across the country from monday to help tackle the ongoing fuel crisis. around 200 servicemen and women are receiving training at haulier sites to combat the lack of tanker drivers. 0ur political correspondent damian grammaticas is at westminster for us. is this a sign the situation isn t getting better as fast as the government hoped?- getting better as fast as the government hoped? well, these drivers, government hoped? well, these drivers. 100 government hoped? well, these drivers, 100 of government hoped? well, these drivers, 100 of them government hoped? well, these drivers, 100 of them are - government hoped? well, these drivers, 100 of them are actually drivers, 100 of them are actually drivers, will begin on monday, and as well as that, what we ve actually heard is that the government is going to make immediately 300 visas available forforeign going to make immediately 300 visas available for foreign drivers to be brought in by haulage companies to start pretty much straig
in the past two, finally able to be considered as individual. a group of savage puppets are trying to imprison us and taking away the rights we have gained. the situation isn t available at all. jillian: can you explain the rules, what are you allowed or not allowed to do. not allowed to do anything. they announced there are no women in the administration, no ethnicities. they announced some extreme rules for those who want to study in university. they are not eligible, trying to
tornado tornados usually hit but this was a sustained high winds. it s amazing to see what it looks like. reporter: tornados are only a mile wide at most. yeah. thanks. so dave is the chief meteorologist at wvue tv in new orleans. he said this in a tweet, quote, it s the hardest day of my 30-year career and tomorrow isn t looking much better. we re being devastated. let s bring in cnn s severe weather expert. chad meyers, we know it s been downgraded to a tropical storm. how long is this pounding going to continue? well, you know, the wind now probably isn t a problem because 60 is okay. but the roots of these trees are completely saturated. you can still lose trees and lose power with a 60 miles per hour wind or 70 miles per hour gust. it s the rainfall that we re worried about now. this is turned into a rainmaker. a heavy rainmaker. it s still raining.
reporter: the situation isn t getting any better. i think we re learning the impacts of that hurricane. hurricane ida coming in as a category 4 on the 16th anniversary of hurricane katrina, which was a category 3. you heard the mayor talking about the water overtopping the levies. it was a good test to see if the levy system would hold. it wasn t the water in all parts of louisiana people were worried about. it was the wind. it was being without power and, well, here we are. eight transmission lines sbajted during the storm. knocking out the power to the entire city of new orleans. we ll shut off the lights so you can see how dark it s on buourbn street. people are walking around with flashlights and head lamps. as people are trying to figure out what is next. what is the next steps? especially before the sunlight comes on. we get a good look at all the damage. that s when we ll be able to see the impact of the stomp once we have the sunrise. at this point, though, it s a
during the last surge. right now that number about 135 patients. so as one health care worker told me today, pam, the situation isn t as bad as what they saw months ago, it is worse. it is much worse right now here in florida. they re just exhausted, these health care workers who are working so much, seeing things get worse there in states like the one that you re in right now. polo sandoval, thank you so much. an unprecedented effort is under way to get afghans who helped westerners during the war out of harm s way. a translator for my next guest narrowly avoided the terror attack at the kabul airport and is still struggling to escape afghanistan. his story, next. life is full of surprises when you least expect it. (woman laughs) and open. what happened to all your things? i know you needed a place to study, so. and other times,