Part, start with you, ambitious nineday trip covering five countries, the three largest religions, what do you make of its scope . I think its a great scope. The kind of trip you should do. Ashame he has to do it to get back some of the momentum. But i think he will. You can see the hand of people like general mcmaster as well as the president. Theyre thinking broad, thinking strategically, theyre thinking about americas alliances and how to position ourselves in ways that help us in terms of security but also economics. So i think its a very good thing for the president even if it comes at a difficult time. Charles gina, some are saying maybe it comes at precisely the right time, getting away from the u. S. Press allowing agenda to breathe while he makes new friends and strengthens relationships abroad. The man knows focus, charles. Lets look at the history he has. Hes run a business, there have been constant distraction, he knows how to deal with the distractions and this is part of
We begin with rob in morgan city. Rob. Reporter hey, charles, if you can hear me there, i dont have isp, i hope you can hear me, but were in morgan city, louisiana. Ive lost my earpiece out here in this nasty storm weve got here. Still barry is a Tropical Storm at this point here in southern louisiana. It could become a hurricane here at any minute. Were about 75 miles east of new orleans which is where a lot of the attention for this storm has been because it is a lowlying area, very populated area. But here just to west is where were really getting hammered. Were not too far away from the storm which is making its way onshore. Were here on a lake which looks like the gulf, its just getting pounded so hard. The waves are high, and this is usually just a flat lake that you can ride your boat around on. Not today though. Here in morgan city weve seen gusts at about 55 miles an hour, sustained winds a little lower than that and a lot of pounding rain as these outer bands and now a little