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The snowploughs will struggle to keep roads open. so storm eunice are really nasty looking at low pressure coming away from friday and potentially one of the strongest areas of low pressure that weve seenin areas of low pressure that weve seen in recent decades bringing to in the region of 70, 100 miles an hour. that is going to bring widespread disruption and big problems on the roads and of course airports with the risk of heavy snow and blizzards causing problems over higher ground for northe...

Obviously, you can understand that the russian motive right now is to close off all foreign access points, not only to cut off people leaving, but aides presumably coming in. i wonder if no aide comes in, then what? >> well, hopefully that will not happen because if no aide comes in, it is a catastrophe, with the roads open, and up from the west towards the other parts of ukraine. and so, actually, i dont even want this kind of scenario this, would be terrible for people in ukraine and hopefully...

Highways. we just showed you russian forces are up here north of the city. russian forces are out here fighting in irpin, the city out to the northwest suburb. lets bring in the former commander of special operations in europe. general, i read an op-ed you wrote for fox news on the importance of logist ics in war. when you see the russian forces to the northeast of kyiv here, to the northwest of kyiv here not just near the airport but two major highways. the highways that head west. those are to...

The tanker oil spill sparked a traffic nightmare at the Broadway Circle rotary on Route 60 that lasted well into the night.

Its good to see you. when i was just talking to nadia, and shes laying out what shes seeing about power out throughout new orleans. transmission lines they say have fallen into the mississippi river. coms out completely in some places with the cell phone towers having fallen. what would be your first focus? >> i think theyre on it. the governor has the task force of state and federal officials going in and searching, doing search and rescue. they know what to do. the challenge is the vast amount...

Emergency crews right now and how do they tackle them? >> search and rescue, which means you have to do the initial search, knock and see if people are in the homes so you can rescue them and in locations where the last known contact was. search and rescue open the roads. you have to do those simultaneously. one enhances the other. because in the areas we dont have flood problems we need to open roads. so getting those roads open, getting the initial search of every house done is job one in the ...

They have been at it all day. it will continue for the next couple of days. the problems are extensive. as the folks are clearing out the road, they are making way for power trucks that will come through. this is one of the many neighborhoods thats lost power and its going to take upwards of 5,000 line men who are going out and fanning throughout the area to get the power restored. in some cases before they can deal with getting the power restored, they have to get the power lines and the power ...

Companies, the communications backbone that you depend on for your private cell phone is privately owned as well. we are rewriting our response plans to put the private sector in the front, in the front seat to tell us how we can help them. so it is a coordinated effort. you know, you cant just send power crews in right now to fix it. obviously the storm is creating damage. but as it passes it is our job to help local and state governments get the roads open. this is not something where the ligh...

Road. you got 34% of the roads open. if you look at -- we were up in the air. probably saw 25% to 33% of the island, i would say more than 90% of the roads are clear but just have chokepoints with some of the trees down. lot of the buildings -- most of the buildings are intact. some have been totally devastated but theres a lot of the structure there. heres the main problem, the electrical grid. >> yeah. >> it was weak to begin with, thats why there are so many generators being used to open up h...

>> melissa: president trump and first lady are en route to puerto rico to look over the storm ravaged island facing a humanitarian crisis. set to make their first stop in san juan. this trip comes amid criticism of the federal governments slow response to the island which was devastated, of course, by hurricane maria. president trump has repeatedly defended the federal response. >> president trump: were doing really well on puerto rico. tremendous progress being made. were getting the roads open...