of them were breached. even our levy systems that were paid for with state and local funding performed extremely ex well. it would be a different story altogether had any of those levee systems failed....

Storm force winsds with the particular hurricane force with the particular storm. incredibly 13 hours removed from landfall maintaining that hurricane intensity. the center crossing into southern mississippi. i think another 6 to 8 inches of rainfall in store across the area. and it made landfall as category 4 150 miles per hour sustained winds. with that said, over a million customers without power from mississippi to portions of louisiana. we're looking at generally three to four people per customer so about 3 to 4 million people without power across the two states and it speaks to the inten...

Other parts, though, the flooding waters did make their way over the levy systems. this has been the biggest test of those new levy systems since hurricane katrina 16 years ago. ida category 4, katrina category 3. ida with the strong winds battering louisiana. we're waiting to learn more about the damage that was done as soon as mother nature decides to turn on the lights for us, we'll be able to go around and assess the damage earlier. we're dealing with power outages. people are in shelters right now with the middle of a pandemic. they're still dealing with covid-19 protocols on top of a cat...

You, commissioner. i really -- i'm not supposed to take any questions, but go ahead. >> mr. president, on afghanistan -- >> i'm not going to answer afghanistan now. it looks like president biden may be making a couple more remarks? >> thank you you've done everything you can to help prepare these folks, but i tell you what, i think we're going to be -- they're going to be taking a look at additional levy systems. >> that was president biden at the fema head quarters. it's always good to listen to