this video from cnn affiliate wdsu, shows thousands of people lined up for food and water in the hard hit saint charles parish. my next guest is the president of la fuch parish along the coastline, archie chassen, thank you so much for joining me. you have said you estimate about a quarter, one in four of all homes in the parish along the coast there were completely destroyed. another 50%, some damage, that is three quarters. du do you know how many lives were lost and how many are still missing? so, good morning, thank you for having us this morning. we have zero reported fatalities. we have just about completed all of our search and rescue missions and we have zero fatalities which is an awesome thing. we do have complete devastation over the bottom third of our parish. we have sustained winds for 12 hours upwards of 130 miles per
we gave people enough warning to try get out and make the point this was going to be a serious storm, it was going to intensify into a category 4 yesterday afternoon and you saw the mandatory evacuations and the curfews. we have 50,000 people still there who haven t evac kuwaited. archie chassen, good luck to you today and to all of those people as well. thank you for joining us. thank you so much, guys. still head, an air strike waiting game. president biden warns of another attack against a group who killed 13 of our service members. on u.s. soil we wait for had their remains to return home. we re learning about some of the service members, one of nicolle gee s final pictures holding a baby in her military uniform, the caption read, i love my job. she was one of two women to die on the front lines. sergeant gee was just 23 years old.
i m joined by the parish president archie chassen. tell us how you re preparing. you have shelters, i know. i watched one of your videos that you posted on facebook yesterday really telling people what to do. you guys have two shelters set up at two local high schools. last resort shelters. you say this is going to be like the hilton, you need to bring food, water, something to sleep on. have you seen a lot of people entering the last resort shelters? good morning. we have. we have about 200 people in both of those shelters combined and we saw a lot of them. we are getting calls from people figuring out if there s still time to get there. our mandatory curfew went into effect 6 p.m. last night. we have buttoned up our flood gates, closing the last set late last night in anticipation of the storm arriving. we re starting to feel the effects in lafourche and the weather will deteriorate as the