corp. of engineers to dig bigger channels and salt water intrusion got worse. the corp. of engineers said they have to build speed bumps to stop that salt water from coming in. they thought they might have had to do it every five years. they had to do it every other year because the mississippi is so low right now. right now it's affecting a couple thousand people in the south there, but it doesn't just affect drinking water. it affects barge traffic again. last summer the price of shipping a bushel of soy beans went up 300%. now they have to move millions of gallons of fresh water to keep diluting the saline. they have maybe bottled water ready. a lot of people taking that step. rushing to the shelves, empties stores. new orleans officials saying don't do that yet. the folks down south, they need that bottled water. a lot to think about for the next month. >> people always prepare once they worry something may be headed their way, even if they don't need to. bill weir, thank you so much. it's very alarming. jim? >>> years after the start of the pandemic some people are s

engineers are working to increase its height by 30 feet. we're about 20 miles south of new orleans in black aman's parish and this is where the army corps of s is adding to their sill. they're taking silt from the bottom of the mississippi river and then stacking it over here to form a higher barrier to try to slow down the saltwater. >> if you get this barrier higher up, how much time do you think that buys you? >> 10 to 15 days. >> reporter: so far, the dense saltwater has moved about 70 miles upriver. it's predicted to hit bell chase in southern new orleans by the middle of next month. solutions include using barges to ship millions of gallons of water to treatment plants or tapping into other water resources upstream. donald link co-owns several restaurants in the big easy. he's already inquiring about water tanks. >> i'm not just going to sit here and hope. hope is not a plan. we're going to get ready for it and hope that it never happens. >> reporter: the underwater battle is having ripple effects on boat traffic. parts of the mississippi river behind me will go down to one lane for big boats, and that's going to slow down the shipmen

army corps of engineers is building that underwater sill. >> this is designed to slow it down >> reporter: there is no mistaking the mission of the u.s. army corps of engineers install a wedge up the mississippi river. but that task is a steep one >> what's been happening lately, we haven't had enough flow from the mississippi river coming downstream to prevent the saltwater from coming upstream >> reporter: prompting them to install a sill or levee 30 feet bolo below the water's surface. >> so all of this swork essen work is being done to protect water upriver. >> reporter: it's important to remember that while all this work going on behind me is important, it only buys us time. what we really need to solve the problem is prolonged rain upriver. >> without a major tropical system, without the situation changing in the basin, this may and more prolonged event >> reporter: meaning other mitigation measures are needed the corps's goal is to barge in 36 galmillion-gallons of freshwe every day. >> i can tell you, there's daily coordination meetings. we have been participating in the meetings,

engineers are working to increase its height by 30 feet. we are about 20 miles south of new orleans in parish, and this is where the army corps of engineers isl. they are taking silt from the bottom of the mississippi river and then stacking over here to form a higher barrier to try to slow down the saltwater. if you get this barrier higher up, how much time do you think that buys you? >> 10-15 days. >> reporter: so far, the tenth saltwater has moved about 70 miles upriver. it's predicted to fit belle chase in southern new orleans by the middle of next month. solutions include using barges to ship millions of gallons of water in treatment plants or tapping into other water resources upstream. donald link company owns several restaurants in the big easy. he is already inquiring about water tanks. speak are not just him to sit here and help because hope is not a plan. we are going to get ready for it. and hopeful that it never happens. >> reporter: the underwater battle is having effects on boat traffic. parts of the mississippi river will go down to one lane for big boats and will slow down the important shipment of grains and soybeans. but i

credit of your guys, not including everyone else’s credit, and not excluding, of course, the corps of engineersof work in preparation. in this case , a defensive operation. well, in general, during the entire special operation. only the russians, it turns out, were so buried, so mined , so complex, they underestimated us, probably we didn’t think we didn’t expect this. well, here i will say this position. well, now sulin is just an engineer, but here, in general, another president has been involved. and avtodor and moscow moscow region, in particular. here along the border of this bryansk belgorod kursk region there seem to be minefields. well , everyone should know what’s difficult and be able to explain that it’s not. here the ukrainians complained that we couldn’t allow russian minefields to enter, and nato members taught them. what are they studying there? they, you go around them with all the questions, which, in general, and, probably, has become for them surprise. firstly, we have increased the depth of usefulness quite seriously and we are covering all anti-tank mines, therefore, well,

army corps of engineers was repositioned before the storm to support power restoration and they brought in generation -- generators to -- there's also a great deal of work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure that the electric grid can be mainstreamed to -- so people can have access to power after the storm and one of the benefits to the people of florida, during the obama-biden administration, we spent money to harden the grid in florida by putting in stronger power poles and smart meters on the power poles, sucking the president referenced let -- yesterday, which has enabled florida -- i want to mention the pre-positioning of critical supplies including 1.3 million meals and 1.6 liters -- 1.6 million liters of water. the red cross is our critical partner and they pre-position resources to support set -- sheltering for up to 20,000 survivors and that may not be necessary but we know there are thousands of people in shelters as of this morning. the calculation -- evacuation -- evacuation orders have been lifted as of this morning so people can go to their homes and we have approved

so they came up with this idea, the army corps of engineers, and they would build sills to stop the saltwater which is denser than fresh from coming upstream, and now for the first time ever, they have had to rebuild the sill in back-to-back years and the projection to do it every five years we can manage it, but now the drought is so bad, that the army corps of engineers says that they need 10 inches of rain to beat back the saltwater. >> we know what happens with the saltwater, and corrosive pipes that are old, and we know what happened in flint with the lead poisoning issue, and that is scary, but it is not just about water, but food, too. >> yes, one every five bites comes from the mississippi river, and so, coming down with the barges and we saw the wrecks of the civil war being exposed from the drought, and the one bushel of soybeans going up 300%, and you will see it in the grocery bill, and the army corp not just dredging to make room for the ships to make room for the commerce dredged up, but they are bringing in billions of dollars of freshwater to combat. >> and so, water, air and

credit of your guys, not including everyone else’s credit, and not excluding, of course, the corps of engineerse , a defensive operation. well, in general, during the entire special operation. only the russians, it turns out, were so buried and mined , so complex, they underestimated us, they probably didn’t think or expect this. well, here i will say this about the positions of roads and moscow, moscow region. narrow areas, well, seemingly mineable fields, but everyone should know what is difficult and be able to explain what is not. here the ukrainians complained, they said, we can’t do russian minefields. let nato members teach them. what are they studying there? they're the ones you drive around. well, taking into account all the questions, which, in general, probably came as a surprise to them. firstly, we have increased the depth of the minefields quite seriously and we cover all anti-tank mines with anti-personnel ones, therefore, well, i don’t underestimate the sappers of ukraine, they are quite good sappers a couple of years older than me and you are afghanistan found, but as privates.

. >> reporter: with the help of army corps of engineers repair to the pajaro levee system . epairs are underway. one of many working on the project. >> what they are doing is removing at least 400 feet of temporary cell that they put within the levy system to plug the hole that was created in march. so they are removing this material. they are going to use that material to up some of the scour that was created as a floodwater flowed across the agricultural fields here. then they will be bringing in new material to rebuild this levee system and make it very firm and strong. >> reporter: thousands of people in nearby town of pajaro were flooded out of their homes when the levy failed. now many of those residents are back but worried it could happen again. that is why the state is rushing to repair the damage before this next rainy season. and help quicken the process governor newsom send the order allowing workers to bypass some of the regulations normally in place for such a job. then across county supervisor was -- santa cruz county supervisor was one of those pushing. >> the

the environmental protection agency and there's some shared statutory authority with the army corps of engineers, the fact that the case involves, the epa, rather than the army corps or vice versa, is not going to stop the justices from asking you. you all sorts of questions about that i mean, you know sometimes you know, they will you know you know essentially i mean i think we argued a case where you got asked by one of the justices, you know, is is that the state department's position? i mean, you know, you get asked like you are expected to know kind of all of this and and in some ways incredibly daunting. but in some ways when one of the really glories of the office is you get a new case, you sort of, you know, call in the expertise across the entire sort of federal and you bring it into room and you get the benefit of all of those kind of different sort of, you know, agency is in their expertise. you know, i one anecdote i think we're not in the war story part of this but i'd add one anecdote where you know i was arguing a case the sort of jurisdictional reach, the clean water act and just

army corps of engineers is planning to barge 36 million gallons of fresh water daily into water treatment centers, hoping mother nature lends a helping hand. >> i happen to be one who believes in the power of prayer. i'm going to ask for people to pray for rain, but we're going to do everything we can to make sure that we're bringing every resource to bear that is reasonably necessary to help us deal with this challenge. >> joining us now is cnn chief climate correspondent, bill weir. look, i'm just going to ask the obvious question here. why is this happening? >> this always happens, actually. because saltwater is denser than freshwater. so you've got the mississippi coming down into the gulf of mexico. here's what it looks like underwater here. and saltwater is coming in from the ocean. the mississippi as it gets lower and weaker, which normally holds all of that saltwater back, isn't doing the job. so they have to construct a sand sill to halt this saltwater as it moves up. and you can tell how fast it's moving. it's so defined, the tow of this thing. you can see when it's going to hit

in a private practice, they don't ask you and there is shade statutory authority with army corps of engineers the fact that the case involves the epa rather than the army corps vice versa is not going to stop the justices from asking you all sorts of questions about that, sometimes, we are getting case but you got asked by one of the justices, is that the state department's position. you are expected to know all of this and in some ways it is incredibly daunting but in some ways what are the glories of the office when you have a new case you called an expertise with the entire federal government and you bring into one room and you get the benefit of all of those different agencies and their expertise. i have a one antidote where i was arguing a case to the clean water act and justice khalil was all over me about the ridiculous position of thehe united states that even the ditch was covered, i was able to tell them only because the guy in the army corps of engineers named lance would that i was able to tell justice khalil antonin scalia the erie canal is a [bleep] we think that is navigable to

we have mitigation programs in the corps of engineers and hud and department of agriculture and many others. we have explicitly wrote a change in the law that said that duplication of benefits with corps of engineers programs does not exist. meaning you can pay for it, but i've watched were fema has refused and said you could not provide funds to record project in the 7001 report. yet you have had a situation where washington, d.c., has funds from tree equity, and portland has gotten funds or similar programs. why is it that if the forest service is going to fund urban treeplanting, fema will fund it ? >> i do not have the specifics. i will be happy to follow up with you. >> the chair will recognize mr. stanton from arizona for 5 minutes. >> thank you for allowing me to participate in this subcommittee discussion. communities along the southern border are on the front lines of an ongoing humanitarian crisis. right now federal migrant holding facilities overcapacity. last week dhs began to release migrants on the streets of small , rural arizona communities like nogales and douglas, ar

by my dear brothers in the ministry of defense. that in aerospace research fortunately, the corps of engineersen very successful in every recent launch, and in the future, these engines will launch many satellites into space. qased satellite is now playing on my pictures. yes, qased satellite. now i will explain to you from the pictures. if you enlarge them , you can see the pictures. these are actually the cameras placed inside the satellite itself, so now the engine of the first stage is turned on and it is actually moving away from the ground and passing through the clouds and reaching the satellite up to an altitude of 70 km. his speed changes from that, sardar yes, and now, i will show you in the scene that if you get there, the cameras that show it are moving away from the earth , moving away from the clouds, and there is a satellite that has actually found the necessary qualification, which fortunately we after this, we can take this satellite into the production process. now, the engine is actually the first stage is still working . this satellite can now launch satellites under 50 kg

the environmental protection agency and there's some shared statutory authority with the army corps of engineers, the fact that the case involves, the epa, rather than the army corps or vice versa, is not going to stop the justices from asking you. you all sorts of questions about that i mean, you know sometimes you know, they will you know you know essentially i mean i think we argued a case where you got asked by one of the justices, you know, is is that the state department's position? i mean, you know, you get asked like you are expected to know kind of all of this and and in some ways incredibly daunting. but in some ways when one of the really glories of the office is you get a new case, you sort of, you know, call in the expertise across the entire sort of federal and you bring it into room and you get the benefit of all of those kind of different sort of, you know, agency is in their expertise. you know, i one anecdote i think we're not in the war story part of this but i'd add one anecdote where you know i was arguing a case the sort of jurisdictional reach, the clean water act and just

we are doing something very similar with the army corp of engineers looking at the shoreline, what is the alignment of the shoreline and what are the investment opportunities that we see over the coming decades. high level. there is a error on the slide. we have 7 embarcadero early projects through pre-design. they are circled in the dotted red lines on this slide. we are looking towards a potentially a geographic strategy to advance 5 more in the northern waterfront between pier 19 and 41 and then looking to collaborate with either development partners, port tenants, city departments on 7 additional projects. we are now advancing two projects in the southern watt rf front that are early projects. you just heard about the pier 50 project and there is projects at pier 94 and 96. in terms of long-term adaptation planning, we are working with the corp to develop a system of coastal flood defenses through the study we are working on right now we are really looking at the location of those potential flood defenses and the height of them. we will get into design later after congress approve

developers background and this is someone who has lost even if he's not harmed and the army corps of engineersim, questions about the properties he owns in the quality of properties, it's another grifter off the system finding a way to sell something and when you dig into the backgrounds of the stories, you should look at the people doing this. they are getting paid by the administration and other groups with massive contracts, they fill hotels for this guy, dig a little deeper. i found lawsuits from 2021, 2019 and more so an illegal blocks. where's the police? was the emergency plan hold? all the things that have to be in place. permitting, zoning, all the things you need to develop property. >> even the media admits there's a problem at the four. look at this headline from the new york times. they are saying permanent migrant crisis and a quote that says fundamental problem facing the administration on the southern corner where every attempt to get ahead of the extraordinary numbers trying to cross or claim asylum has been overwhelmed. even they started to acknowledge this. i want to listen

to slow down the salt water intrusion, the army corps of engineers plans to add 25 feet to an underwater levy in the mississippi. officials warn that the region needs 36 million gallons a day. >>> climate change is a major focus for delegates in new york. and one idea, swapping foreign debt for sustainable climate solutions. >> reporter: what do climate protesters in new york and british royalty have in common? a series of unprecedented natural disasters this summer, from cyclones in brazil, to floods in libya, lead to a tradition of sustainable practices. and the general assembly is a big topic. middle income countries like colombia, are wanting to swap for debt. the idea presented by the colombian environmental minister, is for institutions to pay back debt, to nations that will redirect the funds for conservation projects and renewable energies. >> we would need to invest three-points or four points of gdp annually in climate to fulfill the promises we make. and we're all investing 0.16%. >> reporter: colombia will need to plan for relocating communities that are affected by climate c

army corps of engineering is barging in 36 million gallons of water daily. listen to this.te the prank here. a 21-year-old ai start-up founder and 65 of his friends staging an elaborate prank in new york city this weekend. they tricked foodie into thinking they received invitation at a 100-year-old chop house. 140 diners showed up. there was a bogus wedding proposal and servers carrying jugs of milk. not everyone was amused with one couple threatening legal action. april fools. >> steve: early, indeed. hilarious. thank you. meanwhile, more than three million american children and their parents risk losing crucial child care services when federal funding expires this saturday and cost of child care crippling american families, it costs more than college tuition in half the states in the country. fox business host larry kudlow served under president trump, good morning. >> hi, steve, how are you? >> steve: doing okay, a bunch offish parents are sweating, we are heading toward child care cliff. they hope congress will come up with money to pay for child care. >> listen, i hope

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the army corps of engineers in terms of any shoreline at damage, restoration, dikes that were breached. it's in all of government both federal and state efforts to recover from these big storms pay to have the president making sure that us all working together. his team making sure it's all working together. we had the go button every single year perimeter of the governors team is all over it. anita: no doubt there certainly are a lot of moving parts behind the scenes when something like this happens, no doubt. we note right now the president is taking an aerial tour. there certainly is widespread destruction as you might expect from a category three hurricane. thankfully the death toll was low. what are you hoping the president will do when he gets on the ground and meets with people? what are you hoping the prespresident will be able to do there? >> the good news is the people of cedar key and the big event are feeling this right now. it's the most's popular part of the state in terms of a property and individual damage. i think with these people are going to want to hear is that the

don't know because the construction authority as my example wasve taken away and gin to the corps of engineers because of construction missteps in the past by the va. so to take it away from the va so some other organization would be responsible for i.t. so the va could focus on health care. how do we get va focused on 100,000 people who are falling through the cracks and how to be focused? >> i think that would be a mistake. that software is built in tight cooperation with stakeholders and the people who the suffering of people will build it. >> i suspected that would be your answer in my second real quick question i'm not an i.t. guy. i've used the term all of these things that seemeh to disappearo you have the cash system where were they still bear or are there some we don't know about? can you find everything eventually or are they gone? >> i can answer that representative. we have a log of all of the form submitted on va.gov which allow the two instruct those claims. even the ones who were not dealt with? >> that's correct. they were category of claims that were delayed because of a techn

it was taken away and given to the corps of engineers because of construction missteps in the past by the va. taken away from the va so that some order organization responsible for i.t. that va could focus on healthcare. how do we get va focused on 100,000 people who have fallen through the cracks? how do we focus you? would that do it? >> i think that would be a mistake. it is built that mike did not take corporation between the stakeholders, the people using the software and the people building it. >> i suspected that would be your answer. my real quick question. i am not an i.t. guy. i will use the term -- all of these things seem to disappear. did you have a cash system, where they still there or they disappeared in the ethernet somewhere we don't know about? can you find everything eventually or are they gone? >> i can answer that. we have a very good blog with all the benefit forms that was committed on va.gov which is allowed us to reconstruct the claims . >> even the ones that were not dealt with? >> that is correct. they were delayed due to the technical issues. we do have al

. >> reporter: with the help of the army corps of engineers, repairs to the river levee system damaged by last winter's storms are underway. the executive director of the regional flood management agency is one of many working on the project. >> what they're doing is they're removing at least 400 feet of temporary fill that they put within the levee system to plug the hole that was created in march. they're removing this material. they're going to use that material to fill up some of the scour that was created as that flood water flowed across the agricultural fields here. then they're going to bring in new material to rebuild this levee system and make it firm and strong. >> reporter: thousands of people in the nearby town were flooded out of their homes when the levee failed. now many of the residents are back but worried it could all happen again. that's why the state is rushing to repair the damage before this next rainy season and help quicken the process, governor newsom signed executive order allowing workers to bypass some of the regulations normally in place for such a job. sa

we have resulted programs, mitigation programs inn fema, corps of engineers, department of agriculture in no and many, many others. we have explicitly wrote a change in the law in 18 it said that duplication of benefits with corps of engineers programs does not exist, meaning you can pay for it through hmp g. yet i've watch where fema has refused and said that you could not provide funds to a core project that was in the 7001 report. i will make will make note does not meet its funded. yet you've had the situations were washington d.c. has gotten funds for poultry equity, i don't know what the hell that is. got money for tree equity, meanwhile portland has gotten funds through similar programs. so why is it that if force services is going to find treeplanting how come fema willl funded as will? why is that a duplication of benefit? >> i don't have the specific -- >> could you give us an answer? >> i will follow-up. >> thank thank you mr. grav. the chair will recognize this tristan from arizona for five >> thank you very much, madam cn the subcommittee discussion of great importance and

new orleans mayor latoya cantrell assigned an emergency declaration the army corps of engineers planso bring 36 million gallons of fresh water per day by barge into the lower mississippi. there is a disturbing story out of florida police found a monster alligator with human remains for the gruesome discovery made in a residential area just south of clearwater. senior correspondent steve harrigan has more on this, steve? what's arthel this all happened on friday in largo, florida just outside of tampa small town where people are used to seeing small alligators. sometimes in the park, and the lake around them. this time is a 14-foot long alligator moving slowly through the canal with what appeared to be half of a human corpse inside its jaws. it created alarm in the neighborhood. some people want to the fire department to seek help. others began rolling video on the phones. >> is on my way to a job interview i was looking to the lake for fish and stuff and i spotted the gator and a nose had a body in its mouth the lower lower torso once i saw that he rents the fired apartment got them t

the mayor, signing an emergency declaration as the army corps of engineers has planned to barge 36 millionallons of freshwater daily into the lower mississippi river. this is the second straight year that climate change has made the river drop so drastically, and it has made less resistant to the salt water that is coming in from the gulf. joining me now is cnn's chief climate correspondent bill weir is. here. obviously they're trying to fix, this, what is their plan to fix this? >> they're building a still underwater. a couple years ago, we lower the mississippi river, which means a lot bigger ships can move up and down it. but a lot bigger threat for this to happen. as a result of this, incredibly high record high here. mississippi isn't -- should be running 300 cubic feet per second, less than half, that it can go even lower, as the stroke continues. and it doesn't just threaten water systems, because they don't filter it. if it gets in the pipes, its lead pipes, it is about 50,000 of those in new orleans, it can cut loose heavy metals, make a toxic as well. people won't accidentally po

. >> reporter: with the help of the army corps of engineers, repairs to the pajaro river levee systemast winter's storms are underway. mark strudley, the executive director of the pajaro regional flood management agency, is one of many working on the project. >> what they're doing is they're removing at least 400 feet of temporary fill that they put within the levee system to plug the hole that was created in march. so they're removing this material. they're going to use that material to fill up some of the scour that was created as that flood water flowed across the agricultural fields here. and then they're going to be bringing in new material to rebuild this levee system and make it very firm and strong. >> reporter: thousands of people in the nearby town of pajaro were flooded out of their homes when the levee failed. now many of those residents are back but worried it could all happen again. that's why the state is rushing to repair the damage before this next rainy season. and to help quicken the process, governor newsom signed an executive order allowing workers to bypass some

last week the army corps of engineers removed a water permit that they gave just four years ago. he ep committed this for the first time ever in the history of this country. mr. curtis talk about western states, i want to add these days as well. this is happening in minnesota and other states. they would rather push this agenda and allow american people to live free. as government expands, the contract. as governors, you are seeing that in perspective states. i believe another rule and a tool for this administration to assert control and take away our land for the people of this nation. mr. gordon, the testimony you shared with lack of stakeholder input the biden administration considered, if the blm listens to your constituents, what do you think they would have heard on this president so-called conservation police on federal leasing? with a fear leases with conservation leases or utilize conservation leases strategic logoff for pended activities? >> thank you, mr. chairman and representative, very good question. it is interesting no one thought to have a field hearing anywhere n

last week the army corps of engineers removed a water permit that they gave just four years ago. he ep committed this for the first time ever in the history of this country. mr. curtis talk about western states, i want to add these days as well. this is happening in minnesota and other states. they would rather push this agenda and allow american people to live free. as government expands, the contract. as governors, you are seeing that in perspective states. i believe another rule and a tool for this administration to assert control and take away our land for the people of this nation. mr. gordon, the testimony you shared with lack of stakeholder input the biden administration considered, if the blm listens to your constituents, what do you think they would have heard on this president so-called conservation police on federal leasing? with a fear leases with conservation leases or utilize conservation leases strategic logoff for pended activities? >> thank you, mr. chairman and representative, very good question. it is interesting no one thought to have a field hearing anywhere n

that in order for texas to install the buoys, they should have gotten permission from the army corps of engineersent opposed the buoys, indicating some of them were in mexican territory. we know the decision has been made and texas has to remove these buoys. the judge also said that texas is not allowed to place other objects in the water. so for now as we saw governor abbott has responded indicating that they will continue with this fight. of course, he's talking about taking this to a court of appeal and he says he's willing to try to go to the supreme court if that's necessary. >> all right. live from miami for us, thank you. >>> the border crisis also front and center in new york city. officials say more than 10,000 migrants are arriving each month and today the city welcomed more than 19,000 of their children for the first day of school. many of the kids do not speak english yet. now the city is scrambling to hire bilingual students. some schools had to turn away some of the children of asylum seekers today. mayor eric adams has repeatedly asked the administration to step in and help with th

at the waters coming, i have learned that joe riley often talked to the engineers, the army corps of engineers in eighties and nineties who were warning about sea level rise and really refused to talk about it in public and to do about anything about it in public for a long until almost the end of his time in office. so those are two small examples of political that tie together. what can he do and what some interventions that would be effective in turning the tide so speak. well let me tell you what's going on in charleston. it flooded 89 times in 2019 and 70 times in 2022. it used to flood maybe four times a year when people like jack was a kid. water rising very quickly. look at the washington post yesterday. big piece about that. water is rising at twice as quickly as the rest of the global along the southeast and the gulf coast. in very short order, there will be three additional feet of sea level slopping up on charleston, which is unbelievably low. most the land in right next to the city is at ten feet above sea level or, less so a high tide plus, maybe a little wind blows that water up

i'm telling you, she got briefed by the army corps of engineers, then sue other supervisors. are bayer chill tackle and our congress are mike thompson. we were just all completely blown away by what a great advocate she was and then how she what the working got money for this project, which i'm sure guys know is the hall of our 4. you know, the just rehabilitation of downtown napa. you know its say it's funny. you mentioned about, you know, her grasp of the details because we've been hearing that over and over for mothers to about how >> come and grab she had of the details of whatever topic they were talking to her about. and i get the sense that if anybody was going to approach or to ask for anything or to debate her on anything, they better done their homework before they came in the room. >> oh, without a doubt back at her office in dc a number of times over the years as a county supervisor. and that's what i would. you know, what i was doing when we're doing the flood control project and all tell the questions that she would bounce back. we were on our toes. we went when

army corps of engineers actually built an underwater barrier sill to create a basin, but the intrusione over that barrier last week. they now plan to expand it in hopes of slowing things down. there is also minimal rainfall in the forecast for the area which is desperately needed to protect the water supply that so many families and businesses rely on. gio? >> gio: so important, lionel. thank you for bringing that to us. >>> time for the weather. let's go back to somara theodore. it's going to be a soggy few days in the northeast. >> somara: oh, ophelia, that's right. take a look. we still have alerts in place because of ophelia. it's been an active morning. lots of flooding. that's a big issue. coastal flood alerts into maryland, ocean city. you could see a high surf alert stretching from long island into new jersey there. still some flood alerts off the east coast of north carolina. now, if you look in the tropics, we're not done yet. we still have tropical storm philippe. right now that is strengthening as it continues to move out. it's looking like a fish storm, but we're also trac