"I will just tell you that I had a number of conversations overnight and today with parish presidents and other officials who believe that the death count attributable to the hurricane will go up because they see catastrophic damage in certain places that they have every reason to believe were inhabi..."
"Either pain on shore with everything that was advertised. The surge, the rain, the wind, all of our levee systems, particularly our federal levee systems and hurricane risk reduction systems performed..."
"Louisiana's governor saying he expects it to rise quote considerably."
"There's been a preliminary damage assessment of levees today, people getting eyes on those levees. We don't believe there was a single levee anywhere now that actually breached that failed."
"the governor of this state has been very responsible about trying to ensure that masks can occur where they need to."
"As bad as things have been over the last couple of weeks, they`ve just been tend to move in the wrong direction, 2907 individuals in the hospital with COVID-19. That`s the highest we`ve ever had in an..."
"Nobody should be laboring under the misapprehension that this is just another surge. We`ve already had three of these. This is the worst one we`ve had thus far."
"We are very unfortunately in a position that we had hoped that we had pray that we`ve worked very hard to avoid. But quite simply, the Delta variant is an absolute game changer, superimposed as it is ..."
"Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards acted early."
"I strongly reported the police's decision to release that footage."
"I am here today to urge the Congress and the Administration to do two things."