invoked the defense production act to address the nationwide shortage of baby formula. welcome to fox news live i am arthel neville, hi eric. so far hi i am eric sean. it s like the airlift of baby formula for the arriving today as you see. welcome news for many families around the country. it is expected though to make a small dent but it is beginning to deal with those shortages of a baby formula across the country. a second military flight is arriving later on today. more deliveries are expected in the days ahead. all of this is a commissioner of the fda says though it will still be weeks before baby formula supplies are completely back to normal. lucas tomlinson following all this live in washington on how this airlift is going, hi lucas. it may not be the berlin airlift is the baby formula airlift operation with a cargo plane landing in indiana about an hour ago at 11:00 a.m. it s the first time in u.s. history, the u.s. military launching emergency special mission l
good afternoon lucas. good afternoon mike to ours by the first air force c-17 arrived in indianapolis curing 70000 pounds of for to fill half a million baby bottles. the pallets are now being loaded onto fed ex trucks waiting next to the plaintiff. the first time in history the u.s. military has launched an emergency mission like this to rush critical nutrition to millions of hungry american babies. some are calling this disaster relief here at home. normally the military wise admissions like this to countries devastated by war, famine or national disaster but only three companies make about 90% of the nation s baby formula. the white house says that needs to change. have a president now is saying you need to pursue competition across the economy in this sector and in others by creating more pathways for businesses and entrepreneurs to get into these markets. president biden secretary of agriculture, tom vilsack out on the ramp coming off the plane writing and to the w