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states. ainsley: that includes 46 people in the northeast after remnants of ida battered our region with record breaking rain. steve: and then the flooding that came as well. fox weather correspondent steve bender joins us live from new orleans with the latest. steve, the president is heading your way. yes, good morning, guys. and the national guard is out here. obviously in preparation for president biden coming in later today. but let s talk about the remnants of hurricane ida and what it did to the northeast. you guys just mentioned it killed 46 people as it ripped through on wednesday and thursday. and that does include actually connecticut state police sergeant. that s 26-year-old sergeant brian, he was found yesterday morning after his cruiser was swept away by those floodwaters. now, it was a frantic scramble for many in the northeast to get to safety and we hear from one man who was clinging to his wife to make sure she was safe. i want to go my neighbor.
my neighbor on the second floor he hold my hand and i hold my wife s hand. and my [inaudible] hand so we can get out. it wasn t just the record rainfall in the flooding there was also tornadic conditions in the northeast. making it even more difficult. when you are talking floodwaters. you want to get to higher ground. when you are talking tornadoes, you want to find that safe interior room. and yesterday there was seven tornadoes confirmed around southeast pennsylvania and southern new jersey. so, the threat of ida has now drifted back out ointo the atlantic as we don t need to worry anymore. now it s all about the damage and trying to revitalize those communities. we are here in new orleans and really we are now just assessing the damage. entergy doing a great job getting the electricity back on slowly but, notice, behind me it is the gas stations that are slowly coming back up. we are just outside of a
happened with ida. are you surprised at that? no, i think it s actually a smart move. think about folks down in baton rouge in new orleans, 65% of those gas stations don t have gasoline so anything they can do to jump start in about 80% of the refiners in the gulf area wouldn t reducing. there is certainly a short-term problem down there need to be fixed. that s hat strategic petroleum reserve of 600 million plus barrels is there for. i think it s a smart move. the bigger issue though is the fact that we as a country are now a net importer again of oil from foreign countries toward the tail end of the trump administration we were net exporter of oil. steve: right. think that i surprises loot of people. mitch, as you look at the amount you are going to pay for a gallon of gas this weekend as we look at some of the damage in the flooding from ida, right now you will pay a dollar more than you did last year. and then on the heels of what you just said, now we are a net