governor roy cooper called on everyone to stay home today, calling it a menace and bringing in help. our forecasters expect significant impacts across our state. i ve also activated 200 national guard soldiers to assist in storm response. the national guard will work in western and central counties to help with transportation. they re equipped with emergency response vehicles that can move through the snow, such as hum-vees and four-wheel-drive ambulances. helping us cover the first big winter storm of 2022, nbc s kathy park in charlotte, north carolina, you look cold, my friend, and meteorologist michelle grossman who is tracking the storm from indoors. kathy, we ll get this over with because it looks chilly, talk about what it s like there. reporter: yes, thanks for coming to me first, because it s freezing. snow has now switched to this
napping, packing, reading. playing cards. when it is go time, that focus that training it kicks in. total 2,000 soldiers will deploy from here. 300 fl the 18th airborne. already in germany. still working on deploying the 82nd airborne. all together 1,700 soldiers from the division go to poland. inside of the large c 17 planes, are not only soldiers but equipment. and hum vees. the soldiers will conduct drills with the polish counter parts. who calling it routine. we re there to assure allies and reinforce our commitment to european allies. we cannot really anticipate the future. we hope the presence will assure allies that we re committed to a safe and stable europe. the soldiers are headed to europe. they don t have a time line as
migrants moving slowly through mexico still a few weeks away and giving texas and authorities here to prepare a defense to see what it s going to look like. we saw the texas national guard hum-vees. they re allowed to carry live rounds to deploy deterrents and the immigrants while on private property. since march when operation lonestar was launched, military and dps made a combined 150,000 apprehensions. in kinney county alone 1200 arrests led to trespass charges and jail time in the state prison in dilley, texas. there s a concern that they re staying in jail longer than they should, but once we get the, you know, the complaints filed against them within 30 days, it s a process, you have to go through the arraignment processes and if
don, i would only state that might be the wrong term to use. the military didn t leave weapons behind. there were sales to the afghan security forces, and unfortunately through many of the bases throughout afghanistan, those weapons were locked up for use by the afghan military. did we leave them for the taliban? no, we did not, we sold or gave them to our afghan partners over the years. i m concerned not so much about the aircraft, because the taliban won t be flying those aircraft that you saw in that propaganda video they ve already posted, as general mackenzie said, they have decommissioned them. i am worried more about the 300,000 plus m-4s, m-16s, the tens of thousands of machine guns, night vision goggles. we have just upped the capability of the taliban with some of the most technically advanced weapons in the world. there s also trucks, hum-vees, those kind of things that aren t
as susceptible to giving them an advancement on the battlefield. but it certainly would give them the capability to do things that they re not having right now, as we ve seen from all the hum-vees driving around kabul in the films lately, those are all former afghan national army hum hum-vees. am i concerned about it? yeah, because i ve seen lists of the kind of things we ve given to the afghan army and security forces and there s a bunch of stuff. and it s unfortunate that it s now all fallen into the hands of the taliban. john, more than 123,000 people were evacuated in 18 days. look, that s quite a feat. most of these people are refugees. so where are they heading? they re heading multiple places. something like more than 90 countries have indicated they will take at least some. clearly the united states will