Will well begin with a fox news alert, israel preparing for a full scale Ground Invasion of gaza as they begin the arrest of more than 50 people involved suspected of being involved in terrorist activity. Prime minister net ya Huh Issuing A Netanyahu Issuing A warn together enemies. I stress, this is only the beginning. Our enemies have only just begun to pay the price. I will not detail our plans but i will tell you, this is only the beginning. Pete Evacuations Underway In Northern Gaza as Evacuation Deadline is set to hit two hours from right now. They extended it 9 00 a. M. Eastern time is when the deadline ends. An agreement reportedly reached trojans and allow foreign nationals to evacuate the gaza strip at rafah Border Crossing into egypt. Rachel get to trudgings live on the ground in Southern Israel. Trey, good morning. This deadline has been extended to 9 00 a. M. In a couple hours here. Are you hearing that more and more palestinians are taking advantage of that time and getti
and the taliban will not let them leave the airport. now, the white house disputes the term hostage. but they also say they can t be certain about the situation on the ground, because one of the prices of an american withdrawal is the lack of intelligence resources. situations like this are going to happen. right. look, the term hostage is a fraught term in a situation like this when it could mean a focussed life or death situation. this illustrates the lack of control we have over the situation. and you know, they did take out over 100,000 people. it was very historic. one of the largest evacuations we ve seen before. but a lot of it depended on the cooperation of the taliban. they did not fight us while we were doing that. they made it difficult at certain check points, but they helped the united states leave. now that handshake deal or at least aligned objectives is kind of done, because we hit the evacuation deadline and our military left. and so we are kind of, again, now in t
mohammed ali. the afghanistan war ends just days before the anniversary of 9/11. and back in afghanistan, many are stranded with their families past the evacuation deadline. here at home there has been a fierce debate of president biden s handling of the withdrawal. with us is atan zeem. spencer ackerman and the author of the great new book reining terror. and michael dalynyc. and the author of the upcoming book new york s finest. let s go to the region first,
said to be carrying multiple suicide bombers. and we re hours away from president bidens evacuation deadline tomorrow. there are hundreds, there could be thousands of americans that are going to get left behind in afghanistan. the state department has made a decision that the 31st is the deadline. they re allowing taliban to dictate our foreign policy. any time you allow a partisan political decision designed for a photo op it will lead to a fatal national security problem on the battlefield. jillian: it is a very busy monday morning. you re watching fox & friends first. i m jillian mele. todd: i m todd piro. moments ago, ida downgraded to a tropical storm, hundreds of residents still needing to be rescued at this hour. the storm hitting the gulf coast, putting over 1 million people in the dark. jillian: we have team coverage with fox news senior meteorologist janice dean tracking the storm in the studio for us. we start with fox weather multimedia journalist will nunly
the mid-atlantic up towards the northeast, and parts of southern connecticut which got hammered by henry just a week and a half ago. we will continue to monitor the situation. the sun will come up and see will see catastrophic damage. brian over to you. brian: thanks. other catastrophe is happening in afghanistan. evacuation deadline tomorrow really done today as hundreds of american citizens are trapped behind taliban lines. secretary of state antony blinken pressed on the plan to get them out. a very senior taliban leader spoke on television and on the radio throughout afghanistan. and repeatedly assured the afghan people that they would be free to travel after august 31st. i know you say you don t trust the taliban but now you are telling me we should trust what the taliban. no, i m not saying that martha. i m not saying we should trust the taliban on anything. i m simply reporting on what of their senior leaders said to the afghan people. you are trying to reassure