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Laura Coates Live

Interview with Chris Christie

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Chris goes one on one with Former Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie.

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0:00.0

Thank you, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime. Breaking news. We can finally show you parts of Ram Bahama Island that no one has been able to get to until now.

0:11.0

Our cameras are there and you're going to see for yourself the magnitude of the destruction and why people on the ground there fear news about more fatalities.

0:20.6

Now that fear of the unknown spreads to what could be thousands of people missing. Rescuers are battling flood lane flooding that you're going to see. They're very hard to reach areas. There are no communications.

0:31.6

We told you about one young woman search for family. We have new information on her situation tonight. You're going to want to hear it.

0:37.6

We're also live on the ground in the Carolinas where the eye wall of Dorian is now closing in and we have a special guest tonight on a different kind of storm.

0:46.6

What does Trump insider Chris Christie make of the president's latest war with the true. Not so sharpie. What do you say? Let's get after it.

1:02.6

All right, let's deal with the serious situation first. This is what we've been waiting to see. This is what Dorian left behind on the part of Ram Bahama Island that had been totally cut off until today.

1:14.6

Finally, some of the flood waters are receding. Patrick Oppmann made his way there with his team. I want to show you Patrick show you that he's okay. I want to talk to him about what that experience was like today. But first, let's show the viewers what Patrick and his team recorded.

1:31.6

This behind me is the clinic and it has been leveled by Hurricane Dorian's category five wins that came screaming through here. There are people in the Bahamas who say that the abacos different islands receive the worst damage and they need to come here.

1:49.6

They need to come to remote places on Graham, Bahama Island that very few have visited. We're only about an hour from Freeport but it took us much longer to get here driving around debris like this. You can see in every direction from miles all the power lines are down.

2:08.6

Most of the poles are down. There are trees down. You don't see any cars coming back and forth because there's nothing or nowhere to go to here. This was the town center. Over there, come and look at this. It's amazing. It was the police station.

2:31.6

Hurricane Dorian came here and ripped the roof clean off. But not only that, you think of the power that a storm needs to knock down entire cement walls.

2:47.6

We don't know if anybody was here but it's hard to imagine they could have survived because residents say the storm surge and you can see the line just up there got this high almost all the way to the roof. 17 feet they said they measured it. You can see the water stains all the way down the ground.

3:08.6

The devastation everywhere you look. The town goes all the way back to the water. There are some 300 homes here. Every home is damaged or destroyed. You can see where the wind smashed the sign but somehow didn't tear it off.

3:29.6

These are slabs of concrete and they've been thrown around like there were nothing like they weighed nothing. This is the Hyrock prison. There's only one jail cell and it's not guarding anybody now.

3:47.6

We don't know if anybody was here when the storm came. Behind bars. They surely didn't stick around. There's nothing left in this town and the people say they've yet to receive any help from the government. Like so many behemians, they are waiting for that assistance to come.

4:08.6

The silence is so scary. That situation checks every box who is gone for good, who is missing, how do you rescue, how do you restore law and order and power and essentials.

4:20.6

Now Patrick, first of all, thank God you and your team are safe. I know you've been working around the clock. Thank you for bringing our viewers the information so that they can stay connected. What about people? Who did you see there? What have you heard about? What is the untold story of concern in that area?

4:38.6

It was a ghost town, Chris. It took us days to get out there. We kept trying and the water was just too deep. When we drove out there, the water came halfway up the car. Our driver a couple times wanted to go back. The road was missing in several areas.

4:51.6

We went forward because we knew there was a great story out there. The damage was absolutely stunning. I've seen a lot of really awful things in the last week. And this was up there. I don't want to get too graphic. You could smell death, the stench of death.

5:04.6

Everywhere we went, we were told by residents that crews came in today to look for bodies. We don't know exactly what they found. It was a ghost town out there, Chris. That town, just that one town we were 300 people live there. They're still on their own.

5:21.6

So it is the unknown. That is the biggest fear. Now, how many places like that are there that still need to be surveyed and accounted for?

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