we have team fox coverage across the state as we await the results of this recall. remember, california democrats outnumber republicans 221, nearly 2 million people needed to sign on to a petition to set this recall into motion and some of the top issues for all california families have been rising taxes, rising crime, rising housing prices and exploding homelessness problem, draconian lockdown measures, and an immigration surge among other things. all of these things clearly have a governor on his heels. he had california democrats were so concerned about the recall they spent more than $80 million and brought in both president an end vice president to campaign. the question is, will it work? we re on it. for the last hour, for the next hour will bring you breaking information. claudia cowan is in sacramento. good evening.
dana: can the u.s. take the taliban at its word? peter doocy pressing the white house about this issue. it went like this. following up on the charter flights the taliban is holding up in afghanistan, the secretary of state said there are limits to what we can do without personnel on the ground. you said we re not on the ground. whose fault is that? i don t think this is about fault here. bill: it went like that. team fox coverage begins. mark meredith with the latest from the white house this morning. trey yengst back live on these evacuations out of kabul. trey is in doha, qatar again today. good morning. positive news to report today.
amazing american young people. bill: team fox coverage continues. griff jenkins live at the state department. jackie heinrich from the north lawn where she begins her day with us now. good morning. president biden at once cast this as an extraordinary success but also passed blame for some of the mission s failures and challenges on former president trump, former afghan president ghani and to the americans still stuck there. president biden: since march we reached out 19 times to americans in afghanistan with multiple warnings and offers to help them leave afghanistan all the way back as far as march. the bottom line, 90% of americans in afghanistan who wanted to leave were able to leave. as of this morning, the official white house transcript has updated that 90% figure to
oh my god. bill: that s the first of many pictures throughout the day. that s southwest of new orleans. ida tearing the roof off the top of the building. dana: one person confirmed dead. millions of people without power and that includes the entire city of new orleans. bill: ida moving over mississippi. it has weakened to a tropical storm. officials saying the threat level remains quite high. dana: team fox coverage. senior meteorologist janet dean is tracking the storm. jeff paul is live in new orleans and where are you now? we re in downtown. as the sun comes up here in new orleans we re starting to get a better idea of the damage caused by hurricane ida.
the reports, he answered the questions that i couldn t answer for myself. dana: what a beautiful family. shannon, thank you so much for your time. we ll have you in our prayers and these families that are, as you said, going to be informed about this terrible loss. thank you so much. absolutely. thank you. bill: live now to the pentagon today. we have a lot of additional detail to offer you about the attack yesterday at the abbey gate but i can confirm for you that we do not believe there was a second explosion at or near the baron hotel. it was one suicide bomber. we aren t sure how that report was provided incorrectly but we do know it is not a surprise that in the confusion of very dynamic events like this can cause information sometimes to be misreported. we felt it was important to correct the record with you all here.