preland fall declaration and last night signing the major disaster declaration. that s going to be very helpful. hurricane ida came on shore with everything that was advertised. yep. the surge, the rain, the wind. the good news first is all of our levy systems, particularly our federal levy systems and hurricane risk reduction systems performed magnificently. they were not overtopped. none of them were breached. even our levy systems that were paid for with state and local funding performed extremely ex well. it would be a different story altogether had any of those levee systems failed. having said that, the damage is still catastrophic. but it was primarily wind driven, but we know that there were some areas that received tremendous rainfall as well, but we re going to be dealing with
soldiers from the infantry combat team deployed to the middle east. so they are going to have the emac request i think as early as tomorrow. we are going to have additional soldiers coming from national guards from sister states, and that s going to be very helpful, as well. president biden: well, good. look, if there s anything else you need, you know, just call. you ve got the team at the table there, a lot of them. so just holler. now, cedric who are we going to next? the governor. president biden: i understand you are not on video but you are on the telephone. fire away. thank you, mr. president. when we spoke on friday you assured me that when they asked for the preland fall declaration you would immediately sign it, and you did exactly that, and i