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service warns the damage from ida could be, quote, catastrophic. hello, welcome to fox news live. i m arthel neville. eric: hi, thank you for joining us with the late breaking news. i m eric shawn. hurricane ida came ashore just before noon local time as a category 4 monster, sustained winds just under category 5, 150 miles per hour. thousands of gulf coast residents have already evacuated, thank goodness, after the warnings the storm could be as bad to make rescues impossible. arthel: and all of this, 16 years to the day after hurricane katrina made landfall in louisiana as a category 3, bringing scenes of devastation in new orleans and the gulf coast that quite frankly we wish we could forget. eric: absolutely. can t believe it s only been 16 years for all the storm coverage let s begin in new orleans, jeff paul is there in french quarter with the very latest. jeff. reporter: yeah, eric and arthel, the winds are really starting to pick up. the rain is coming down ....
researchers. what they found is that vaccinated immunocompromised people are 485 times can you believe that, more likely that many times to end up in the hospital or to die from covid-19 compared to the general population that has gotten the shot. and the cdc s vaccine panel is scheduled to meet today to discuss booster doses. so the amount here. dr. fauci says it is inevitable that even healthy people will require booster shots soon. right now the decision is we don t need to do it right now. it s not imminent. but we re preparing as if it will be imminent. so we re going to be ready to do it when ever the data shows that the protection has gone below a certain level because of combination of the durability of protection and the special effect you re seeing with the delta variant. dr. fauci also says the delta variant is putting more children in hospitals at this moment nearly 1800 children are battling kcovid in the hospital. that s the highest number at any poi ....
taliban. president biden now rushing some 3,000 troops to the capital to help evacuate u.s. embassy personnel, and all of this coming just weeks before the u.s. was set to complete its withdrawal from the country. targeted to coincide, of course, with the 20th anniversary of 9/11. we will have much more on that in a moment. we are following the developments on the ground. first, though, this other news breaking overnight. the fda authorizing a third covid-19 shot for people with compromised immune systems. the cdc s advisory committee will meet in just a few hours to discuss those additional shots. this as hospital systems across the country are being pushed to their limits again. more than 2,500 covid patients admitted every single day for the past week. in tennessee, one doctor saying simply, quote, no beds. there are no beds. we want to begin this morning with cnn s chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, as we re looking at this, let s start with the ....
his name is tom reynolds, republican congressman from new york first elected in the late 90s and that apology ad, one in the pantheon of apology political ads, it ran, actually, as a campaign ad. not just like a video he put on his website or something. it ran as an ad. in 2006 right before he was up n for re-election in the mid-terms that year. and although you cannot tell in the text of the ad himself, what he was apologizing for was a po role played by him and his office in one of the grossest congressional scandals in recent history. he mentioned this guy foley. mark foley. in 2006 mark foley resigned from congress in disgrace after it ng was revealed he d sent very explicit messages and horribly inappropriate emails to teenage hill who were serving on capitol hill as congressional pages. these young assistants who work at the u.s. capitol. that story first broke the mark foley story first broke to the public in 2006 right before the mid-term elections.g ry but t ....
dana: i m dana perino. if the president will take a shot at them you can imagine they would push back. not exactly constructive. but the feud is erupting after president biden singled out texas and florida for banning mask mandates saying those states account for 1/3 of new infections. he said help slow the spread or get out of the way. ron desantis firing back. joe biden suggests if you don t do lockdown policies you should get out of the way. let me tell you this, if you are coming after the rights of parents in florida i m standing in your way. dana: griff jenkins is covering the story from the white house. governor desantis has been standing in the white house s way as loudly as humanly possible, i think. remember he was an immediate hard no on school mask mandates and now he is not taking lightly being called out by the president on tuesday. president biden: governors not willing to do the right thing. if you aren t willing to help at least get out of the ....