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to celebrate. ryan blaney, to the bottom of the track he s going to win in michigan. we begin with the fox news alert were tracking two major stories this morning tropical storm henri downgrades to tropical destruction overnight, heavy rain after making landfall in rhode island yesterday. thousands remain without power this morning estate of emergency declared for connecticut, rhode island in new york and will have a live report coming up. look at that water, meanwhile on the other side of the world the clock is ticking in kabul afghanistan as thousands of americans enough guineas race to escape the taliban takeover. the group rejecting any potential extension to the august 31 withdrawal deadline. ryan is live with the latest overseas. good morning. still a very dicey situation at the airport in kabul one afghan security guard killed in the last 24 hours in a gun battle at the airport that according to the german military were still working to ascertain whethe ....
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 ....
just putting out a new update this hour. bill karins will break it down in a few minutes. meantime, a live look at rhode island. where henri made landfall around 12:00 p.m. it s near westerly. the storm s maximum sustained winds reached 60 miles an hour at landfall. let s now get to a live look at our roving camera. that one has been driving through connecticut. we re going to move there now. it is near the rhode island border. while connecticut was spared from a direct hit, the governor in the last hour stressing we need to take the impact of this storm seriously. don t get complacent. as i said before, sandy, those were not hurricanes either. because the terrain is so wet, you do have, just a 40, 50 gusts. knocks over trees and that s why we re watching the power outage situation so carefully. and to give you a live look from the earth cam, we re looking at montauk, new york. the storm is causing threatening conditions. it has brought with it dangerous storm surge ....
another chance to enjoy the second part of rajan data s journey to india, originally broadcast in 2017. in this episode, he travels to the north eastern state of assam. india. 70 years after independence, this emerging world power of more than a billion people, is still changing. i m on a journey to two extremes of this vast subcontinent. it is crystals. it s hard crystals. white salt. you can taste it. i began in gujarat, in the far west. this is genuinely incredible. i m in heaven. it s pretty crowded. and this week i have travelled 2,000 miles over to the north east. i am on the banks of the mighty river brahmaputra and i am about to go to a very spiritual place. it is one of india s lesser known regions. we re really high up, and just to my right is the border with bangladesh. a part of the country that prides itself on its traditions. he makes it look so easy. but it s incredibly difficult. but it is also looking forward and embracing progress. so now i am on my wa ....
mark milley saying today that getting americans out is the singular focus of the biden administration. the situation is still very dangerous, very dynamic and fluid and we can be proud of those executing this mission. they re currently in harm s way. that needs to be our focus. there will be plenty of time to do aars but right now our mission is to secure that air field, defend that air field and evacuate those faithful to us. there will be many postmortems on this topic but right now is not that time. there s troops at risk and we the united states military and fully intend to successfully evacuate all american citizens who want to get out of afghanistan, all american citizens who want to get out of afghanistan. they are our priority number one. in addition we intend to evacuate those supporting us for years and won t leave them behind. milley s comments hours after scenes of chaos unfolded on wednesday outside of what is the only way out of afghanistan. the airpor ....