situation with our reporters on the grounds there. where do things stand at this hour and what is your biggest concern at this point? well, right now the barrier that we built, we had to kind of do it last minute. we were informed by csx that they would not concesent to us putting anything on the track. and so we had to act fast. we placed sand, jersey barriers. i put a post on social media and had close to 80 to 100 civilian volunteers. i also asked north carolina national guard support, city support and myself and the county emergency management director worked hard. and we placed those 5,000 sand bags in less than four hours. and right now it is doing its job. it is flowing the flow. but there is now water starting to come over the sand bags.
his driving history and there have been no red flags in their pulmonary investigation yet. sayfullo habibullaevic saipov did have an encounter with police and was shot in the abdomen, he was taken to bellevue hospital where he is recovering, unclear whether they have been able to interrogate him this morning. live in patterson, new jersey, over to you. jillian: not the first incident where a vehicle has been turned into a murder machine. next guest has some ideas how to prevent it happening again. former member of israeli special operations aaron cohen joins us, good to see you but under circumstances like this, last time we spoke during the barcelona attack, we mentioned jersey barriers, are we in a situation where we really need those in every public area in every city in america?
who particulars generators. these power generators are not expected to run around the clock they are doing now. people so reliant on generators ultimately those break down. you go by auto shop you will see a few guys huddled around a power generator getting that thing working again. now, eric, you mentioned the dam, that is in the northwest part of the country, a concern there is that they got a bunch of rain yesterday. rain fills up the reservoir and it makes a whole situation worse. the issue with the dam is the spillway. so much water came over during the course of the hurricane that it eroded the bottom of the spillway. the soil there is the consistency of sand. if enough water goes down and erodes that spillway away enough where it reaches the dam, you could be talking about catastrophic failure, flooding hundreds of homes down below. so what is happening with the army core of engineers, navy pilots are working with u.s. marines. those marines are hooking cables up to jersey barri
enlisting the help of marines and navy pilots. the marines are hooking jersey barriers up to cables which they hooked to the bottom of those giant helicopters. the navy pilots pick up the barriers and flying them to the foot of the spillway where they drop the barriers in, essentially making a big pile of rocks. in theory, if that pile of rocks is big enough, it can stop the erosion and prevent a failure of that dam and that would make a temporary solution. molly? molly: it s a tough place to live right now. you know, it s a challenging place to report as well. mike tobin thank you there on the ground. healthcare is also once again a hot button issue on capitol hill. democrats outraged after the presidentherolls back obamacare mandate. rex tillerson is what he said just moments ago. very good relationship. i have very good. that was fake news. that was fake news by nbc.
the dam is still the biggest threat for a big catastrophic failure. that dam hadn t been updated since the 1980s. during the course of the hurricane, the output pipes jammed, which was one problem. you had a tremendous amount of water coming into the reservoir. you had all the water that went over the spill way. it is supposed to do that but it had never handled this kind of volume before. such a volume of water came through so fast and the spillway itself had some structural issues and it undermined and ripped out the bottom half of the spill way and erode that back into the bottom of the dam. the foundation of that spillway is pretty much sand. if it erodes to the dam you could talk about a failure of the dam that would flood the hundreds of families down below. what the navy pilots and marines on the ground are doing are hooking up the jersey barriers to a helicopter and they drop it at the foot of