Devastating impact from helena and a strike that is threatening to compounded, a warning from the Homeland Security folks that fema does not have enough funds to deal with it, First To Georgia where president Joe Biden is set to survey the damage and make remarks this hour. Welcome, im neil cavuto. Lets go to Lucas Tomlinson in georgia, what we are likely to here as the president visits the hardest Hit States and towns from helene. What do you have . Reporter good afternoon. President biden has just arrived here, to receive an operational update and or the damage. It is notable that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp wasnt your degree to president. As you mentioned, bidens a Dhs Chief says hes running out of money. We are meeting immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We dont have the funds, fema doesnt have the funds to make it through the season. Reporter earlier today, President Biden arrived on Air Force one in tallahassee, florida, the St
Breaking news. We are getting official word from the White House what youve been seeing play out live in israel. As Israelis On right now sheltering in place and sirens are blaring across the country after iran begins launching missiles into that country. Hello and welcome, everyone. Im Sandra Smith in new york. John im John Roberts in washington. Good to be with you. This is america reports. The situation unfolding before your eyes. Getting word of the shooting in the southern part of Tel Aviv, the area called jaffa. Light rail train car. Multiple casualties. Being investigated as a terror attack. Sandra lets get to Trey Yingst in the middle of everything. Jaffa, israel. What is the latest you are hearing and seeing . Theres a massive ballistic Missile Attack on 14 right now against israel. The iranians are Launching Waves of missiles toward israel. We have seen interceptions here or over the city of haifa that sits about 17 miles from the border with lebanon. As we speak, i can see t
use a 777 howitzer. it s a lot more complex. that i have got to stand up a squadron to do the training, get aircraft there to train them with, come up with a syllabus and train maintainers. i don t think this iss being slw walked, but the process is a lot longer. the f-16 has incredible credibility. when i was over speaking to zelenskyy in april about this, they weren t exactly sure between him and his national security team what they wanted to use the f-16 for. i mean you re talking about a dozen different missions. certainly the suppression of enemy air defense is something that i would put very high on the list, but all of that stuff is still being sorted out. senator joe manchin, democrat of west virginia, is headlining a new hampshire town hall tomorrow. it s hosted by a group called no labels, which is considering running a third party unity ticket in 2024. senator manchin has repeatedly
supplying them with the planes. if they don t want to, why not at least tell us why? truthfully, they don t want to. i ll give you that response. the administration does not want to give it because they don t see the bang for the buck with aircraft. 28 migs will certainly help, but what s striking the cities are artillery and missiles and you can t shoot those out of the sky with an aircraft. the other thing that s problematic, bianna, some of the individuals who are talking about the no fly zone don t consider the amount of aircraft that have to be in the sky. 28 would not do it. on an average day in iraq when there was a no-fly zone with no air defense artillery, there were about 60 or 70 aircraft in the sky. you add to that the fact that the russians have some very active air defense system. now, the planes that are flying for ukraine are finding ways to jam those systems so they can get in and out of the area they re looking to operate. it s called suppression of enemy
increase in indirect fires and aviation, when we started this discussion, we were talking about kharkiv. this was one of the areas that you had that was very bombed out. getting hit with indirect fire. lots of aviation pouring in now. you re seeing lots of bombing runs, but they are terrible, so far, the russians in terms of suppression of enemy air defense and by that i mean the ukrainian surface to air missiles, their air defense has been really impressive and in some places, you re even seeing the ukrainians not far from the russian border taking over parts or at least contesting parts here in chuhuiv. what s significant about all this is it could be another plan for putin over time and that s really here in the south and that s where i ll end up here. if you look at what they ve done in the south, right out of the gate, they built a land bridge to mariupol, which is under siege. separately, last thursday, we were watching them advance toward kherson. they grabbed a bridge head over