WEBVTT - Immigration Crisis - September 27th, Hour 1 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:02.840 All right, thank you, Scott Shannon, Thanks to all of 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.360 you for being with us. Right down our toll free 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:06.920 telephone number if you want to be a part of 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:10.040 the program, it's eight hundred ninety four one Sean if 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.960 you want to join us. Immigration is obviously front and center. 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:16.480 We're only thirty nine days till election day. Early voting 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.639 now is rolling out in state after state after state. 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:21.880 Is a public service on Hannity dot com. We have 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:25.320 your state registration one of the deadlines. When does early 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.640 voting start, when does it stop? Et cetera, et cetera, 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:32.040 everything that you would need to know for your individual state. 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.639 And uh, you know what can I tell you? We're 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.839 really at a crossroads as a country. We're at the crossroads, 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:44.800 an inflection point in the world. I watched President Zelensky 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.320 and Donald Trump and yesterday kamalav I don't know where 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.880 Joe was. Is she now leading the country? And the 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.200 just not telling you. But but of course she wouldn't 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.600 take any questions. She never takes any questions. She never 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.280 has She'll never have to answer for her radicalism, which, 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.760 as anybody that listens to the show on a regular 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:06.120 basis knows, is a great, great source of frustration to me. 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:11.319 You know, and I'm watching this, this whole charade about 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.120 her going down to the border. I've played it so often, 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.040 I don't even know if I should play it anymore. 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.760 I think you probably haven't memorized at this point, Kamala Harris. 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:24.480 And you know, border walls, and she'd eliminated border walls, 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:28.640 and it's a vanity project of Donald Trump. And you know, 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:32.160 she the borders secure and the border's safe. They lied 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.160 for three and a half years the whole thing. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:34.760 About the border. 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.480 We've been to the border. We've been to the border. 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.000 You haven't been to the border, and I. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:41.160 Haven't been to Europe. 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.200 And I don't understand the point that you're making. You 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.920 support giving universal healthcare Medicare for all to people who 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.520 are in this country illegally. Let me just be very 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:52.200 clear about this. 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.600 I am opposed to any policy that would deny in 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:01.200 our country any human being from access to public safety, 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.000 public education, or public health. Period. 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.760 We have to have a secure border, but I am 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:09.720 in favor of saying that we're not going to treat 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.520 people who are undocumented across the border as criminals. 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:13.040 That's correct. 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.720 The border is secure, listen. I think there's no question 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.880 that we've got to critically re examine ICE and its 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.360 role and the way that it is being administered and 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:23.120 the work it is doing. And we need to probably 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:24.480 think about starting from Stratch. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:29.120 I mean, this is madness, defunding ICE, defunding the police, 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.760 and then on top of that, free housing, healthcare, food, education, 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.239 you know, the impact on the American people. Ethan brought 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.920 up a lot of points last night. It works on 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.600 our radio show. You don't put them on air off 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.400 and we just it's too risky for everybody. I'm kidding. 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:50.079 He made this comment about a holistic look. Well, let's 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.680 have a whole holistic look and another word, salad of hers. 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.800 Some of the work is going to be through what 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.160 we do in terms of giving benefits and assistance to 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:05.400 state local governments around transit dollars and looking holistically at 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:09.799 the connection between that and housing, and looking holistically at 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.200 the incentives we in the federal government can create for 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.400 local and state governments to actually engage in planning in 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:20.760 a holistic manner. That includes prioritizing affordable housing for working people. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.600 We're going to prioritize, well, we'd have a lot more 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.960 homes available. By the way, if we didn't have eleven 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:32.320 and a half million unvetted Harris Biden illegals to have 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.480 homes and places to stay, if it's not forced our 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:39.680 hotels in New York City, you know, a holistic approach 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:45.200 at Commalo's border crisis. Let's see, millions are of Americans 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.000 are out of homes because or they're paying more because 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.640 of the increase in demand. Look at what's happened to 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:54.360 the hotels. They're being filled and paid, you know, paid 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.680 for by you, the taxpayers. Many are even being destroyed 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.080 in the process. You know, look at what it's the 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:04.120 impact illegal immigrants unvetted by Harris and Biden they're having 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:08.440 on our school system. You know, English as a second language. 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.920 They're not hiring more teachers, so you're taking the limited 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:17.200 resources in a failed system anyway, and now you've got 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.039 all these other kids, and a lot of them don't 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.000 speak English, and all of this is being paid. That 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.000 means American kids are not getting the education that they 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.359 deserve and that their parents are paying for. You know, 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:33.440 these schools already have are in need of assistance and improvement. 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:39.000 What about the healthcare system? Free health care for illegals. Great. Well, 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.440 now our hospitals are overloaded with increased demand. They're now 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:46.440 under more financial stress patients. Do you know these patients 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.680 don't have insurance, so who's paying for it? Well, you 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.360 are in commos fine with that. Free housing, health care, 0:04:53.760 --> 0:05:00.560 food education, sex change, surgery, amnesty, no vetting. And we 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:04.040 have an increase in murder and rape and violent crimes, 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.560 and drug drugs are getting out of control. Look at 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.760 the spike and drug trafficking. You know, there's a there's 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.360 been such a flood of fentanyl into the country. It 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.760 went from ten dollars a pill to twenty five cents 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.200 a pill. You know, we had on Aaron Whitley who 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:23.080 testified in front of Congress describing this very thing that's happening. 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:25.400 And if, by the way, you happen to be part 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.799 of a charitable organization, or you look at the welfare 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.040 programs in this country, they're now even being moral overwhelmed 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.480 as well as if the highest Biden economy didn't make 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.920 things bad enough. You know, you have hundreds of kids 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.599 now that have gone missing, You have sex trafficking that 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:47.040 has gone up dramatically. You have known terrorists in the country, 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.760 We have a radiant assassination squads out to kill Donald Trump. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:55.119 You know, if I was president ever. And Donald Trump 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.600 mentioned this the other day, and he said, if somebody 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:02.400 threatened another presidential annidate, Republican and Democrat, doesn't matter the 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:07.160 you know, the Mullows in Iran, I will obliterate you. 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.800 I will use the word annihilate you if you dare 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.120 to pull off and try to pull off an assassination 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:18.479 attempt in this country. What is Harris and Biden done 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:23.279 or said to the Mullas in Iran. Nothing. The president 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.560 of Iran gets to come here, you know, during u 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.080 n Week, fully protected by the Secret Service. Donald Trump 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.039 has to move his events from outside to inside because 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:37.719 they don't have enough resources. I mean, beat me up, Scotty. 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:42.800 We don't have intelligent life down here. It's really unbelievable. 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.440 By the way this was. This was in the Washington Times. 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.159 The parents who have lost their children, and we have 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.600 dozens of dead Americans killed by Harris Biden illegals. I 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:56.640 run there, I scroll their names on TV often. These 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.680 parents are livid and they have been on loading on 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.880 Vice President Harris. Your borders are blaming her personally for 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.120 the loss of their loved ones. You know, quote, I 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.720 don't know how many more people Kamala Harris thinks have 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.360 to die before she's going to say something like, yes, 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.720 we have a problem. This is the mother Patty Morin, 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.559 the mother of Rachel Morin. She's the mother of five 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:23.080 that was slain in Maryland last year. A daughter said 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:28.400 she was attacked, draged, beaten, raped, killed by an illegal immigrant. 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:32.200 Or mom said, our body was blanketed in bruises, she 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:36.360 had ten to fifteen head wounds, strangled and stuffed into 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:41.800 a drain pipe. That's a Harris Biden unvetted illegal. We 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:45.320 told you about little twelve year old Jocelyn Nungary. We've 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.800 had our mother on this program and we talked to 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.200 her grandfather. This twelve year old girl was slain in 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:55.480 Texas and Houston last year. The daughter was accosted by 0:07:55.520 --> 0:08:00.040 two Harris Biden unvetted the illegals while she was getting 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.480 a drink at a store. She was raped, brutalized for 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.920 two hours, then murdered. Her body thrown in the water 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.160 to try to get rid of the DNA. He said, 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.640 they're monsters. They're the kind of individuals that we just 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:18.240 openly led into our country because of Kamala Harris and 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.840 funded her. A mother of a baby boy who died 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.920 of a fentanyl overdose, he blames Kamala Harris and her 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:30.560 complacency in terms of open borders. A photo wop won't 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.880 bring our kid back. You know, all these parents are 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.520 saying they haven't heard from Kamala Harris or Joe Biden. 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.400 Rachel Morin's mom called on the Vice President to restore 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.400 the Trump era policies. Instead of going to her photo 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.560 op today, she ought to go to DC. They've bragged 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:51.120 about undoing oh countless Trump era policies on the border 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:52.920 with a stroke of a pen, and with the stroke 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:57.319 of a pen, they can reinstate them. One Arizona rancher 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.400 and this was in the New York Post today, Tyler 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:04.240 Klump cattle rancher, Arizona border, which is a super highway 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:08.199 for a lot of Harris. Biden unvetted the illegals coming 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.680 in from Mexico. Donald Trump built the wall and upheld 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.560 our immigration laws on day one. She stopped building the 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.080 wall and encouraged the illegal immigration. Either purposely or not, 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.800 She's hurting the country with the illegal immigration and she's 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.120 pledging on I'm going to sign a bipartisan bill. I'm 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.800 going to I'm going to get the bill. They had 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:31.320 a bipartisan bill, and this was not a border security bill. 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.840 She's lying through her teeth because it wouldn't even have 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:38.480 been implemented unless four or five thousand illegals had already 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.360 come into the country on any given day, and then 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:47.520 Harris Biden and the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mary 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.680 Orcis would have the discretion whether or not they want 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.800 to do anything. In case you're interested, a gang of 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.080 unvetted Harris the illegals barged into a Brooklyn home on 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.400 Sunday night, stabbed six people at a party. As a 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.720 violent an illegal immigrant gang continues to explode all across 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:08.080 cities like New York and Chicago. This was the newest outrage. 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:14.120 This is that Venezuela Venezuelan game gang it's believed barged 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:18.960 into the home, instigated an argument, spilled out into the street, 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:24.080 of brawl ensues. Six people slashed. Oh well, and we 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:28.680 have new border data. I got this from Foxnews dot 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.520 Com and Tom Homan. Tom Holman's a great guy. He's 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.440 been on the show many times, tens of thousands of 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:38.920 illegal immigrants with sex offenses homicide convictions are loose on 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:42.720 the streets, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement data 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:47.319 provided two lawmakers this week. Listen to this data that 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.080 the media will not report that is available for everybody, 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.760 but the data says among those not in the tension, 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.640 there are four hundred and twenty five four hundred and 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.240 thirty one convicted criminals to one hundred and twenty two thousand, 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.560 one hundred and forty one with pending criminal charges. Those 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.640 include sixty two thousand, two hundred and thirty one convicted 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:11.959 of assault, fourteen thousand, three hundred and one convicted of burglary, 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:17.000 fifty six thousand, five hundred and thirty three with drug convictions, 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:22.199 thirteen thousand, ninety nine convicted of homicide, an additional two thousand, 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:27.000 five hundred twenty one have kidnapping convictions, fifteen thousand, eight 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:31.520 hundred and eleven have sexual assault convictions. What part of 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:35.480 this is Kamala not getting an additional one thousand, eight 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:39.760 hundred and forty five with pending homicide charges, forty two thousand, 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:43.360 nine hundred and fifteen with sexual assault charges, three thousand, 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:46.880 two hundred and sixty six with burglary charges four thousand, 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.600 two hundred and fifty with assault charges. The agency provided 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:54.120 the data to Tony Gonzalez, a congressman in Texas, about 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:58.080 the national data for illegal immigrants with criminal charges and convictions. 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.319 The data was as of a lie of this summer, 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.280 is broken down by those in detention and who are 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:09.040 not in detention, those not in detention known as non 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:14.120 detained docket and the Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:18.080 told Fox News Digital that under the under President Biden 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:22.560 and his borders are Vice President Harris, Department of Homeland Security, 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.960 law enforcement has been directed to mass release illegal aliens 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.400 whom they know have criminal convictions or are facing charges 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:34.920 for serious crimes. And these dangerous, destructive individuals are making 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:39.400 their way into every city and every state in this country. Now, 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.080 if you're in Georgia and you're in North Carolina, I 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.360 know by the way you're struggling with the aftermath of this, 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:50.719 this Hurricane Helene, which is just reaked tavoc in Georgia 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.000 and in Florida. I mean, I feel so sorry for 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.559 all of you out there that are struggling with this. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.080 You know, it's it's funny, Linda. I told it the 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:03.160 story one thirty am on Saturday. This is nothing. You know, 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:05.360 all of a sudden, the flood in my house put 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:09.120 it overflowing. You know, all the all the water backed 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.200 up is going into the living room and you know 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.680 down the stairs. It just is a mess, you know. 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.960 I'm tum struggling to find a plumber at two in 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.960 the morning, and I managed to find a plumber that 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.800 also had a remediation company. Anyway, it's nothing. I'm talking 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:25.920 to friends of mine in Florida and Georgia and they'd 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.480 like flooded out and they're going to be out of 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.920 their homes for months, if not a year. And my 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.079 prayers go to the and it just puts in perspective. 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.200 It was such a hassle this weekend. I was made 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.920 such a big deal about it. But you know, it 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.840 puts put your life in perspective when you start losing 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.000 your home, everything you've worked your entire life for. I 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.640 feel so sorry for everybody. It is horrible and it 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.800 is horrible, and I was I didn't complain too much. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.240 I didn't tell you about it, I think yesterday. 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:58.200 Right, Yeah, you only told me yesterday but you know, I. 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.040 Just I feel terrible for people. They fight hard to 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.960 get a home and you know, now they're devastating. Now 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.280 they're out of their home. They got to find a 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.400 place to live, they got to fight with their insurance company. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.480 It just sucks the whole thing. It uproots their life, 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:16.000 their kids' lives. We really live in surreal times. I 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.080 will tell you that. I mean, you know, we have 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.880 Kamala Harris declaring that invading the US is not a crime. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.000 I mean, it's what do you mean it's not a crime. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:32.360 How do you have a mindset that allows eleven and 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:36.720 a half million that we know about unvetted illegal immigrants 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:44.120 from one hundred and eighty countries including Iran, Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Venezuela, 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:49.120 tens and tens of thousands from China, Russia into our country. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.920 People that are part of gangs, We let them in. 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:58.080 People that have known association, people that have convicted felons, 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:02.960 allowed no vetting. Is it any surprise so many Americans 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.160 have been murdered, have been raped, have been victims of 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:10.520 violent crime, that these gangs have taken over small towns 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.760 and cities. Is it any wonder? You know? When they're 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:20.239 being offered free housing, food, healthcare, education, a path to citizenship, amnesty, 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:25.160 sex change operations, anything else we can offer you and 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:28.520 citizenship at the end of the rainbow, something of great value. 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.800 I bet they're hoping that they'll vote Democrat in the end. 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:38.160 We have been watching Hurricane Helene and it has been devastating. 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.280 I mean, you have millions and millions without power. You 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:45.360 have a ton of flooding that has taken place in Florida, Georgia. 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.040 I'm talking all my friends in Florida, all my friends 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.480 in Georgia. I can't tell you how many of them 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:55.160 have had their homes underwater, have had damage, trees hitting 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.120 their homes, trees that have fallen. It's bad. You know, 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:03.160 from a record storm urge in Tampa up until outside 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:07.000 of Tallahassee into Georgia. Fort Myers got hit very hard. 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.960 Even Atlanta, they had tornadoes in Georgia. It's been very, 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:14.880 very bad. We had Governor DeSantis on yesterday and we 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.680 have Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on with us now. First Governor. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.960 Our prayers are thoughts are with our friends in Georgia. 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.120 Not a lot of fun, and I know that it's 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:25.720 been pretty devastating for your state. 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.000 Yeah, well, thanks for the prayer, Sean, we certainly need them. 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.320 We've up to fifteen fatalities now in Georgia and just 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.320 heartbreak and loss of life. One of those was the 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.560 first responder that was trying to save somebody that lost 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.120 their life. And storm response. We've had up to a 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:47.600 million without power and certainly offer my thoughts and prayers 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.640 to the people of our state in Florida, South Carolina 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.360 and out of the states that were devastated by this 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.800 huge storm. It was a hard hitting for sure. 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.920 Tell us tell us exactly what happened and what parts 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.720 of Georgia got hit the hardest, and maybe what our 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.399 audience might be able to do to help you. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:08.879 Yeah. Well, one of the things that was really interesting 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.200 about the storm, you know, they had the track coming 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.560 on the hitting at the Big Bend area of Florida, 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:19.119 which it did there around Apple, Axicola and coming through Valdosta, Georgia. 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.360 But it was supposed to really go north and then 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:25.560 hooked toward Nashville, Tennessee. But the storm really just stayed. 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.320 It was such a strong, fast moving storm, it just 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:32.320 stayed straight and it powered right through Valdosta, straight through 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.440 to Augusta, Georgia, and went on und South Carolina before 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.399 it started going north. And I mean everything in the 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.440 path of that storm. And it was a cat too 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.560 when it hit Georgia, which is unprecedented. I mean, normally 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.640 you'll have that kind of hurricane hit Florida, but by 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:48.720 the time it gets to Georgia, it's down to one 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.760 or most of the time of tropical stormlight we saw 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.720 with Debbie, but this is a very powerful storm. It 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.320 was also very wide up the four to five hundred 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.280 miles wide, so it was a state wide event from 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.720 a flooding perspective. And then everything that was in the 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.520 path of the eye in to the east or on 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.560 the right side of that storm really took the brunt 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.320 of this and that's where we're seeing the most damaged 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:15.119 a lot of the fatalities. For example, in Lowndes County, 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.639 we still have one hundred and fifteen structures that we 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.960 know individuals are in that we're still trying to get to. 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.360 There's so many trees down that's taken a long time 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.879 to cut in there to try to rescue people. 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.720 And this really hit hard in and around and outside 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:34.040 the perimeter of of downtown Atlanta too. How hard did 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:37.000 they get hit in some of those areas. It's heavily 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.879 treated with old treed areas. You know, I lived in 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:41.480 Georgia for four years. 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:44.760 Well, certainly it got hit, nothing like we saw in 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:46.919 South Georgia. But what was interesting is we had a 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:50.040 storm before the storm, so we had this you know, 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.080 this front that came from the northwest down through northwest 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:56.320 Georgia to Atlanta created a vortex and so we had 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.560 this a tremendous amount of rain in the metro area 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:04.000 before Hurricane Helene pushed up a lot of rain. So 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.560 we've had in places up to a foot of rain 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:08.880 in Georgia in a very short period of time, which 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:13.320 caused a lot of soggy ground trees to obviously fall down, 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:18.080 knockout power. We had flash flooding and still worry about 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.600 flash flooding up in the northern parts of our states, 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:25.879 especially in Northeast Georgia. We're working on evacuating people below 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.840 the Lake Raven Dam. They've got to release water off 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.120 of that lake and just trying to get people out 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.359 of their homes. The homes and the people are not 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:36.680 in danger, but when they release the water, they won't 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.960 be able to get out of the driveway or on 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:43.159 the county road if there's a medical emergency. So just 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:46.879 all kinds of things like that. We've got literally thousands 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.760 of line workers that are pushing in right now, but 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:51.679 I mean, it's going to take us a while just 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:53.560 to get the roads cleared. It's so bad. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.560 What about power? How many people are without power at 0:19:57.560 --> 0:19:59.560 this point? Do you know of Well? 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:01.840 I know one point we had at least a million. 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.720 I think Florida had close to me and if not, 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:08.320 over in South Carolina had one point four million. So 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:12.360 it's devastating. From that perspective, I think we were down 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:15.919 to about eight hundred thousand. But it's gonna take us 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:17.679 a long time to get the power down in some 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.719 of these areas. I mean literally places like Valdosta, Georgia 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:25.479 just got leveled, Sandersville, Georgia, you know, anywhere along that 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.440 path really got hit hard. A lot of poles down, 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:30.880 a lot of wires down, And just want to urge 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:34.560 everybody to be very careful around that and still watch 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.480 for the potential for trees to fall with gust and 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:39.320 wins that we still have in the state. 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:43.600 What about people that have displaced? Is their website maybe 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:47.160 people can go to I'm not sure what power down. 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:50.240 I'm not sure if SUL service is down, but a 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:53.120 number to call or something if they need to get, 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:57.720 for example, temporary assistance for housing or help of any kind. 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:01.280 Is there any hotline that you said that is helping 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:03.919 people in desperadin Yes, I. 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.320 Would tell people obviously if they're having an emergency, just 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:09.320 called nine to one one. If people need to shelter, 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:13.360 they can contact their local emergency management agency in their county. 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:17.360 Certainly they can reach out to the web boc at 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:22.240 Georgia Emergency Management Agency and get to us through our website. 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:25.000 We have a lot of resources. We had a couple 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:28.000 of hundred people that were evacuating from Florida and our 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:31.240 shelters last night. I know we had up to eleven 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:35.080 hundred today, and then you know, we've just got a 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:37.760 tremendous amount of resource to sean as you can imagine 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:41.040 that's going in now. We've got dozens and dozens of 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:45.080 chainsaw cut teams, we've got search and rescue. We've called 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:48.199 up additional National Guard on top of the five hundred 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:53.760 that we had in the pre storm emergency, State of emergency. 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:58.520 We've got Department of Transportation folks, and just a lot 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:01.320 of you know, and then literally thousands alignment that are 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:03.120 going in as soon as we could get the road 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.320 clear from white line to white line. We're pushing in 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:07.240 there and getting the work. 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:13.159 I communicated with Franklin Graham of Samaritans Perse and I 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:15.399 know that he's going to be going into every state 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:19.600 that's been impacted, including Georgia. The Red Cross Are they 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:22.680 active that they on the ground yet, Yeah. 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:24.800 And you know, we've got we've had our State Operation 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:27.760 Center open. That was one of the things the early 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:30.240 state of emergency allowed us to do is to get 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:34.320 all state agencies, our federal partners in the State Operation 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:38.480 Center where we could communicate all in one location, really 0:22:38.520 --> 0:22:41.639 push all requests and organization through the web of the 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:46.320 sc and Georgia Emergency Management Agency. We've got FEMA there 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:49.840 with us, the Red Crosses there, We've got Public Health, 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:54.399 Department of Agriculture, anybody you could imagine. And you know, 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:57.400 I know there's a lot of other nonprofits, the Baptist 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:00.199 Convention and others that will be helping us with you know, 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:04.200 serving meals and pushing water in. There are corporate partners. 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:07.560