updares you have everything. running water. are you riding it out here? i was going to ride it out but i don t want to be separated from my wife and daughter. i want to tell you in houston texas we had guys from louisiana that were picking up african-americans, caulk occasions, asians, any kind of race you can imagine. they weren t asking what race you were, what religion you were from, what background. they saw you as a human that needed help. and all the racism that everybody s talking about right now, that s one small pocket of ignorant people. but what i ve witnessed over these last three day sthas we have more people in this world that care about each other than the small pockets of people that don t care about each other. i m taking that away as the greatest miracle that you could ever learn in life is to see real people helping people. so, chris, that, of course, is the silver lining to
stronger than ever and people have a better sense like we saw in louisiana and new orleans that that community came back and knew something about itself and how people care about each other that they may not have known as well before. talk about money. there are two different angles of a immediate concern. the one is flood insurance. the what do you hear about the sustainability of programs, payouts, efficiency that s going to happen? because was we both know, that s the first big immediate fear after survival for people in areas that get flooded out is will i get the money to rebuild. if you had flood insurance and you paid your hard earned dollars in premiums, by god, you re going to get paid. congress is going to do whatever it takes, yes, the flood insurance program is in debt about $25 billion. that that s why i m asking. the line of credit will be extended. people will get paid.
evacuation that s going to happen in that area. air transportation, large aircraft transportation all laid on to begin that operation. pulling people out, getting them to staging area, evacuation hubs and begin to move them out of the area. all right. we know that you have your hands full. we know you re keeping an eye on it. thank you very much for joining us and obviously we ll be bringing everybody the breaking details. back to you. all right. so harvey s relative. what we re seeing in texas it catastrophic. louisiana, little bit different story. some what spared. people had to be rescued, tons of flooding and not completely out of the woods. the gov they are has asked for the federal government to extend a disaster declaration to more areas. join us is republican senator john kennedy of louisiana. i m sorry for it to be under these circumstances but that s
alisyn? it sure is, ed. thank you for monitoring all of that for us. so one of the things we want to show you is what s happening in these deluged nab neighborhoods. i had a chance to ride around with the so called cajun navy, this ad hoc team of volunteers and they re descended on texas to help out. they came with their boats from louisiana. the so we ll show you what they ve been accomplishing on this ride jalong, next.
they were in houston, now in beaumont, and port arthur just trying to help people get out. we ve opened shelters here in l.a. louisiana so people can come over here to louisiana. i m just so sorry. this whole thing is just, as you put it, horrific. just sucks. i m sorry. that s the only way i know to explain it. i don t know why bad things happen to good people. but they do. and we have to deal with it. and we re going to deal with it. it s going to take a lot of money. but at a time like this, you don t think about the money. you think about the you don t think about the mathematics. you think about the moral aspect of it. you it s not over. you shouldn t anyway. that s true. i want to talk to you about that. there s no question that when we see the worst from mother nature we sometimes see the best from human nature and the hope is the people who survive it are