that coalition ironically includes the new york city mayor eric adams and the chicago mayor brandon johnson, both mayors of sanctuary cities. they re asking for $5 billion in federal funding to house thousands of asylum seekers. we ex pect to hear from the mayors making the rounds in washington. more as it happens. first this. that was the scene recently on the fight to flee gaza. egypt allowing the first evacuees through the rafah border crossing. at least five americans among them. sources telling fox news 400 americans have been cleared to follow suit. whether that happens today or not is something we await. i m bill hemmer live in new york city. team is back together. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. it is astounding the mayors have to come begging the white house for help on a problem the white house is refusing to solve. we ll cover that but also get you to this. the increased fighting in gaza is putting pressure on the white house to get the am
coastline. you can see that the eye of the storm is getting closer to land. the outer bands of this storm are impacting corpus christy all the way up to houston. and this is now a category 3 storm. it has been upgraded. ask ts it continues to push inland we ll see it get stronger. before it weakens really. here we go. we re looking at the landfall right around 1 this morning eastern time. window time frame could be anywhere from 10 to 2 but we re pinning that 1 hour overnight. this is dangerous. category one by saturday morning and then making a turn for the coast and there s a lot of warm water in place, so this is why it s feeting of on of that. it s getting its strength and why it s going to last for several days on end because we do have a rimg off to the west coast making it very hot for areas like southern california. without anything to push this storm ang lo, several inches of rain on the way, at least 35 inches. that s a lot. that s taller than a small child. again, i m about
the scenes so that people out there on the street who are taking care of these sick and vulnerable can do their jobs. you re absolutely right. without the help of other elements of the city government, finance, park and rec it allows the people to do their job out in the field. and these people are going to be here for hours and hours and days and days. they re here to manage all that to make sure the man on the street, the woman on the street, the boots on the ground can take conveyor of the people out there that need this care. we want to make sure that the people are safe in the city of corpus christi and we have elements of fire department, police department, texas task force one is down here and other elements that are have had if we have to do any rescues. what would you tell people listening out there that are in this area and they know harvey is heading this way. teamwork, preparation, planning is what s essential in order to have a successful operation. and listen
surge that s on the way. got the rain coming from the sky, the water coming in from the coastline. and those winds that extend 35 miles out. so that s something that we re watching. we ll give you a little update in just a few minutes on what we re seeing here because thangs are changing as we speak. all right. thanks very much. we ll stay in close touch with you on this. we ll be back with you in about half an hour. let s get out of the studio now and down to where it s all happened. kerry sanders katy, let s start with you. what are the conditions like? well, ali, we can definitely feel those outer bands making their way in. the rain is very heavy right now. the wind is somewhere around 50-mile-per-hour. as you can see, some of this rain has already collected here along the beach and as you stated, there s going to be up to three feet of flooding possible in this area, which is devastating. but the one thing i do want to show you is the storm surge
refinery assets came under threat occurred back in 2008 when we had hurricane ike in the middle of august and two weeks later we had hurricane gust off. it came right into the heart of the center. and what happened, and this is interesting, ali, is in between august 15th and about the middle of september the crude oil contract on the new york america tile exchange dropped by 25% in price. but in the final four days when that contract went to expiration, it rallied 44%, and on the final day of trading, it went from a range of $103 all the way up to $130, a $27 barrel range. and this was a massive short squeeze. so what happened? and what happened there, ali, is the traders went back and look at what happened of the prior event, and of course, that would have been katrina in 2000 five. again, this was an event that was ultimately bearish for crude oil prices, bullish for product prices. and so they went ahead and they put the same trade on. but for the spec larts, they