lieutenant general russel honore will join us.ut first to jessica layton, who is standing by with the other big stories we're tracking this hour on msnbc. jessica? >> thanks, juliÁn, police in las vegas are it that we get in the killing of an investigative journalist. there jeff german was a writer for the las vegas review journal. he was stabbed outside his home and they say altercation late friday led to that stabbing. police have also charged a man with the apparent disappearance of a memphis teacher and billionaire areas. elijah fletcher went for a run friday morning and never returned. 38-year-old cleo that abstain is now facing charges of aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence. fletcher has not yet been found. and in northern california, firefighters are up against a pair of big wildfires there. thousands are under evacuation orders tonight. overnight, the mountain fire grew to 6000 acres. meanwhile, the mull fire has burned more than 50 structures. an extreme heat wave in that region is fueling those flames. more

geoff: lieenant general russel honorÉ, it's always good to speak with you, sir. r your insights. lt. gen. honorÉ: god bless jackson. god bless america. ♪ geoff: it's an often invisible part of poverty in america -- the high cost of diapers. even though more than five million babies and toddlers across the country live in loincome families, most government programs don't provide diapers or funding to purchase them. correspondent ali rogin looks at how some some families are coping and how some organizations are stepping in to help. ali: it's drop-offime at jubilee jumpstart, a childcare center for lower-income families in downtown washington, d.c. kia ross, who works at a different ec -- different d.c. school, has a busy day ahead. so does her one-year-old son, azai. doing his daily reading, eating his steps in and climbing the corporate ladder. but no mattewhat azai gets into or on top of, he'll be clean and healthy, thanks to a precious, increasingly expensive item provided here for free: diapers. how much peace of mind does it give you when you know azai has the

lieutenant general russell honorÉ, former joint task commission to katrina. to discuss the latest trump developmental why member of her former party, and the gop, actually, are calling out president biden over his soulful nation address. plus, by which again republicans are afraid to even elect their fellow citizens vote on abortion and have a might succeed on blocking the vote on a technicality. another hour of velshi begins, right. now. hey, good morning. it's saturday, september 3rd. happy labor day weekend to all of you, i'm ali velshi. this weekend, we've got a much clearer picture of what the fbi seized from mar-a-lago last month. on friday, a federal judge unsealed the justice department inventory lists, which lays out just what the fed seized from the ex florida residents and golf club. according to the 11-page inventory, there are 27 boxes containing more than 100 classified documents. some of them located in a room referred to as trump's 45 office. at mar-a-lago, the rest found it a nearby storage room in the club. but why maybe of more interest as

general russel honore, people know you from having been in the middle of that. talk about just the level of government sort of intersectional cooperation between the state and the federal government that is critical and crucial to doing this right. >> yes. on any given day, a storm like this could break and overmatch the state's capacity. it can overmatch the federal government capacity. and we have to work in harmony. and we put a lot of money into federal government to help the states respond when they become overwhelmed. and by the fact the governor asked and the president has declared this a major disaster, and fema is already sending into region four, with the governor from atlanta to florida, joining a very experienced team in the state of florida who since andrew has a mark point, another one was wilma, and another was katrina, have developed procedures. all the governor has to do is read the script, and he's doing a darn good job of doing that right now. they have procedures in florida to protect the people as best they can from a storm this magnitude. b

lieutenant general, russel honore', i am before you joined us tonight.ppreciate. >> good evening, the navy's onsite, the cajun navy is moving right now for rescue. >> god bless the cajun navy. thank you, general. coming up, former fema administrator craig fugate is here on how difficult it will be to get up to people who did not evacuate. the exact kind of people russel honore'was just talking about. and later, why this storm is moving so slowly and what makes that so dangerous when the 11th hour continues. hour continues i'll pick this one up. i earn 3% cash back on dining including takeout with chase freedom unlimited. so, it's not a problem at all. you guys aren't gonna give me the fake bill fight? c'mon, kev. you're earning 3% cash back. humor me. where is my wallet? i am paying. where is my wallet? i thought i gave it to you. oooohhh? oh, that's not it either. no. no. stop, i insist. that was good though. earn big time with chase freedom unlimited with no annual fee. how do you cashback? chase. make more of what's yours. moderate to severe eczema st

russell honore live with us. >> announcer: the facts, the truth, the news with shepard smith, back in 60 seconds. >>> the strongest ever it broke all the rules we have been here a really long time. >> and it could be weeks or even months before we know the true extent of the damage from hurricane ian. authorities in lee county where the storm made land fall have released no information at all about injuries and fatalities. but president biden is promising floridians they have the government's full support. fema officials briefed the governors today. biden told supporters he's spoken with governor ron desantis several times all about getting florida the resources it needs >> we're going to do our best to build florida back as soon as possible we're going to build it back with the state and local government however long it takes, we're going to be there. that's my commitment to you. >> national guard reports more than 5,000 troops are on the ground in florida now. ron desantis says about 42,000 line workers are trying to get the power up and running and according to fema, they'ver desan

thank you. >>> i want to bring in lieutenant general russel honore' who served as commander of jointkatrina. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. let's start there where morgan left off. the absolute devastation of sanibel island. the only thing that we could really compare that situation to is some of the destruction that we saw back in the keys a few years ago after a hurricane hit there. also to a certain extent, cutting off some of the access to the keys. all that being said, as you're taking a look at the devastation there, the difficulties that lie ahead, especially in getting folks back and forth, getting resources to them, what are your biggest concerns? >> well, to be able to complete the deployment of all of the search-and-rescue teams and to get the national guard in there with the search-and-rescue teams because 700 we were able to rescue yesterday were the ones that were easy to find, yasmin. that work is going to get harder. as we found out in katrina, we found a lot of elderly, disabled, and emotionally poor people alone at home. most of them elderly. an

here to discuss is lieutenant general russell honorÉ, he was commander of the joint task force that respondedthe response to the twin disasters of hurricanes katrina and rita in 2005. what does that experience tell you about what's happening right now in jackson in what must be done to in this water crisis. >> while number one, keep people alive and keep them healthy. they have the right person in there in terms of fema administration, and at the request of the governor, they have a quick turnaround any presidential declaration which opens in top federal government to do everything they can to provide safe drinking water for the immediate needs, then to find some sort of fix to the water supply systems so that people have safe water. most of us look at clean drinking water as a human right, but much of our water systems if we're going back decades needed to be repaired in replaced. this water system is inside of a flood zone, anytime we get high-water in jackson, the water cleanly station in sewage station in jackson floods. this is a multi-decade problem that hopefully and this administratio

we heard russel honore say yesterday, you read the script.ge of disaster recovery. this is going to become a federal issue. those of you who have not lived in florida don't understand, a lot of people buy their homes and get hurricane insurance. it's not flood insurance. this was not a windy storm. this was a rainy storm. this was a floody storm. you have a lot of stagnant water that is destroying property right now. people are going to have to go to fema. people are going to have to go to the feds for that money. when ron desantis was in congress and you guys were in congress, when he was a tea party freshman, when new york and new jersey faced the exact same tragedy, i mean, literally the subways in new york were flooded, people could have drowned in the subway, when ron desantis had the opportunity to make that decision and say, well, should the people of new york and new jersey who were hit by a catastrophic hurricane, they weren't even used to, he said no. that shouldn't happen. he, marco rubio, and other tea party members of senate and

honor financial commitments. in fact, what i would argue is it creates havoc. the havoc can be enormously difficult to address. i'm going to pose these questions in particular. thank you, ms. russellfor being here. i want to say that my life has been spent on championing small businesses because i agree with your testimony. you are the economic engine of this nation and i want to recite, 32.5 million small businesses and growing, and particularly women-owned businesses, although they've been affected severely by the pandemic, and 61.2 million people. give me your sense of havoc being created by a debt ceiling on average working americans, and my time is short, so if you can be set synced so i can -- can be succinct. ms. russell: we have to remember that businesses are made up of people, who make up communities, and communities are made up of his noses, so we are all in the ecosystem. when one element, we keep talking about one little piece of something, this piece of something impacts the entire ecosystem of small businesses. if i'm not going to work, my cleaners won't have payment, my coffee shop is not to have payment. the place where i would take my child isn't going to have pa