Youll be all over it for us as always, thank you so much. Monu raju in washington. Thank you for being with us on this tuesday afternoon. Getting word from the police chief there in houston, texas, the first Police Officer fatality in the storm, sergeant perez, 34 years with houston pd. Im brooke baldwin. The lead starts now. Welcome to the lead. Im Brianna Keeler in for jake tapper. Were going to begin with Breaking News in the national lead. President trump arriving in texas. He is about to get a tour of the Operations Center there after stopping in Corpus Christi today. Today there are new warnings to residents. Get out now as a levee is pushed to its limit in houston and harvey continues to relentlessly pour down on the gulf coast. Just moments ago we learned that a houston Police Officer,
sergeant steve perez, was killed in this storm drowning on his way to work on sunday. His police chief overcome with emotion as he was explaining the decision to not go in after him. It was too t
Do, we have a Customer Service hot line that we turned into a nonemergency call center, and weve asked the residents if they need to be rescued and its not an emergency, or if they think they might need to be rescued, that they call that 311. Most of the people unless they get hit later or are near the river. W we are prioritizing those, the residents that can get out of their homes, like i said, were prioritizing them. And also we they do know that we will wait until daybreak. Because of the standing water, so many of the streets and the
typically shelter in beaumont. We have three shelters open, they will not at capacity until they started to get at capacity, well look at opening another shelter. A shelter, you dont just put up there and ask people to come. You have to have supplies, cots, blankets, and someone that knows how to run it. And the red cross, because of all the devastation in texas is very, very limited resources for them, too. So i think that would be our biggest issue,
This point in time. and he did mention something that is particularly interesting and particularly something to pay attention to. he says you have to go back to the 1880s or the 1800s since the area that s going to be hit here has seen a hurricane on a path like this one at this strength. we are expecting it to be by the time it hits landfall a category 3. that s packing a whole lot of winds, but mostly it s bringing up the water. i want to remind you something because of the day that it is. it s 29 august 29th. in 2005, it s sered into a lot of our memories because that s when hurricane katrina made landfall. thats was a category 3 storm. what was that about? it was about the water. that s what was so deadly. that was the problem. and everyone needs to be aware of that if they are in a mandatory evacuation zone. such an important point. i was actually thinking about
Hurricane ida is grange strength and barreling toward louisiana coastline, set to hit louisiana as an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane tomorrow on the 16th anniversary to the day that hurricane katrina made landfall. the state s governor is warning that time to prepare is running out and that ida could be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the state in more than a century. all flights tomorrow at new orleans international airport have been canceled. more on that in a moment. we re also following the devastating news out of afghanistan. the u.s. embassy in kabul tonight just issuing a security alert at the kabul airport telling u.s. citizens to leave the area immediately due to a specific threat, that warning from the embassy comes just hours after president biden said that another terrorist attack at the kabul airport is highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours. more from afghanistan in just a minute.
National weather service expected to make landfall in the u.s. as a category 4 hurricane. rachel: is projected to hit south mississippi and louisiana tomorrow including new orleans exactly 16 years to the day the hurricane katrina made landfall. rick right is been tracking it all and he joins us live with the fox weather forecast. a huge storm coming towards a louisiana the center of the storm is going to make landfall across louisiana last year they had four landfall storms louisiana cannot catch a break from the hurricanes this is the track so far covered across far western cuba in the center of the storm is back over the water in the golf the trajectory the water will move over is really warm and above average temperatures we have temperatures that are pushing 9s really warm in any of the water pulls up from the area of low pressure that happens with the storms in the water pulls up and