Maccallum and this is. Everyone: the story. Breaking stories charge and i feel particularly political assassination right here on u. S. Soil. Planning details just a hand. Plus new reaction from the trump complained to vice president harris picking minnesota governor tim walz on her running mate. She is right now under way to philadelphia the two will rally together for the first time. Pennsylvania governor johnson bureau who was on the vp shortlist will be there, progressive pushback over his stance on israel may have in mike mahar factor in to the vp position. Also word that has a mission map lina rong too. Meantime all the earlier today hezbollah promising a strong and effective response against israel after the strike that killed its top commander general jack keane and former israeli prime minister della bennett here. First the cars bennett alex vogel live in tel aviv. With every day that passes in this heightened state of tension the country s defense minister yoav gallant says t
The let s bring in retired fourstar general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war. General keane, always great to see you. As i look at it, it looks like here with three days to go, they re really closing down the evacuation to a much lower number, and is that how you see it, and is that the only choice they have given the security risks? yeah. Given if security risk and the date certain of 31 august, there s not much choice here but to keep people away if they have actionable intelligence and given they were right about the last intelligence they reacted to, we did have an attack, so i m certain this intelligence is very, very credible and taking precaution their measures to avoid a mass casualty situation like we experienced is certainly in order here. And that will, obviously, deny more people from getting out of afghanistan, american citizens, to be sure, followed by likely tens of thousands of our afghan partners. Paul: yeah. Let me ask you about this strike o
combining to push the tides higher and prompt this warning from officials around tampa. we have some rivers that are set to crest to pretty high. might look sunny. might be the calm after the storm. the winds and rains have subsided. that surge is delayed. just look at this dramatic video from cedar key early this morning. a resident there calling it almost apocalyptic. a bed and breakfast flattened with some condos almost fully sub merg submerged in water. massive wind gusts knocking out this billboard close to where our own nbc s gabe gutierrez was reporting. wind gusts, i m told, are over 100 miles an hour. we are really feeling the brunt of this storm. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. following the destructive path of hurricane idalia. the eighth major hurricane to make landfall in the u.s. in six years. take a look at the stunning view of idalia from space courtesy of nasa. we are expecting florida governor ron desantis to give an update in a
turned roads to rivers after idalia rolled ashore as a category 3 storm. water reaching four feet high in some spots. we await high tide. governor kemp is holding a press briefing, let s listen in. your honor itting us loose to do the job we are trained to do, we appreciate that. that quick response allows us to fill a room with state assets to do the job we need to do. we have prepositioned assets all over the state, patrol, dnr, forestry commission, air asset, drone, search and rescue teams, tarps, mre s, water, things needed we have prepositioned and down range. we have our staff inside local management centers to get response quickly and in a timely manner. something we want to remind everybody, trees that are down, it will take a while. we remind you, 72 hours is time frame you need to be thinking before you can expect a true power response. if before that, we are very pleased, ittic tas time to get back into the area. we have to clear right-of-ways and assess transfor
laura: liberal new york is finally feeling the brunt of the policy that they have always supported, an open border. and i say it s about time. this irresponsibility of the white house for not addressing this problem. from anywhere on the globe, we are supposed to feed, clothe, house you, as long as you want. that is just not sustainable. it s not realistic. we are also asking the federal government to declare a state of emergency. laura: a state of emergency. well, migrant shelters are overwhelmed. illegal aliens are spilling out into the streets. and now soccer fields are being taken over to house temporary shelters for tens of thousands showing up in the big apple. but, illegal immigration has been a huge problem for most of the past 15 years in the united states. yet, only now, thanks to the ingenious moves by governors ron desantis and greg abbott have they started to wake up on the subject, meaning the liberals. now, the acronym nimby came to mind today it st