is that the disincentive truly for people not to go back to work? we will explore that next hour. i wonder if the fed really had its fingers crossed when they said insulation was just transient. people in the middle, and they are the ones that elect presidents in midterm election coming up, but democratic party is really concerned about the type of rhetoric coming from the far left. and the white house is silent. texas governor greg abbott saying he continues boarding building the border wall while griff jenkins now with a firsthand look at the escalating crisis. i hope you re not in the river again, griff. piggy i am on dry land, john, and let me tell you, the news about the texas governor building his own wall is welcomed here. let me show you, take you to the drone up in the sky the situation here. you have old wall built under president obama in 2014 and then small sections of new ward, 30 feet high being built under
you have a lot of areas along the northern part of lake pontchartrain. to give you some perspective of how large the lake is itself, let s show you fox news drone video. they put the drone up yesterday when it wasn t too windy and it wasn t raining. this gives you a sense of what we re talking about, this birdss eye view, in terms of how large the lake is, how many communities are around it and how high the water levels are and this is without a significant storm surge and also without all of the extended rainfall that is expected over the next 24, 48 hours. we want to take you to another problem spot, video out of mirromyrtle grove, louisiana. we understand that spot, in addition to a location called point celeste, there are images of water overtopping a levee there. it is not a breach. it is not a mississippi river
12,000 homes along both sides of the river in fayetteville alone. one other thing to show you here is that streetlight. the water has been rising against that. that should be at the base of a boat ramp where the ground usually is. now it s 20 or 30 feet over its banks. we have a drone up over the person street bridge. if he can fly over, you can see us here waving. the drone give you a better sense of that train bridge there and just what sort of debris is pushing up against that bridge. it seems to be holding right now. it s pushing water now into the neighborhoods off to the side because it s so high. right now, they say they feel they have done everything they possibly can. now they just have to wait for
you aren t watching for them, you are risking your life. some of those tallest walls of water have been in new bern, north carolina where the trent river and noose river meet. and garrett hague has been there as the waters have risen. a tremendous amount of rescue efforts there. what can you tell us from new bern? reporter: i think the good news here is that the water is at least starting to move in the right direction. i talked to the mayor of new bern and he told me the city has not seen anything like this in the last 70 years. they actually have pumps in place to drain the water out after big storms, but that the water levels were are so high here that they couldn t turn the pumps on. he was scouting this area i m in now to see if it was possible finally to get those pumps on and help this draining process. the area that i m in now, we finally got a chance to put a drone up over it once we got on the back side of this storm, got out of the wind. you were able to see substantial
type of folks who were not prepared for the duration of this storm as opposed to the intensity of it. this was not pulling people off of roofs but getting people who had run out of medication, or run out of power, water, and food in their houses and decided they couldn t wait this out for the duration. we had an opportunity to put a drone up in the neighborhood i m standing in, to get an idea of how expansive the flooding is. the floodwaters here, we re probably i would say at least a mile from the river itself where the storm surge was at its greatest. this is floodwater that comes because we re in a low-lying area, backed up to creeks, backed up to inlets and pieces that go off that river, i m told there have been big storms but not like this, block after block of neighborhoods that are inaccessible to anyone that trouble getting around in water, that can vary in depth from