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Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20210831 02:21:45

Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20210831 02:21:45
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Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20210831 02:23:00

moving north through mississippi. today president biden told the governors of louisiana and mississippi and mayors in both of those states how to get more help from the white house. the main thing i want to make clear to all of you is we re providing any help for you that you are going to need. and, so, i ve got as i said, i ve got my senior adviser here with me. you all know him. he s a new orleans native. he s a congressman from louisiana, was a congressman of louisiana s second district for ten years. he knows the area. he knows the people and those who have been affected by ida and he knows how to get things done in the government. while fema is our lead for on the ground response, if there is something you need that needs my attention, send the direct line to the white house throughout this. go to cedric, he ll get you what

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20210831 02:37:00

night than when you have been with us before. what is the situation tonight at your hospital? well, lawrence, you know, we have taken a couple of punches to the gut. we were dealing with covid, of course, for the past couple of months, and that has been exhausting for our nurses and our doctors and hospitals have been very full along with most every hospital in louisiana. and about the last thing in the world that we needed was a category four hurricane, but, you know, here it is. we have been locked down since early yesterday morning about 6:00 a.m. we brought in a crew of doctors and nurses and other health care professionals, and we locked the doors and we literally rode this thing out. we had substantial structure damage to our hospital. we had some water on the ground floor, some water coming through the roof on some upper floors.

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20210831 02:22:00

today louisiana s governor said this. i will just tell you that i had a number of conversations overnight and today with parish presidents and other officials who believe that the death count attributable to the hurricane will go up because they see catastrophic damage in certain places that they have every reason to believe were inhabited at the time the damage occurred. there are more than 2,000 people in shelters tonight. the levies around new orleans did not fail as they did in katrina. more than a million people do not have power in louisiana. there is no power in the city of new orleans. crews are working to restore power, beginning with hospitals that are now relying on generators. a louisiana power company says it may take up to three weeks for some people in the areas to have their power restored. ida is now a tropical storm

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20210831 02:30:00

you re talking a couple gallons of water for everybody to drink and then there is no place you can try to put generators on them. so you ve got to focus your infravuk chur on the critical things like the hospitals because the hospitals are full because we ve got a lot of people in louisiana who refuse to take the shot. so those hospitalized are fixed. they have to stay where they are taking care of the people. on top of this, we re doing this in a covid environment. we used to have places where we would put 500 people in auditoriums and gyms. a 500 person shelter now might hold 150 to 200 people. wherever we send the people to, they ve got to be able to follow covid protocol because so many of them don t have vaccination. in metropolitan new orleans, we re in better shape. but in rural areas, there is a lot lower area of vaccinations.

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