Out new orleans entire power grid. with sustained winds up to 150 miles an hour. across louisiana more than 700,000 people remain without electricity. and after touring the state yesterday, president biden said more help is on the way. we re going to deploy even more federal resources including hundreds of generators. and there is more to come to restore power as fast as we possibly can. faster than anything that happened during katrina. joining me now is the former commander of joint task force katrina. lieutenant general russell honora. there was a similarity here with katrina in that when the storm passed it didn t seem the worst had happened, particularly in new orleans it didn t flood because of the work they ve done. but just like katrina, the worst was in the aftermath of it. there are people without power across louisiana. and this can t sustain you
Is that we now have the biden administration in charge. and so instead of waiting hours for the president to do something to bring in the national guard, one hopes that even in advance of anything happening there will be better preparation this time to avoid the kind of loss of life and violence we saw on january 6th. even though we know it s a big lie that perpetuates this, how do you balance first amendment stuff with this? they re allowed to rally. they re not allowed to have an insurrection. they re not allowed to storm the capitol. how do we make sure we don t overcompensate and create this world in which we re at war with folks who want to demonstrate? you raise such an important issue, ali, it s the old skokie case in the kkk marching in the streets. people are allowed to express their opinions no matter how abhorrent they may be. and so if people are peaceful and they want to express a view in favor of naziism or whatever it is, they have a right to do that. it s when viole
Your health is going to be better. so you have that. and then you have 7.5 million people falling off of this unemployment insurance cliff. that s the biggest number of people that we ve seen on record. at the same time, you have the delta variant, the coronavirus, surging in many states right now. hospitalizations surging. so it s this maelstrom of misery that is being created. a maelstrom of misery is probably one of the only things we can use to describe this, congressman. you re a former classroom teacher, you signed onto this letter advising biden to focus on hunger right here in the country, which sadly is about to be a bigger issue, and you just introduced a bill for a 32-work workweek. given all the confluence of all the challenges happening, you ve got benefits running out, the e
Citizens, particularly in the zones like fire zones, mushing zones, flood zones. they should be preregistered so when the storm hit the computers can basically figure out what area you are in and automatically start sending information to people on what they are entitled to. one of the big moves by the president yesterday was to approve people with the ability to go stay in hotels. at the end of the month people on fixed income don t have a credit card that they can do go to nashville or dallas and get a hotel. we have to fix that so encourage people to evacuate before the storm comes ali. what a great idea. what s wasted if do you florida? you set up get preapproved or registered and if the storm doesn t affect you and power is not gone house is not destroyed who loses in that idea? what a great idea general honora. people have been coming to you for advice.