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louisiana governor edwards also last hour with an update on the situation in his state. we have a very dangerous situation on our hands, with hurricane ida, and we can expect devastating impacts to continue for most of the next 24 hours or so, as the hurricane passes through the state. i can tell you right now, we do not anticipate any overtopping of the mississippi river levees or overtopping of the levees in the hurricane-risk reduction system around the greater new orleans area. arthel: that is good news for sure. look at these images. we have fox team coverage of this massive storm. meteorologist adam klotz is live in the fox weather center with the latest, but we re going to go to mike tobin which is fighting and bracing the winds there. i think you are on canal street, the edge of the french quarter. mike, take it away. well, i am on canal street. you can see we are certainly getting buffeted by some significant wind shear. the one thing is that we re not re ....
a life-threatening storm. our other big story is the chaos in afghanistan. a u.s. military drone taking out at least two bombers in a vehicle packed with explosives on the way to the kabul airport. but first, we ve got live team coverage of hurricane ida. mike tobin is in new orleans, and casey stegall is in baton rouge. but we begin with adam klotz who s tracking the storm from the fox weather center. adam: hey there, yeah. tracking a storm that continues to at this point slowly weaken but not weak by any stretch of the imagination if, hanging on to a category 4 storm, winds at 130 miles an hour. when this initially made landfall, it was moving at 16 miles an hour, it s now slowed down to 10. it means if you re in the path of this, you re dealing with the winds and heavy rain, you re going to stick with it a little bit longer, it s going to move out of your area just a little slower than hours ago. the center is moving up to the north and west, new orleans off to the ....
world. this is cnn newsroom. hurricane ida is barreling toward the united states, gaining strength as it churns through the gulf of mexico. the storm was a category-one hurricane on friday, and it s expected to become a dangerous car category three or four this weekend. hurricane warnings are posted for the louisiana and mississippi coasts, and evacuations are under way. forecasters say ida likely will slam into new orleans on the anniversary of hurricane katrina. joining me is meteorologist karen maginnis. you ve been tracking this. what s the latest? a frightening situation developing over about the next 36 hours from now. if you haven t made plans and you live in that coastal region of louisiana and perhaps in regions of mississippi, this is a time when you should be making solid plans to leave that area because this is a very frightening situation. right now, category one. i ve noticed the deeper convection is developing along the western edge. but as ida mo ....
48 hours after the deadly suicide attack that killed 13 american servicemembers and wounded 20 others and killed over 160 afghans us military struck back launching a drone strike in eastern afghanistan, the headquarters of the isis khorasan group. captain william irvin said, quote, initial indications are that we killed the target, we know of no civilian casualties and president biden a few days ago said he will hunt down and kill whoever is responsible for this attack. it is likely when it would take place. the us military was busy preparing to leave the country in the next 2 or 3 days which breaking news at the pentagon the us military has struck back and killed and isis planner. i m told he was traveling in a vehicle and also killed was an associate with him. the american drone strike killed and isis planner responsible for carrying out potentially future attacks against the military, not necessarily was he involved in the attack that killed 13 american servicememb ....
strike was not the last. hello, welcome to fox news live, i am eric john. arthel: present biden think military commanders believe another terror attack in kabul is highly likely in the next 24 36 hours. the taliban is not taking making it any easier for people trying to evacuate. a massive airlift weinstein. american forces have begun to leave the country three days before the u.s. withdrawal deadline. we have team coverage on the developing story. david is at the white house for president biden is spending the weekend. luke has more on the drone strikes on isis. many evacuees are heading there. good afternoon, we ve seen 66 evacuation flights from kabul in the past 24 hours bringing more than 7000 people to safety. this brings the total to around 120,000 people the taliban took over afghanistan. still, people are trying to escape doing everything they can to get to the airport so the numbers have been lower since the last thursday. the telegram increased the perime ....