chris cuomo is off tonight, top of this hour, ac 360. jacob blake is now paralyzed after being shot in the back seven times. cornell west joins us to talk

about the larger implications of this moment. first, the breaking news from omar jimenez in kenosha. the police have released some details of what they say occurred in the altercation in mr. blake was shot. what are they say something. >> among their claims, they say that jacob blake knew about jacob blake's open warrant for sexual assault before they got tote scene. they also say he fought with officers, even putting an officer in a head lock. jacob blake was not un armed. they say he had a knife which officers weren't aware of until they were on the passenger side of the vehicle. they say many of the narratives that have come out, they believe are inaccurate, they claim their account of what happened, is what really happened.

>> i asked mr. blake's father about this in the last hour, he didn't want to talk about anything that the union was saying. have blake's attorneys responded. >> blake's attorneys have responded and said, what has come out of the association is completely over blown. for starters, they say he posed no threat. they also said that by the association's logic, that if there was a knife anywhere in the va certainty, they're using that as an excuse to apply potentially deadly force. we heard from an eyewitness who says that he did hear officers say drop the knife. but he also says he never saw the knife, and also on stop of that, says he didn't believe blake posed any threat. while we're hearing things come out from the attorneys and the police association, it's important to keep in mind that the wisconsin department of justice is the lead investigative body on this, the only thing they have said at this point is that jake oob blake admitted to having a knife at some point.

and that a knife was recovered from the floorboard of the vehicle. >> they haven't released any details that would obviously be important and that people would want to know. that's why the fact that the union has said something is getting so much attention. the union is saying he was holding a knife as he walked around to the vehicle. because police previously had said a knife was found on the floorboards by the driver's side of the vehicle. those two things are not mutually exclusive. but again, we haven't heard this from -- officially from the investigators, i know in the last hour it was said -- we said that charges against blake, the warrant -- the charges that were behind the existing warrant out on him were dropped. they're still pending. the warrant, the family paid a

bond so the warrant that was pending against him was dropped, which is why he was handcuffed to the bed. the warrant was dropped but the charges were vacated. the charges are still in place, correct? >> that's right, he is no longer shackled to his bed. as you mentioned, the open warrants have been vacated. his toerngs do say that charges are still pending for him. when you go back to why he was even cuffed and shackled in the first place, the kenosha county sheriff's office said it was standard procedure for anyone with warrants like him that were connected to sexual assault. however, his family felt it was especially cruel, since he is paralyzed and couldn't go anywhere to begin with. >> professor of the practice at

harvard university. co-host of the new pod cast, the tightrope. 57 years ago today four words have a history, i have a dream. today we saw another march on washington. i'm wondering what you make of where we are in this moment in american 4i69ry given all that we've seen in the last several days. >> it's been one hell of a week. i wan bt to beginning by sending my condolences out to the jacob blake. praying for him. two of the brothers that were shot down in cold blood. this is a pivotal moment, 57 years ago, martin luther king told the world of a dream he

had. the future of america depends on how we respond to brother mark. the worst of america shot him down like a dog. was martin luther king jr. the last hope for america. we're at the most pivotal moment in history of this experiment called the usa. >> you think that -- founded on white men's labor, those who couldn't vote could not participate in the political process. women couldn't vote. we are at that crucial a moment. at that time let the civil strife and civil war. what is distinctive about this moment? one is, we witnessed this week the crystallizing of a distinctive form of american neo-fascism in which you live in lies, you attempt to get people addicted to lies.

addicted to avoiding reality, create a world of make believe, and they were trot out a gangster -- i mean, the idea of donald trump defending law enforcement is like jesse james being head of the bank protection brigade. i mean, he's been running for the law for most of his career. he doesn't care about the law. he allows his cronies to break the law and lets them go. he's had no regard for the law. >> part of the spiritual decay, and the moral vac ansi, the emptiness in our society. he's not alone. he's not alone. we are witnessing also the pandemic, we're wrestling with climb ago tick changes from the two issues hardly talked about. which is ecological catastrophe on the way. and then we've got an empire with military units all around

the world, 4800 units. 800 of them outside of us. russia and china only have 30 combined. corruption of elites and then the gullibility of an impotent citizenry, who is gullible to what? tribalism. to greed, to hatred, to ignorance. toe a callousness and cowardliness. this is not something that's simply focused on the republican party. you have facilitators who are willing to accommodate themselves to his neo-fascism, it was sad to see people call him a conman now call him a demagogue. that's how elites too often behave, they'll adjust themselves to anything. it's not a matter of skin pigmentation, it's a human thing. >> it was remarkable to see the white house with giant signs

with the president's name on it, you talk about getting a glimpse of what an american fascism would look like. the republican party has been completely changed into the party of trump. it is the leaders of the republican party, mitch mcconnell were relegated. normally they would get a prime time speaking spot. they were relegated to a well produced video off to the side. the show was what was happening in the white house, that had been taken over by the trump family. >> that's exactly right. but the important thing to keep in mind are the invisible social forces behind the scenes. wall street's breaking records that the 1% are doing better than ever. 40% of all of our fellow citizens in poverty or near poverty. that's what martin was talking about, he said america -- martin

luther king jr. was going to preach america may go to hell. not america should go to the hell. why? because no democracy can survive with its public life shattered, with racism, with militarism here and abroad. with materialism and people to think to be human is to be titilated and excited by human toys. he added another one, of course, which is poverty and hardly any -- both parties for the most part don't want to talk about militarism, 53 cents for every dollar going to the military industrial complex. dwight eisenhower would be the left wing of the democratic party today. his support of the new deal, his

critique of the military complex. you know i'm going to support biden. it's going to be difficult. you pray for me. i'm voting for him. he's an anti-fascist folk. neo-fascism is something that calls into question the democracy. you know, 25% of republicans say they want to shut down cnn, new york times, washington post and msnbc. now, this is unprecedented, brother. and i would defend the rights of fox, they have a right to be wrong in their own way. rights and liberties are very precious. it takes a long time to institutionalize them, they can appear overnight. and who -- who really thinks that the election is going to be over on tuesday? that first week in november. we have claims about the legitimacy of the elections. we have claims about the

legitimacy of the very process itself, for what? power. power. say anything, do anything. that's what we have in the white house. but we have the collaborators, wall street too often and also big military. and then you have folks who are desperate and then, of course, the white supremacy that sits at the center of it, i thank god for my brothers and sisters in the sports world. especially lebron james and the others. everything's at stake at this point, my brother. >> we have a short time left, but things are so divisive, is there a way to step back from the brink? to just -- right now, people see things through their own lens and other eyes -- we're all otherizing each other. they're other than patriotic, other than a citizen. other than a human being,

nothing good can come out of that. >> i think that's -- martin luther king jr. and dorothy day and edwin ziad, they have taught us it's going to be by example. there's a sense that american history is catching up with american literature. moby dick, ahas been obsessed with the whiteness of the mail, it ends with ishmael on a raft which is actual li a coffin. witness, and those who want to live in the sand put their hands in the sand and avoid it, create disneyland like reality, as we saw the other day. toni morrison, sweet home, what is that sweet home, a vicious barbaric plantation, your modern industrial order. and then there's william faulkner. wonderful book, he said the two saddest words in the english

language. was, what was the case. the white supremacy, all the predatory capitalism, and then the other word again, was how does jason deal with that in sound and fury. he says, my son, that's the saddest word in the english language. no, dad, he said again. when the wasness is not overcomment in his worst sense, he comes back again. here comes jacob again, breonna again, over and over and over again. what happens to quinton? he jumps off the bridge. we don't have to jump off that bridge, but we have to come to terms with the reality. >> faulkner, the past isn't past. cornell, thank you. a former senior member of the administration, weighs in on what he saw on the inside, what

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if everything else we saw last night weren't enough, there was last night's norm busting speech. about 70 minutes our senior fact checker detailed many of the factually incorrect statements during the speech. i kind of watched in amazement as she did that, running from two dozen false hoods in three minutes. >> i'm honored by your support. >> this president is a serial liar, and he serially lied tonight. i counted 20 false or misleading claims. i want to go through a bunch of

them quickly. joe biden is talking about taking down the border wall. he was rejected that idea. he said he will stop further additional construction. trump claimed he's the one that passed the veteran's choice law. barack obama signed it into law in 2014. trump said, i have turn more for the african-american community than any president since abraham lincoln. that's ludicrous. lyndon johnson signed the civil rights act and the voting rights act. trump didn't mention as usual that the job gain follows a large job loss over the last two months. he said they opened a jerusalem embassy for less than 500,000. early documents show it was at least 21 million. nato spending has increased for the first time in 10 years. it rose before he took always. he will always, and republicans

will always strongly protect people with pre-existing conditions. that pledge has already been broken. he has tried to weaken those protections in obamacare. he claims he banned travel from china and europe. no, he imposed partial restrictions. he boasted about the covid testing system. look, experts say the u.s. was fatally slow in his response, especially in setting up adequate testing. he said he ended the nafta nightmare, he signed a new agreement. it preserves, maintains most of nafta. most of the border wall is replacement barrier, as of august 7th, according to official data, just five miles have been built where none existed before. joe biden will congress if i skate guns. joe biden is running on a nonbuy back of assault weapons. biden does not want to defund

police. he has good information that china wants biden to win because biden is soft on china. china wants biden to win because they see trump as unpredictable. biden planned to close down charter schools. he is skeptical on charter schools, but wouldn't close them down completely. trump supported the iraq war. he said democrats removed the word god from the pledge of allegiance. two individual caucus meetings outside the main prime time programming did leave it out. but it was uttered in every prime time event. donald j. trump has tried to get dozens of people and entities, fired, boycotted. including good year, he imposed an order to give ten years in prison for rioters. his order asked the government to fully enforce.

he said biden's plan would eliminate america's borders. no, just no, that's wrong. >> oh, that's it. >> there's more. how much time do you have, angder son. >> more perspective now on what the president said last night, and where his campaign could take the country. you're next guest has seen him up close and is the director of homeland security. he has endorsed joe bide ing. the president often acts as if he's a bystander and not actually the president of the united states. in his speech last night kind of illustrated that, this is his united states. and he -- you know, he keeps talking about, we will have law and order when he's re-elected. he's the president now, and this is the country he's overseen for three years. >> well, anderson, thanks for having me, that was the stunning

thing. there were many stunning things as dale effectively pointed out. but the president's case seemed to be, i'm donald trump and i can save you from donald trump's america. it was surreal. but what's even more surreal, anderson, is that we're so numb to it, that it's just become normalized. we won't even be talking about this on monday. and that's what's so shocking about this. i want to say right out of the gate, we're in crazy town, but everybody knows it, this is the thing. i can hardly think of people, probably on less than two hands, i can name the advisers close to the president that are such true believers in him, that they don't see it. everybody else sees it. they all see it, the cabinet sees it, people who have left the cabinet see it, junier aids see it, everyone sees it. that's why i'm out here saying this. i have a lot to lose from this, but genuinely, there's a weight off my shoulders in getting to

say the people around the president think he's genuinely unfit for the job. i can't believe i have to say this, i can't believe we're having this conversation, but that's the reality, in he was last night on federal property, realtime crime in progress, and we're going to shrug it off by next week. america's got to wake up. we've got to realize we need to shake this off, and we can only do that with new leadership. >> in the grand scale of things, it's a minor thing. it was announced he's considering using the white house for political -- the speech he's going to make, folks in congress were like, oh, no, that's not really going to happen, that's just being floated. it did happen, and they remain silent. you say all these people around the president have doubts, know he's not up to it, what is the -- i mean, i -- it's -- i don't want to make you be a mind reader, what keeps people there,

is it -- well, if i leave my job is so important that at least i'm a moderating influence or i'm responsible set of eyes on things and that's why it's important for me to stay, or is it just there in the corridors of power. and that's a better place to be, it's better than being not in the corridors of power? >> i'll be very blunt with you, anderson, i think the latter explanation that you gave is what's true for most people that are still in the administration. there was a point in which, years 1, 2, 3 where the majority of people that were there were there for the right reasons and had that first thought that you indicated. that thought that we were seeing such crazy things, that the current -- concern was that if we left, we would be replaced by sick facts who would do whatever president wanted rather than speaking truth to power. the president makes a lot of money and gets a lot of attention in saying there's a deep state.

i never saw an instance where people in the democracy disobeyed a law. we went in and said, mr. president, what you want to do is unethical, immoral, whatever it is. those people have been replaced by people who see being in this administration in if their self-interest. in the past few days, i've been talking to that smaller 20% that's left. and quite frequently. there are people who are genuinely scared. if they were to leave, that's kind of the last vestige of stability there, and the wheels will really go off the wagon. we can argue whether that's a legitimate approach. i've made the case to a lot of these folks, that it is time to leave. there's no more good to be done, the wheels have been off the wagon for a long time. and they should reclaim their lives and conscience and say no to what they know to be true.

the example you just gave about using white house property for a convention, for political purposes. that's the type of thing, i was talking to a former cabinet secretary from the trump administration, i said, could you imagine if that was ever proposed in year one or two of the trump administration, reflexively any of us who have served in government would know right away that's a hatch act violation. and most americans didn't learn about the hatch act until the past few days. day one in the administration, you get a power point, you don't mix politics with official business. you would be breaking the law and you're going to get in trouble. you would know immediately we can't do that, there should have been 100 people around the president that told him not to, instead, just like you said, it rolled forward, it became a thing. and now it's normalized, but that's what a second term is going to be like with donald trump. normalizing illegal behavior.

>> miles taylor, appreciate your time. just ahead, weak controversy for the fda and cdc, details on a flood of bad information on both. and how that could affect the nation's fight against the virus when we return. ...with this. when kids won't eat dinner, potato pay them to. ore-ida. win at mealtime. for my mouth to aim at. oh, hiding, huh? the new grilled buffalo chicken papadia - tangy buffalo sauce, grilled chicken, and melty cheese for just six bucks. papa john's.

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the claims about the benefits of a coronavirus treatment has led to the removal of the agency's spokesperson. emily miller is still at the agency, though, miller remains an appointee as she was placed at the fda just days ago by the white house, not dr. hahn, it's unclear what her role was now. in a news conference he vastly overstated the benefits of the treatment. the initial claims were justified much he says, political reasons did not factor into his decision making. this comes a day after the fda consulted dr. hahn to correct any misleading comments. it comes at the same time as a separate controversy that requires testing for far fewer

people. a federal official tells cnn the pressure came from the top down. meaning the upper ranks of the trump administration. dr. robert redfield said the coronavirus task force was consulted. however, dr. fauci said he was not, and undergoing surgery and under general anesthesia at the time. here to discuss is kathleen sebelius. also our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. what is going on? i mean, it is now multiple instances, it seems of scientists, whether it's the leadership of scientific organizations, folding under political pressure or, you know, morphing their medical advice, it seems like just under the thumb of politics. >> anderson, i heard your earlier segment when they talked about a series of things that are just unprecedented.

i've never seen anything like this, i know that the both the cdc and the fda, the centers for disease control and prevention, the backbone of public health in this country and around the world, and the food and drug administration, is it responsible for every 25 cents of every dollar spent in america. both agencies are full of talented brilliant people who do a great job day in and day out. there's something really wrong at the leadership level, there's something really wrong with the messages coming out. and it could not be a more dangerous time. we need to have the american public trust science. we need to make sure that when and if we get a safe and effective vaccine, that people can believe it is safe and effective. we need people to understand that the guidance offered by cdc

about social protocol and wearing a mask, and staying apart and tracking and tracing this disease actually will keep us safe and security, and the more the public doubts those messages, the more they are battered by political interference with science. i think the worse it gets. we've had a president who consistently lies about the science. who consistently gives false information to the public, and now, unfortunately, out of the agencies is coming some information that seems not to be very accurate and very true. >> the thing with the fda and dr. hahn apologizing overstating the benefits of plasma treatment. good for him for apologizing about it, and acknowledging it. the cdc multiple times now, changing guide lines, based on -- it seems like nothing else other than political pressure. >> yep. i mean, that's true, anderson,

i've been -- we've been reporting on this for a long time, i talked to a lot of public health officials who are not working for the government, and they're pretty unified in terms of how they're thinking about these new recommendations, for example, the cdc saying asymptomatic people do not necessarily need to get tested. they're in lock step saying, that's bad guidance. and it's unfortunate, the cdc is not only the institution that people look to in the united states and around the world. now you have lots of people saying, we can't go to their guidance any more. even before this issue with the convalescent plasma, which on thursday they said is it not going to get emergency use authorization over the weekend. there's this tweet that goes out that says the fda better see the light or they're going to feel the heat. >> from the president. >> from the president, and the emergency use authorization happens on sunday. come on. this is an administration that

the fda gave the emergency use authorization for the hydroxychloroquine. it's worrisome, and i'm hearing this from a lot of public health officials around the country about this concern. >> you know, secretary sebelius, the idea that nonsymptomatic people should not be tested. i mean, it's a clear break in the science. and potentially incredibly harmful. >> well, it absolutely is. the evidence seems to point to the fact that asymptomatic individuals are carrying about 40% of the disease. if you don't test those individuals, we have no idea where the disease is. if we wait and only test people when she have symptoms or are on their way into the hospital, anderson, it's incredible that we are still talking about testing. we started talking about testing in late january, early february, we have not gotten, we tested a

lot more people, but we still don't have a protocol, we still don't have an agreed pong process, and we still don't have the equipment to do fast turnaround tests, and we're pushing schools to open, we're pushing universities to open, and businesses to open, it is really dangerous. people are dying each and every day, i went back and looked at -- in mid april, this president said in defiance of all the guidance states should reopen, minnesota should be liberated. michigan should be liberated. virginia should be liberated. we have 33,000 deaths in the middle of april, 155,000 people have 2k50id since then. and we're still talking about testing. we don't have the protocol right and we have the most fatalities of any country on earth. >> last night the president stood on the south lawn in his campaign event saying he's focusing on the science, the

facts and the data to handle the coronavirus pandemic. and he said that in front of a crowd of more than 1,000 people, many of whom were without masks, had not been tested. it's -- i mean, what do you say? what can you say? >> the actions were totally flying in the face of even the most basic science. i mean, the idea that at this point in the middle of a pandemic, you slowed the country down, you slowed the spread down, you had this plan to slow the spread down when there were 5,000 people infected in the country, now there's 5 million. we saw what unfolded at the white house, i mean, everybody knows at this point you should keep your distance, you should wear a mask. these are basic things and that wasn't happening. everyone says, by the way, what about the protesters, what about the march. yeah, right, that's an issue as well. we're in the middle of a pandemic, people should not be aggregating together. the only thing that likes people

aggregating together is the virus. it gladly jumps host to host to host. it's perfect forethe virus. but bad for everybody else. and we know this at this point. i mean, i don't know what it's going to take. i really -- there was that scene today, anderson, where i think it was in -- i don't know where it was, they said, you have too wear your masks, and people were booing, you're told you could save 70,000 lives by the end of the year if you wear a mask. what's it going to take at this point to get people to understand. >> that was at a trump campaign event today. >> sanjay gup tarks thank you. kathleen sebelius, thank you so much. more on my interview of the young man at the center of the controversy, sur rounding jerry fallwell, jr. ♪ because it's time. ♪ yeah. ♪ time for grilled cheese.

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the last hour we brought you part one of the interview surrounding jerry fallwell and his wife becki. he talked about his relationship with them. key points of which the

fallwells dispute. here now is the second part, the final part of that interview. >> they bought a youth hostile in miami. and you were offered -- you were offered a 25% share in the deal. why did you get offered 25% of a deal? you didn't put up any money for it, did you? >> no, i did not? >> so when i met them at the fountain blue, there were a couple trips, we went to a resort in the keys, and then there's another trip in new york. we stayed at the hotel on park avenue. there i was telling jerry about this pastor project of mine to help people, before you can ever help anyone, you need to make a lot of money yourself. and he's like, my background is in real estate. how about you go pick a property in miami beach, get a handful of

them, and i'll give you 25% equity. he's the one that offered -- >> why do you think he was doing that? >> i believed him at the time, he wanted to help. that's how he always pitched it, he wanted to pay it forward. that was always the cover story. if anyone asked about a relationship, i'm a mentor, someone helped him out when he was younger, and he wants to pay it forward to me. >> why come forward with these allegations. this has been going on for a long time. >> i feel trapped. i've been trying to get out of that business relationship for a long time. >> you want money for them for the percentage that you say you are owed? >> so i have an ownership stake in this llc. there's a selling mechanism that allows me to sell my equity stake if i want to split ways, over the years they promised they would buy my equity stake, they were just dangling this

promise and would push it on, they would string me alone, and it never happened. i have text messages that jerry himself memorialized this contract. >> jerry fallwell has said you were extorting them, he said to the washington examiner, we tried to distance ourselves from him overtime. he became increasingly angry and aggressive, threatening to reveal the secret relationship with becki, unless we agreed to pay him substantial monies. did you threaten the fallwells you would go public if they didn't pay you? >> why would this extortionist -- he called me an extortionist or a criminal. why would he still be -- if i was extorting, why would he be hanging out with me, watching me and becki, and in january 2019, there was a face time call, and becki's walking around naked in the house, walking around naked with a glass of wine, and

jerry's following her, right behind. >> we obtained a communication with someone familiar with fall well's dealings with you that indicate in march you were asking for $1.1 million and $50,000 per year for 20 years. they say this was you trying to extort them. >> no, again. i'm only asking for what was offered to me, jerry himself memorialized this contract through text messages back in 2016. again, i am just asking for what he promised. >> you're saying in 2016, he himself said this number. that he had get $6-000 after personal taxes and expenses. >> so where is the $1.1 million figure coming from? >> well, if you consider like --

the gross mamt. if you considered the gross amount. i mean, it's right on par. he also, back in 2015, he actually offered me an equity stake in la quinta hotel, which is owned by comeback inn llc. and la quinta shoelts a hotel in virginia. at that time he was trying to bring me over to virginia. >> i mean, did you at any point -- you are saying this relationship, the sexual rip went on for how long? >> it went on from 2012 to physically, 2018. then we still remained in contact after that. and, again, the facetime recording was in january, 2019. >> did -- at any point -- i mean, did you ever discuss -- i obviously, they were evangelical leaders running a very religious university and very outspoken on

religious topics. did you ever discuss how they reconciled what you say what was going on with the values that they were professing publicly? >> we didn't really talk about that much, about religion or anything. but i did witness the hypocrisy behind the scenes. the lies. i toured the campus multiple times. they treat that family -- it is like the monarchy. they are like the royal familiar there, it is bizarre. the reason why this story is important. it is more than the sexual scandal. it is a lot more than that. this is about a pattern of predatory behavior, abuse of power. the people around them, the inner circle, they protect them, and they look the other way. they have witnessed things. i have seen it myself. and they just look the other way. they always say, it is jerry being jerry or becki being becki. >> giancarlo, i appreciate your

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in 2 wake of powerful category 4 hurricane that hit the gulf coast region, search and rescue missions are under way now. the state hardest hit by hurricane laura is louisiana where power out an occurred and at least ten people are dead. water is in sharp demand. gary tuchman joined one effort to search for survivors and has the story. >> reporter: calls keep coming in to the sheriff's office from people in the lake charles area who can't get in touch with family members and friends. though these people are responding to as many calls as they can. we go to this house, heavily damaged from the hurricane. >> how are you doing, sir? >> good. >> reporter: they are looking for a 72-year-old man who did not evacuate. there was great concern the man could be found dead or seriously

hurt. paramedics and a worried neighbor were there when the sheriff's deputies arrived. the found the man, a vietnam veteran, who had indeed been hurt. >> i slipped and fell in the hallway. >> are you feeling okay now? >> yeah, i feel good. >> we are worried about you. and the sheriff's deputies are worried about you and the emergency workers are worried about you. >> reporter: bruce says he believes he hurt his ribs. everyone here relieved that gerald is not seriously hurt. sadly, different deputies earlier found a man who had died from what is believed to be carbon monoxide poisoning. that is always a major concern. as the deputies go to this door -- >> sheriff's office. >> reporter: there is no answer. that happens quite a bit. there's also no answer here. but then they go around to the side of this damaged house. >> are you the richards? >> uh-huh.

>> we got sent to do a welfare check on you. i guess family was trying to contact you. >> i know, my son just called me. >> reporter: she says she evacuated just before the storm hit but like many here, she has no cell services, no power, no matter. >> do you have everything that you need here? >> i called the state board. my house is a total -- camper over there. >> that is a camper. i didn't recognize it. >> 35 foot, we had busted butt getting that thing clean to sell it. >> reporter: 15 years ago rita says she lost her house when hurricane rita hit. now she appreciates the sheriff's come to visit. >> i appreciate it. we are here basically by ourselves. most of our neighbors haven't come back. >> reporter: there will still many searches for the sheriff's deputies to do and relief that

on this particular shift nobody was found seriously hurt or dead. >> gary joins us now. what is the latest on the death toll, as well as the recovery effort. >> latest information anderson between this state, louisiana, and texas, at least 14 people have died. meanwhile on the ground life is very difficult. here in lake charles nobody has power. 78,000 people live here. nobody has water. stores, restaurants, gas stations all shut down. power lines, trees this the roads. you can't get many of the roads, many of them that you can get through are obstacle courses. hospitals have been damaged. and because of the lack of water they sent their patients to other hospitals in the state. >> a reminder, don't miss full circle a digital news show that gives us a chance to get into important topics and have in-depth conversations. the news continues right now. let's turn things over to don

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