Peter meijer join me in a moment. Plus, brutally killed in a suicide attack, 13 Service Members along with 130 afghan citizens. A look at these brave soldiers who helped to save the lives of others. Hello. Im Jake Tapper in washington where the state of our union is trying to pull off an Infinity Number of miracles. Thats how one veteran described the race to Save Americans And afghan allies, still stuck in afghanistan. And in addition to the T Terrifying Situation on the ground in kabul were covering on this special Twohour State of the union, two other crises, second on the Gulf Coast of the united states where on this anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, folks are waking up to horrible news. Hurricane ida grew rapidly overnight to a dangerous category 4 storm. Well talk to John Bell edwards coming up. Of course, the third crisis, which has been with us since last year, covid. Well ask dr. Anthony fauci about rising covid deaths, boosters And vaccines for children. Lets begin on afghani
Grossman has been following Idas Path And Sam Brock is in louisiana preparing for the Storm Surge. How are things looking where you are And how are people preparing . Lindsey good morning, joe good morning. Its calm, theres a slight breeze. Were expecting rain to fall here early this afternoon And the winds to pick up as well. Lindsey, to your point about rapid intensification, that means 35 miles per hour or more increase in Wind Speeds over the course of 24 hours. 80 miles per hour to 145 miles per hour now is a 65 mile per Hour Increase over the time span which is roughly double the threshold for rapid intensification. The question right now, is ida going to run out of Real Estate before it actually reaches lAndfall or will we see another increase in Wind Speeds because at the moment 150 miles per hour is the record for the state of louisiana with hurricane laura, And as you mentioned back in the mid 1880s that is the historical precedent were up against right now. The track if it w
Whos in homa, louisiana. Derrick, talk to us about whats 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 im located. Just hearing these very ominous words from the Louisiana Governor really just perked my ears and my crews ears up but it certainly perked up anybody who decided to stay and ride out this storms 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 its 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. Mandatory curfew at 6 00 p. M.
guard who chased down the shooter. plus the family of the fallen soldier whose fox news just apologized to over fall story. and a brim x candy will respond to vivek ramaswamy who called him the grand wizard of the modern. but first, mark meadows, he took a big risk today by taking the stand. thump trump s chief of staff overturn election results in georgia and he s arguing that his case should go over to federal thornton s former chief of now, he s arguing that his case should go over to federal court instead. today, there was a mini trial of sorts. one that many legal experts have said may have put him in deeper trouble. cnn s jessica schneider is here to tell us what s happened in that hearing today. jessica. abby, we are now waiting for the federal judge in georgia to decide if mark meadows case can be moved to federal court. meadows testified for several hours today. he tried to make the case that everything he did was within his official duties as chief of staff for
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