president biden will address the country this afternoon about the end of america s longest war. this photo shows the last american service member to leave afghanistan. in all, 123,000 people were taken out of the country. 123,000 in about two and a half weeks. an unprecedented evacuation mission. he said the u.s. would stay to get them out. the u.s. did not stay. there are thousands of afghan allies in the country still as well. this morning, the taliban is celebrating the u.s. withdrawal. we have this new video which shows taliban fighters exploring a hangar. some military equipment was removed from afghanistan. other items disabled. in the meantime, more than a billion homes and businesses in the southeast, a million homes and businesses in the southeast are without power this morning after hurricane ida, and that could last for weeks. on top of the catastrophic damage, severe flooding and the lack of electricity comes with scorching heat. temperatures in louisiana and mi
winds slamming california. winds gusting up to 60 miles per hour. all of this hitting with those homes already right on the edge. then this moves across the nation. ginger zee is here to time this out. two young people shot and killed in that dorm room at the university of colorado, colorado springs. tonight, news of that arrest, and what authorities are now saying about the case. the desperate search under way at this hour for a missing 11-year-old girl, who authorities say never made it to school. authorities and volunteers searching near a lake near houston, and what s been found. tonight, the global outcry over the death of putin critic alexei navalny in prison. russia tonight so far refusing to release his body to his family. here in the u.s., donald trump addressing navalny s mysterious death for the first time. trump not criticizing putin, instead, comparing himself to navalny. amid trump s legal troubles here in the u.s. two officers and a paramedic shot and
they re great people, beautiful state. you know about their football team? bill: a little bit. dana: governor desantis will give a update any moment now and bring it live. florida is bracing for what could be a once in a century storm. bill: the current storm track shows landfall sometime on thursday, maybe in tampa. if that were a direct hit, it would be the first major storm to hit tampa in more than 100 years. dana: forecasters are predicting storm sturge. people are boarding up homes and businesses. the amount of water may simply be too much to overcome. bill: here is what we know. governor desantis declared a state of emergency. tampa s international airport will shut down at 5:00 east coast time. dana: evacuation orders affecting hundreds of thousands of people. folks there say supplies are running low. shelves are totally empty. people are starting to panic. it is crazy now. people are crazy, all the flights are insane. there is no flights. i would ho
hour. there will be catastrophic flooding and life threatening storm surge. if you are in tampa bay and counties north and south of that it could be something that happens. if you re under an evacuation order. evacuate to higher ground that will be safe from the type of surge and flooding. bill: our fox weather team coverage considers. adam klotz standing by to tell us the latest. dana: first we ll go to phil keating. he is in a beach community a half hour southwest of tampa. sounds like a good place. it is. it is old, classic florida. the time to get out of town is now. no joking around at this point. most of the people in this town have evacuated already leaving it a ghost town. there is hardly any humans within the eye can see. the brass monkey over here, a famous restaurant bar and grill boarded up yesterday and sandbags on the ground. across tampa bay mandatory evacuations began yesterday for all neighborhoods along the coast. the real issue is the bay itself and
Tremendously just over the last few years. in a sense, that s a good thing because those newer residents haven t been through a hurricane and haven t been threatened by this so they are the ones that typically do heed the warnings and evacuate as necessary. but like we said before and what the governor said now is the time to execute your plan. we are past making a plan. it is time to execute that plan. bill: he had mentioned that storm hurricane charley, it was 2004, 18 years ago. that storm was on a path to hit tampa or parts south of it and it took a right-hand turn and really the force of that storm and the upper right-hand quad rant is what socked i believe it was the town of punt yeah gored yeah and the devastation was enormous. you don t know where this storm could make a decision.