road, raising questions about the unsolved more of his wife and son who were gunned down nearly three months ago. and the death toll rising as states comb through the catastrophic damage from hurricane ida. officials say it could be weeks before power's back in some parts of louisiana. griff: we begin with afghanistan. republicans putting pressure on the biden administration as the white house defends its exit strategy. >> we should have never let the military leave, we should have maintained control of multiple air bases so we would have operational control of afghanistan until everyone was out, at least citizens were and noncombatants. but now we have diplomatic relations going through doha, qatar, and we can't even get directly there. so this is a position of weakness that the biden administration has chosen. griff: we have fox team coverage. trey yingst in qatar on the situation with afghan scrapping wees, but first to -- evacuees, but first to david spunt in where president biden is spending the holiday weekend.