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and julia coronado, former economist at the federal reserve. good morning to you both. we are 30 minutes from president biden making remarks on the economy. mon, these numbers are not what economists thought we d be seeing. what are you hearing from the white house pokes behind the scenes? reporter: they re trying to highlight some of the good signals of hope in this jobs report, for instance the fact that the unemployment rate fell to 5.2%, which is the lowest it has been since march of 2020, when the pandemic of course kicked off in full swing, and so many jobs were lost, and the fact that so far, 76% of those since the pandemic began have been recovered, leaving more than 5 million jobs still to go. this is something we really got a preview of about a month ago when the president spoke on the july jobs report. he wasn t ringing a note of celebration, he was worried about the hard work to come and the potential impact of the delta virant. you can expect a repeat of ....
so when you hear the word resiliency, i know the energy guys know this, it s about making the systems from our transmission of energy straight through to the highways we re building, the bridges, resilient to the change that we re seeing happening. sorry, i won t interrupt like that again. i just hope you take a look at it. tell me if we need more or less, too. thank you, mr. president. i think with that, it s a great way to segway to our fema administrator. thank you. mr. president, governor, in addition to some of the numbers you mentioned, we have about 1,200 responders from the federal family on the ground. that doesn t include those back at the national response coordination center as well as our regional response coordination center. representing 22 different federal government agencies. we have right now, 197 ambulances that have been actively engaged in trying to help with managing the support for the health care system. we also have 12 mobile communication ....
parts of southern england and south wales. a little bit of brightness here. we have the breeze coming in from the north sea so east coasts, lincolnshire, east anglia and the south east, still quite breezy. a little bit cooler along the east coast but furthering land about 2! degrees, the top temperature. a few spots getting a little bit higher than that. through this evening and overnight we have this blanket of cloud really working across most areas. some early clear spells just allowing temperatures to dip down into single figures for a time across the west of scotland, also some clear spells for southern england particularly for the channel islands as we head through into friday morning. tomorrow, it s a case of deja vu, once again a lot of cloud, things are looking mostly dry. a few spots of drizzle. a bit more sunshine for parts of southern england than we ve seen recently. that will live temperatures in london to about 22 degrees. aberdeen and newcastle about i3 i ....
they solved problem after problem to keep the mission moving forward. they did this because for the thousands of state department and u.s. employees that served in afghanistan in the past 20 years, this evacuation operation was very personal. many worked hand and hand for years with afghan partners. many of whom became trusted friends. we also lost cherished members of our foreign service community in afghanistan. we ll never forget them. helping americans, our foreign partners that have been by our side for 20 years and afghans at risk at this critical moment was more than just a high stakes assignment for our team. it was a sacred duty. and the world saw how our diplomats rose to the challenge with determination and heart. u.s. service members in kabul did heroic work securing the airport, protecting civilians of many nationalities including tens of thousands of afghans and airlifting them out. they re also providing vital support right now caring for afghans on milit ....
should trust what the taliban said. no, i m not saying that we have very significant leverage to incentivize the taliban to make good. all right. straight to a fox news alert. now, the u.s. intercepting five rockets fired at kabul airport as officials warn our final days inside afghanistan can be the most dangerous. ainsley: meanwhile, ida, now a tropical storm now making landfall as a category 4 hurricane, more than 1 million people are now without power in louisiana and in mississippi. steve: take a look at this. this security cam with a capturing the amount of flooding in just one hour. and you can see it come up and come up and come up. jeff paul joins us live from new orleans where the entire city is out of power. you, jeff, are operating on battery lights this morning. [broken audio] drive to our spot this morning for our reports, and we saw a lot of downed trees and debris in the road. [lost audio] ripped off a building and you can see it snapped a traffi ....