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could get up to five feet of life threatenings storm surge. brian llenas has more from connecticut? we are really feeling it over the last couple hours in connecticut, the southeastern portion of the statement you can see the white caps on the connecticut river, the wind really picking up. we re seeing 45 to 60-mile-an-hour winds in the area from tropical storm henri. now, if you look over to the left over here, we ve got the boats and the yacht that s tied up over here, they ve been tied up all morning and they ve been seemingly doing their job, we haven t seen the boats move too far from where they are. you look at the hurricane flag, the american flag, you can get a sense of the wind gusts here. we re seeing gusts up to about 50 miles an hour here in the area of southeastern connecticut. we re 35 miles i would say west of where this tropical storm is likely going to be making landfall between rhode island and connecticut. the big concern here right now is all this wa ....
we have fox team coverage. steve bender is live on long island, new york. first, to brian llenas the in connecticut. reporter: look, we are in old saybrook, the southeastern portion of connecticut. the tropical storm henri made landfall 36 miles west of here. the sun is out and the worst is by us and the deck hands here have done a good job of tying up the boats. you can see well, take a look at the boats, they re still there. take a look at this video, you ll see it was windy, it was there was rain, about 45, 60-mile-an-hour gusts in the southeastern portion of connecticut. the tropical storm henri did essentially jog a little bit to the east and that was good news for connecticut in terms of wind. dodged a bullet on the wind end of things. when it comes to the rain, while we were on the wet side of this tropical storm in connecticut, continues to get pounded by rain, particularly the western side of the state. governor ned lamont spoke an hour and-a-half ago. th ....
major or u.s. airlines to help transport evacuee withs once they re out of a afghanistan. jackiejacqui heinrich. reporter: the president will address the nation this afternoon, we have not had a preview of anything he ll say, but he met with his national security team today. they discussed the ongoing evacuation effort among americans and allies as well as the diplomatic and military effort to have third countries work as transit points to ferry people out as they re doing that evacuation. we also know he s going to touch on the storm off the coast of new england. but there s immense pressure for the president to square some of the statements that he s made this week with the reality on the ground in afghanistan. some of the more notable fact checks, he claimed that americans haven t had trouble with the taliban getting to the airport. other cabinet if officials confirm that is not true. ea also maid none of the nato allies criticized the u.s. on the world stage, but ....
to travel to the kabul airport because of potential security threats from islamic state terrorists reported thousands of people are still trying desperately to escape the country nearly a week after the taliban take over welcome to fox news live. heartfelt and neville are off today. the alert from security less than 24 hours after president biden pledged to get all americans home safely and to do whatever we can to illuminate afghan allies but still so many trying to escape the chaos continues. john her because money. we are going to try to save and orderly way making sure nobody gets hurt to the maximum extent possible so what you are seeing out of our state department colleagues is a prudent notification to make sure that whatever movement there is propagates from outside the airport is done as safely as possible and people have the information they need to make the best decisions for themselves. we have team coverage on this developing story. president spending ....
department are only compounding the problem. biden is americans are able to get to the airport we have no indication they haven t been able to get problem through the airport. we made an agreement with the telegram far, they ve allowed them to go through, so we know of no circumstance where american citizens are carrying american passport trying to get through the airport. the u.s. military last night had to rescue 169 americans by helicopter were just 200 yards outside of the airport, on the other pentagram back president, revealing americans are being attacked on the way there. we know of cases, a small number we know of, we are aware of the radical cases were there is no harassment going on some physical violence has occurred. aishah: to make the issue even more obligated tonight, the u.s. embassy and afghanistan issue security alert that reads, because of potential security threats outside the gates at the kabul airport, we are advising u.s. citizens to avoid tr ....