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Information. Millions of americans need now to brace for Hurricane Milton. This is round two during a suddenly violent hurricane season. Tampa, florida is facing unsurvivable conditions. We know from 12 days ago with helene the forecasters mean it. Now we pray that it is going to go off course but you have to be ready. The storm remains a category 4. It has been a 5 along the way and likely return to some 160 to 180 mileperhour winds being carried by the cat 5. President biden is set to speak at...

Tonight, several breaking headlines as we come on the air. The category 4 Hurricane Bearing down on the u. S. At this hour. Winds up to 145 miles per hour. This is an extremely dangerous cat 4 storm, only a few hours from landfall. Authorities tonight warning of, quote, Unsurvivable Storm Surge. Blinding rain and winds already, Mass Evacuations under way as time now runs out. Families trying to find shelter in the middle of a pandemic. Authorities concerned about too many families staying put, t...

>> president biden: im not supposed to take any questions but go ahead. >> mr. president, with afghanistan >> president biden: im not going to answer afghanistan now. >> he will face plenty of questions this week. 250 americans who asked for help still need help leaving. they are waiting for their calls to be answered. another 280 are still undecided. this is also the most risky period for the military as u.s. troops move out their equipment and forces. evacuation numbers are winding down. just ...

Effect does this have on the evacuation numbers, as well. we know there are still a lot of afghans who want to get out, who have helped the u.s., that simply so far have not been able to. and we did just get an update from the white house, pam, from today at 3:00 a.m. to 3 p.m., a total of approximately 2,000 people were evacuated. thats 11 military planes and seven coalition flights which is with major u.s. allies. so youre already seeing those numbers start to go down, still a high number of p...

Point the at that throughout the process. they believe with the evacuation numbers improving by the day, they believe if they were able to get people out by august 31st this is a story that fades from the headlines, and eventually, americans will even give him credit for being the u.s. president that was finally able to end the war, something his predecessors were not able to do. republicans are trying to seize the opportunity. there is vulnerability here. there are moderate democrats who believ...

House is completing this operation, completing it by august 31. earlier today the administration put out new evacuation numbers, they say they have evacuated some 82,000 people almost since the start of this airlift process on august 14th. the white house, pentagon, have said repeatedly that they believe they have enough time to airlift out all of the americans. getting out all of the afghan allies is another situation entirely. president biden said that well hear more from the state department ...

Evacuations in the last 24 hours. officials say 21,000 people were air lifted from the kabul airport via u.s. military and coalition flights. 21,000. thats the highest evacuation numbers in a 24-hour period to date, all without a single u.s. casualty. and an estimated 4,500 people are waiting inside the airport for evacuation flights at this time another 9,000 are believed to be at the gates surrounding the airport. a source tells cnn, afghans with special immigrant visas are now being allowed o...

That exceededen the optimistic expectations in terms of the number of folks who could get out, and the fact is that we are actually overperforming in terms of the evacuation numbers, and therefore we need a higher ceiling in terms of beds, and other facilities, and transit centers. but you cant go from the standing start, and zero the yes in 24 hours. this something that we have prepared and prepositioned with allies over time so that when we pick up the phone and call, and they dont say, what a...

That exceeded even our optimistic expectations in terms of the number of folks who could get out, so the fact is, we are actually overperforming in terms of the evacuation numbers, and therefore, we need a higher ceiling in terms of the number of beds and other facilities at transit centers, so were simply adding capacity. but you cant go from a standing start. you cant go from zero to yes in 24 hours. this is something that we have prepared, prepositioned, engaged with allies and partners on ov...

And europe. as it turned out, we have been able to produce a throughput that exceeded even our optimistic expectations in terms of the number of folks who could get out, so the fact is we are actually over performing in terms of the evacuation numbers and therefore we need a higher ceiling in terms of the number of beds and other facilities and transit centers, so we are simply adding capacity, but you cannot go from zero to yes in 24 hours. when we pick up the phone and call, they do not say wh...