that way so they will wait until power crews secure the island and determine there are no down power lines before assessing the damage. as far as preliminary assessments of the damage, between what little we have seen in this portion of the island and what city officials are looking at, we are not seeing a lot of structural damage but more inconvenient repairs homeowners and businesses have to make. jillian: between last time we spoke and this time, just across the bridge in wilmington, an interesting point. from the human standpoint, what you are talking about is like a ghost town, everybody got out, they are above it and people felt no point in leaving, let me
do this from any public relations standpoint or indeed human standpoint. the standpoint of being a human being. they should not. the girl was so emotionally caught up in this thing. you know, the kids have struck a nerve at the nra, and they re sort of stricken with a fear that you don t see very often. it looks like fear. it s like reaction to fear, like they re going get somewhere. andrea, i didn t have any problem with the cuban emblem here, as long as it wasn t castro. it was the old-time cuban flag. of course that s their country of origin, their heritage. what is wrong with that? there is nothing wrong with that. the train has left the station, and a lot of these guy like rick santorum and frankly the nra as an organization are living in the stone ages. why do you think he thought of cpr? i don t know. i don t know. i think he was somehow trying to play back to a base that is slowly dying off. people want background checks. 90% of americans want background checks and
you really suggest the point in your question, all of this is distracting from the president s agenda and the p people business. that s the real cost here from a political standpoint. but the human standpoint cannot be ignored. it is serious. you re right. always a pleasure to have you on the show. thank you. i will ask molly and josh to stick around. we will talk more about this because what started in the last couple of minutes is that house leadership conference. we expect paul ryan will be take something questions. we will come back to that live the second it happens. and we re also going to talk about the white house and the claims of a payoff from the president s long time lawyer just a few weeks before the 2016 election. what michael cohen is now telling nbc. you don t want to miss that, after the break.
the front eye wall, the back eye wall, tell us what is happening there now and how your city has faired thus far. our city is showing indications of substantial flooding. we have been fairing from a human standpoint very well. we have been safe from harm. i credit our citizens for being safe. conditions are improving. i am looking at video of substantial flooding in the core of the city. right here where we are in the middle part of the city there is visible flooding in the parking lot. we are situated on the second floor of the suburban suites hotel. and we are safe. and things are improving.
barack obama. she is a fox news contributor. gillian turner is here. she s a talk show host, writer. jamila bey is here. thank you both for being here. gillian, your reaction. what you want to say to the people of houston. gillian: it s been a heartbreaking day. today we ve gotten, for the first time, things we haven t been seeing in the last couple days. health care facilities like hospitals, elderly nursing homes. heartbreaking images, the one that went viral this morning of the elderly women trapped in their care center. in their wheelchairs with water to their elbows and shoulders. from a human standpoint, this is horrendous. i guess, we always go to the political optics. that s an important thing to talk about, it s a real challenge for president trump and the remarks he made today were unifying, sort of bringing