Our focus has been on searchandrescue missions. Saving lives has been the number one priority. To that and, we started moving search assets. The Search And Rescue efforts will continue. And for as long as necessary. I want to pause for a moment and think the many women working hard to make this happen. This has been a partnership between local and first responders, state and federal government. They have put assets into this effort as well. When i say state, it really is about 16 different states including louisiana. They have engaged in search and. As much as i wanted to get out and survey the damage for myself today, but i did not do so. All of our air assets were needed today for searchandrescue, because the affected portion of our state was so large, and many of those areas were not accessible by ground, at least not until late in the day. I hope to be able to get out and about tomorrow. Hurricane ida brought devastating Rain And Wind to louisiana. Almost the entire southeastern pa
Our focus has been on searchandrescue missions. Saving lives has been the number one priority. To that and, we started moving search assets. The Search And Rescue efforts will continue. And for as long as necessary. I want to pause for a moment and think the many women working hard to make this happen. This has been a partnership between local and first responders, state and federal government. They have put assets into this effort as well. When i say state, it really is about 16 different states including louisiana. They have engaged in search and. As much as i wanted to get out and survey the damage for myself today, but i did not do so. All of our air assets were needed today for searchandrescue, because the affected portion of our state was so large, and many of those areas were not accessible by ground, at least not until late in the day. I hope to be able to get out and about tomorrow. Hurricane ida brought devastating Rain And Wind to louisiana. Almost the entire southeastern pa
Work with the taliban and the next governor of afghanistan, whatever his characterization will be, to ensure our citizens are protected and they have an opportunity to leave. As you know, we still have a variety of sick of it can leverage over whatever a variety of significant leverage over whatever government will exist in kabul. Reporter you have confidence in the Talibans Ability to secure the city . I think they will be challenged in securing the city. Speaking practically, they help to secure the airfield. Not perfectly, but they gave a good effort and it was significantly helpful to us, particularly at the end. Last question. Reporter are there any u. S. Aircraft still doing overflights of afghanistan, either, or otherwise either kabul or otherwise . We always reserve the opportunity to go the Counterterrorism Realm when targets present themselves. We will always retain the ability to do that. Thats all the time we have. General, any concluding thoughts . It has been a long day a
BATON ROUGE — Gov. Jeff Landry on Tuesday signed a State of Emergency Declaration for the severe storms and tornadoes that struck southern Louisiana a week ago.