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Requirements. and in fact, sean, there's no education requirements. so you got massive welfare dependency. it is like the great society for, i don't know, 2,450th parapet but that will damage the soul of america. that goes into the heart of american culture. work is dignity. were called families together. work provides opportunities for the least among us. and this damage they are going to do, and it is from the far left. it is from the crazy progressives. this crazy textbook. this is the thing that worries me the most because i hate the tax hikes. i believe in the -- you jack up technic rates...

♪ >> bret: with about 250 americans still on the ground in afghanistan now all u.s. troops have left. there are growing concerns tonight about how they will get out after president obama promised u.s. forces would remain as long as american civilians needed to be evacuated there. here is white house correspondent jackie heinrich. >> we get folks out there who need assistance. and we're doing the best we can. >> president's message of the last two weeks for americans and allies in afghanistan today he directed at those in the wreckage of hurricane ida. the if the not speak at all on afghanist...

Cases. on saturday the governor explained to cnn the strain the storm could put on health care resources. >> we had four hurricanes last year during covid, but we had a small fraction of the number of people in our hospitals that we currently have. we have more people in the hospital today, 2450 with covid, than we had at any point before this current surge. and when hurricane laura hit last year, we only had about # 00 i 300 in the hospitals. so evacuating hospitals is not going to be possible because there is no excess capacity anywhere else in the state or outside the state. and so we're re...

At forecasts and didn't think they would get any kind of bad weather. now a potentially major hurricane approaching the louisiana coast right now. >> even as hurricane ida barrels towards the gulf coast of loui louisiana, it already was dealing with another problem. coronavirus. >> we had a small fraction of the number of people in hospitals than we currently have. we have more people in the hospital today. 2,450 with covid, than at any point during this current surge. when hurricane laura hit last year we only had about 300 in the hospital. evacuating hospitals is the no going to be possible,...

I mentioned yesterday that over the previous 11 days or so, we've been able to achieve a 20% reduction in our covid in-patient census across the state of louisiana. the good news is, almost all of that happened in southeast louisiana. but there's still 2,450 covid patients in our hospitals across the state, in addition to all the other patients that remain in our hospitals. and that is a much higher number than we ever experienced in the first three surges and so it's still a very daunting situation and quite frankly we're concerned as we have been for a long time about staffing but you know, ...