Withdrawal and just three weeks from the 20th anniversary of 9 11. Soon, well reflect on the contribution of 2,443 americans who died fighting in afghanistan and the more than 20,000 injured there. Was their sacrifice all in vain . No way. Just justice demanded a response after 19 hijackers unleashed an unprovoked attack that killed 3,000 incident americans. The united states was wholly justified in hunting down those responsible and their enablers. Thats why we went to afghanistan, and the men and women who answered their nations call were responding to a noble purpose. To the extent mistakes were made and there were that doesnt bear on the Sacrifice And Service of those with boots on the ground. It wasnt they too decided instead of a law enforcement, focused Sniper Approach going only after those who caused 9 11, instead, we would end up responding with a proverbial shotgun blast. In this country, we have civilian control over our military. The Rank And File had no say into whether w
Also, westerly winds take hold. Thats what is going to help push the storm back out to sea. The thing is, regardless of where it ends up going in the short term or where exactly it makes landfall, you have a lot of Heavy Rain expected for this area in the northeast. Rip currents also going to be a concern from North Carolina all the way up through massachusetts. We talk about the Heavy Rain and, yes, itll be heavy along the coast. Even inland, upstate New York, envir vermont, New Hampshire could get several inches of rain. You have the moderate risk of Flash Flooding across several northeastern states. The ground is very saturated, not only from the rain they expect from this storm, but the remnants of fred earlier this week dumped a tremendous amount of rain in this area. So because that ground is saturated, it does not take very strong winds to bring down trees and Power Lines, but you are going to have strong winds. 60, 70, 80mileperhour winds possible for several states, which is w
Tomorrow. this is a storm that could bring life-threatening storm sumrges, heavy rain, even a tornado. allison chinchar is live in the weather center tracking the path here. what are you hearing at this hour, allison? right. all eyes really are now on the not one, but two different hurricane hunter flights investigating the storm. this is where we get a lot of our good, realtime delay that. most measurements coming out, between the 70 to 75-mile-per-hour range, consistent with the current sustained winds of 70 miles per hour. we have started to see the pressure drop, meaning the storm is strengthening. it is expected to continue to do so for the remainder of the day today. then continuing its track off to the north. then we start to notice a very sharp turn to the right, which is interesting. a lot of people asking, why would it do such a sharp turn? at least in the short term, the steering is made up from the jet and this upper level low you see right here. basically, up until landf