moments. we ll have live coverage once it begins. our team of reporters is covering this. let s begin with nadia in new orleans. we heard the player say some very serious, deliver serious warnings to residents. leave now or hunker in place. it will be very dangerous. people need to take warnings seriously. what are you hearing? reporter: wolf, you heard the mayor say don t expect emergency responders to risk their lives to get you in the middle of the storm. once the storm passes, they ll come out and the first priority is to clear roads of debris, especially around hospitals. if you re going to decide to stick it out, ride out the storm, you ll be doing so on your own. we have seen some business owners in french quarter boarding up their businesses, trying to prevent debris from flying. we know we ll have high wind speeds, you talk about a category four storm. we have seen people boarding up all morning long. look at the hotels. a huge tourist area. this is a line of hotel
who s in homa, louisiana. derrick, talk to us about what s happening on your end. reporter: yeah, okay, people are leaving this area and rightly so because they know what is looming. they know what is 250 miles off the coast of where i m located. just hearing these very ominous words from the louisiana governor really just perked my ears and my crew s ears up but it certainly perked up anybody who decided to stay and ride out this storm s ears as well. take a listen. this will be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit anywhere in louisiana since at least the 1850s. we can also tell you that your window of time is closing. it is rapidly closing. and just like we said yesterday, by the time you go to bed tonight, you need to be where you intend to ride this storm out. so it s still questionable whether or not the individuals behind me, who are currently sandbagging, are expected to leave. we had a mandatory evacuation order set in place at 6:00 a.m. this morning. mandator
president said the threat remains very high, could be the highest now as it s been in this entire evacuation mission given that there are still thousands of u.s. troops on the ground. so the president has continued to be updated every single day this week by his national security team. this morning was no different. they spent about an hour and a half in the situation room. and the white house readout of that meeting is pretty blunt, saying that the president was told that right now the threat of an attack is, quote, highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours. he said the situation on the ground continues to be extremely dangerous and of course the threat of terrorist attack still remains high. that s something they re monitoring very closely as they continue the evacuations. it s not clear how long the evacuations will go on, they ve said they will go on until the end but we re told they will be reduced while they pull out resources and weaponry. that will be the next big phas
[captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker s room, washington, d.c., september 21, 2021. i hereby appoint the honorable val butler demings to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 6, 2021, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties. with time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and
minority wp limited to five debate continubend1:50a.m. the chair rognis the geleman om california, . intock, for fi minutes. mr. mcclintock: mr. speaker, the president hasn t mentioned afghanistan since he turned the phased conditional withdrawal under trump into an unconditional surrender to the taliban. nor has he found the time to see much less admit the chaos that his policies have produced by collapsing our southern border. yet putting these things out of sight and mind doesn t change the dangers they have unleashed. i am afraid together they pose a terrifying prospect for our country that americans should prepare themselves to face in coming days. trump s phased withdrawal included keeping bagram air base. this strategic asset assured u.s. airpower could be projected throughout the region as both a bulwark to support the afghan defense forces and to deter the extremist regimes throughout the middle east. in addition, bagram included the detention facility that held unde