potentially even more damage in the coming days. i hadn t heard that yet. you delivered tough news there. thank you for the heads-up, josh. i appreciate that. from la place to la fit, louisiana, flood waters have yet to recess now a week after ida making it difficult for residents to clean up. you have our or thor on the ground has been talking with some of the residents. what are we hearing from them? it is a community of about 1,000 here in la fit here. there is more beyond these streets here. a great number of them rode out the storm. now they are here a week later still trying to clean up and reconcile what their future in this neighborhood looks like. i want to introduce you if you could tell me your name, ma am, if you could. katie areas. katie, you have lived here your whole life on this property? i have lived here 60 years on this property. my father was a shrimper.
looting or vandalism. there is a task force of guardsmen, sheriff s deputies and sheriff s deputies out on the street and they learned from mistakes that led to chaos after hurricane katrina. back to you. bret: mike tobin, thanks. getting a new look at the damage left behind from hurricane ida. this look from the sky. senior correspondent casey stegall is in baton rouge tonight. good evening, casey. bret, good evening. we spent the better part of the day up in a black hawk helicopter with the u.s. army corps of engineers and the purpose of the mission was really two fold, to give the top brass of the corps of engineers an upclose and personal look at the damage but also to survey the levee system and get better what communities need to help speed up their community. they plan on cutting some of the levees to allow standing water to drain back into lake pontchartrain. south of new orleans in la fit,
made. michael when you are not getting answers for a long period of time, the general public says what does that mean? what aren t they telling us? the they start to fill in the gaps themselves or wonder if there s a reason, maybe because it looks bad that information is kept from the public. what s your take as someone who is very much involved in analyzing what s going on with isis and the u.s. battle against it? october was supposed to be the month we declare victory in a sense and isis has now lost raqqah, the de facto capital of its ka la fit. the president has said he s done more than barack obama had done to smash the terror organization although the media coverage hasn t been so kind. you have the disaster in niger and the calamity in northern iraq where baghdad is pitted against our ally and u.s. backed forces facing off in what could be a civil war. so it s not quite the mission