host: our guest is craig fugate eight, a familiar face here. the former administrator of fema, we welcome your calls and comments. those in the eastern and central time zones are 202-748-8000. that is the eastern and central time zones. mountain and pacific, 202-748-8001. and, if you have been impacted by hurricane katrina, the line is 202-748-8002 -- i said katrina, hurricane ida. the line is 202-748-8002. my apologies, i am getting the phone numbers mixed up. if you were impacted by hurricane ida, the line is 202-748-8002. certainly, it is not just the new orleans and mississippi and that region, now along the east coast and new england will be affected by the rain let this storm is bringing. it did not bring as much rain as an -- as expected to parts of the south but bringing more than expected to parts of the appellations, the central part of the u.s. and up into new england by tomorrow and the next day. guest: this storm is not over, and if you look at the national weather service they have a concern about heavy rain and flooding and -- in

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host: our guest is craig fugate eight, a familiar face here. former administrator of fema, we welcome your calls and comments. those in the eastern and central time zones are 202-748-8000. that is the eastern and central time zones. mountain and pacific, 202-748-8001. and, if you have been impacted by hurricane katrina, the line is 202-748-8002 -- i said katrina, hurricane ida. the line is 202-748-8002. my apologies, i am getting the phone numbers mixed up. if you were impacted by hurricane ida, the line is 202-748-8002. certainly, it is not just the new orleans and mississippi and that region, now along the east coast and new england will be affected by the rain let this storm is bringing. it did not bring as much rain as an -- as expected to parts of the south but bringing more than expected to parts of the appellations, the central part of the u.s. and up into new england by tomorrow and the next day. guest: this storm is not over, and if you look at the national weather service they have a concern about heavy rain and flooding and -- in pen

. >> i want to welcome in craig fugate here. the craig, good to he soo you. thank you for being with us on this holiday. the in southern louisiana, the good news is the levees held. the bad news among other things, power grid really got decimated there. and few people are more knowledgeable than you are about how to respond to these type of things. how would you assess everything eight days in? >> well, we're about where i would expect us to be. and this is the hard part. search and rescue is complete in louisiana. it is getting the power back on. that is going to drive a lot of the response outside of the areas where you had significant damage to homes and businesses. the devastation on that one scene is across much of the state closer to the gulf of mexico. those areas are going to take years to recover from. >> and in an interview with "the washington post," you said you never seen a summer with this many crisis. you give some concrete examples of what we need to change. you say coastal cities should develop alternative evacuation plans and build comfortab

host: credit for gait, -- craig fugate, we a >> the household that security committee holds a committee to look back at the 9/11 terrorist attacks and how the nation responded in the aftermath. live coverage begins thursday at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> today, jen psaki gave an update on the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. sec. psaki: hi, everyone. good afternoon. ok, just a couple items for you all at the top. another update on the hurricane, the continuing focus on the ground is on power restoration, as nearly one million customers in louisiana, more than 40% of the state, remain without power in the middle of a heat advisory. while progress has been made in mississippi since yesterday, 30,000 customers there still do not have electricity, and power restoration in parts of louisiana could take weeks, as crews assess the full extent of power system damage. to help accelerate these efforts, the president spoke with ceo's of the largest energy companies in the gulf coast yesterday and committed the full weight of the f

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