should investigate the welfare of the senior citizens? they say they don t want a blame game, but it s in full force tonight, anderson. and how are things tonight in new orleans and the rest of louisiana? if you talk about the city of new orleans, they re getting better. 70% of the electricity by this evening is expected to be restored. and they hope to have most of the power back by wednesday. but elsewhere, still about half a million people without electricity. and in many of the sort of rural or more distant parishes it s going to be problematic because where the power lines have come down it s so remote they re going to need boats or airboats to get in to find those systems. so, that s why they re saying not until the end of the month for power for them. there are grocery stores open today, more gas stations that have gasoline. the hospitals are up and running, and the national guard is handing out food, water and ice. so, it s improving, but there s still a lot of suffering go
fox news getting an up close look at the crisis at our southern border running a ride along with border patrol chief who says drug cartel and human smuggling are driving the search of micro crossings. jonathan live in laredo. reporter: the rio grande river is right behind me, is just 50 yards away. the river here is just a few inches deep, it s easy to cross. the only way to patrol it is on airport. we did get a ride along with a crew operating one of the airboats as they scoured the mexican side of the river for any would-be illegal immigrant trying to cross. we talked to the chief of the regular laredo sector, efficient and organized the gains are in
to stash houses run by human smuggling gangs. take a look at the video of one of the stash houses. we are told by border chief here that they have uncovered more than 250 such stash houses, just over the last year. that is a far higher number than the year before, hundreds more likely go undiscovered and they cram in dozens and dozens of migrants into the pretty squalid conditions of the stash houses. we talked to the chief as we rode along with him on one of the airboats to patrol the rio grande here and he talked about the sophistication of these smuggling operations. listen here. everything is all human smuggling driven by cartel and alien smuggling organizations, so nobody that comes here is giving themselves up to agents. everybody here is running. when we encounter them, it is a foot chase on the ground. it s a vehicle pursuit, you know, from us or from our
get themselves out, but the sheriff s department is here, national guard is on the ground, they are taking boats out, they are checking many of these houses, some of them on stilts, so they are all good. i spoke to one resident who came down here because her parents are actually stuck out there. they have never seen water come up that high in lafitte. they lived 30 years, john sandra, and she s making sure t. she said that they could last for about a week there, even though they have taken water, they are on stilts. but you just see the airboats waiting to come in. i was in the command of the booth earlier watching some of the jefferson parish officials look at the maps of the area. this is essentially the bayou, swamps, so they are looking for a way to come through. this incredible amount of rain and wind come everybody went for it yesterday. a full force and effect, and
ground. the airboats have to go across the roads and stuff. we also have no place to bring people. water is real tight. there s no water anywhere. so supplies are going to be a really challenge here coming up in the next 24 hours. and so where are you taking people? that s a good question. we happen to have volunteers coming behind us in cars and bring them. just wherever. we are trying to find churches and parking lots. one of the biggest problems are the people we re rescuing, their phones are either dead because the batteries are dead. there s no phone service. they can t get in touch with relatives or anything to pick them up. we have a major problem today with volunteers taking people we rescued and trying to get them to where they need to go. do you get a sense that people were prepared for this storm? i don t get a sense that people were repaired for the intensity of the storm. i think that none of us expected this storm, especially to be such a strong category 4 for six