so you get it all. eric: america strikes back and mother nature s wrath about to strike here at home. two big stories breaking at this hour. first, hurricane ida, now bearing down on the louisiana coast as a catastrophic category 4 storm. you know, it s forecast to make landfall just hours from now and it could strengthen to a devastating category 5. in afghanistan, fox news confirms that a u.s. military air strike today took out several suicide bombers. they were in a vehicle we re told just northwest of the kabul airport. potentially stopping that second terrorist attack that we have all been warned about.
this is the second drone strike since friday when a u.s. reaper drone targeted to members of isis k in eastern afghanistan. the fact that two of these individuals are no longer walking on the face of the earth, that is a good thing that is a good thing for the people of afghanistan and a good thing for our troops and our forces at the airfield. the timing of the drone strike is notable as families were receiving the fallen sons and daughters at dover. president biden chairman millie and defense secretary lloyd austin were meeting with those families at dover air force base this morning when the drone strike occurred. back to you. mike: many thanks. jacqui: afghan refugees are arriving by the thousands at the air force base in germany, that is where the air force is processing evacuees and sending many of them to the united states greg is live with more for us. yes on this very moving day everything we are hearing on the
arthel: afghanistan evacuations are in the final phase as tuesday s deadline approaches. so far, more than 100,000 afghans and more than 5,000 american citizens have been air-lifted out of kabul in the past two weeks, 20,000 of them are being temporarily housed at an air base in germany. greg palkot is there for us live with that part of the story. greg. reporter: hi, arthel. from everything we are hearing on the ground here, in kabul and elsewhere, this is the final days of the war for the united states in afghanistan. they could be some of the most dangerous. at kabul airport, the last evacuations are happening as desperate afghans continue, but the numbers are way down. that s because of new terror threats and that u.s. deadline
of the country. as i mentioned, the president still under enormous increasing pressure to get people out safely and quickly. the window is closing. british forces are completely gone, other countries are soon pulling out. august 31st just two days away. national security advisor jake sullivan spoke to chris wallace on fox news sunday this morning. listen. . there are more threat streas that we are working actively to try to disrupt and prevent and as the president has said, another attack could occur at any time. he has directed his commanders on the ground to take every force protection measure possible to ensure the safety of our troops as they complete their mission. reporter: the president will be back at the white house later this afternoon, he ll meet with the vice president, national security advisor sullivan, other officials. but right now all of the energy over the next 48 hours is being pushed into afghanistan to make sure as many people can get out as possible. eric.
foreign affairs committee and your house has helped evacuate six families from california trapped in afghanistan. that is fantastic, get to that in a moment. first, congressman, that air strike this morning on the car with at least one potential suicide bomber headed to the airport, what s your reaction that we re stricting back and hitting them? it s the right thing to do. we would be better off and had taken all of kabul so we could have a greater safe zone. the current safe zone is so small that realistically these kinds of attacks become pretty easy. the bad guys control the entire country, the entire city. we control an airport that most people would call sort of a country airport in its size. eric: was it a mistake to give up bagram? it was a mistake to give up bag rap. it was a miss bagram. it was a mistake according to the washington post report to give up a deal with the taliban that would have allowed us to