what is the threat moving forward? reporter: i think there are significant risks al qaeda is diminished, but not defeated. isis is in the country and hundreds of their fighters just released from prison. the president is insistent that the u.s. will continue to carry out anti-terrorism missions from over the horizon, but not being on the ground, of course, diminishes your ability to see the threat and to deal with it. and i think that will be a growing question, can the taliban deal with it and if not, can we? david? that s the question. ian pannell with us from doha again tonight. ian, thank you. our coverage of afghanistan for tonight. but in the meantime, we do turn now to the other major news this evening, her can ida and now the storms moving up the east coast, right into the northeast next. tonight, the deadly highway collapse from these new storms after already wrecking havoc along the gulf coast. more than 1 million customers without power in this stifling heat and with h
bill: charlie is in sarasota. jen is working her apartment in manhattan 24/7. reminder as we did last week these are one of hundreds, if not thousands of phone conversations happening all over america and the world trying to help these people. dana: they aren t sleeping. they re tireless. when it s appropriate jen, we re going out. a fox news alert. a deadly highway collapse in the southeast at hurricane ida leaves a trail of destruction. details next. search and rescue teams spanning across the region looking for survivors amid massive flooding. we ve been deployed here. a ton of people with boats. there is the crew and there is significant flooding anywhere from 3 to 6 or 7 feet deep in areas. snapshot? -what s snapshot? -what the commercial was about.
more than 80 large fires burninging as we come on the air. states of emergency issued for nevada and parts of california. the caldor fire sweeping into the lake tahoe basin. the alarming spike in child covid cases tonight. more than 300 children every day now being admitted to the hospital. and late word tonight, two teachers at one junior high school dying from covid within the first week of school. in new york city tonight, authorities say the 80-pound cougar taken from an apartment. and the patriots star player cut from the team, reportedly acknowledging covid lowing him down. good evening and it s great to have you with us here on this tuesday night. we are following these major storms after hurricane ida, now moving up the coast tonight. the deadly highway collapse from this. the northeast now bracing.
possible cause of a highway collapse in mississippi. the east and westbound lanes of highway 26 gave way 60 miles northeast of biloxi sending cars plunging into a hole. fox weather journalist will nunley is live in mississippi. what do you see there? all of this unfolding in the dark of night on a dark stretch of highway in rural mississippi in the pouring down rain. troopers say these drivers never likely saw it coming. the crater left behind by the rushing water. again happening at about the drivers characterizing this driving 55 to 60 miles per hour and emergency managers are saying they likely never saw this impact xomg. head on collisions as they hit the embankment. rescue efforts overnight. two people dying at the scene. 10 others injured with three of those in critical condition. they had to use a crane to try to remove the vehicles overnight.
smoke but the fire s temperatures fires temperatures were so hot the portion of the highway collapse. this instagram video shot by a driver amazingly no one was injured in this whole ordeal. the journal-constitution is also reporting today the arrest warrant said he placed a cherry on top of the shopping cart and ignited it causing the fire. i know there s still a lot of lingering questions about what caused this fire and what was stored under the bridge. the area of the fire where it originated is part of the right away and is part of where we had stored construction materials and what caused this is we do not know at this time. the repairs begin in an important stretch of highway in atlanta. the commission of the department of transportation said it will take at least several months in the meantime the commuters are already used that nightmare traffic was.