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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 their toll on the city and broader region. i think the damage is catastrophic. it's the worst i've seen ...

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 pre—positioned, literally, millions of meals and litres of water. critical to saving new orleans ...

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 what's 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 evacuation operations. as you know, these troops were both pre-positioned, as well as deployed from the unit...

During the storm potentially there's 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. that's 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 problem is, people need to understand, the way the track of the storm is going, if in fact it goes up...

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 to be dependent on the actions of the regime and its allies on the ground. let me emphasize, we're g...