They said the following. This is an extremely dangerous category for a hurricane nearing the southeastern coast of louisiana, hurricane force winds now moving on shore. Let s get a closeup and you can get a better idea of what s happening. You ll see grand isle on top of your screen. Just below there, port forshaun, a key place for oil and gas. From cocodrie you can see how these tides have risen in these bays of louisiana. That shows the eye just offshore. It s moving about 15 miles per hour which means storm surge is moving quickly into areas like grand isle where we do know a couple dozen residents decided to stay behind. We re going live to many reporters and local officials in louisiana in the next hour, but let s begin with chad meyers who can break down the latest forecast for us. Chad, this is not just rapid intensification. It s almost like we need a new term for what this is. People went to bed and they saw a category 2 storm. They re now seeing a hurricane on the verge of ca
To u. S. Military planes and trying desperately to climb onboard, incidents in which some people died. Despite those scenes, afghans and some of our allies are getting out. Between 700 and 800 people were evacuated last night with more than 3,000 people evacuated in total since the fall of the afghan capital, kabul, some in astonishing conditions. Check out this stunning photo showing hundreds of people crammed into a u. S. Military plane headed to qatar. U. S. Officials said yesterday they d be prepared to take more than 20,000 afghans who are candidates for special immigration visas. The state department said today that 2,000 holders of those visas have been relocated so far. But the new york times points out there are tens of thousands of afghans national who risked their lives to assist the u. S. Military and thousands are stuck in a yearslong backlog to receive their visas. More than 300,000 have been affiliated with the american mission over its two decade presence in the country
Purchased by americans for the afghan army, the one that collapsed into recent days. Today the white house is responding to those painful images of human suffering, here is national security adviser jake sullivan at this afternoon s white house briefing. President biden and all of us as i said in my opening comments are heartbroken by the human consequences that have unfolded and could continue to unfold in afghanistan. We believe passionately in human rights and human dignity and we want to work with the international community to advance that wherever we can, but president biden was not prepared to have american men and women continue to fight and die in the civil war of another country in order to achieve that. We will use every other tool at our disposal to achieve that and we will do so day after day, month after month, in the period ahead on behalf of the people of afghanistan. We gave 20 years of american blood, treasure, sweat and tears in afghanistan, we gave them every capaci
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