Down to augusta, georgia to atlanta, georgia to where Tropical Storm irma was visiting its wrath. Trees were down every quarter of a mile a big tree across the road. All the way to atlanta. Atlanta hartsville airport, the worlds Busiest Airport hopelessly disrupted today. Thousands of flights canceled. Southwest had no flights, delta a handful. They canceled over 3,000 of their flights. The Rapid Transit in atlanta was closed all day today. Monday. Now were down in fort benning, the sprawling army base that straddles the georgia alabama line. Irma passing through here now. This is the back side of the storm. Not much going on. Before i talked to the Garrison Commander we were at the chattahooche river there was tremendous flooding back in the day 1990s and then in 2009 Hurricane Irma came by and really visited some real wrath on the peach tree state. Now you have a situation where here in fort benning they are gearing up to help in the relief effort. Before we get there at the chattaho
WASHINGTON FEMA is urging everyone to take urgent steps now as Hurricane Ida is forecast to make landfall along the U.S. northern Gulf Coast as a dangerous major hurricane on Sunday. Tropical storm conditions are expected to begin late tonight or early tomorrow morning.
incident support base, where they are prestaging things like food, blankets, water, other essentials that other people down there on the coast will desperately be in need of after this hurricane comes through. meanwhile, the president is doubling down on his president of criticisms. today he returned it to a favorite topic it, or at least late last night, return to a favorite topic of his, which is trying to convince the senate to change the rules necessary to get something passed, tweeting if senate republicans don t get rid of the filibuster rule and go to a 51% majority, few bills will be passed, a democrats control the senate. the president has made it no secret his frustration with the facts about the filibuster can stop legislation from getting through, he also doesn t like the fact that some of his biggest pieces of legislation like obamacare and a tax reform
whether that s on foreign soil or here domestically, this is what we do, so we have been designated by fema as an incident support base. we will be ready to receive all the supporters that are going to head down to florida to help take care of the folks down there. thoughts on 9/11? today is our day of remembrance. the good thing about the storm was we were able to be home with our families for a lot of us to remember about things we all know. we had a lot of things scheduled today, a run, a prayer luncheon this afternoon, got wiped out by the weather but at least we had folks home with their families and they are all safe and sound and accounted for today. sean, i know you ve got a round robin some of our brave reporters but the tropical storm is heading in to alabama, and then going all the way i think up to indiana but you have storm trackers with more expertise than i. i wish we could have visited your home down in florida together. i hope all is well with you,