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Department of defense has 60 high water vehicles and 14 rotary wing aircraft's to assist with rescue efforts. shelters are open in affected areas throughout the gulf coast across impacted states and their implementing steps to prevent the spread of covid-19. covid-19. the national guard is also activated, more than 50-100 personnel in louisiana and mississippi, texas, and alabama, to support response efforts. in the army corps of engineers has activated planning and response teams for temporary roofing and housing. again we are working closely with state and local officials. even though the st...

Looting. so a lot of people on edge here, desperate for gas, desperate for power and hunkering down as well. we don't see in the city or out here a lot of people milling around on the street. a lot of people are either hunkers down or coming out in situations like this trying to get situations for their families. >> brian todd just outside of new orleans, let's get more on the breaking news right now. the adjunct general of louisiana national guard is joining us. general, thank you so much for joining us. i know you are responsible for coordinating the entire louisiana national guard. can you ...

0 get him to the island and as long as there's communication, we'll be able to communicate with him and see what's going on there. but it's very hard to not have any word from that island and the people on it since that time. in lafite, the water was very high. our first responders, the sheriff, firefighters, louisiana national guard, some coast guard are there doing search and rescue. they're having to get boats in and out. we are sheltering those people at a playground and then i believe the state is going to coordinate, governor, for a pickup and move them out to alexandria is my understand...

Be able to respond during dangerous conditions. this will likely include overnight when storm impacts have passed but debris will be blocking the roadways. it's dangerous now. it will be dangerous this afternoon, even more so because of the wind. it's going to be extremely dangerous overnight because of the wind and because of darkness. they're not going to be able to come to you. you need to stay inside until tomorrow. we'll look at this in the first light of day. our emergency operation center is activated. we have 70 people up there. they're risking covid, they're communicating, they're com...

>> i have not seen the poll. >> it's out there. >> from cbs this morning. [laughter] >> right after that bowe erickson who is a white house correspondent for cbs dear white house staff showed the below pooling with potus if i was him i would not want to look at it either because it's not good news. because he was just the messenger, he was so adamant i really believe what i'm doing is the correct thing, it's messy but it's the right thing although mr. president a majority of americans don't like the way they are doing it. ainsley: now he seen the pole and you see him laughing at the statistics...