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Theyll neville. Eric im eric shawn. The president hosted the pastor in the oval office. The heartwarming gathering of Administration Officials and the pastors family occurred hours after the North Carolina native landed in joint base andrews. The president reiterated that no deal was made with turkey to secure brunsons release. Weve been negotiating long and hard. We do not pay ransom in this country. At least any longer. We wont pay ransom. Otherwise you have big problems and lots of things will happen, lots of bad things will happen. Eric garrett teny is live at the white house with the late...

Amidst an effort to avoid a repeat of katrina. the question is will they work. tom, everyone is concerned about this. a lot of articles have been written and a lot of money invested. the u.s. army corps of engineers, $15 billion. i read an article that said all of the work may be inadequate in a couple years. >> first of all, charles, it's great to be here. here's the reality that new orleans is facing. if you look at 20 inches of rain, if you look at the flooding of the mississippi river and the lower mississippi river and you look at potentially the storm surge, new orleans may find itself r...

Next 24 to 72 hours. they're the true heros along with the personnel and like i said, i wish them the best. my prayers are with them. we'll come out of this okay. >> the first responders also. thanks, tom panuzio. thank you. >> a pleasure. >> now to the potential financial impacts. lauren simonetti with more on that. lauren? >> took a look at that, charles. more than 250 gulf of mexico oil platforms evacuated. more than half of gulf oil production is off line. that's 1.1 million barrels a day. that will push up the price of gasoline across the country. it's at $2.77 a gallon now. up two cents ...

Panhandle went out himself and chewed out the service station so they would lower prices. the problem is, it's search and rescue right now. and most of the panhandle is without fuel. the fuel's being used for emergency vehicles for rescue. arthel: former fee mall official tom panuzio joins me now. thank you for being here with us. >> it's a pleasure to be here. thank you. arthel: you can share insight. as horrible as they look, pictures don't always capture the real impact. how bad is it? >> it's devastating. any time you have literally a cat 5 hurricane with the wind speeds nearly 155 miles a...