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okay? so, and this storm is not even going to have it name anymore but the fact that it s going to bring 4 to 6, even 8 inches of rain in a very short period of time that is going to be a huge story. steve, ainsley, brian. steve: and that is headed this way. ainsley: that s thursday? janice: wednesday into thursday. yep. steve: thanks, j.d. joining us on the phone is louisiana congressman steve scalise. congressman, good morning to you. good morning to you all. steve: looking at what happened in louisiana over the last 24, 48 hours. the good news is the levees held unlike screen. the bad news is you have got a storm parked over you with 125 mile-per-hour winds for five hours. you are going to lose your power. and now you have got a problem with the infrastructure. so, is it going to be a couple of weeks before people get the juice back on?
people don t have any power and won t for at least days or weeks. ainsley: that s so frustrating when you are without power. especially if you have waters in your living room. our hearts go out to all the people there. and we appreciate the prayers. look, you have already got a lot of are faith based organizations. i know i was on the phone yesterday with folks from samaritans purse bringing in relief supplies to hardest hit areas. some people sending in relief supplies. we appreciate that. and we appreciate the prayers, too. steve: congressman steve scalise, we know you have a very busy day today. you have your hands full as everyone does down in louisiana. sir, thank you very much for starting your day with us. thank you, god bless. ainsley: thank you, you too. steve: 20 minutes before the top of the hour. americans are demanding answers over the president s botched withdrawal from afghanistan. how is it impacting our standing on the world stage? former state department spokesper
weeks. what are they going to do in the temperatures are going to be really hot. it s terrible. any way you look at it there are the rainfall totals, new orleans over a foot of rain. parts of louisiana, you have close to 1 inches. and then we had that wind gusts of 172 miles per hour where we had the landfall in port fourchon. devastating. several reports of tornadoes and damage. that s what happens with these landfalling tropical systems and then the flooding. this is going to be as i mentioned yesterday part 2 of this storm. even though it doesn t have a name anymore. it s an area of low pressure it s going to bring tremendous amounts of rain to areas where we have already seen incredible amounts of rain like tennessee last week 17 inches for them and look at how much we are going to get. 3 to 6 inches of heavy rainfall across very populated neighborhoods, so, this is going to be a big deal as well, the ground cannot take any more rainfall. so this is, you know, a devastating story,
addict to get away from the floodwaters. others got on top of their roof just praying for a rescue. despite it being so tough out here, people who call louisiana and mississippi home, remain resilient. adding stress to an already stressful life. we love it down there and we want to stay. we will rebuild. now, with no electricity obviously businesses are not open. so the potential for looting is very real. the mayor here saying that we will lock them up. so far a few arrests but we do have teams out here with the police department that are cracking counsel on that as we speak. back to you. steve: all right. jeff. thank you very much. brian: i want to check in with senior meteorologist janice dean for the fox weather forecast. slow moving storm it? is and devastating to think that these people could be without power for weeks. i don t know what they are going to do in new orleans. that is terrible. i mean, it s one thing for a couple of days for a couple of
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