middle east. and i am jackie ibanez and back to regular programming in progress. laura: of course rumors ofws the strikes have been around for hours. knows how effective they are and in fact the wall street journal says and anticipation, the houthi with equipment andhi fortified other positions while houthi militants evacuatesed the red cy city. a what we know is that we have a middle east raging out of control while the white houseag and the pentagon give thees impression, at least nothingsi more than listless vessels driving the american people into this understanding that there is just no one at the home. joining me now is fox news e correspondent peter doocy. this just broke.g what are you hearing tonight?th speak with the first word of this is coming from the team ata the pentagon. they are saying a dozen locations with em and have beena combination of surface and air basically weapons. that means some sort of missile and then aircraft, we are told m if i can just l
out.at the houthis are attackingti american soldiers. they are attacking commercial shipping. they are putting americat non ls at risk and our response has been to not just fight with one hand behind her back but both hands behind her back. we have been scolding them and saying pretty please and guess what, the terrorist like the houthis, terrorist like iran,o they don t respond to pretty please but respond to shows up for a spirit of what we need toy do is establish deterrence andos send a clear message not by e word butsc by deeds that we control the escalation ladder. any attempt by the houthis or the patriots in tehran toship threaten our people, threaten us, commercial shipping will beo met with overwhelming response. it is the reagan doctrine, peace through strength. that is how we make sure we don t get sucked into a war.ance if the enemies of the united states think we are weak, that is the chance to get suckei into were at its greatest. laura: there was no warning coming fro
years ago. we have seen mudflow and water flow in this last year which is wet. if we ask you to evacuate we don t take it lightly. we are basing it on predikdzs and concerns and we want you to get out sooner than later. the last thing we want toy do is leave at last minute and be overtaken by flood waters. because it is so unusual to have this rain, certainly a tropical storm moving through this area, the authorities say it is that much harder predict which is areas will be hit the worst. it is all hands on deck here. the firefighters in san bernardino county that are responsible, jim, for over 20,000 square miles are on full alert. they move friday prepared to response mode and waiting to see how strong the storm is going to be as it moves in. jim? all right, josh please stay safe, thank you for that report. we should note that this earthquake, we got new information on it.