down. unfortunately when we get in closer, the winds wrapping counter clockwise are coming in from the northwest. i want to go back to that picture you showed moments ago. here s the airfield and here is freeport. when you look at the eninaddition, those winds are coming in right now from the northwest, it s impeding the retreat of the water. until those winds shift and move out of the area, we re not going to see the damage on the airfield so they can get some aircraft in there. closer inspection now of the radar, still coming down in abacos island. it s the third night now in total darkness. the rain bands that were intermentent are becoming more widespread. the surge could create some breeches of the dunes, but the big fact is the carolinas. problems could happen from from around jacksonville to charleston harbor.
others are in critical condition. about 150 elderly had to be evacuated. could that happen elsewhere in jacksonville, in your district, for example? i don t represent jacksonville but i m right there at the southern border of that. that can happen anywhere and that s the thing that we all have to work to prevent and by bringing everybody together, everybody on the same page, we can prevent that. what happened in hollywood was a very tragic situation and we hope that s not repeated and our hearts and prayers go out to those people and those families. a very tragic thing. and, you know, let s not repeat that. let s learn the lessons for that and make sure it doesn t happen again. sure. let me quickly turn, congressman, to some other news. the president, as you know, dined last night with democratic leaders at the white house and they may have come up with a legislative deal on immigration that would allow the 800,000 or so dreamers in the united states to stay while adding money
was advised by his own family, his daughter ivanka, not to get out of the paris climate agreement earlier this year. he did that. the president re-empathizing he s not changed his view on climate change. he remains skeptic on climate change. jim acosta, thank you. republican congressman ted yoho, thank you for joining us. let me get right to your district in northern florida around jacksonville. how is your district recovering? we ve toured the district all day today. it s recovering. there s a stellar effort by everybody on the ground and i m happy to report that all six of the counties in north-central florida got individual assistance where people can qualify for $33,000 of assistance, public assistance and hazard assistance. in gainesville, my hometown was
look at these preliminary state snow records for the month of may. rice lake, 17 inches in wisconsin. i d be impressed if it was january. blooming prairie, minnesota, osage, iowa, 13 inches, all records for the month of may. as you said, even in arkansas, it s snowing a little light snow this morning. severe weather threat also today but limited. usually you d want this over in the plains states. but look where it is today, around jacksonville, and not even a tornado threat. it s more heavy rain and we are going to see some isolated strong, gusty winds. for the derby today, boy, it s going to be close but i think we re going to get at least some rainfall as it is starting to creep slowly toward the north and just to the east now but heaviest rain showing up off to the west if you are traveling on in and plenty of moisture here in the southeast. it is rainout theater. georgia, alabama, central tennessee, with flood watches up and heavy rain in the forecast with this slow moving system t