chile in 2015 with his life and two children. he says that someone assaulted him in haiti and someone shot at his aunt. reporter: two months ago, they started the trek to the united states. you say the route is open to enter in the united states. what does that mean? family, friends, he says? the border is open? reporter: his voice breaks as he talks about his family. why is it so painful? because you re suffering. he says food is hard to come by, and the weather is tough to bear. if you look closely you ll see that these are men, women, children. i see pregnant women, infants. reporter: border patrol s top cop announcing this weekend a surge of 600 agents, officers and other personnel. why del rio? why now? traditionally because of word of mouth. certainly what happened this time is that number doubled and tripled relatively quickly. reporter: and to expedite processing, removal flights to haiti have increased, said border patrol. and word about this is spr
newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. desperate acts in the wake of hurricane ida. six victims are dead after an evacuation gone incredibly wrong. they were among many that were evacuated to a warehouse with deplorable conditions. nearly one-third of gas stations are without fuel, some people waiting for five hours to fill their tanks just so they can sit in their cars with air-conditioning, the desperation and frustration boiling over on friday. one person was fatally shot in line at a gas station in jefferson parish. in the northeast, at least 50 people died from the storm. half the fatalities are in new jersey where flash floods demolished basements and tore through buildings. on tuesday president biden will visit new york and new jersey to survey the damage. nadia is here for us. nadia, what are people in new orleans telling you? they sound like they re fed up with this. reporter: yeah, jim, everyone is tired because they said we made it through hurricane ida, but it
stunned the entire room. welcome to the lead. i m kaitlan collins in for jake tapper. and we begin this hour in louisiana where president biden is expected to speak any moment after touring communities ravaged by hurricane ida and meeting with state and local leaders. those hardest hit towns including laplace where many neighborhoods are still swamped with water. more than 800,000 hopes and businesses across the state still have no power five days after the storm. as victims deal with their destroyed homes, temperatures continue to swelter. right now in baton rouge, for example, the heat index is 105 degrees. we re covering the aftermath of ida all over the country. miguel marquez in new jersey, ed lavandera in louisiana, and arlette saenz is live at the white house. arlette, i want to start with you. what has been president biden s message while he s been on the ground today for several hours? reporter: president biden has had a message of support, both when it comes
so when you hear the word resiliency, i know the energy guys know this, it s about making the systems from our transmission of energy straight through to the highways we re building, the bridges, resilient to the change that we re seeing happening. sorry, i won t interrupt like that again. i just hope you take a look at it. tell me if we need more or less, too. thank you, mr. president. i think with that, it s a great way to segway to our fema administrator. thank you. mr. president, governor, in addition to some of the numbers you mentioned, we have about 1,200 responders from the federal family on the ground. that doesn t include those back at the national response coordination center as well as our regional response coordination center. representing 22 different federal government agencies. we have right now, 197 ambulances that have been actively engaged in trying to help with managing the support for the health care system. we also have 12 mobile communication units,
how will we know? i think also we have to understand that the taliban also has interests. they are not going to flatline now they re willing to extend the deadline. they want to show that they have control over afghanistan and they need to counter the isis threat. no one is going to say, sure, we re going to extend the deadline until you feel you re ready. what we do know, there s a classification who are already going to be u.s. citizens. they are going to third countries that are not the u.s. we are giving them security reviews, bio mettic reviews and health reviews. then they come to the u.s. where they get covid testing. just so people understand they re not being dropped in the united states. and the classic that was in review. those that you re hearing about are getting sped through. i do think it s likely that those who may have been worthy but did not get into the process will be left behind. it doesn t mean they ll never get out but getting out, i think, will be de