task force. task force eagle at fort lee in virginia stoods up in july and has the capacity for 1,750. today task force eagle at fort lee has supported 1,647 afghan special immigrant applicants and their families. nearly laugh of whom have completed the process and moved on with the support of department of state, non-governmental operations and volunteer operations. task force bliss at fort bliss, texas has a capacity of 5,000. received first flights with vulnerable afghans on saturday, august 21st.
you ll see at the task force. task force eagle at ft. lee virginia stood up in july and has capacity for 1,750. today task force eagle at ft. lee supported 1,647 afghan special immigrant visa applicants and their families. half of whom have completed the process and have moved on with the support of the department of state, nongovernmental, intergovernmental organizations and volunteer organizations. task force bliss at ft. bliss, texas, currently has capacity of 5,000. and received first flights with vulnerable afghans on saturday, august 21st. the base supported to date 2,160 afghans. housed in a mix of hard and soft structures. final capacities expected to be at least 10,000. task force mccoy, wisconsin, currently has capacity of 10,000 and received first flights with at risk afghans on sunday, august 22nd.
0 kabul. and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm the vast majority of our staff and the immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the grounds of the karzai international airport. we re actively working to evacuate remaining staff and we have been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us, they have worked with us. they are our colleagues as you heard us say before, our embassies around the world simply could not function without locally employed staff. and we will continue to do everything we can to bring them to safety. with that, matt? . so before you came out here, your colleague had a number of questions to you. you can thank her that for later, some of which involved the some of the numbers you just went through. she gave some of those as well. but there are three things that i want to ask. can you be extremely brief in the answers. the
largely in communities that supported donald trump. as a final point, the white house, of course, is grateful any time a republican leader speaks out to say you should take the vaccine, whether that s mitch mcconnell, some of the southern governors and now even yes, donald trump, but they fear too many aren t going to listen to figures like that. that s why messages need to come from the communities, local doctors, pastors, whoever it might be, someone on the ground more than donald trump, it s someone in their community that might be more effective. katty kay i want to show you this again. please don t tell anybody in britain that we re having to send this out to americans. the united states food and drug administration had to send out a tweet on august 21st warning people against taking horse and cow deworming medicine. said you are not a horse, you are not a cow.
inches in one hour. the detail rainfall record for august 21st is about 4.5 inches. we were close to seeing a daily record in a matter of hours. we re going to continue to see really heavy rainfall from long island, new york city, all the way up into possibly new hampshire. some of these, and this is going to be on the west side of the track. on the east side we re going to see storm surge. this record rainfall here, because some of us will be dealing with record rainfall as the system stalls out over new england. that s going to lead to the potential for an already saturated ground to become more saturated. you add in the tropical storm to hurricane-force winds here, we re definitely going to see some power outages across the region. i don t think this graphic here is bullish enough with those power outages. i think we could see hundreds of thousands without power when this is all said and done, michael. wow. fascinating to see the data from