everybody. thanks so much for joining us this morning. welcome to sunday morning futures. i m maria bartiromo. communist china and america s national security, new worries this morning over another virus in china and a potential cover-up to come. china is masking up once again as gop senators call for travel restriction from the communist country. coming up, south dakota governor kristi noem on the china threat. then, the new virus just in time for america s next presidential election. is the ccp trying to keep joe biden in the white house and interfere in the u.s. election? as former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe told me last month. dissented from the intelligence community s majority and said how china was trying to influence the outof the 2020 election, and that has been corroborated. the fbi has walked back intention and said, no, china did try and interfere, continues to try and interfere in elections. and that s going to continue to be the case. m
thanks so much for joining us this morning. welcome to sunday morning futures. i m maria bartiromo. communist china and america s national security, new worries this morning over another virus in china and a potential cover-up to come. china is masking up once again as gop senators call for travel restriction from the communist country. coming up, south dakota governor kristi noem on the china threat. then, the new virus just in time for america s next presidential election. is the ccp trying to keep joe biden in the white house and interfere in the u.s. election? as former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe told me last month. dissented from the intelligence community s majority and said how china was trying to influence the outof the 2020 election, and that has been corroborated. the fbi has walked back intention and said, no, china did try and interfere, continues to try and interfere in elections. and that s going to continue to be the case. maria: comin
the state making a decision to open the spillway and release water into some communities, burying homes in those communities to protect communities like baton rouge, new orleans, one of the extraordinary measures this state is taking. the stakes are enormous. governor jindal saying $300 million alone in crop damage, tens of millions in other property damage. there are a dozen oil refineries in flood zone. there are chemical factories, homes and businesses as well. listen to governor jindal here explaining the tough decision to open the spillway he says will protect larger communities without a doubt but for the families right in the devastated zone, listen to how many homes could be, could be just buried. look, worst case scenario and i don t think the numbers will be this bad. they said 3 million acres under water. 20 to 30,000 people will be flooded. approximately between 11 or 15,000 homes. since then the estimate has been revised. they didn t have to open as much of the