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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division will conduct a training exercise that will increase helicopter traffic around the Millington area this weekend. The division says it will establish a forward arming and refueling point at the Millington-Memphis Airport to conduct refueling and resupply from the 12th through the 15th of January. Residents […]
plays out. that would be if jfk is affected and arriving flights are impacted we have to see if outbound flights are impacted. the outbound flights to europe, an international airport, they usually start banking out at about 5:00 p.m. or so into the evening so we ll have to see how this looks into the evening. we are right now in the time frame when all the inbound international flights are coming in from europe and jfk. the truth of the matter is, we have had a lot of people who have been saving their european trips over the course of covid and those flights tend to be full, full, full. tom costello one more thought. just looking at that picture, first of all, oh, my gosh. this is absolutely horrific. that s wild. it s not just of course passenger air travel, helicopter traffic over new york city is vital. police operation, fire operation, the local news radio choppers, all of that, they re going to have a difficult time operating in this haze round.
street just next to us. they re led by a white flag, and they re chanting as they go down. i don t think from our position, we can t show you that. we re about two or three stories, four stories up. but there they are, right here. hopefully they keep going past this hotel. a spokesman for the taliban told nbc news they ordered fighters to enter kabul to prevent looting since police appear to have abandoned their positions. there s been steady helicopter traffic all day over the u.s. embassy with evacuations taking an urgent turn when the taliban surrounded the city. smoke is rising as officials scramble to burn sensitive documents. they re destroying classified documents as i speak. the visa process has stopped. and now, president biden said in
you can repeat that thousands of times over, spoke to a man from another island in abaco who told me that there was a storm surge. he had gone under. his son reached out to hold him up. he really wanted to let go, he couldn t take anymore, but he said, no, i m not going to let my son see me die this way. and he got himself out of there. sorry, jake. so tough. paula, you were not supposed to spend the night on the abaco islands. what happened? reporter: so, we were at a staging area here in nassau and there are flights everywhere. they just couldn t get us back. with the way the air conditions the airline traffic, the helicopter traffic, obviously. there was a problem. it s so difficult, jake. on the island i was on, they cleared the baseball fields so that we could land, so that we could get ourselves in, billy, and get to that kind of reunion and get some supplies in. so we had to stay there. these people had been through so much. and yet they didn t blink an eye. we said, we ll