you also have the know-nothings which held a convention nominating john bell of tennessee and everett edwards of massachusetts. >> guest: that's correct. the democratic party was really split in three. you have douglas as the predominant democratic candidate but then these other two union parties, more conservative and different aspects. that's one of the reasons why lincoln was able to win the election. because of the split. >> host: what was the final vote count, do you remember? >> guest: it was enough at the very end what lincoln was afraid of was new york with its electoral votes went for douglas. there were a lot of irish-catholics in the city, a lot of conservative merchants in the cities who wanted to keep trading with the south, didn't want slavery to be such an issue, and they did yeoman work in new york even though he was told, he said until i hear new york's totals because if he he's

my mother who is in louisiana talked to me the day after john bel bell edwards won in a red state. they thought he was going to lose. my mom said she could not go to a red light, a car wash, the walmart, the supermarket, anywhere she was going, without seeing an aka or a delta sigma theta, alpha kappa alpha handing out pamphleti, signing people u to vote for john bell edwards in a red state. kamala harris will have that army behind her and i think people are underestimating it. if you don't believe me, read the article in "usa today" that talks about her secret army, the one most people aren't even thinking about. angela rye. >> yeah. so she referenced the divine nine as well. for those of you who do not know what don is talking about, we are talking about the power of black fraternities and sororities. absolutely, that is the case. i, also, don't want us to mistakenly believe that the black base is monolithic and that all is one at this convention. there are a whole lot more people today, who were more excited than yesterday. i'm one of them. but i think there's still masom miles

well, while we -- governor john bell edwards there of louisiana speaking to the president.ear him, and we'll let that happen. meanwhile, let me give you a little bit of an update on what the president said to those first responders and crews on the ground thanking them, speaking with them, hearing what they need, also there are politicians from the area there at the firehouse in lake charles, and the president is listening to their explanation of what happened. the president said he visited with the cajun navy relief center and got an account of the damage from them as well. he said that he signed a major disaster declaration to help the local businesses piecing back together. currently you've got 180,000 plus residents without power, and that is top of the list in terms of getting those folks back to starting to recover. the president also vowing to supply green, which means money, to the folk of louisiana. he says that they're good people, they're strong people, they never complain, he's there to help, and he's always had a good relationship with the man speaking right th

reporter: while people start to survey the damage and start picking up, louisiana governor jon bell edwards told me and reminded us we are still in a pandemic and he wants people to keep their guard up so they can people to keep their guard up s, llank you. now to the heartbreaking story of that 14-year-old girl killed overnight by a falling tree. it happened in the city of leesville, louisiana. that's about 100 miles inland from the coast. cs' jonathan vigliotti spoke today with her family. >> reporter: as hurricane laura barreled down central louisiana, cynthia miller was doing what she loved most-- reading. >> she was really smart. she wanted to go to, like, harvard or ivy league and she wanted to be a marine microbiologist. >> reporter: cynthia, her two sisters and her parents rode out the hurricane in their home. their town of leesville was not under evacuation, and mom and dad thought it would be safe. >> it was scary. it was dark. it was terrifying. there was rain, wind everywhere. it sounded huge. we were in our parents room, and everyone was sitting in there, red the tree it came d

to say, on i want behalf of the extraordinary governors, governor bell edwards unfortunately could not join us. and on behalf of the viewers and constituents, folks who really wish we had you as our leaders. thank you for everything you do every day to make our country stronger, better, and kinder. thank you to everyone watching. and thank you to governor phil murphy for letting me guide the conversation. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] >> created as a public service and brought to you by your television provider. on june 15, i became the 75th postmaster general. believe theause i postal service plays a tremendously positive role in the lives of the american public. opportunityme the because there is an opportunity for the postal service to better serve the american public. and operate any sustainable manner. congress established the postal service to provide prompt, reliable, and universal postal services to the american publ

[screaming >> wheezy anna governor john bell edward said the storm is the strongest to hit his statement did not sustain the catastrophic damage that had been forecast parties joined at the briefing by other state officials. >> good afternoon and thank you for being here this afternoon. we have our usual lineup today the officials here today with m me. chip klein is going to speak in just a moment. he is of course chairman of the cpra he will talk about coastal flooding we have secretary of department of transportation and development, shawn wilson who will speak in a little bit on roadways. and then we have fire marshal butch browning who is here to answer questions that you might have about the fire at the chemical plant and west lake. and obviously you can ask questions of any of the officials here. first of all it is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute catastrophic damage that we thought was likely based on the forecast we had last night. but, we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage. we have thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens who lives or upside

. >> reporter: louisiana governor jon bell edwards said it was the most powerful to strike his state.as lee cowan reporting. the clean-up comes as louisiana marks 15 years since an even more deadly storm came ashore, hurricane ka treen aip. the recovery from katrina took years but taught some valuable lessons to the volunteers who are working to rebuild after this latest storms. michelle miller has the story. >> we just started three year until dollar campaign to rebuild houses. >> reporter: when we first met zach rosenberg and his wife, the st. bernard project had rebuild homes in the new orleans area. >> it was like the field of dreams. you build it and it would come. volunteers start it is killing out of the woodwork. >> one, two, three, welcome home! >> svp, as it's now known, has helped rebuild more than 2500 homes and the mission has expanded. >> we just built the first netzero apartment building, solar panels powering batteries and 50% of the units are for veterans. >> reporter: rosenberg said everything changed after meeting world war ii vet edward lee. five years ago we met t

louisiana governor john bell edwards describes it this way, the state could be looking at a right hookrom marco, a left hook from laura. marco has lost a bit of steam but we are in danger of the storm hitting us a few hours from now. laura just seems to be getting stronger, 11 are dead in haiti and the dominican republic, laura hit cuba very hard, forecast to gain strength as it goes over the bathtub warm waters along the gulf. to prepare here, the national guard in louisiana is laying sandbags that weigh tons, doing anything they can to block the storm surge. residents are doing everything they can to prepare for the double storm. >> we don't know what to expect, you know, i mean, is it going to be a catastrophe or just a lot of rain? >> it seems to be moving pretty quickly. it's not that strong, so hoping it's a rain event, power stays on. >> reporter: that's what they're hoping for marco. laura we probably won't be that lucky. the governor saying we may have 12 hours to maneuver in between the two storms. todd and jillian, back to you. jillian: caroline, thank you very much. now let

so you look at louisiana and i have such a regard for my neighbor in the south, governor john belle edwardsthey had a shutdown and they peaked and came back and now it's going to be peak again even at a higher level. the economy and people cannot be shut down for that long. so it was the right decision and we are dealing with what every other state is dealing with, which is this virus that is almost unpredictable. it spreads in unique ways and while we know that we need to have masks, that we need to socially distance, we are going to be dealing with this for some time so you can't shut down the economy. i did put in a mask mandate and, of course, most important about that is that people imply with it and we are trying to make sure everybody does, but that is a challenge in and of itself. but we have got to take on two emergencies here. one is the virus and our public health emergency. the other one is the economy. >> real quick. does that mean you won't -- >> you have to move and you have to go back to school. >> real quickly. that means you won't shut down bars and restaurants? >> no. our

. >> john bell edwards warning to prepare for unprecedented event, back to back hurricanes.a tomorrow. we are expected to feel the winds and rain as early as overnight and then tropical storm laura is expected to strengthen and hit southern louisiana in this state on wednesday. as a result the governor is really warning louisiana ns to prepare for at least 72 hours because back to back storms there won't be enough time to restore power in between and emergency services to respond. listen. >> i want to be very clear at the outset, these storms are not to be taken lightly. you should be taking today and making sure that you and your family are fully prepared and that wherever you are, dark to night, where it gets dark you need to be prepared to ride out these storms. reporter: all of this as louisiana and rest of the country is dealing with covid-19 pandemic which is affecting everything, longer lines, the stores are following social distancing rules and gillian, the cdc for everyone to pack to go masks with masks and hand sanitizers as people go away to be with family as stor

governor john bell edwards warning louisiana people to prepare to be indoors for at least 72 hours withhese back-to-back storms. the reason is is that emergency services will unlikely be able to respond and power restoration yous will also unlikely be able to -- restoration crews will also unlikely be able to respond given how closely these storms are forecast to hit the state. >> i want to be very clear at the outset. these storms are not to be taken lightly. you should be taking today and making sure that you and your family are fully prepared and that wherever you are, at dark tonight, when it gets dark is where you need to be prepared to ride out these storms. >> the national weather service warning of heavy rainfall and flash flooding. waters that are unlikely to recede before tropical storm laura is expected to hit on tuesday night, complicating matters is covid-19. people are trying to make their last-minute preparations while also trying to abide by social distancing guidelines. >> already bad enough so one more thing is just not ideal. pots and pans to collect the water, but we

. >> governor john bell edwards says the storm surge was half the height of the two-story wall of water in earlier predictions. a relief for inland communities relying on rivers to carry excess rain water to the gulf. >> it's all about lowering the levels of the vermilion river. if these levels can stay like, this we'll be okay. the further it rises up, the smaller the capacity is. that's a concern for our region. >> after touring hurricane damage in texas, governor greg abbott said he's state dodged a bullet but he promised relief to those affected as well as on going search and rescue efforts. >> we'll continue the process until we know for a fact that there was no person who is unaccounted for. >> governor abbott says texas has one unconfirmed fatality. even if that turns out to be the case, he says this disaster could have been worse for his state. he credits prayerbret? >> jonathan serrie live. thank you. president trump received a storm update a few hours ago. tonight the president will deliver his official renomination acceptance speech laying out his plans for a second term. say

louisiana's governor john bell edwards warning people to be prepared tonight to ride out the storm. hurricane marco is expected, its impact to be felt overnight into tomorrow. the governor really warning people that for the next 72 hours they need to be hunkered down. power restoration crews and emergency crews will likely not be able to respond and that's because tropical storm lawyer walaurawhich is also to expectee a hurricane will be following closely behind and that's created an unprecedentedded situation in this state. thereon the governor. >> so the geographic proximity of the storms pose a challenge that quite frankly we've not seen before and as a result, we don't know exactly what to expect and i guess you never know exactly what to expect. but this is a very serious situation. >> reporter: they expect hurricane marco to bring on some flash flooding and storm surge and a lot of that stuff may not recede in time for when the next storm hits so that's creating some complications. further complicating everything, of course the covid-19 pandemic, people making their last minut

they will be in there very quickly, very very quickly, and i spoke to governor john bell edwards alsoiana, and i've informed him and at his request also, a major disaster declaration is signed and ready to go. we have everybody ready in puerto rico, the gulf coast, louisiana, and also on the forest fires in california, so we have a great team. unfortunately we have some very very powerful natural disasters. on the therapeutics front, this is what i have been looking to do for a long time. this is a great thing. today i'm pleased to make a truly historic announcement in our battle against the china virus that will save countless lives. the fda has issued an emergency use authorization and that's such a powerful term, emergency use authorization for a treatment known as convalescent plasma. this is a powerful therapy that transfuses very very strong antibodies from the blood of recovered patients to help treat patients battling a current infection. it's had an incredible rate of success. today's action will dramatically expand access to this treatment. and i want to thank dr. hahn and s

after that louisiana governor john bell edwards will talk about the impact of the storm on his state.he will be briefing reporters in baton rouge. >> weeknights this month we are featuring booktv programs as a preview of what is available every weekend on c-span2. starting at 8:00 pm eastern we begin with historian a day bayne on the 1940 presidential election discussing his book dewey defeats truman. >> enjoy booktv on c-span2. booktv on c-span2 has top nonfiction books and authors every weekend, saturday at 8:00 pm eastern, binge watch programs with christopher hitchens whose book include no one left ally 2, the missionary position in the trial of henry kissinger. on sunday at 9:00 pm eastern on "after words" yale university professor edward ball on his book life of a klansman which looks that white supremacy through the lens of his great-great-grandfather, a member of the ku klux klan post-civil war louisiana, interviewed by the author and georgetown university professor of law, civil rights and social justice. at 10:00 pm in her book how i lead, susan eisenhower examines the leade

the process, however, that i've asked for is for both secretary bell of education and secretary edwards of energy to reorganize, to produce the most effective streamlining of the department of their departments that they can. in education, to look at the appropriate role of the federal government in education, if there is one. and to report back. and then we will decide on making our recommendations. much the same thing holds true with the department of energy. the reason for this being that while they were new cabinet level agencies, they incorporated government functions and programs that had been going on in them when they came under that umbrella. and we have to find out which of those functions that have been a federal government function continue and where they would best fit. but yes, i'm determined and i believe that it was wrong to create the two agencies to begin with. >> mr. president, during the campaign your chief spokesperson put you on record as favoring for the time being continuation of the dairy price support level. within the last couple of days your budget director a

approving a major disaster declaration for the state of louisiana, at the request of governor john bell edwards that means resources and money. louisiana needs both at this hour. president trump: i've spec spoken to all of the governors and we've worked everything out for the federal government to be very very efficient and be very aggressive in getting everything back and going and going as it should. >> reporter: now crews were on the scene of a chemical plant, massive chemical plant, neil, in west lake, louisiana not far where the president will land today that fire now under control. it was a direct result of the storm the company made chlorine for swimming pools. now the president is going to land in louisiana and head over to where we just saw our colleague, charles watson, in texas and come back to louisiana before coming back to the white house, neil i have to point out today is august 29, 15 years ago today, that's when hurricane katrina made landfall. 15 years hard to leave but a difficult day in louisiana, commemorating that anniversary, also dealing with hurricane laura. neil? neil:

governor john bell edwards says laura could be the strongest storm to hit here since 2005. >> this has potential to be strongest hurricane to hit since hurricane rita and it happens to be taking at least, for now, a very similar track to hurricane rita. so we should all be very, very careful. reporter: people are taking the governor's warning seriously. folks are boarding up windows, laying sandbags, making sure they have essential items they need before laura arrives. forecasters say the storm will bring several inches of rain and hurricane force winds. there are more than two dozen jack wages orders in -- evacuation orders in flood-prone areas. the region could see life-threatening storm surges anywhere between two and 11 feet. >> well laura comes in, at a cat-2 and we're on a eastern side of it, it hits west of it, like they're talking about doing at lake charles, you know, we're going to be on the wetside. not only the wet side but on the tidal surge side. reporter: laura has left its mark on the caribbean killing at least a dozen people including a young girl in haiti. the storm c

bell." we start with fox business team coverage. jackie deangelis is watching the markets, edward lawrence live in d.c. jackie, kick it off for us. reporter: everyone was watching the close very carefully to see which records we get and don't get. the dow had its best august since 1984, even with that 227 point loss that you see there today. now the s&p was vacillating between positive and negative territory. it is ending there with a eight-point loss. by my count that makes it the best august since 1986 which is pretty good as well. looking at nasdaq ending in the green up by 79 points today. let's look for the month overall here. not just for the day. that is where the numbers are really outstanding. you can see across the board gains more than 7% for each of the individual indices, dow, s&p and nasdaq. what happened this month? well it was technology, it was the consumer stocks. it was, you know mix of these kind of propelling us forward. this was not a typical summer where investors sold went away. no, they actually reinvested in equities as we started to reopen the country an

bell." nasdaq is about 2% away from record territory. blake burman at the white house. edward lawrence in washington. we start with blake, with the latest from the president. reporter: the white house is acknowledging that it might take some time to get federal unemployment benefits out the door going forward. the executive order from the president $300 from the federal post, the states matching $100 if they are able to. some state governors mentioned they can't. in any event the white house is working on this issue. in the interim, they are hoping that democrats return to the negotiating table. >> i can't pinpoint a timeline other than we're working around the clock. we urge democrats on the hill to come back. secretary mnuchin is willing to review any proposal because the american people deserve better than the games and partisanship they have seen from nancy pelosi and chuck schumer and their democrat colleagues. reporter: now the president also took action suspending some collection of payroll taxes and deferring some payments of student loans. when it comes to those payro

edward stringham, american institute for economic research president. we have jessica tarlov with us, fox news contributor and last but not least, connell mcshane. connell, i understand, the big cheese with the "after the bellng else, everything was hunky-dory but your power went out and you were unable to make it to air so it's interesting how i orchestrated that, isn't it? >> we have now gotten the list of suspects. this was yesterday at 3:57 p.m. i'm working out of this beautiful home studio and all of a sudden, all of a sudden the power's on all day with the tropical storm coming up the coast. two to three minutes before air, blackout. you say well, who's on another network at the same exact time that might stand to benefit from the power going out. so we're looking into it. investigators don't want to leap to any conclusions. so far, everything looks pretty good today. neil: all right. we can pull the plug on him now, guys. all right. i'm not minimizing it. the battle back and forth over i think it's come down to those unemployment benefits, so i think, they will stay around. i don't know if they will be at $600 a week. that's doubtful. but they will stick around. i'm wondering if that is an acknowledg

edward bell has therefore initiated a pen pal service encouraging people to write to the area's pensioners. to go back to the basics of receiving a letter, it's wonderful. it's that anticipation of when it's going to arrive and what they are going to say and sharing information in a way which none of us do any more. it's got a telescopic sight... after our last report, ron kant was teased. i had kids saying, you know, you're film star! all that old cobblers! but the 84—year—old has gained a new friend, a pen pal, after a viewer wrote to him. i'm well pleased, to be honest with you. i really am. the gun enthusiast misses his bowls and friends, but is stoical about life. sometimes i do a bit of drawing. i like model aircraft out of balsa wood, things like that. and clean my old guns up, go out in the garden. the reopening of pubs and cafes hasn't made much difference to most people here. and their concern is another spike, forced to spend more time at home. it is worrying, isn't it? there are a few cases down here. so, i don't know how bad it is, though. you wouldn't fancy another lockdown,