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On the ground have the leeway to do what they think is necessary. for a defensive strike like we saw last night, is that something that he signs off on? does he give the green light to that or was that commanders on the ground that make that decision? well, i can tell you that the president has made clear to his commanders that they should stop at nothing to make isis pay for the deaths of those american service members at the kabul airport. they have the authorities necessary. it is self-defense. obviously, these are isis terrorists who killed u.s. service members, and the president is regularly briefed but he has directed them to go after and to kill these isis terrorists who have taken the lives of the men and women serving our country. okay, and one more. kind of dealing with dual very high-stakes issues right now inside the white house, by transfer yesterday, the most dangerous part of the mission right now, category 4 hurricane slamming the gulf coast, talk about what the whi ....
Much more on abc 7 news that :00 p.m. tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. america s longest war coming to an end. what the american general just revealed a short time ago and the heartbreak, he said, leaving some americans and afghans behind. and here at home tonight, the urgent search and rescue for victims of hurricane ida. the new images coming in tonight. the devastation. hurricane ida, wind gusts reaching a reported 172 miles per hour. the category 4 hurricane slamming into louisiana. the new images emerging tonight, the homes, buildings and roads washed away. more than a million customers without power. new orleans tonight, no electricity. when will it come back on? authorities saying some could be without power for many weeks. concern tonight abouthe families still inside their homes trapped, waving to the ....
0 get him to the island and as long as there s communication, we ll be able to communicate with him and see what s going on there. but it s very hard to not have any word from that island and the people on it since that time. in lafite, the water was very high. our first responders, the sheriff, firefighters, louisiana national guard, some coast guard are there doing search and rescue. they re having to get boats in and out. we are sheltering those people at a playground and then i believe the state is going to coordinate, governor, for a pickup and move them out to alexandria is my understanding. and then of course our systems are down. we have no electricity, no communication. our water systems are down. we re losing pressure. we had to do a boil water advisory. our sewer system, as you know, is based on electricity, so we re going to start having back-ups there, so that s going to be a hygiene problem, and we re encouraging residents who are out of the area to stay out because we do ....
Power lines. even though it looks like because we have a power outage that all the power lines are dead. that is not the case. very often the injuries, the death that follow a hurricane are because of stupid mistakes because people are just curious, and the real desire from the first responders is to get the message out to people that despite your curiosity, the city needs to have the roads and everybody basically stay home. leave the roads clear so that they can do what they need to do. report to the power company and get those power lines turned off. again, a tree can look like, well, the hurricane has come through, and the tree is pretty much okay, but it may have been weakened, and the tree can even come down. just a lot of anxious moments that can follow a hurricane, but in this particular case, it seems so weird. this is not going to be a case where the hurricane is gone quickly. this thing is going to ling are, and i know you have been looking at the radar about how this thick i ....
Ground. i m curious also with the first responders how they re getting out there. especially in those conditions. i imagine they re getting calls already now with people who are stranded or are in need of help. you know, francis, they make it very clear as the hurricane is coming ashore that at some point there s going to be a drop dead point where dialing 911 is unlikely to get the sort of response that they re used to. the fire department, the police department all already working on double shifts. some of the firefighters and some of the police officers that we ve had started at 6:00 a.m. before we even saw this rain or any other weather. it was mostly a traffic situation. victoria is a city of 67,000. with the oefrt of first responders, it can bust the city s budget. the president did respond to the governor of texas s request for the declaration of an emergency ....