150mileperhour winds, Hurricane Ida made landfall as a Category4 Storm near Port Fourchon this afternoon. The Storm Surge has reached four to seven feet in Southeast Louisiana and coastal mississippi. Water has engulfed roads, homes, businesses, and marinas. Right now, ida is holding strong as an extremely dangerous category3, as it makes its way through louisiana. Nbc news is continuing to obtain dramatic video out of the Gulf Coast. Here is the roof being ripped off lady of the Sea Hospital in galliano. Stream flow on the Mississippi River by bell chase, louisiana, reversed for approximately three hours on sunday, according to data from the u. S. Geological survey. In the past, the Mississippi River has reversed flow locally during other hurricanes, including laura, isaac, and katrina. The eye of The Storm is currently approaching Baton Rouge and should hit the States Capital City within the next few hours. Tonight, roughly half A Million louisianians are without power. And fema is p
Across louisiana. And that number grows by the minute. Heres President Biden a short time ago at fema headquarters. This is going to be a devastating, devastating hurricane. A lifethreatening storm. So please, all you folks in mississippi and louisiana, Mississippi And God knows, maybe even further east, take precautions. Listen. Take it seriously. While New Orleans dodged a direct hit, The Big Easy is not out of the woods. Right now, fears of Storm Surge, especially in communities where residents did not have a chance to get out. Now hunkered down, waiting this storm out. As officials keep an eye on the new levee system, reenforced after katrina, which as of this moment, are holding. We have a team of correspondents stationed across the storm zone. Lets start with our own Sam Brock before us in Baton Rouge. Sam, what are you seeing there . Reporter so heres whats interesting now. As you were referring to a second ago, the fact that you would expect at this point the storm is over land
With drawl. The deadliest day for American Forces in ten years in afghanistan. With four days until always 11th things are not getting any better. America is still relying on the taliban for protection. The White House has been warned another attack is likely In Kabul. The State Department is in contact with approximately 500 americans in afghanistan who want to leave the country. Here is the general ripping into biden. This date certain going back into april has been fundamentally flawed from the beginning. Strategically its cost us so much. All of this has been push stood quickly. The results are horrible. Now we have a date certain, supposedly to take our people out. We are going to walk out on the 11th. We know what were doing. Were leaving american citizens likely by the hundreds. Yesterday Joe Biden blamed Donald Trump for the disaster in afghanistan. The former president returned fire on hanio last night. History of the world if they do anything and in particular kill our soldie
Despite the danger, the u. S. Military continues Evacuation Efforts there with new urgency, President Biden calling it a worthy mission during an event with israels Prime Minister a short time ago. President biden come with significant loss of american personnel. It is a worthy mission because they continue to evacuate folks out of that region, out of the airport, evacuated more than 12,000 additional people out of the airport in the last 24 hours. John the president did refuse to take questions from the press. Fox news strategic analyst jack keene, Griff Jenkins with the latest. Sandra we begin with Jennifer Griffin live with the Lates Jennifer eminent Terror Attacks against u. S. Forces is ongoing. Were monitoring these threats very specifically. Virtually in realtim Jennifer Newsom two Suicide Bombers yesterday, adding there was not a second Suicide Bomber at the baron hotel. Gunmen opened fire. The pentagon could not say if u. S. Troops were killed by that gunfire. Death toll of af
Unprecedented in size You Izmir Tory Airlift out of the country, were watching is the number of people being airlifted out of kabul climb from a few hundred today to 2000 per day. To 5000 per, day to 11,000 per day. Today the pentagon has airlifted 19,000 people out in the last 24 hours. Which is just an astonishing number. Thats one big u. S. Military Cargo Plane of people every 39 minutes. The Wall Street Journal is also reporting tonight, in this confirms what we have from the ap a few days ago, they are confirming tonight that the cia is also conducting additional operations inside afghanistan. Where there actually going out and picking people up by helicopter. Picking people up in kabul. At the airport. But also going beyond kabul into other parts of afghanistan. The pentagon has been the main source of information for the public about these evacuation efforts. The pentagon has not wanted to talk about helicopters going out to extract people in hard get places. But this further re