widespread. communications will be disrupted and so, there are preparations being made to restore those as soon as possible. is 16 years, isn t it, tomorrow, sunday? since hurricane katrina. how do you expect it to compare to that? the events are pretty comparable. it is easy to make a comparison between hurricane katrina and hurricane ida. hurricane ida is forecast to be slightly stronger but also take a path a little bit further to the west of new orleans. there was a lot of investment in infrastructure and storm surge protector following katrina so it is hoped it will protect the residents from the storm surge associated with the storm. aha, associated with the storm. a lot was done, wasn t it, to strengthen the levees and improve their maintenance? has enough been done, though, because there is a still concern, isn t there, that could be overtop?- concern, isn t there, that could be overtop? they are designed could be overtop? they are designed to could be overtop? they are des
to compare to that? the events are pretty comparable. it is easy to make a comparison between hurricane katrina and hurricane ida. hurricane ida is forecast to be slightly stronger but also take a path a little bit further to the west of new orleans. there was a lot of investment in infrastructure and storm surge protector following katrina so it is hoped it will protect the residents from the storm surge associated with the storm. a lot was done, wasn t it, to strengthen the levees and improve their maintenance? has enough been done, though, because there is a still concern, isn t there, that could be overtop? they are designed to protect against a 100 year storm and so that is a pretty high design standard and it is a tremendous investment by the us army corps of engineers. it is some of the most kind of impressive engineering that i ve seen,
joe biden can win iowa or new hampshire. the campaign kind of downplaying those expectations as well, kind of saying that he has a broad-based coalition down in south carolina in some of those super tuesday early states. but you can t deny that if someone else wins iowa and new hampshire, they re going to have some big momentum behind them. and it s going to make biden s path a little bit trickier. that point is so key. these battleground states we ve just been looking at, they re not the ones that vote first. iowa votes first. and looking at polls now, biden could come in fourth in iowa and overnight you would see this race change in terms of his prospects in the states to come. frank, arlette, thank you very much. coming up in our 8:00 hour, we will have democratic presidential candidate pete buttigieg. he s joining us live from iowa. what does he think about all of these developments? president trump set to host the world series champion washington nationals at the white hou
trump himself, whether by accident or incredible insight, led the fbi down this path a little bit by constantly talking about how the election was rigged against him. any public pronouncement by the fbi that they were investigating the trump campaign, i think would have just given him more ammunition to say, look, it s rigged against me. so in some ways, whether that was a genius move or an accidental move, i think it caused the fbi to be extra cautious. but as frank said, no doubt this is the way it s supposed to be done. the goal is to avoid influencing the outcome of an election. the hillary clinton investigation was a little different because that was already publicly known because it came as an inspector general referral from the state department and so in that instance i think james comey felt he had the duty to let the world know that it was over. i don t know that he had the duty to let the world know it was back open, but he s explained himself on that count. but i think that