this as president biden s deadline to get out of the deadline quickly approaches. hello, everyone. i m sandra smith, monday morning here in new york. nice to see you, john. john: in washington, d.c., a little bit of a time difference but not much. [laughs] hope you had a good weekend, sandra. i m john roberts in washington, good to see you. this, after five rockets were fired at the airport over night, when making it through defense systems and landing inside the perimeter. u.s. officials are stressing this is the most dangerous time of the mission, the phased withdrawal of u.s. and couldn t leave the forces still on the ground even more vulnerable to attack. sandra: indeed. we ve got a packed hour. just ahead, walid phares will join us, morgan ortagus coming up, and congressman peter meijer is here, as well. fox team coverage begins now. bill hemmer will join us in moments. john: but first to the pentagon and jennifer griffin to kick us off this monday afternoon. hey,
service warns the damage from ida could be, quote, catastrophic. hello, welcome to fox news live. i m arthel neville. eric: hi, thank you for joining us with the late breaking news. i m eric shawn. hurricane ida came ashore just before noon local time as a category 4 monster, sustained winds just under category 5, 150 miles per hour. thousands of gulf coast residents have already evacuated, thank goodness, after the warnings the storm could be as bad to make rescues impossible. arthel: and all of this, 16 years to the day after hurricane katrina made landfall in louisiana as a category 3, bringing scenes of devastation in new orleans and the gulf coast that quite frankly we wish we could forget. eric: absolutely. can t believe it s only been 16 years for all the storm coverage let s begin in new orleans, jeff paul is there in french quarter with the very latest. jeff. reporter: yeah, eric and arthel, the winds are really starting to pick up. the rain is coming down pretty
that s where a lot of people sit right now. they re going in to take care of other people and they re worried for their business, for their family. so we re just looking for some more help from congress. it s got bipartisan support. we just need a few more people to jump on. kevin, thanks for the hard truth, that s serving up some really harsh reality there, but i think we all understand exactly where you re coming from. i really appreciate you giving me the opportunity to speak. it s important to a lot of people. we re 16.1 million people who work in the united states in the whole supply chain. we re 4% of the gdp. we re an important business. we should be treated as such. we need you, we need our restaurants. and we all need to be restored, as you say. kevin bain, thank you so much, appreciate it. all the best, happy new year. happy new year. all right. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for being with me, i m fredericka whitfield. this breaking news, the ja
still without electric and the overnight temperatures are dropping into the freezing digits. dana: destruction spans more than 200 miles from arkansas to kentucky and the bluegrass state bearing the brunt of the damage. bill: look at these satellite images. this is above mayfield, kentucky, the town basically wiped off the map. meanwhile we re hearing stories from survivors that say all it happened to them in the blink of an eye. i ve never been through anything like that in my life. we got stuck downtown and all the rubble i went through. i don t know it was like a war zone or something. it was so awful. my apartment and my car, people say live in the apartment with me lost everything, too. i don t have anything. i ve been through the town a couple of times and saw everything but it is just it s upsetting to know that s the town that you grew up in and everything and you know, memories are all gone. bill: just story after story. to help us through that story
rising costs. it s a bump in the road that affects families. can democrats get a win on their social safety bill? i ll speak to amy klobuchar ahead. hello i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is holding out hope for the missing. emergency crews in the midwest are continuing the desperate search and rescue effort through tons of wreckage, flattened homes and factories and cars that were simply tossed around after at least 30 tornadoes touchdown down across six states this weekend, kentucky, arkansas, missouri, mississippi, illinois and tennessee. dozens are feared dead and officials warn the number will almost certainly rise as rescuers continue to sift through the devastation. joining me now from the commonwealth hardest hit, kentucky governor andy beshear. governor, thanks for joining us. how many confirmed deaths do you have in kentucky? how many of your citizens are still unaccounted for? well, the confirmation process is slow. i can tell you