US Homeland Security Chief to Survey Louisiana Flooding Response

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is due to survey recovery efforts in the southern state of Louisiana Thursday where unprecedented flooding has left at least 13 people dead. The floods around Baton Rouge came from record-breaking rains of more than 75 centimeters that began last week.  An estimated 40,000 homes have been damaged. "I stayed through hurricanes.  I stayed through other things.  This has got to be the worst," resident Moosie Benoit...

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