as you can see right there, widely scattered thunderstorms across portions of the northern plains. and we saw earlier in some of the video that that is the storm system that spawned those twisters that martha showed us earlier. some widely scattered showers that poured into the ohio valley into pennsylvania at this hour. for the most part, much of dixieland is nice and dry. current readings as you step out the door, already warmish in dixieland. 77 right now with humidity. later on today, downright hot across much of texas. look at that. that s their high temperatures. all right. mr. kilmeade, let s talk about the president. right. steve, you let me in beautifully. since you read president obama, i ll skip to the next line. he s going to have a major address and it s going to be on wednesday. that s tomorrow. biggest question how many troops will be withdrawn from afghanist
there s nato coalition, then nation building. i mean, this is sounding like to a lot of american people obviously, judging from the polls a little bit like iraq and afghanist afghanistan. the american people skeptical saying wait a minute, this sounds like what we ve seen before, even if you re not speaking from the oval office. andrea, the white house will say yay, we know about iraq and afghanistan, but we want you to say this sounds like bosnia, kosovo and the interventions done in the late 1990s. they believe that is a successful model. fact check them on this. sthe fact is it took a long time and there were massacres that preceded president clinton finally took him years to get to that point. years and years. they do not want this be. ifhey were tdo thi prime time at 8:00, they wouldbe
afghanistan is the same. and in pakistan right now is nuclear bomb. this is what is important. why is this important to americans? it s important, because there are 2 million illegal immigrants, middle eastern immigrants, in this country right now. and they are a virtual army. they re coming across the border daily. and they are here for a reason. and they re being the leaders are being trained in afghanistan. and if we don t keep them in afghanist afghanistan, it will be like opening a spigot, and they will all pour in and all these plans and believe me, they have plans. let me ask you what the best method of keeping people prosperous in their own land. that s ultimately what this is about, right? either giving people education or opportunity of some fashion of prospering in their land. what s the best recipe for that?
washington in march. he insists on staying on course in afghanistan. president obama spelled out his war strategy last december focusing on counter insurgency, and if you will recall, it included the deployment of an additional 30,000 troops to the war zone. by the end of august, some 100,000 troops are expected in afghanist afghanistan. withdrawal of u.s. troops is scheduled to begin in july of 2011. here s file pictures of taliban fighters, very good of pulling out of a fight when outnumbered and filtering back into the area later. critics say that s due to either an unwillingness or lack of training by afghan military, and police force to be able to nail them down. other problems triggering grumbling include continued taliban violence in southern afghanistan. in hallman province. setbacks in marja, which we talked about so much in january and february. that was that was that hasn t been as successful as
see him take a role. and what about the attack for the seven working for the cia in afghanist afghanistan. the cia may have gotten their man finally. terror officials say that a recent strike inside may have killed a man named hussein almany against a u.s. base in afghanistan that killed seven people working for the cia. the suicide bomber obviously killed in that attack, they believe that the man they killed last week was a planner, a facilitator, someone very much involved behind the scenes in that suicide bomb attack. they think they got him. kiran. barbara starr this morning. thank you. also at 6:30 eastern we re going to be joined by former cia officer gary bernstein, we re going to talk about how attacks