I had an opportunity to meet ,ith local elected Officials Police and sheriffs offices, the office of emergency preparedness. We took off and we flew encircled that flew in circles and we flew in come on row and circled back. The devastation is nowhere near what he saw in Southeast Louisiana yesterday. Powermistic the restoration is going to happen relatively rapidly, but i cant get a prediction on that. Have wendy of power crews that are here working already. We had more power crews positioned ahead of storm than ever in the history of our state. And i think it was the worst storm to ever strike louisiana. I talked to individuals here who can never remember Hurricane Force winds this far north in louisiana, after the experience yesterday. We have got a long way to go. We will be posting a major federal disaster declaration today and i expect they will turn that around fast and that will enable us to even more assistance and we can start looking for parishes who might qualify assistance
Latest night, im going to start with you. Give us an overview of your fact check of last night. Glenn were running out of superlatives during the Republican Convention. One night we called it the tsunami of untruths. For trump we called it a tidal wave of tall tales false claims and revisionist history. Thats certainly what we saw. We did 25 separate claims of false or misleading statements that fact checked false or misleading statements the president made and that was probably just scratching the surface. Did 25 separate claims of false or misleading state that fact check we wrote book on his false statements and hes lived up to his reputation as someone that will say things not based in any reality. We have heard to our mind listening to the president s speech, theres a lot of things ive heard before. Im wondering for you as a factchecker, did you hear anything new that needed to be fact checked . Jonathan glenn, that reminds me , listening to the president s speech, im wondering fo