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joe walsh is back with us this morning. joe, aside from afghanistan this week which of course has been a massive story. there were also big developments involving the investigation into the attack on the capitol earlier this year in january. house minority leader kevin mccarthy made that threat to telecommunication companies saying if they complied with records request from the committee doing the investigating when republicans are in the majority he said they would not forget. joe, we have now learned he s among the lawmakers whose phone records the panel is requesting that these telecommunications companies reserve. kaitlan, mccarthy is nervous. jim jordan is nervous. these republicans are nervous. no doubt about that. but i m struck again the language mccarthy and marjorie taylor greene and jordan and the rest of them used threatening these private companies. the government is going to come after you. man, this is not the republican party i belonged to. this is tru ....
remnants of hurricane ida battered the northeast with record-breaking rain and historic and deadly flooding. at least 46 people have now died across six states. many drowning in their homes and cars. more than 20 million people remain under flood warnings this morning. the threat of flooding from rising rivers is expected to continue into the holiday weekend. and officials say that more than 500 new yorkers had to be rescued from flooded roads, buildings and subway stations. the new york police department even had to make a water rescue in central park. at least eight tornadoes touched down in pennsylvania, massachusetts and new jersey. at times reducing homes to nothing but splinters. and now, the clean-up and damage assessment begins. we begin this morning with cnn s polo sandoval who is live in hard-hit bound brook, new jersey. polo, hey, what s going on? and what are you seeing over there? reporter: kaitlan, good morning to you. that nearby river is slowly it ....
when the delta variant spread has discourageded some people from flying, shopping and eating out. the president mentioning the delta variant the key reason why job numbers are coming out like this today and assuring middle class americans their taxes will not go up so long as you don t make over $400,000 a year. he said the rich, billionaires can stay rich and continue to own the two or three homes. he said that two or three times. those taxes will go up. but assuring the american people that things will get better once we get through this pandemic and we ll continue to watch and hear from the president later if he does comment on afghanistan. you heard a reporter there asking him a question about that. he did not answer and he walked away from the podium. anyway, we will continue our coverage here. we begin with a fox news alert. president biden heading to louisiana today. a packed afternoon. he will be touring the damage inflicted on the gulf coast by hurricane ida, s ....
hot on friday. sandra: good morning. dropping stuff off the desk left and right. it is friday indeed. good to see you as well. sandra smith, america s newsroom. by the way, surveying the damage outside of the new york area here the city got hard hit but all this is days after it rolled through louisiana in the southeast parts of that state and the president will be there later today. bill: we were on the air yesterday and the scope of this was coming in focus for a lot of people. now we re a day and a half removed from it and see what it is left. sandra: rivers are still rising in some areas as crews look for people who may still be trapped in some of their homes or even cars. bill: the rain overwhelmed drainage systems. roads out of commission. the bronx river parkway in new york. sandra: one of the most deadly aspects of this storm has been the tornadoes. officials confirming that the storm spawned at least 10 tornadoes. all-out assault catching people com ....
new york city what a mess. above ground and below water rushing through subway tunnels suiting down the entire system and stranding some riders undergroungd. the new york post with this cover today. the headline simply swamped. bryan llenas is live in new york city where two people sadly did lose their lives in queens. good morning, bryan. good morning. at least eight people have died in this historic and tragic flash flooding and torrential rainfall last night including a mother and her son. 22-year-old son and 43-year-old mother right here in the home behind me. their stuff is out here. i will bring you and show you the water came rushing into that basement apartment. you can see the hole on the side. father and son were able to get out. tragically the mother and son were not. it happened in just a matter of minutes. it was life and death. 10 miles away three people also died including a 2-year-old boy. here is a neighbor who actually owns this building about the ....