that is all in for this tuesday evening, the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening rachel. good evening chris, thank you my friend. much appreciated. happy to join you this hour. president biden was in new york and of hurricane ida hitting just those two states. that extreme flash flooding that tore through the most populated part of the country last wednesday night, president biden today meeting with local officials and local residents about the ongoing cleanup efforts there. president biden was in louisiana on friday where 400,000 americans are now in their second week without power amid extreme heat in louisiana and extremely challenging conditions, conditions that get more and more challenging with each day passing with the power still not returned. reviewing the damage today, president biden said, quote, the evidence is clear. climb change poses an existential threat to our lives,
reviewing the damage today, president biden said, quote, the evidence is clear. climb change poses an existential threat to our lives, to our economy. the threat is here. it s not going to get any better. the storms are going to get worse and worse and worse. we have to listen to the scientists and the national security experts. they all tell us this is code red. the nation and the world are in peril. that is not hyperbole, that is a fact. president biden speaking today, again, on this trip to new york and new jersey. what, of course, he s proposing to do on climate is what s in his build back better plan, the big infrastructure bill that democrats are trying to pass. one thing to sort of have in mind over the next few days is that by the end of this week, we may not know definitively, but we should have a pretty good idea by the end of this week as to whether or not they ll be able to pass this infrastructure bill, as to whether or not president biden is going to be able to effectuate
in their second week, without power. amid extreme heat in louisiana and extremely challenging conditions. conditions that get more and more challenging, with each day passing. with the power still not returned. reviewing the damage today, president biden said quote, the evidence is clear. climate change poses an existential threat to our lives to our economy. the threat is here. it s not going to get any better. the storms are going to get worse and worse and worse. he said quote we have got to listen to the scientists and economists in the national security experts. they all tell us this is code red. the nation in the world are in peril. that is not hyperbole, that is a fact. president biden speaking today, again on his trip to new york in new jersey, of course what is he proposing to do on climate, is what s in his build back better plan. the big infrastructure bill. that democrats are trying to pass. one thing to sort of have in mind over these next few days,
0 that is all in for this tuesday evening, the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening rachel. good evening chris, thank you my friend. much appreciated. happy to join you this hour. president biden was in new york and of hurricane ida hitting just those two states. that extreme flash flooding that tore through the most populated part of the country last wednesday night, president biden today meeting with local officials and local residents about the ongoing cleanup efforts there. president biden was in louisiana on friday where 400,000 americans are now in their second week without power amid extreme heat in louisiana and extremely challenging conditions, conditions that get more and more challenging with each day passing with the power still not returned. reviewing the damage today, president biden said, quote, the evidence is clear. climb change poses an existential threat to our lives, to our economy. the threat is here. it s not going to get any better. the storms are
nine people died, including children. other parts of the midwest, and thousands of people are still without power. it hasn t even been two week s since a giant tornado ravaged moore, oklahoma. last night, people had to run for cover again as tornado si n sirens blared. one town that is dealing with a lot of damage today, ed laven r lavender, what s it like there on the ground? reporter: okay. here we go. this is an area where one of those 17 tornado that is touched down in the state of oklahoma made its way through here yesterday. came up this way and ravaged this neighborhood. these are homes that were damaged. this is an area that was highly affected by the amount of traffic and the amount of cars that were on the roadway.