not cairo i always his frounds from from the yazoo. mr. bears. >> thank you so much. >> [ applause ] >> always a pleasure being down to where we are today. down to longwood university to talk about the raising of the cairo. now, if you want to find out how to raise a vestal you will not do it the way we do it. when i arrive at vicksburg on a -- in 1966 i entered on duty at vicksburg. and after i had been there about a year the superintendent called me in, mr. mcconhi. and say, ed, i want you to see if you can find the gun boat cairo. it was one of 7 casemented city series ironclads built by the united states. and i said, yes i would be interested. and -- and i knew the vestal under fire we he she sang. i knew a fixed location of where she sank was roughly 20 miles north of vicksburg. soy immediately started asking locals. and i go up to a bluff. and i said i think -- do you know where the cairo is? and they say it's right down below you. i wonder, have i been wasting my time? and i told the local yokels, that is a raft that the the kfrts pl

we've had, for example, in the yazoo backwater, a mandatory evacuation notices since march so we hopewarn everyone stay off the beaches, for example. don't think you can go out there and have fun because the waves are high and the wind is blowing on the beach. stay off the beach. don't travel if you don't have to. for certain do not go into standing water, turn around and don't drown as we like to tell people, to remember that. so, yeah, it is-- we've lived through katrina. we've lived through hurricanes before. we are probably as best prepared as any state could be for this. we're looking to the west at our neighbors in louisiana, i talked to the governor the day before yesterday, john bell edwards there and let him know whatever assets we have, to share we would. i've talked to the governor of florida. all of us in the southeast are prepared for this. we've hardened this target here on the mississippi gulf coast, much of the structures are 20 feet off the beach in the air so if we get a 6 to 8 foot surge we will be able to manage that, and we will continue life as it is on the beaut

the country that are suffering from flood damage. so if you are waking up this morning in say hamburg, iowa or st. charles county, missouri or yazooor many, many months. we know we have a lot of work to do to help these communities get back on their feet. stuart: well, major general, thank you very much for that update. >> thank you for having me on the show. stuart: joe biden rolled out his health care plan today and has a big price tag. ashley: $750 billion over ten years. interestingly, all the other candidates in the democratic primary, and the presidential race, have made a call for medicare for all. that would completely do away with the affordable care act. this is actually just building on the past aca, to be honest with you. it does help bring down premiums. it does not do away with private health insurance. but it does expand areas of medicare and it's not cheap, as you can see. $750 billion. it's a middle of the road plan as compared to the far left who say we should have a single payer government-run system. stuart: it's in the middle of the debate. ashley: it does bring back penalties as in the old obamacare, if you d

the yazoo river when the mississippi floods backs up into the delta. as a result, we put down a floodgate, and that is designed to keep the flooded yazoo river from backing up into this fertile farm land, and we have given a promise -- or at least we thought we had a promise to people living above -- with property above 87 feet above sea level, that when the floodwater behind the floodgate reaches 87, we would start pumping and pump that water back into the mississippi river where it has a minimal effect. this gives certainty. we know there is going to be a flood. people with property 87 feet above sea level and below know that they're going -- there is going to be flooding. but the promise of the pump is if you have land above 87 feet, you can build a house there. you can put your business there. you could plant your crop there and be certain that we get the same protection from flooding that everybody else up and down the mississippi river tributary system gets. that's the promise that everybody else gets but has been foreclosed to us. and so i congr