severe weather. yes, you said tornado watch from hughesen to biloxi now. we have a storm rolling through houston. no big warnings at this point, but tens of thousands of people are heading to a football game for the college football playoffs. they re seeing the thunder and lightning there. there are the blizzard warnings. winter storm warnings, place with his a fool and a half of snow. now we move to the east where it will be a flood event. there s already a lot of rsnow n the ground. now it will rain, and all of a sudden we ll get the flash flooding. the winds will be pushing onshore, so some 50 miles an hour, pushing that water up into the delmarva, and into parts of long island sound. the wind could also bring down power lines.
mcdonell is in beijing. well, i m not sure if it is a bit of a metaphor but we have a storm rolling in over the skyline of beijing, as you can no doubt see, but all weekend, these live fire drills will be continuing around taiwan in what is pretty obviously a dress rehearsal for a blockade of that island, should the mainline decide at some point to retake it by force. now, given the increased tensions we now have in the taiwan straits, all around taiwan, some are asking whether or not the visit there by the us house speaker nancy pelosi has been worth it. also, on all these other fronts, areas where the us and china were cooperating, beijing has cancelled all these initiatives. so, cross border crime, including narcotics, cancelled, no more cooperation on that front. high level meetings between officers
well, i m not sure if it is a bit of a metaphor but we have a storm rolling in over the skyline of beijing, as you can no doubt see, but all weekend, these live fire drills will be continuing around taiwan in what is pretty obviously a dress rehearsal for a blockade of that island, should the mainline decide at some point to retake it by force. now, given the increased tensions we now have in the taiwan straits, all around taiwan, some are asking whether or not the visit there by the us house speaker nancy pelosi has been worth it. also, on all these other fronts, areas where the us and china were cooperating, beijing has cancelled all these initiatives. so, cross border crime, including narcotics, cancelled, no more cooperation on that front.
dana: i had to bring back bangs for another reason. i want to say one thing. i wouldn t be here if it weren t for sean hannity as well. he told the powers that be here he thought i would be a good addition to the channel. they were like look, we have karl rove, why would we need another one? let me give her a shot. i will always be grateful for that and he gave me great advice over the years. i can t share here. there is a great word in it but i have been very grateful to him and to the entire channel. bill: our lives intersected another way. you were at the white house on sunday, august 28th, 2005, right? and that was the eve of katrina. a cat 4 cat 5 storm rolling into new orleans. that was my first day on the air here. watch this and check it out. this is a fox news alert. expecting a news conference with mississippi governor haley barber to begin any moment now.
see if this information could be penetrated? there are so many things. shepard: mercedes, thank you. some breaking news and it happens to be here in usa and this is the lower east side of manhattan. there is been a grain that snapped, at least a partial crane, this is a very lower east side right at the aft yard drive which goes all the way up the side of manhattan and about six, seventh street, it s right on the fdr. there is a storm rolling in and it s coming from behind. the winds have kicked out. now this partial crane collapse at this moment, all of fdr drive in lower manhattan is closed in both directions which in and of itself make for a chaotic rush hour which begins at 40 minutes. we are waiting right now to get new reports from the fdny and