expletive-laden contact as the riot was unfolding. since then he's been tight-lipped about that call as you can see specifically, did he say to you that some people are more concerned about the election than you are? >> no, listen. my conversations with the president or my conversations with the president. >> and that is our broadcast for this tuesday night. with our thanks for being with us, on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, goodnight. on what has been, a historic day. also just intense day in the news. right now, tens of thousands of americans in mississippi, more than 1 million in louisiana, all without power for a second day. in the midst of stifling heat,

and fairly widespread destruction. from the category four hurricane this slammed into the gulf coast two days ago. wherever you live, episodic's power outages are effective life. you get through the, move on, with more less discomfort and inconvenience. but this is an order of magnitude greater. we are talking well over 1 million people, not only power, but no prospects of power anytime soon. in many cases, also no running water, new working sewage system, no working emergency response, system in some cases no passable roads, because of the storm damage. louisiana's governor today told residents of his state, if you have already evacuated, do not return. until the office of emergency preparedness tells you it is ready to receive you. the parish president from one hard-hit county in louisiana, john the baptist parish, told residents today, the parishes

without power, and we are without water. so where you currently are now, if you're in a safe place with water and power, that's probably the best space for you to stay. saint-jean the baptist parish, diffusion parish, same timothy, parish terrebonne parish, we're home, is which is been very hard hit, jefferson parish, immediately west and south of new orleans. that whole swath of southern louisiana, is in trouble, and without power tonight. our fellow americans there are in increasing the difficult uncomfortable and dangerous conditions right now, as we speak. we will have the jefferson parish president joining us here live in just a moment. we are used to preparing for landfall, thinking about when the storm is going to hit. planning our expectations in terms of disaster, in terms of when the storm arrives. in this case, the storm has arrived and and now, the

biggest challenge begins. last night we reported that president biden would be giving an address to the nation today in the end of the war in afghanistan, and last night when we reported that, we didn't know the time when the speech would start. i'll tell you honestly, when i learn today, that the president speech was going to be mid afternoon thing, instead of something he was going to do a primetime, i lowered my expectations. i sort of assume that that timing meant it would not be a big deal speech, it would be more of an update, not a big statement about this moment in history. i was absolutely wrong in that assumption. he may have given in the middle of the afternoon, but president biden today gave the speech, he will want to be remembered for, when it comes to this war. and his decision and his determination, to end this war. , i remember where i, was you might too i don't know, but i remember vividly where i was when i learned the war and afghanistan had started i was

driving, i was working at a local radio station at the time, and i was not at work but i was listening to that station while i drove. in the station that i worked out was a music station, it was not a talk radio station. another dj who worked at that steam station was alive that afternoon that night, and i remember vividly, it was something that i hadn't heard before, but she stopped the song in the middle and got on the air live. and she was very emotional i remember at the moment. very emotional to say that the united states had started bombing in afghanistan. i remember it vividly. i pulled over in listened for a long time. it was so soon after the 9/11 attacks. we were all so stung, and so inside out about those attacks, in the huge death toll, in the puncturing of the sense of invulnerability that we had here at home. but when the afghanistan war started, when that announcement

came, through the bombing has become. there is a clear very real very heavy sense that our country had now changed we had started on a new course. and what we are going to be embarking on was going to be big. and probably dark. and it was going to be very hard to unwind, over the course of our lifetimes. i remember vividly feeling that way at the time. it was not an unusual pressing take on at the. time that was pretty widely perception, of where we were and where we were heading. but even so, even with that widespread protests such, and this is a new course for our country, this is going to be a big deal, this will take a long time to ever change off this course again. even with that widespread perception, who among us thought it would be two decades? who among us that night. could have thought it would be two decades, before we would hear u.s. president say that it

was over. 20 years. all the presidents, since the one who started, it have said that it is time to end the war in afghanistan. every president since the one who started, it has in fact campaigned on his intention to end the war and afghanistan. but it was not until now, it was not until 20 years down the road, it was not until this president took office. president biden. that he did not just say he was going to end, that he did not say ought to, and he finally determined that he would get it done. that he would bring it to a close. today. >> my fellow americans. the war in afghanistan is now over. i am the fourth president, who has faced the issue, of weather and when to end this war. when i was running for president, i made a commitment to the american people, that i would end this war. and today, i am honored that

commitment. it was time, to be honest with the american people again. we no longer had a clear purpose, in an open ended mission in afghanistan. after 20 years of war in afghanistan. i refused to send another generation of america's sons and daughters, to fight a war, that should have ended long ago. this decision about afghanistan, is not just about afghanistan. it's about ending an era, of major military operations, to remake other countries. we saw a mission of counter-terrorism in afghanistan. getting the terrorist and stopping the attacks. it morphed into a counter insurgency. nation building, trying to create a democratic cohesive in united afghanistan. something that has never been done over many centuries of

afghan's history. what we know from that mindset, from those kind of large-scale deployments, will make us stronger and more effective, and safer at home. and for anyone who gets the wrong idea, let me say it clearly, to those who wish america harm, to those that engage in terrorism against us or our allies, know this. united states will never rest. we will not forgive, we will not forget. we will hunt you down to the ends of the earth, and we you will pay the ultimate price. to those asking for a third decade of war in afghanistan, i ask, what is the vital national interest? in my view, we only have one, to make sure afghanistan can never be used again to launch an attack on our homeland.

remember why we went to afghanistan in the first place. because we were attacked by osama bin laden and al-qaeda, and september 11th, 2001. and they were based in afghanistan. we deliver justice to bin laden, and may 2nd, 2011. over a decade ago. al-qaeda was decimated. we succeeded, in what we set out to do in afghanistan. over a decade ago. and we stayed for another decade. it was time to end this war. there is nothing low grade or low risk or low cost about any war. it's time to end the war and afghanistan. i gave my word with all of my heart. i believe, this is the rate decision. a wise decision. in the best decision for

america. thank you, thank you and may god bless you all in may guy protect their choice. >> president biden today. the war in afghanistan is now over. we're going to be talking tonight with the leader of a meter veterans organization, whose members in his leadership are becoming increasingly outspoken in their support for ending the afghanistan war. frankly, they are getting increasingly outspoken about their anger with all the so-called experts who are quite wrong about the afghanistan war after all these years. but they are now nevertheless being called on to criticize president biden's decision to end the war. we have that ahead tonight, as well as that look that i promised you's turn to the very difficult circumstances in the louisiana. but i also want to put something on your radar tonight that is urgent, and potentially very very consequential. it is likely to unfold one where the other over the next 3 to 4 hours.

i don't know if you've heard about this over the course of recent days. my guess is that you may not have, because with this is, is a sort of sneak attack, in out of the blue legal quick strike, to try to get the conservative majority, of the united states supreme court, to tonight, effectively overturn roe v. wade. and clear the way for abortion bans, in republican-controlled states. and when i said tonight, i mean tonight. tonight by midnight central time. 1 am eastern. here's what's going on. three months ago, republicans in texas passed an abortion ban. republicans in state legislatures do this all the time. now they all get struck down by the courts. the supreme court decision roe v. wade, restrict states from banning abortion, in most circumstances. it's a controlling precedent in the supreme court since 1973. and at first glance, this new texas abortion ban looks like one of the many bands that republican state legislatures, half past.

which of then all been disallowed by the federal courts. because of the protections that we haven't thanks to roe v. wade. for what it's, worth the texas band says, it's illegal for a woman to get an abortion in texas, if a pregnancy is more than six weeks along. six weeks. it's well before many women have any idea they're pregnant at all. it's estimated that 85 to 90% of all abortions in texas, 85 to 90% of all abortions anywhere in america, happen after six weeks. texas is ban would render all of those illegal. as i mentioned, republican-controlled state legislatures, and republican governors, pass abortion bans all the time. now even though they know they will get struck down. some of it is just a hobby. they want to get the habit of banning abortion when they can. even if it doesn't work. they just want to be good at it. but some of it is planning. and what republicans have been banking on for the last few weeks, the last couple of years

honestly, is the three trump justices who joined the court, are now going to be enough, to collapse road, to collapse the protections that women get now under a overseas raid most of their. hopes, and their fears of the people who want abortion to stay legal in this country, have been focused on a case in mississippi, this fall the supreme court has agreed to hear arguments, about an abortion ban in mississippi, that is designed, overtly, to be a test case, for the republican appointed judges on the supreme court, to overturn roe v. wade. there's been a lot of focus on, that the arguments on that, in the ruling on that will likely be next summer. that is already looming. the very real prospect that thanks to republican appointed justice, next summer abortion could be banned, in every state, where republicans hold power. that has been looming on the horizon. but in the meantime, here's the sneaker tack.

here's what's happening tonight. texas is trying to push the ban abortion timeline, even faster. it was may of this year, when texas republicans passed their six-week ban. meaning you can't get an abortion after you've been pregnant for six weeks or more. but, even though other states have passed six-week bands as well naval been struck down, texas did theirs differently. they devised a weird convoluted system, for enforcing it. instead of saying that the state would just directly punish people, who performed an abortion, or women who get, one the new law instead, kind of takes the stay out of it. in a way. it creates instead, a weird vigilante system. whereby anyone in the country, any random anti abortion activist. any random individual, thanks to this new law in texas, will have standing to sue, anyone in texas aids or a bets a woman getting an abortion. they can sue not only a doctor,

who actually does the abortion, they can to sue anybody who works in any capacity at the clinic where the abortion happened, they can sue anybody who drove you to the clinic for your appointment, they could sue a rave counselor who advised you on your options. if you became pregnant as a consequence of rape. they could sue a priest. or any other religious advisor, who talked with you about your decision. if you talk with your spouse about your decision to get an abortion, your spouse could be sued for $10, 000, plus attorneys fees. by any random person, anywhere in the united states. inviting antiabortion activists all over the country, to figure out what women in texas, might be thinking about getting an abortion, to then hunter, down find people in her, life and start suing them. and if you get sued, by a randall, in this kind of circumstance, if you don't defend yourself in court against this lawsuit, by default, the person suing you will win the case against, you and get $10,000 from, you plus

legal fees for their attorneys. if a doctor or clinic employee does is the entity they get, sued the state will then get to use that as a pretext, to immediately shut that clinic down. what texas has devised, is it a bizarre dystopian vigilante system, for hunting women in texas, who seek abortions. a vigilante system, to effectively ban abortion, and shut down all abortion providers in the state, not to mention terrorizing women who are seeking the procedure. but they're using not the direct power of the state, instead, anti abortion activist as the vigilantes, in the state court system and their means of doing. it is weird. it is deliberately weird. and as our friend explains, at slate.com, today it is a quote convoluted system, that texas republicans devised on purpose. specifically to prevent federal courts from blocking this law. and so far, they have

succeeded. this past friday, a federal appeals court abruptly canceled a hearing on the constitutionality of this new line texas. the cancellation of that hearing, would effectively allow the law to take effect tonight at midnight. september 1st. this aggressive intervention, by the fifth circuit court of appeals, forced abortion providers to do was seems almost think bowl, they were forced to ask the u.s. supreme court for an engine jingyan in i'm urgency filing. yes the same supreme court that agreed to hear a direct challenge to roe v. wade, only a few months ago. this piece, explaining this, as sleet.com today, headline the supreme court has until midnight to decide the fate of roe v. wade. and she's right,, and it's not like the supreme court is expected to issue a ruling at midnight, this is we hear by overturn roe v. wade. they'd be shy about. that the way till the mississippi case to do that. instead they are going to take, in all likelihood, the easier

path. if they want to. they may yet grant that injunction. but if they don't,, it's sort of game, over all the supreme court has to do, to effectively and the protections of roe v. wade, to allow abortion bans to go into effect, all they need to do, is do nothing, tonight. by midnight eastern, 1 am central time. otherwise texas bans abortion, effectively starting tonight, never mind roe v. wade. joining us now is nancy northup she's president and ceo for the center for reproductive rights, it led the -- to block the texas law. just in the last few minutes they have filed a new reply, in that petition tonight, nancy thank you very much for being. here i appreciate your. time i know this is a very intense time for you. >> it's an incredibly intense. time we've been back and forth with the fifth circuit, and then going up to the supreme court yesterday.

and again just got a replay 8:00 eastern time tonight, again, working to get an injunction from the supreme court. to block this, as you said dystopian law. that will go into effect, and midnight tonight. if the supreme court does not step in. thank you for covering this, because it is a very intense news time, an important issues from afghanistan, hurricane louisiana, but this is also so critical, because constitutional rights of people in texas are in the line tonight. >> nancy. do you expect the court to do? and let me also just ask you, if i effectively explain that right. i know it's more complex than the way late it. out but did i effectively get that, right in terms of the hole that this will punch, in the protections of roe v. wade? even without --

the protections of russian to get shredded. >> i think you explained a incredibly, well texas banned abortion at six weeks, which is before most people know they're pregnant, and they decided, we're not going to enforce, it with the states power, because that's clearly unconstitutional. on these kind of tactics have been tried before, and other states, and they were shut down another, states easily, by the federal courts, they said instead, we are going to empower, people. to be able to be as you said vigilantes, who can go into court, ensue doctors, and clinics staff, sister who drive someone to the clinic, sue an island who perhaps helped fund the abortion. all of that. but again, getting an abortion, is constitutionally protected activity, a texas has said, we are going to empower citizens,

to go after others, take them to court. with a 10,000-dollar bounty. plus attorneys fees. as a way to try to prevent us from being able to sue the state and this unconstitutional ban, but the effects are going to be just devastating, if we don't get the court to step in, with an injunction, because although clinics will stay open, therefore the research six weeks it will still be legal in texas, i do want your listeners in texas did not just get up. they need to call, clinics in the morning. i want to make sure the people know, that and do that. but it is absolutely designed to burden clinics, out of business. to violate the constitutional rights of the people of texas. and to try to evade court. we've gone to the supreme court, we've asked for an injunction against this law. and if the court does what it should, it will certainly grant

us that injunction. because this is as if the state of texas denied people the right to vote flat out, and said well, we're not going to force you. will let other people in force, and stop people from voting. >> nancy you mentioned, what's happening with clinics in texas right now. there is reporting in the texas tribune, tightening the whole woman's health clinic, their facility in fort worth. among other facilities that are having a similar experience, according to the tribune, that clinic describe themselves as engulfed, with desperate patients today, dozens of patients over 100 flocking to that clinic today, because they believed it might be, today might be the last day of legal abortion access, in texas. you are saying that even if the supreme court does act, between now and midnight central time, there would be a few weeks grace period before this went

into a, fact before the law went into effect. >> no sorry i wasn't saying that. i was saying it will still be legal to have an abortion in texas, for the first six weeks of pregnancy. again that's not what most abortions happen in the state of texas, i do want people to make sure they call the clinics that they don't just despair. there may be help for them. people will have to travel out of state. in that is really tough because of course, this law will fall hardest on people who are struggling to make ends meet. people of color. people in rural areas. who may not have the means and ability to get out of states, to get the childcare, to get the time off of work. but no, this will go into effect at midnight, and you mentioned the woman's, help these clinics try so hard, and they get so many barriers, to provide care to their patients, and it is just been a horrific

day in texas today, we had another one of our clients say 50 years they had never had such a terrible day, for patients, so desperate to get in. >> nancy northup, president ceo of center for reproductive rights, again, has just in the last hours you filed another emergency request, response in the supreme court. we are waiting word from the supreme court, tonight as to whether or not this new law will be allowed to go into effect in texas. it would be effectively the first abortion ban, in the country, in the era of hero. nancy, thanks for helping us keep up on what's gonna be a long and intense night for you. >> thank you for covering it. >> okay, we have much more news ahead. either tonight. i will say, nancy mentioned this is well, there is a lot going on in the news right now. in the afghanistan story, louisiana, historian so much else we are. covering texas passed its anti voting rights bill, tonight.

there's so much, that is going on. but this issue with the supreme court, and this abortion ban, this is something that we really have never seen before. this strategy was devised to overturn row. to make it possible, for a state to effectively ban abortion. we will know in a matter of hours whether or not i succeeded. we will be right back. stay with us. we will be right back. stay with us still fresh unstopables in-wash scent booster downy unstopables [♪♪] if you have diabetes, it's important to have confidence in the nutritional drink you choose. try boost glucose control. it's clinically shown to help manage blood sugar levels and contains high quality protein to help manage hunger and support muscle health. try boost today. as someone who resembles someone else... i appreciate that liberty mutual knows everyone's unique. that's why they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need.

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war. if you are 20 years old today, you've never known an america at peace. so when i hear that we could have, should have continued the so-called low grade effort in afghanistan, at low risk to our service members, at low cost, i don't think enough people understand how much we have asked of the 1% of this country who put that uniform on. willing to put their lives on the line in defense of our nation. a lot of our veterans and their families have gone through hell. deployment after deployment. missed birthdays. anniversaries, empty chairs at holidays. financial struggles, divorces.

loss of limbs, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress. i was not going to extend this forever war. and i was not extending a forever exit. >> president biden today announcing the into the war in afghanistan and striking a tone i saw described as both defiant and vehement. i think that's fair. vehement? in response to criticism of the evacuation and the draw down of forces from the country. biden is not the first president to promise it into the military engagement in afghanistan, he's just the only one who actually did it and succeeded in getting it done. and while ending the war was clearly a difficult decision to follow through on, it was now unpopular decision. poll after poll over the past few weeks have shown consistent support among the american people for ending the

20-year-long war. also notable, support among veterans is just a strong. it's a leading poll firm found that veteran supported the withdrawal by more than 2 to 1 margin. today iraq war veteran and chairman of votevets, the veterans group, tweeted this. he said joe biden sees this warlike those of us who fought in afghanistan and iraq. he sees it as a man whose son served their. he said understands our 20 years of pan. pain. no academics or theorist can understand. today, i am proud of what the military was able to do in afghanistan. and people in d.c. don't want to hear it, but president biden, who accepted responsibility for what went wrong, deserves credit for what went right. joining us now is jon soltz,

chair of votevets. it is great to see you, thanks for making time tonight. >> thanks rachel. >> so i feel like we have known each other for a long time, john. and i feel like i have a little bit -- i slightly keen perception into your way of thinking about these things. and i was really struck by your decision today to say, you know what, i am a veteran and i am happy with this decision and president biden deserves credit for it. i felt like i perceived in that decision statement by you, exasperations, that the president has received this criticism. is that fair? >> i have been waiting 20 years for that speech today from a president. with such strong leadership. to end a war that essentially passed the ball each other, it has been difficult to watch,

for the first time, the nation has paid attention to pile on this president for, frankly, a lot of politics. maybe there were some progressives that were too quiet. it was republicans who supported this when donald trump thought it was okay. a lot of democrats supported a surge in afghanistan under obama. we have seen a president with strength to take on the establishment, to do what was right, to call the bluff on upon the scheme that we have seen an afghanistan. and do it with such conviction that he was really speaking as a father who believes his son died due to the service in iraq was astronomical. and it was defiant and incredible and it really changed american foreign policy going forward from one that was going to send american kids to fight and die in foreign countries, to one where we are more secure committed to the security of that country. two one that will fight

terrorism that as it exists. and more focused on countries like china. >> let me ask you about that last point. i was struck, and i played some at the top of the show, that bella co-'s moment from biden today. to anyone who may misunderstand, i am paraphrasing in here -- while we are going to learn the lesson, that we should not use major military deployment to try and remake other countries in our own image, anyone who misunderstands, if you seek a terrorist attack targeting us or our allies, we will hunt you down and make you pay. we will not forgive, we will not rest. and that bella coast tone from the president, that sort of seriousness or purpose, on a counter-terrorism front, while also saying, counter insurgency and occupying that country in a long term way, trying to change the country, that was wrong. but the counter-terrorism mission has a stronger focus

than ever. how did that balance strike you? particularly as a veteran and someone who leads a large veterans group? >> that's the biden doctrine. i think when people talk about his presidency, today was a clear example of what the biden doctrine is. it's a doctrine we have supported for a long time. which is we can be lethal against terrorists. we have drones. people operate them in nevada. most people don't realize, but the 82nd airborne division came from fort bragg within 72 hours. so there is a huge amount of global lethality that our military can utilize to destroy the enemy. a lot of that goes back to 2009 and 2010, inside the obama administration. stanley mcchrystal at the time was in charge of u.s. forces in iraq, and reporters pushed at obama to push the surge. joe biden was against that

surge. and a lot of what we see this week has its roots in those conversations. with joe biden delivered today was the vision that i believe he wanted to deliver in 2010, which is we don't want to put it 100,000 troops in afghanistan. we want to focus on bin laden. to be clear, if we had killed bin laden and left, it would have saved our country hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed and billions of dollars that have been wasted. >> jon soltz, and iraq war veteran and the chairman of votevets, john it is nice to see you. and thank you for your willingness to talk. i think this can be the bleeding edge of some of the discussions. i appreciate you being here tonight. >> my pleasure. >> more next, stay with us. next, stay with us it's an app that compares hundreds of travel sites for hotels and cars and vacation rentals like kayak does for flights. so it's kayak.

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today are blunt and unsparing. this is from the associated press. i'd as sweltering aftermath, no

power, no water no gasoline. here's the lafayette daily advertiser. do not return here. louisiana governor wants warns ida has destroyed credit infrastructure. here's one from new york one times, leave, absolutely if you can. jefferson parish officials, warned of grueling weeks ahead after ida. jefferson parish, borders new orleans to the west into the south. it stretches all the way down to grand aisle. which is just next to hurricane ida made landfall on sunday. in jefferson parish research and rescue operations are still underway as we speak. and jefferson parish is facing the same problem as all of its neighbor parishes. no electricity. which means no air conditioning. as he rises above 100 degrees this. week it means no refrigeration for food which quickly becomes a crisis in most homes. it also means spotty communications. there's also no running water

in most of jefferson parish because of water main breaks caused by sea remained damage, and because the search systems rely on electricity, which doesn't exist right now. more than 1 million homes and businesses remain without power in louisiana. it could be weeks before all of it is restored. and people are turning to generators for temporary sources of power, but those come of their own dangers. carbon monoxide poisoning from poorly ventilated generators, is a frequent killer in the aftermath of hurricane. in jefferson parish last, night to residents or burnings, building's burned to the ground, that's a fire the local fire chief said he was sick specks was caused by a generator. thankfully no one was hurt or killed. the new york times is now reporting that new orleans officials have not ruled out a post storm evacuation. because the aftermath is growing so dire, for residents who are still there. officials in left food parish, announced today that residents are allowed to return their,

but they spelled out in brutal detail, why they probably should, not even if they can, quote. please know there's no clean water access. there is no power in the parish. it will not be restored for sometime. nearly all communication is down. including cell phone service. perish wide. your home may be severely damaged and uninhabitable. we do not have access to food at this time. due to the amount of damage to stores. so please, bring all supplies you need, to self sustain, while you are here. that warning again today from left paris. this is a very difficult situation in louisiana right now. not clear how long things stay this way. joining us now is the director of emergency operation for jefferson parish. , mr. billion day. thanks so much for making time. i know it's a very difficult time for your parish right now. >> no problem i'm glad to be. and >> can you tell us an

overall briefing, in jefferson parish, how things are in grand isle, out things are in other communities in the parish, and whether you have definitive information about every corner of the parish, and whether that damage assessment continues? >> so, let's start with grand isle first. grand isle took the brunt of the storm. and they had a tremendous storm surge. and they had some of the highest winds they experienced in quite a while. last year we experienced seven storms, six activations. but they were pretty much all -- this one really hit his head on and did a tremendous amount of damage. we just made it to the island today. with a rescue crew, a search and rescue mission. and they reported that the island is devastated, it is totally uninhabitable, there's 3 to 6 feet of sand that was washed up, on the island. and they have no power, they have no cell phone communication. we are staging supplies now.

so we can set up for a recovery process. but that is certainly going to take a while. and also you have, -- they took a tremendous amount of. water upwards of 10 to 15 feet. although the evacuation is typically more resilient and high off the, ground there's still a tremendous amount of damage. we are staging supplies, in both areas, and we are moving forward slowly but we are weaving hampered by the fact that low water pressure and we've lost 100 percent of our power grid. so we are completely without power. that's causing issues like gas shortages, there is nowhere to buy any food, we have a large segment of the population, that did not evacuate. in so now we are struggling with exactly how we are going to deal with this portion of

the population. we are advising all residents in this parish, to seek shelter, in another state, or outside of this area. because it is going to be a while. before we can restore the services, necessary for everyday living. >> in terms of the conditions you're describing, it's just unimaginably dire. in terms of people who did not evacuate, is it your him estimation that it may have to be mandatory or not, but some sort of post storm major evacuation effort? the conditions you're describing, not only sound uninhabitable now, but they seem uninhabitable for many days, potentially weeks or months ahead. if there are people in those communities who are piecing it together, in these first couple of, days will there be an effort to clear them out?

>> to be totally honest with you, we are beginning to think like katrina. now it doesn't look like we're going to get a quick recovery, in terms of infrastructure. in terms of water drainage, sewage is a big problem for us. you can't keep your sewage lines cleaned out. we are thinking in that direction and i think the longer this goes, the high temperatures that are predicted for the next week, it will make a living conditions virtually unbearable. we have started taking special needs cases. in bringing them to a shelter where there triage, and they're being taken to a special needs shelter. in baton rouge. we're moving in that direction. but it really is baby steps because we are. on total generator power. which is very limited at this point. as to how hard we can lean

forward. and address these issues. >> the aftermath you're describing, in the kind of scale of effort that you're talking about, putting into effect now, them is going to have to be a very resource intensive effort. do you have resources coming in? do you have the right kind of communication, with not just state resources, but federal resources in terms of scaling up to do the kinds of mediation you're talking about? we're talking about a lot of people needing to be, moved and taken care of in a place that has very little resources to offer of its own. are the right communication lines open, and do you feel like you have a way to tap the resources you need? >> so, let me say from a political standpoint, the response has been excellent, we have a tremendous amount of support, from congressman carter, and from richmond, who's a major adviser for president biden.

also senator cassidy, in steve so go east was here today. they have been extremely supportive of our entire efforts. steve scalise actually brought a large megawatt generator, that will help with the sewage plant, and that particular aspect more resilient. i am truly impressed at the level of response that we have got from the federal government overall. and that goes for this state, and from the governor. i think they've been in constant communication with us on a daily basis. >> i can't tell you how comforting it did not even have to pay attention to the party affiliation of any of those officials that you are running down. hearing you've been getting support from everybody. we are so divided and so many things, but on this everybody is pulling together. the jefferson perished director,

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