Obama to Visit Flood-Ravaged Louisiana.
BANFIELD: As if almost on cue, we got a live picture up for you on the Tarmac at Baron Rouge Louisiana, this is the Air Force 1. It's just taxiing into location. And the president emerges live for us. This is 11 days after disaster struck Baton Rouge. He is there to visit some of the areas hardest hit and on the Tarmac about to greet him the governor John Bel Edwards with a hug and a greeting and his wife. And then obviously I just off to the left, our guest from just a few moments ago, Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser who has seen his fair share of disaster. As the former President Plaquemines Parish who has seen five hurricane and of course the gulf oil spill. The president greeting this platform party on the Tarmac just before heading out to visit an area of East Baton Rouge, one of the parishes there, some criticism that he is not going to visit some of the hardest-hit areas. That coming up a little earlier. We don't know why it is he picked particular location. But we can tell you this. His spokes person Josh Earnest saying that he's focused on the fatalities and damage. There are 13 people who lost their lives in this crisis. There are 60,000 homes that are damaged in some way, if not destroyed. Millions and millions of dollars in damage and so much of it not covered by flood insurance because the people of Baton Rouge were told not only by their mortgage companies but by insurance companies they were not in an area where flood insurance was required or really that necessary. This was a 1 in 1,000-year rain fall that brought in trillions and trillions of gallons of water and damaged so many families. So as the president continues his tour he's going to head from the airport. He's got quite a busy schedule he held back to the White House later today. We're going to watch to see where he goes and what is said. They'll be some public comments that are made a little bit later on after he is able to see some of the damage for himself and of course CNN's going to have to have complete coverage of this visit all throughout the afternoon. Our live cameras are staying up and watching.