Several inches of rain. Which is why you have the flash flood threat for several states. It s important to note earlier this week they had a lot of rain from the remnants of fred now you have two systems bringing a tremendous amount of rain saturating the ground. We talked about the high wind gusts it s not going to take much to bring trees and power lines down, which is why we re anticipating power outages. Storm surge also going to be a concern. This area here, hamptons, nantucket, providence, talking 3 to 5 feet. But even around boston and down towards the jersey coast, still 1 to 3 feet of storm surge there. This is a multistate issue and concern from this particular storm. Allison, thank you. Let s go to derek now where much of new england is buckling down for this. What kind of preparations, if any, are taking place now? reporter: there are preparations taking place. People have been removing boats from the marinas upshore from here. There s also been beaches and some of the loca
President biden has canceled his planned trip home to wilmington, delaware. Instead of getting briefed on the situation in afghanistan at the white house. We have fox news team coverage with lucas tomlinson at the pentagon and jacqui at the white house. And what are you hearing in doha. Anita, good afternoon. There continues to be efforts by the international community to get as many civilians and diplomates out of afghanistan as possible of the flights are ongoing. As we know, the u. S. Issued the alert warning of possible security threats outside of the gates where people are going into the airport facilities. We ve seen video over the past six days of major clashes. Taliban fighters outside trying to push back people who arrived there even with the correct paper work and u. S. Military personnel, even pulling babies up over barbed wire trying to get them to safety. Officials in doha are trying to make sure that afghans have comfortable living as they land on the ground. More afghans
A very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters. Welcome to alex witt reports. We ll begin with breaking news. The northeast is bracing for impact from hurricane henri. Landfall expected within 24 hours and right now people have new york to new england are wrapping up their preparations as this storm is closing in. Hurricane hunters flew into the storm today and reported winds up to 75 miles an hour, on the coast storm surge up to 5 feet is possible, and flooding rainfall expected on alreadysoaked lands. Conditions are going to begin to worsen as soon as tonight. Millions will be without power by monday morning. Our meteorologist michelle grossman and vanessa webb are watching for us. Let s talk about the latest forecast track at this hour. What are you seeing? alex, good to see you. We re seeing changes since the last time we talked. We have an advisory coming out at 2:00. Now it s a hurricane category 1 and that s what we expect as it enters into new england it will be do
Senate. Let s bring in john avlon. Lauren fox also with us. John, let me start with you. The president of course trying to put this in the context of this is good for the job market, this is good for families. As we watch the numbers, the inflation numbers, the cost of living, calling it fiscally responsible, he has a huge sales job to do here to the american people. He does indeed. That said, i think there s more of an appetite for government spending than there has been in some administrations past, republicans having lost some moral authority on that issue. But the specter of inflation is a big day. That s something americans have taken for a long time that we controlled inflation. But it was a dominant political force for decades in america. To see that creeping up is a real warning sign for the white house as they put forward this massive spending bill, which they hope will transform kind of the approach of government to the citizens and vice versa. The more spending you have, the
Jab at him with the tax cuts passed in the trump administration, because he said unlike that, all of his plans are fully paid for, and so he went into details on some of those things as well. But i have to tell you, garrett, there is not a lot of new in these remarks that the president has talked about this over and over again, and the build back better agenda from day one in fact, and so this is is a president who wanted to come tout speak out and speak about what took place and moving forward and the second half of the agenda, but what stuck out to me today is that he did not speak about what happened with the businesses and the universities and the airlines who are requiring the vaccines and i asked jen psaki in the briefing if it was the official white house position that is what they wanted the private sector to do, and they would not go that far, but they are hoping that the businesses will be modeled for others, but that is what we are watching, but he says that he hopes that ot