When we were testing the technology we didnt know if it would work. Were still proving that we can keep it all down there. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Ou major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by some say its a calling. E some say they lost someone they loved. Many say its to save lives, as many and as often as possible. Theres 100 reasons why someone becomes a doctor, but at m. D. Anderson, its because theres nothing and we mean nothing we wont do in making cancer history. Lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was madem possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the president toured flood damage in louisiana today after historic storms more than a week ago inundated 20 parishes and left 13 people dead. President obama surveyed the damage from streets that just a few days ago were underwater. Its one sign of a gradual return to normal, but stacked up on the side of the streets werer the remnants of just how bad, and historic, the floods had been. Peoples lives have been upended by this flood. This is not just about property damage, this is about peoples roots. Woodruff the president was in east baton rouge to meet with officials, First Responders andn just some of the thousands who were flooded out of their homes. More than 115,000 people have signed up for federal Disaster Assistance so far. Today, mr. Obama pledged more help is coming. What i want the people of louisiana to know is youre not alone on this. Even after the tv cameras leave, the whole country is going to continue to support you and hel you until we get folks back inol their homes and lives are rebuilt. Woodruff he said the federal government has already allocate 127 million for flood victims. The flooding was the worst disaster in the u. S. Since Superstorm Sandy hit the east coast in 2012. Days of torrential rain dumped more than twoandahalf feet of water in some parts. Now more than a week later, the water is receding, but in its wake it is estimated that more than 60,000 homes were damaged or destroyed. Heartbreaking. You know, not just for me, but to see. It looks like a bomb went off. I kinda got shook up. Reporter your whole life is. Its just ruined. Woodruff officials in east baton rouge say it could take up to three months just to clear debris from the streets. 7,000 people are still living in temporary shelters. And, some political criticism continued over the timing of tho president s visit. He had been on vacation on Marthas Vineyard in massachusetts. Hu republican president ial nominee donald trump tweeted today trump along with running mate mike pence toured the flood zone last friday. Earlier, louisianas Governor John Bel Edwards a democrat had asked mr. Obama to delay aa visit to avoid tying up local authorities. Today he welcomed the president. The governor had said after trumps visit that it was helpful in attracting national attention. Well have more on the flood m aftermath right after the news summary. In the days other news an american soldier died iner afghanistan, after his patrol triggered a roadside bomb. Another u. S. Service member and six Afghan Soldiers weresi wounded. The explosion occurred in lashkar gah, the capital of helmand province. Fighting has intensified there in recent weeks, now that the t taliban has reclaimed about 80 of the province. Its the first u. S. Combat death in that country since january. There are staggering new numbers on the flow of unaccompanied children making the riskyof journey to the u. S. From central america. A new report from the United Nations childrens agency c unicef estimates about 26,000 unattended children were apprehended at the u. S. Border e between january and june of this year. Most fled from el salvador, guatemala, and honduras to escape brutal Gang Violence and poverty. Five new homegrown zika cases were confirmed in florida todayo they include the first one on floridas gulf coast in Pinellas County near tampa, nearly 300 miles away from the other infection zones in miami. Floridas Surgeon General conceded they still dont know precisely where that individual contracted the virus, since they had not traveled internationally. The department of health here under dr. Cho and his team willi speak with that person, get a good history. Theyre already testing family members. Theyll be looking at coworkers as well to better understand where transmission may have occurred. Woodruff state officials stopped short of labeling it a new area of active local transmission. There are new revelations todaya about Hillary Clintons activities at the state department. An Associated Press review found more than half of the non government figures who met with her while she was secretary,ar gave money to the clinton m foundation. Combined, those people contributed as much as 156 million to her family charity. The Nigerian Military today saii that it believes airstrikes have killed a number of top boko haram militants, including the groups leader, abubakar shekau. But there was no independentnd confirmation. His death has been falsely reported at least three other times. The announcement came as secretary of state john kerry arrived in abuja for talks witha nigerias president on strategies to defeat boko haram. Your country has taken back most of the territory that the terrorists had once captured. Pt we also know that beating boko haram on the battlefield is only the beginning of what we need to do. Woodruff boko haram, which has pledged its allegiance to the islamic state, has killed thousands of people, and abducted some 300 schoolgirls. 218 of them are still missing. Turkey has formally requested the extradition of u. S. Based cleric fethullah gulen. A state Department Spokesman said the extradition request was unrelated to last months l attempted coup in turkey, which the turkish government hasrn blamed on gulen and his followers. Gulen lives in selfimposed exile in pennsylvania. Traffic deaths across the u. S. Are on the rise. The National Safety council reported more than 19,000 people have died on the roads from january through june of this year. Thats up 9 over the sames period last year, and up 18 from two years ago. It attributed the rise to more people traveling on the nations roads due to a stronger economy and lower gas prices. New estimates out today are forecasting this years budget deficit will increase after years of declines. The Congressional Budget Office projects it will grow by one third to 590 billion, due to lowerthanexpected tax revenues. On wall street, stocks closedon higher, led by gains in the technology sector. The Dow Jones Industrial average was up nearly 18 points to close at 18,547. The nasdaq rose 15 points, and the s p 500 added four. Still to come on the newshour whats working and whats not in louisianas Flood Recovery efforts, i sit down with green Party President ial candidate jill stein, the prevalence of Corporal Punishment in schools, and much more. Woodruff now, the aftermath and long road back from the floods in louisiana. President obama promised a sustained National Effort to rebuilding southern louisiana during his visit today oneit that he said would last long after the cameras leave. One of the worsthit areas was Livingston Parish where 70 of the homes suffered damage from the worst floods in decades. Layton ricks is the president of that parish and i spoke with him by skype a short time ago. Mr. Layton ricks, thank you very much for talking with us. First of all, tell us where isks Livingston Parish in the batone rouge area, and just what shape is it in right now . Well, Livingston Parish is just east of the river right across from baton rouge. Were a suburb of baton rouge. About 141,000 people. Right now were not in real good shape. If you drove across our landscape, you would see all the water lines, but thats where were located. Were a suburb of baton rouge. Woodruff when you say youre not in good shape, spell that out for us. What sort of damage there . Yeah, well, we had roughly 60,000 plus structures that were affected, damaged in some way by the flood that we just went through. The water has now receded, but were still dealing with the aftermath and have begun the recovery process, but if you drove through our parish right now, you would see a lot of peoples belongings beginning to pile up on the side of the road so we can start picking it up. Thats just the aftermath of the devastation were looking at if you drive across from this flood event that we just went through. Woodruff do you have any idea at this point how much its going to cost to bring everything back . Youer know, i dont. Theyre still assessing. Theyre still riding around. Our debris haulers are riding around, assessing and mapping out, as is fema. I really do not. A developer is telling me one mall alone is roughly 30 million hit. The stores were still opening. We were moving into the second phase of the mall opening. Thats just one mall. So we have substantial damage here in Livingston Parish. Woodruff how would you h describe the main challenges now facing the people around you . What are you facing . Well, i think weve made it through the rescue phase. Weve moved into the recovery phase. Now the hardest part is going to be trying to get people some help to get them back in their homes, which were severely damaged in one way or another by the flood. It could be anywhere from twotw inches to eight, nine, ten feet in some areas. So the real problem is we also have schools that were damaged. So the real problem, the challenge ahead is to try to get these people back to their homes as quick as we can so the kids can get back into the schools once they can so theres some sort of normalcy there. Certainly well assess and help them do that any way we can, but that will be a long, drawn out, slow process, because most people severely affected by the flood also lost their vehicles. So they have to get vehicles. Commercial businesses are down. They dont have a job to go to. We have a mess right now. Woodruff what sort of outside help do you feed from the federal government or anybody else, and dod you think youre getting it . Well, you know, fema hass really stepped up at this point. I met with administrator craig fugate with governor edwards and his staff at the governorsor office. It was a very good meeting. They assured us any asset we need for, it would happen. So far it has. What i need now, which would be really great for our parish and for surrounding parish, is for the president to declare this a 90 10 payback for fema versus a 25 75. That would help us. He can do that, and i hope he will do that very soon, because what that means is the parish will owe back 10 versus 25 . I quite frankly dont know where the 10 is going to come from, but i know 25 right now is just going to be astronomical. Woodruff well, as we reported, the president wases there in baton rouge today. There has also been some political criticism that he didnt get there sooner. How do you see that . We know donald trump was there last friday. What do these visits mean for the area . And did the politicians get there as soon as you thought they should have . Ha well, you know, as far as im concerned, yes. I didnt need him to come in the middle of this thing, in the heat of the battle last week. What i needed him to do then is declare the state of emergency. He did that. Fema ramped up really fast under governor edwards along with, as i said, administrator craig fugate. They were signing off on declaration, helping us get the assets we needed at that time. So initially thats what i needed out of the federalth government. I feel like we got that. The argument about whether or not he should have come last week quite frankly in my opinion, had he come in the middle of this thing, we would have been pulling First Responders away from where they needed to be, the assets we were using to rescue people, to handle the shelters, trying tole make sure he was safe while he came into our parish. So i felt like he was okay not coming last week. I do think he could have made a couple phone calls us to. That would have been nice, to at least hear from him. But as far as getting thingsin done for me that i needed, i feel like he did that. The Governors Office has been extremely, extremely helpful. Thats made a big difference. Now, him coming this week today, im disappointed that he didnt call. Im disappointed that he didnt come over into our parish since our parish was the one most severely hit. But again, however as far as him directing fema, i think theyre doing all they can do for us at this point. But this is a long, drawn out recovery process. Im going to need fema for a long time to come to help make gng to be able to get this done for our people and that the parish will be made whole or as much so as we can ii the aftermath of this. Woodruff layton ricks, the president of Livingston Parish in louisiana, we thank you veryy much and we certainly wish you the very best with the recovery thats coming in the weeks and w months to come. Thank you, maam. I appreciate you. Woodruff now, to the 2016 president ial campaign. The vast amount of attention in this election year, by far, has gone to the two main partytw nominees for president Hillary Clinton and donald trump. But there are a few Third Party Candidates competing as well. Tonight, we hear from the woman who is the nominee of the green party for the second election in a row. She is dr. Jill stein, and iis spoke with her a short time ago. Dr. Jill stein, welcome to the newshour. Great to be with you, judy. Woodruff let me just start by asking you, what is the main difference between what you and the green party offer voters from what say Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have offered . So maybe the main difference is that im the one candidate id the race that is not corrupted by lobbyists money, by corporate money, or by super pacs. So im the one candidate that can really stand up for what it is the american i people are really clamoring for, and that means jobs and emergency jobs program. We call for the creation of 20 million jobs to solve the emergency of Climate Change, and we call for 100 clean, Renewable Energy by 2030. We call for canceling student debt, and, you know, hillary and bernie talk about free Public Higher Education going forward, but not dealing with this burden of debt, which has really locked a generation into kind of a hopeless future right now. And we also call for free Public Higher Education and for health care and human rights. I think we differ on Foreign Policy. Woodruff let me stop you there with domestic policy. You have a jobs program, a job for anyone who doesnt get one. In the private sector, the government should provide it, forgiving student loans, free childcare, health care, medicare for all. How much is all that going to cost . How do you pay for it . T . So fortunately most of it pays for itself. So, for example, providing jobs to transform our economy to the Green Energy Economy of the future, it actually gets rid of what is causing 200,000 premature deaths a year, that is through fossil fuel. It f turns out we get so much healthier when we convert to a Green Energy Economy that our Health Savings alone are enough to pay for the cost of the energy transition. It woodruff so it wouldnt require, say, a tax hike, maybe even a tax hike for those in the middle class . So c the other piece of thiss that moving to 100 Renewable Energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil, which mind you have cost us 6 trillion since 2001, when you include the cost of caring for our wounded soldiers. 6 trillion. Woodruff you said wars for oil. Thats right, wars for oils. Weve been fighting these regime change wars, which are not making us safer, in fact, arguably, we are much less safe with each new war on terror. We actually have created a new wave of even more difficult terror. So we call for actually a weapons embargo and freezing the funding of our allies who are sponsoring terrorist enterprises around the world according toac health Hillary Clintons own leaked l emails from the secretarysc office. Well cut our military budget, which is one thing we can do when we are 100 renewable and heading for it. It enables us to bring hundreds of billions back into true security here in our own economy. Woodruff i want to ask you about the military, as well, because you would cut the military budget in half. You would close down many if not all overseas u. S. Bases. You said you would cut aid to important u. S. Allies like israel, like egypt and saudi arabia. So do you see the United States pulling back and not really playing a global role . Actually, i see us more of a global role. And a more impactful global role, because we would have a consistent policy. Its not about specifically defunding israel or saudi arabia or egypt. Its about having an evenhanded policy that says that we as theh United States with all due humility are asking our alliess to turn over a new page where our