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island for us. chris. reporter: fred, good to be working for you today. we re in east hampton on the southern shore of long island right off new york. we re here because this was the fear of concern path early on, a beach front community, reminiscent of super storm sandy. did not happen, not going to happen. that was a hurricane that bounced off new jersey and then came here. new york will not be directly impacted by this. there will be flooding. we do have some power outages. now it s about time, this storm. as fred was laying out to you, there is a stall. why? because when storms go over land, they slow down and can change direction. henri has been the storm, if you re going to characterize it, as the storm that couldn t make up its mind. it s been changing paths. it hitting rhode island and newport is very different from where it originally made landfall which is the tiny island of block island. a thousand san, maybe 2,500 people in season, a beautiful place. it s ....
2500 troops on the ground. now we got a 7,000. his remarks today will be his first in public since the taliban stormed afghanistan s presidential palace and sat seized control of that country in just ten days. video has been coming into fox news of citizens trying to leave the country, get away from the taliban. they have been flooding the tarmac where our planes are there to take people home. they are climbing up on top of the planes. on any flight to get away from taliban rule. some desperately clinging as the planes took off into the air, falling to their deaths. the u.s. has now suspended all remaining evacuation flights until they say they can secure that airport. we have details of some u.s. forces having to take people out of favor shooting in crowds of afghan he citizens. the enemy shooting at them there, trapped. our guys took some out. this is outnumbered. i m harris faulkner. my cohost, back together again, emily compagno, welcome back. kayleigh mcenany, ....
[cheers and applause] hitting me right now, the coffee. happy wednesday. time once again for. everything is racist! oregon decided that reading, writing and arithmetic is racist. it was written in the bill which makes this bill inherently racist because someone had to write it. yes. the worst state in history, you re welcome, new jersey, has decided to drop the requirement that students demonstrate that they have mastered those skills. crap, i said mastered. that s racist too. according to activist ben crump, the phrase master is in master bedroom is racist. i can only wonder what he thinks of my sheets. there s another joke i can make involving master about why beat the audience. ooh, i am being heckled. shut up! it s a serious topic. for the next five years oregon students will get a diploma without the necessary skill base making that rolled paper as meaningful as a pink belt in karate. valen is whalen currency is more enjoy devito s case, when he applied for this job wa ....
plus, an entire school board suspended for refusing to comply with state coronavirus protocols. the man who made that decision joins us live. and golden girl. olympic track star allyson felix leaves tokyo as the most decorated american olympic track star ever. new day starts right now . thank you so much for spending your sunday morning us with. it is august 8th. we appreciate you tuning in. good morning, christi. great to see you, as always. good morning to you as well, boris. so despite, you know, it s good to see you despite what we have to talk about this morning. this new data that shows a dramatic surge in the number of coronavirus cases across the country. the u.s. now averaging more than 100,000 new daily covid-19 cases each day. that is the highest rate in nearly six months. yeah, in fact, the last time the seven-day average was that high was in february. compare that to the end of june of the average just over 11,000 cases. remember, roughly half the ....
eighties. do you remember the movie the princess bride? and billy crystal s character, miracle max? he came to mind for some of us when we were thinking about the few days in congress. especially with infrastructure. we could soon know if the bipartisan deal is alive or dead or maybe, as lyrical max would say, it s only mostly dead. mostly dead is slightly alive. senators from both parties say that they re close to finalizing a deal, maybe as soon as tomorrow. we are down to the last couple of items and i think you re gonna see a bill monday afternoon. we re about 90% of the way there were kind of legislative language with colleagues and with staff and i feel good about getting it done this week. we have one issue outstanding. but that outstanding issue is big. how much to spend on transportation projects. democrats want to follow what s known as the 80 20 rule. 20% will go to public transit and 80% would go to highways but many republican senators are advocating ....