thank you for being with us. to bring you some other news, man suspected of being involve in the riots of the u.s. capitol has been granted asylu in belarus evan newman fled the u.s. afte being charged in connectio with the event on january th 6th. after first going to ukraine he s now moved to belaru claiming that he needs asylu because he s facing politica prosecution back home. one person has reportedly died in new orleans after a tornado tore through the city. tens of thousands are stil without power and a number o homes have been severely damaged. the founder of wikileaks is to marry his fiancée at - he s being held as he fights extradition to the u.s.. he s wanted there for leakin classified documents to th american militaries doc supporters are expected to gather around the president to celebrate the marriage prince william and kate have been greeted by protesters i
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speak to us. dr. william schaffner, thank you for your time. still ahead we re keeping an eye on henri. we ll get one last check on its path before it makes landfall in just a matter of hours. at the top of the hour, maria teresa kumar is in for ali velshi and will speak with congressman gregory meeks who predicted that president biden s deadline to get americans out of afghanistan is not going to happen. it starts in just a few minutes. . that i should get used to people staring. so i did. it s okay, you can stare. when you re a two-time gold medalist, it comes with the territory. music playing. there s an america we build
flights. gathering data. keeping people safe is number one. what do you do when you re up there? how does the data you gather keep us on the ground here? that is the whole point of these flights is to get into the storm and actually get data from it. so we have a crew of about 10 to 12 people on board, that includes pilots and navigators and meteorologists, electronic technicians and engineers like myself. we re all gathering accurate data and getting it to the national hurricane center on time so they can make this forecast as good as possible. the better the job we can do, the better the folks on the ground will be prepared. you can see the bumpiness. given your experience, what sort of warning do you want?
they re going. the airlines have been put on notice by the defense department they re probably going to be needed. if they absolutely have to, the government can invoke a special law to force these airlines to fly with this, although they are hoping the airlines will voluntarily agree to use their aircraft and their crews to ferry some of these tens of thousands of people who need to get out of afghanistan back to the united states or to some other safe location, kendis. they are clearly desperate times. josh ledderman, thank you. for more on afghanistan, let s bring in the illinois representative, raja murthi and joel reuben. welcome to both of you. congressman, i do want to start with you. according to the u.s. intelligence, this isis threat is real and significant. it s prompting the pentagon to