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In a La Nina year, January defies the odds with classic winter storm pattern

Children from floodwaters as vehicles became stuck in the road. as we led to the south, milltown, new jersey, cars and street signs, businesses almost became fully submerged by floodwaters. closer to the center of the storm with tropical force winds there was widespread damage that was felt. a homeowner in in massachusetts said henri brought down the biggest tree in her yard and the tree landed into her daughters bedroom. thankfully, the day before her daughter had just left for college. now, th...

Jillian: it is monday, august 23rd. were are following two major stories this morning. first, chaos in kabul, the biden administration defending its botched withdrawal from afghanistan as the taliban makes a bold new threat to washington. plus, tropical depression henri battering the east coast overnight, turning roads into rivers and putting millions of lives in danger. we have the very latest warning as the storm settles in over new england. youre watching "fox & friends first." im jillian mel...

Weather correspondent steve bender will join us live from long island with a look at the widespread damage from henri. carley: plus michigan congresswoman lisa mclain and mike huckabee are here to talk about the latest threat. keep it here on "fox & friends first."

Henri downgraded to a tropical depression, still brings tropical showers, high surf to Maine

Flooding. utility companies are now saying, look, we may be experiencing philip potential power outages. and they could last, get this, a week or even more. >> new york governor andrew cuomo on his last full day in office, by the way, deploying the national guard and state police. likely henri, to 2012 super storm sandy. >> super storm sandy, which we all remember, was also a category one when it hit new york state. so, just to put it in perspective how serious this is. and how dangerous it is. ...

What keeps you up at night when you think about a storm like this. whats the worst case scenario? >> last night it was the combination of wind, rain and the storm surge that was keeping me up and making sure our team was ready for this. thankfully we havent been hit as hard as we thought. we are not out of the woods yet. the after math of the storm is where our team has the most work keeping residents safe, getting power back on and making sure residents, for example, seniors have electricity so...

That covid is still running rampant. we see states running out of icu beds. states like florida not able to use liquid oxygen to purify water because theres an oxygen shortage because so many people are filling icu beds with covid. thats the thing im most deeply worried about. were on the brink of what looks like a health care crisis the likes of which weve never seen and that in turn will lead to a mental health crisis the likes of which weve never seen. that is my most immediate concern. >> ok...

>> im holding a bit more. the winds are still pretty intense. nothing like what we saw an hour ago when i was barely hanging on. the waves are still pretty intense. this road is blocked off to the public. in the past 30 minutes or so, we have seen a lot of people coming out here to get a glimpse of the impact of henri. the beach is closed for the day. officials are encouraging people to stay indoor as much as possible. the number could go up as the day progresses. at 4:00 this afternoon, the gov...

You can see its still very windy out here. there are still outer bands that could be impacting the area. i know it seems kind of calm, but we dont want people to let their guard down. >> absolutely not. we are not over with this yet. janessa, thank you for keeping watch from west hampton, new york. henri is making quite the mess of air travel across the northwest. flight aware shows 800 canceled flights and that number is expected to go up. the waves crashing into the coast of massachusetts are ...