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The gravity of the situation has led president biden to pledge more assistance. more than 5,000 members of the national guard have been activated from louisiana, mississippi, alabama and texas to support search and rescue and recovery efforts. and fema has pre—positioned, literally, millions of meals and litres of water. critical to saving new orleans from flooding were these defence walls, which proved effective in preventing serious flood damage. but the hurricane—force winds did take thei...

We saw slow water coming in under the door, and then it progressivelyjust got, i was mopping, and then it progressively got worse. it was ankles, knees, almost chest level, so we put the dogs on the counters and then we climbed into the attic. the gravity of the situation has led president biden to pledge more assistance. more than 5,000 members of the national guard have been activated from louisiana, mississippi, alabama and texas to support search and rescue and recovery efforts. and fema has...

In kabul for the past 24 hours, i want to do a little bit, take the ability to recap the past week and kind of present a holistic view of whats been accomplished. as you know, august 14th we began this evacuation operation, which really is exactly one week ago today. since then, we have rapidly deployed thousands of troops into afghanistan. our footprint continues today to stand at approximately 5,800 troops on the ground, continuing to provide and secure the kabul airport to allow for evacuatio...

During the storm potentially theres a lot of flooding after the storm. >> yeah and obviously as you said, the storm could track all the way up the coast, east coast of florida. thats some of the modeling. hundreds of miles long. it makes it hard for state, federal officials to preposition resources as they would probably like to do. >> well, i made the point earlier today, you know, fema is pre-positioned, for example, they have significant assets waiting at an air force base in alabama. the pro...

Will also be allowed access, in order help with the monitoring. the u.n. is prepared to receive evacuees in numerous sites and emergency relief kits have been pre-positioned to try to help people. medical assistance is also going to be available. the government of turkey is prepared to accept more evacuees for aid and treatment. so it appears that the necessary preparations have been made for the evacuation process that will eventually save lives but the implementation of that process continues ...

Something, this is criticism of george bush, with katrina he was taking a victory lap and media was over him. my goodness, not the weekend before the election. they have done everything to coronate him. this is unfortunately people are now suffering and the federal government is the only one that can really help here. new york city is without resources. those resources have to come from someplace else. i know a good foema response, i got it on september 11, september 12, september 13, 2001. we h...

Where al qaeda and their north african affiliate has been raising money through kidnapping. the catches have been under the microscope when a motorcade was attacked by a rocket propelled grenade, the ambassador survived but two in the security team were injured. a congressional source said drone assets capable of surveillance and much more have new been "re-positioned in response to that consulate attack." >>shepard: thank you, catherine, from washington, dc. >> many of the people who get social...

Try to deal with very tough economic situations. in the country and that is how we get started in a brand new hour and, bill has breaking news out of bogota as well. bill: remember the mine rescue in south america a few months back and bogota, columbia, reports of an explosion at a coal mine moments ago, rescue workers and police said to be on the way to the scene at the moment, a local mayor says at least 40 miners were inside the mine at the times of the explosion. and may all be trapped. and ...