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biden approved a major disaster declaration for louisiana. i came to shore as a category four storm with maximum stints over 150 miles per hour. it has been weakening as it s moved inland but slowly. and it is now down to a category two but the natural hurricane center says that it is still bringing catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding, to southeastern louisiana. and that has brought scenes like this in the city of houma. the extraordinary power of those high winds, meanwhile the entire city of new orleans is in the dark, without power tonight. except for those with generators. the power company says ida caused quote, catastrophic transmission damage. across louisiana more than 930,000 people have lost power. we have also had our first confirmed death caused by this hurricane a 60 year old man was killed when a tree fell on his home, just south of baton rouge. of course this catastrophic storm is taking place during the pandemic in a state that h ....
were killed in that attack the department of defense released their names a served in the marine corps, navy, army, servicemembes were killed. here they are. our hearts are with their families during this tough time. thursday was the worst day of joe biden s presidency when avoidable tragedy for those of forces in afghanistan in ten years. and now innocent people are paying the price. and to get add of afghanistan and with 350 american still trying to get out a department with a bad track record. us military last night carrying out a drone strike to where the targets were killed and wounded. the president said today the strike will not be the last there s a lot of questions about this and we will have a report just a minute. the taliban blocking americans and biden is boxed in letting it happen from working with the taliban now. biden says we may have even given the taliban a list of names to look for checkpoints or a kill list as most people fiercely but here s the nam ....
hello, everyone. welcome to fox news live. i m eric shawn. hi, arthel. arthel: hi, eric. hello, everyone. i m arthel neville. the national weather service is warning as eric mentioned of catastrophic damage from hurricane ida and that s a quote. the storm set to hit the louisiana coast 16 years to the day after hurricane katrina made landfall. we have live fox team coverage. jeff paul is on the ground in new orleans. first we go to chief fox weather meteorologist rick reichmuth. there will be catastrophic damage from this storm, most of that will be kind of right where the storm comes on-shore and just to the right side of it. take a look at this graphic right here. we ve got the center of the storm making landfall, the inner eyewall is making landfall just to the southwest of grand aisle, about 16% of all the oil that s produced in the u.s. goes through this point right here. they shored it up in recent years to be able to handle a hurricane. a category 4 hurricane ....
actions. what happened prior to what we re seeing right now. do we know if family members are there to receive the bodies of their loved ones or if they are there to meet with the president, do we know if any are there on base? just out of view are members of families watching. after that they will be released to the family. he understands what it means to have a family abroad. he understands loss and he s burr ripped two children. he understands what that means. he spent two and a half hours this morning with his wife meeting with families and having these conservations. we heard stories of what he understands loss to be. it meeps things to him like looking at the kitchen table and seeing the empty seat at the table. that s the piece these 13 families will be experiencing for birthday, holidays, for special events. it s that empty seat at their table. he has a line that he says that i want to read for you here. he says a time will come when the memory of someone will ....
with breaking news tonight. the u.s. has conducted a air strike against an eye sis planning. the spokesman saying initial indications are the target was killed. this coming just moments after the u.s. embassy in kabul warned u.s. citizens at a number of gates at the kabul airport to leave immediately. and earlier today, president biden s security team alerting the president of a specific and eminent threat in cab bell jaus day of an attack killed 13 servicemens, and over afghans. i want to bring in our guests. gent themen, thank you all for joining us on this friday evening. alex, i will start with you. what are you learning about the strike? don, we heard the vows of revenge of yesterday s attack, from president joe biden, and now we should be clear that we don t know whether there s a connection between yesterday s attack that skilled scores and the marketing of is theis-k planning. we re hearing from the part of the pentagon that is in charge of afghanistan. over t ....