corporate, all prioritizing the mental health of its workers in the time of pandemic beenout. and a young rhinoceros just celebrated his second birthday at a zoo in omaha. martin is his name. he spent the day knock over boxes. marshall is an endangered rye nonruss. do not let his age fool you. he already weighs one ton. good on you. still ahead, an organization helping with hurricane efforts in louisiana. they re giving back to those hit the hardest by the storm. you here not going to want to miss that. we re back in a moment on msnbc. . tide pods dissolve even when the water is freezing. nice!
new orleans still without power. it is unclear whether that game can be played at the superdome. the team has been operating out of dallas since sat, no time line for their return home yet. coach sean payton says they haven t heard anything from the nfl yet but they will have a plan b. cameron jordan told reporters that his focus is keeping his family safe during the storm. as long as they are okay for me, then whatever has happened to our house, whatever has happened to our property in new orleans, that is just materialistic and just be blessed that we have our health and we ll go from there. saint s and pelicans owner gail benson is donating $1 million to the hurricane efforts. and this is not the first time she s rallied for the state of louisiana. bennen n son and her late husb were integral in helping after
so, as we get these first aerial pictures, everyone can expect we re going to see more of those, that number of five deaths likely to increase, as you and jennifer discussed. 13,000 homes, the estimate from the salvation army destroyed. that s a conservative estimate. we re going to see more of these pictures. there are lots ofescues and recoveries to be made. and a lot of wo islands. yes. let s get to those images, victor, thank you very much. in case you re just joining us this, is the breaking story, the obliteration that is great abaco in the bahamas. i have with me retired general russel honore who of course led the hurricane efforts in hurricane katrina. general, i don t know if you re in front of the monitor and can see what i m seeing but it is gone, from what we re seeing from helicopter footage over great abaco.
the flying cow is a program created by at&t after hurricane efforts, it is a roving cell phone tower that can provide services in disaster areas when cell phone coverage has been destroyed. it is one of many technologies that have been built ever since drone technology hit the mainstream. in this hurricane effort that is taking place, drones will play a more vital role than they ever have before. there have been a lot of lessons learned in the events of hurricane harvey and hurricane irma where they realize this is an evolution in those cases in drone use so even fema has taken lessons learned and created a plan where the fully integrated drone technology into disaster recovery efforts which means a more stirring and after
operationally ready. i m unclear on why that money would not be allowed to use for hurricane efforts. i think what they are trying to do is play this game of there s a fund called the disaster relief fund which is often utilized, often tapped to respond to disasters. you cannot separate the fema budget into little pieces like that. every dollar that the budget has is used to prepare people. to buy supplies. to train fema personnel. you cannot say we re not taking money away from the effort. you are. you are taking money away. where would 10 million dollar go. talk to me about what in real life that 10 million dollar would look like on the ground in they were able to use it for a