have so many people without power.li you have critical shortages of gasoline. has the federal government done enough to reach those people who are still suffering here almost a week after this storm? well, we re doing everything we can, partnering with state and local officials, to make sure that we re getting fuel into the area. we re providing direct e assistance to allow affected families and people to have money for lodging and food. we re doing everything we can. we flew, you know, power equipment from california on military aircraft into the area. so we re doing everything we can. this was an unprecedented storm, and obviously it s impacted so many people on the eastern seaboard. and it s going to take a while to recover. so we re going to be there, each and every day.an you know, we ve made a lot of progress. not enough. i think everyone would attest. until everyone has been reachedd and gotten assistance, we get all the power on, the work continues. but i think fema has done
end. we ve seen the worst of it. we ve seen the most damage and the most extreme damage on the coast with the high tide cycle we just got done with but all the water has to rush out and we still have wirnds blowing onshore. the next high tide psyche ll have minor damage but nothing compared to the damage just done. as far as the winds go, we re still probably, i d say, roughly half a million people sitting there with power on, crossing their fingers hoping they don t lose it and they probably will as we go throughout the night. storm will do a slow turn. it went inland over philadelphia and southern jersey around 5:00 or 6:00 this evening and then the storm is now going to slow down, slowly weaken and head up to our northern inning over the next three to four days. it will linger. not like we re going to all of the sudden have a clear day and beautiful and sunny to clear up. tuesday is going to be rough with gusty winds and periods of rain. i don t think the power crew also get out the
this is orange beach, we re just off to the east of gulf shores. and high tide s a few hours away but the water is way past where it should be at high tide. this is a nice, long beach. we re losing beach to the erosion from the water. also the wind has blown a lot of sand and you can see all the seaweed now. buildings here are fine, power on. let me show the radar, it s a slow-moving isaac. still an 80-mile-an-hour hurricane. now that the center has made a second landfall and the entire center is over land, although it s kind of marshy down there, slowly will wind down in the wind perspective, but, boy, this rain unrelenting for the next cull he will days, until friday before it gets into southern arkansas. so rainfall rates of an inch an hour. numerous flash flooding. and how about the risk of levees? the federal levee held but some of the inside levees not as high were overtopped and breached in plaquemines parish. there have been water rescues. still at last report from billy nunges
with groups of young people who work so hard and speak with so much heart about what s best in america even though i knew some of them must have lived under the fear of deportation. mitt romney was critical of the changes. he spoke while campaigning in new hampshire. believe the status of young people who come here through no fault of their own is an important matter to be considered and it should be solved on a long-term basis so they know what their future would be in this country. i think the action of the president he took today makes it more difficult to reach that long-term solution because an executive order is a short-term matter that can be reversed by subsequent presidents. what should the reaction be from u.s. congress? no big surprise here, it comes down along party lines. athena jones breaks that down for us. reporter: senator minority leader mitch mcconnell refused to answer shouted questions about the new immigration policy, but the reaction from other
more than 20 people still unaccounted for. rescuers are blowing holes in the side of the ship to get where they think people might be located. they found five bodies yesterday nap matt c . confirm death toll is 11. the man at the controls that might is now under house arrest today. prosecutors say they are speechless that he s even out of jail. they want to charge him with manslaughter and abandoning his post. we also learned today that it might not be the first time that that same ship was dangerously close to that s land. more in a couple of minutes. but first listen to this passenger who told us today what it was like. people s faces were panicked and they were trying to jump in and they just started hitting people with anything they could, the oars, poles, trying to push people back. but people kept persisting. and that s really when the screaming started and everyone was screaming and that s when they said we need to go, we need to get this down and it was just heartbr