like i said, in the middle of all of this, the president is dealing with one crisis after another here at home. more than a million people along the gulf coast who survived one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the united states now facing the possibility of weeks, even up to a month without power. the national weather service issuing heat advisories and i can tell you firsthand summers in louisiana are brutal. brutally hot and muggy and dangerous. people lining up for food and water. we re only getting the full picture now how bad things are in the wake of hurricane ida. five storm related deaths reported. the governor of my home state of louisiana telling people who fled the storm don t come back yet. new orleans is under a curfew tonight as desperate people are still picking up the pieces and then there is the destructive effect of the big lie, still being felt all across this country with the assault on
even up to a month without power. the national weather service issuing heat advisories and i can tell you firsthand summers in louisiana are brutal. brutally hot and muggy and dangerous. people lining up for food and water. we re only getting the full picture now of just how bad things are in the wake of hurricane ida. five storm-related deaths reported. the governor of my home state of louisiana telling people who fled the storm don t come back yet. new orleans is under a curfew tonight as desperate people are still picking up the pieces. and then there is the destructive effect of the big lie, still being felt all across this country with the assault on voting rights, which is nothing less than a plan to give the gop the power to overturn the next election if they don t like the results. the big lie that fueled one of the darkest days in american history. january 6th.
is major general keith waddell the adjunct general of the louisiana national guard. we re so happy to have you here. is it waddell? waddell, don i got it. i thought louisiana it has to be waddell. thank you for joining us. i appreciate what you do. thank you for your service. the louisiana guard has been out all day doing search and rescue. how large is the rescue mission that is under way right now? first off thank you for having me on the show this evening. i appreciate the opportunity to tell louisiana national guard s story. as far as the situation we re in with search and rescue, we spent the bulk of the day working search and rescue. it kicked off this morning on the ground side about 4:00, 4:15 this morning. on the air side about 6:15. we worked it really hard across southeast louisiana. we ended up with search and
the need is great. chris, we haven t even mentioned on top of that covid. all of the hospitals overrun with covid patients. there are some of them on backup generators. it is a mess on top of a mess on top of a mess i i got to tell you though not to get deep but it does make me wonder if you know you think about it like what is going to be the answer in louisiana? collective concern and sense of commonwealth. what is going to get these people we just left behind in afghanistan out? common concern and collective will. what is going to get us through and get these schools to stay open with our kids with covid in the parts of the country that aren t in collapse from the storm right now? common concern and collective will. we need one another more than ever. as we talk all the time with the audience i don t remember us ever being weaker. maybe these catastrophes will remind people they got to give a damn about other people. they just have to.
fists are flying. unbelievable what we are seeing here today. unfold live. that s the example you want to set for the children of this country? i hope florida s children aren t the ones who pay a price for adults misguided battles over masks. all of that as millions of americans are reeling in the aftermath of hurricane ida. one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the united states striking 16 years to the day since katrina. you can hear the raw power of the storm in this video from inside the eyewall yesterday. a second storm related death reported in my home state of louisiana tonight and there are fears the death toll will rise. more than a million people are without power in the state. the entire city of new orleans has no power. some parts of jefferson parish