more weeks before water is in all these areas. so right now is search and rescue but, quite frankly, we should be focused on america and not ukraine and all these other issues. rachel: thank you, congressman, for bringing that very important point up. really appreciate it. pete: thank you, sir, appreciate it. good to see you guys. rachel: you too. good luck. pete: you can only imagine, it is true we had the sheriff about to appear, said he couldn t. congressman stew by was able to confirm steube was able to confirm a levee break. if you re already underwater, you re trying to evacuate, a levy break, and you re trying to get people out without spreading panic, that s the tough decision making people have. will: rick reichmuth is following this as well. reduction, show us the general area. rick: let s go back to katrina. that it was a mississippi if story. the storm surge e engulfed the coast of mississippi, over 30 foot of storm surge and destroyed everything. and after that the lev
flooding in sarasota county, sheriff s deputies were going door-to-door warning door warning people of a possible levy break there. steve harrigan isn t northport, florida with more on that, st steve. jon i ve got a gator boat behind me pulling it a jet ski over here. we have seen everything that floats go in and out of these roads which are now pretty much river ways. people going to check on their houses purred going to bring people out. we have seen hundreds and hundreds of rescues over the past 48 hours. on day one was nagy emergency rescues. that is changed now. a lot of families coming out. some of them in tough shape with small children after two or three days trapped by the water. they are taken out and loaded onto military vehicles and taken to someplace where they can get food and water. they set up some charging stations as well for the people. we have seen all kinds of vehicles go in both public and private to try to do the help. some people getting a little impatient. th
head 20 miles of where we re at. we re going to home for the best. in lafourche parish, the best leverage system in the state of louisiana. we ve not have a levy break. this is a very dangerous storm, 140-mile-per-hour wind ida, she means business. i hope nobody gets killed and everything turns out to be the best but we ll put it in god s hands and take it from there. when you say there are mandatory evacuations, what has the parish done to keep people out of the way? we ve done everything, we ve evacuated nursing homes and people that are sick, you know. we ve got a lot of people in this area that know each other. almost everybody knows each other. and everybody helps out at the
that had breached a bit. what are you seeing now? as i mentioned to you a little while ago, this was a heartbreaking scene we witnessed here a couple of hours ago. it was pouring down rain and there were people movers i m sorry, earth may havers with personnel driving them back and forth seriously across what used to be a parking lot that s now flooded trying to close off this levy here which as you can see has since breached. so it was going on for hours and hours. this follows days and days when the people here of lumberton were trying their best with just shovels and their bare hands to try to create this berm that we see. it was really a race against time in the last couple of hours. it was heartbreaking to see these workers trying so hard so save their town and now we ve seen that levy break and it s a repeat of what happened back in 2016. that was the aftermath of hurricane matthew. that was when once again this levy broke and the water from the lumber river which is right
to it s gonna happen again, and they have to accept that it s on them. it s their responsibility as the majority in congress to take this on. jen, and there are some republicans who say that. there are, there are. this will happen again and that they might not be on the favored side of it next time around. ra mesh, we ask this allel the time. does the levy break and if so, how? well, i don t think that it s likely to be some kind of dramatic moment. i think that it s more likely that you ve got a slow erosion of his support overtime or stroke supporters become weaker supporter, weaker bhk neutral. there s been some evidence that something like that has happened since january. but, look, is none of these numbers are just happening in a vacuum. the washington post abc poll that had trump s numbers relatively low and that at the lashed lookout against also say that 52% of the republic think