Flooding killed at least 20 people, leaving behind what one resident describes as a War Zone. Our reporters are live on the ground with the latest. In afghanistan, violence at the airport threatens an already precarious Evacuation Plan with thousands trying to escape taliban rule, 18 u. S. Commercial airplanes are called in to help. The white House Signaling it could extend the deadline to leave the country. We have to start with game changing developments in the battle against the coronavirus. New york times reporting the fda is set to give full organization for pfizers Covid Vaccine today. At the same time, across the south, Icu Beds are filling up fast, so bad in five states theyre within 10 of reaching capacity. Alabama is already maxed out. Grim numbers out of florida where the number of coronavirus cases has now surpassed 3 million. The cdc says nearly 42,000 have died from Covid19 Related Causes in that state. And just in the past week alone, florida reported more than 150,000 n
Quickly, about 16 miles per hour. That puts it about 30, maybe 40 miles from the Rhode Island coast. By 2 00 p. M. Its clearly on shore, and then its just going to rain itself out. Notice the winds are not an issue as we get through this evening. The highest gusts will be out on long island, possibly block island, newport. The legacy of this Storm Weve already had tremendous amounts of rain around new York City and portions of new jersey. Still a Couple Flash Flood warnings. 36 Million people are in flood watches. It is going to pour this afternoon, all night tonight, and periods of tomorrow. We are going to see additional Rainfall Totals up to about 5 to 6 inches. Im happy to see weve gotten the storm a little bit weaker, now down to 65 miles per hour. Bill karins, one question for you. Did i hear you correctly that you say this is going to impact 36 Million people . Thats how many people are in the potential Risk Area for flash flooding. So not all of those people are going to get fl
Front page today, nearly 8,000 new virus Cases Part of unbridled spread on the gulf coast. Heres the Opalocka Auburn News in auburn, alabama. Only two icu rooms in state of alabama are unoccupied. Heres the Front Page in rome, georgia. Rooms scarce for covid19 patients as serious covid cases rise. The influx of patients is stressing local hospitals. Here on the left side of your screen is beaumont, texas. Covid stretching the hospitals. More nurses needed. On the right side of your screen, thats waco, texas. Virus depths and hospitalizations grow. Look at this from melbourne, florida, today. This is the newspaper florida today. Very dramatic Front Page from them today. It says we are on the precipice, that is their Front Page. Look at that. Our hospitals are overrun with covid patients. Again, thats melbourne, florida, today. And if you notice, i wanted to show you not just those articles but the whole Front Page and what those look like because as big as the covid crisis is, all of th
News in auburn, alabama. Only two icu rooms in state of alabama are unoccupied. Heres the Front Page in rome, georgia. The rome news tribune. Rooms scarce for covid19 patients as serious covid cases rise. The influx of patients is stressing local hospitals. Here on the left side of your screen is beaumont, texas. Covid stretching the hospitals. More nurses needed. On the right side of your screen, thats waco, texas. Virus depths and hospitalizations grow. Look at this from melbourne, florida, today. This is the newspaper florida today. Very dramatic Front Page from them today. It says we are on the precipice, that is their Front Page. Look at that. Our hospitals are overrun with covid patients. Again, thats melbourne, florida, today. And if you notice, i wanted to show you not just those articles but the whole Front Page and what those look like because as big as the covid crisis is, all of those sort of dire Front Page covid stories today, all of them shared space with the news out of
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. Theyre currently in harms 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. Theres 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 wont leave them behind. Milleys comments hours after scenes of chaos unfolded on wednesday outside of what is the only way out of afghanistan. The airport In Kabul. The taliban e