the numbers trickle down. the troops trickle down, 4,000 from 6,000 and the staff little more than a dozen. hard to say where it goes, other than it's complicated how the exodus goes. we'll be on top of it throughout the day at fox. that will do it. more. >> a fox news alert as we report on two major breaking news story, the work to get the americans and afghans out of the kabul airport after two isis terror plotters were killed in a drone strike overnight. and hurricane ida is headed to the gulf coast and evacuations when ida is expected to make landfall tomorrow 16 years to the day that hurricane cat slammed katrina slammed the

gulf coast. . griff: we'll begin with afghanistan where the pentagon finished a briefing with new details on that deadly drone strike against isis-k. we have extensive coverage, including david spunt at the white house and trey, lucas tomlinson at the pentagon. lucas, let's start with you, you were just in the briefing, tell us what happened. >> griff, u.s. intelligence says the two high profile highs sis planners were plotting more attacks against the u.s. troops at the airport in kabul sometimes in the next three days before the august 31st deadline. here is how john kirby described the operation. >> they lost a planner and they lost a facilitator and they've got one wounded. and the fact that two of these individuals are no longer walking on the face of the earth, that's a good thing. it's a good thing for the people of afghanistan and it's a good thing for our troops and

our forces at that airfield. the pentagon is not releasing the names of the people they killed. i'm told that the drone went from the united arab emirates to the province. for years a hot bed in afghanistan, nangarhar, and they dropped the moab, the mother of all bombs, in the strikes against bin laden. and that came two days after the deadly attack that killed 13 service members and hundreds of others. and after there was another warning in kabul urging all americans at the gates at the airport to quote, leave immediately. there are reports that many of the gates are welded shut. >> there are gates closed absolutely right now, as we've said earlier, we do have gates that continue to be open as we coordinate and still work with the department of state to get people in for evacuation.

>> and evacuation flights continue from that airport in kabul. over 7,000 yesterday. that's over 110,000 since this massive evacuation began, griff. griff: a clear race against time and the clock is ticking, lucasment quickly, was there any indication, we know the deadline is august 31st. any indication when the last flight will lift? >> we're told at the pentagon, 4,000 troops will be evacuating kabul airport very soon and everybody gone by the end of business on august 31st. >> lucas tomlinson, great work, jacqui. jacqui: we've learned more names. 13 service members who died in the attack at the kabul airport. our doug luzader joins us now with some of the stories about those killed in afghanistan this week. hey, doug. >> the human cost of this bomb attack is coming into sharper focus. we may get the full list from the pentagon later today, but here is what we know so far

about the fallen. first, max soviak, a former high school athlete and left behind 12 brothers and sisters. rylee mc collum, 20 years old, recently gotten married and his wife is expecting a baby in three weeks. david lee espinoza, 20 years old and mother told the wall street journal he had been in afghanistan a week before he was killed and 20-year-old lance corporal jared schmitz who grew up in the st. louis area. his father told a local radio station he was devastated and his son had always wanted to become a marine. and kareem mae'lee, and his son had voiced concerns about this mission. >> i'm still in shock. the family is devastated. from what i saw of the airport that they were in, it looked like a turkey shoot. basically it's funneled into

like a single file type entry point. >> and now this morning's pentagon briefing u.s. officials talked about the loss of so many lives. >> we grieve with the gold star families, friends and loved ones of our fallen. >> and they will be remembered and revered among americans who have served in afghanistan in operations freedom sentinel and enduring freedom. >> okay, again, we expect the pentagon to release the entire list of those killed in action a little later today. griff and jacqui, back to you. jacqui: thank you for that. griff: trey is on the ground for us in doha, qatar. he joins us with the latest as they begin to wind down operations in afghanistan. hi, trey. >> good afternoon. in the past 24 hours, 66 flights took off from kabul with around 7,000 evacuees. this brings the total number to

nearly 120,000 people leaving afghanistan since the taliban took over. people are still leaving kabul, but the numbers are far lower than they were before, following that blast on thursday. it's been very difficult to get people out and get people to the airport. the taliban has increased the perimeter outside of the airport trying to curb the flow of people into the abby gate and the canal area. the august 31st evacuation deadline is quickly approaching. there is an understanding that some civilian flights to kabul could resume after the americans leave, but they would be limited and need to be controlled by a player like turkey, pakistan or qatar. now, once this critical air lifeline is over, there will be an option for people to leave on foot, but it's a major concern to the united nations, who estimates that half a million afghans could try to flee the country on foot in the coming weeks. there's a major humanitarian crisis developing because ngo's and international bodies will still try to operate on the ground in afghanistan, but with the taliban in control, a lot

of open-ended questions about how they'll do that, griff. griff: trey in doha, qatar for us. thank you. jacqui: president biden has met with his international security council and discussing the latest developments in afghanistan. david spunt is live from the white house with more for us. >> there is a marine outside the west wing entrance indicating that president biden is in the evil office in the oval offense or near the west wing and we know that president biden will be meeting with his team over the next point in the next couple of hours. two big topics talking about the two isis-k members in the drone strike, preventing another serious attack outside hamid karzai international airport in kabul. we know that that is something that the united states is watching very keenly right now. the state apartment officials say that anyone at the abby gate, the site of the suicide

bomb, the north gate, minister of interior gate needs to be leave immediately. some are shut. but the state department warned the americans to leave the area. another new warning out from the state department to go as soon as possible from the airport. >> the threat is ongoing and it's active. our troops are still in danger, that continues to be the case every day that they are there. most-- this is the most dangerous part of the mission, this is the retrograde period of the mission. what that means is that this is the period of time when the military commanders on the ground and forces begin to move not just troops home, but also equipment home and that is often a very dangerous part of any mission. >> equipment and the taliban stole tens of millions of dollars of equipment that the united states provided afghan forces over the past two decades. the clock continues to tick

loudly and the window to get people out is closing. >> the mission there being performed is dangerous and it's now come with a significant loss to american personnel and, but it's a worthy mission because they continue to evacuate folks out of that region, out of the airport. >> the white house, jacqui, putting out the latest rounds of number of people evacuated. they do it from 3 a.m. one morning to 3 a.m. the next morning. 3 a.m. august 22nd until 3 a.m. this morning they say 6800 people were able to be evacuated. that's about 112,000 over the past few weeks and you add that onto folks since july and that's where the pentagon's getting that 117,000 number of people evacuated, jacqui. jacqui: david spunt at the white house, thank you. griff: for more reaction to the situation on the ground in afghanistan, we are joined by republican congressman from virginia, the first district,

he's also the vice ranking member of the house armed services committee, rob whitman. congressman, thank you for taking time. let's get right to it. you are on the armed services committee. what is the latest intelligence you can share with us with what you're hearing about what's happening on the ground in kabul? >> griff, there are several things, one, there are americans that need to be evacuated. second, is that there is still risk to military members on the ground and we are still facing a deadline that the president refuses to move. i believe the deadline needs to be extended. i don't think that we should be at the mercy of the taliban telling us when to get out. this needs to be about a single purpose and a single purpose only, that is getting every american out of afghanistan. and we should not have a timeline dictate to us by the taliban. the taliban needs to know if this he get in our way of evacuating americans that there will be a swift and deadly response if they do that.

that's where we need to be, i believe, at this point. griff: congressman, about a week ago, you were driving the calls for extending the deadline. that's clearly not going to happen at this point and as you point out, i was reporting at the state department all this week, yesterday, they finally told me that there's roughly a 500 people they're in contact with, that are believed to be wanting to get out. what are you hearing and how concerned are you about their ability to get out after the deadline passes which the president seems to be sticking to? >> griff, i believe it's going to be very difficult for them to get out. at great risk getting out. and one of the things, giving the names of those american citizens to the taliban, as well as those afghans in the special immigrant visa program. that to me puts their lives on the line. why we would do that is beyond me. if those people can't get out by the deadline they're at risk and put at risk by the biden administration.

griff: we're in a fluid, chaotic and highly dangerous situation, congressman, and i don't intend to point about fingers, when you talk about american citizens and siv applicants, and it's likely a small number of americans are likely to be left behind and yet, tens of thousands of siv applicants are going to be left behind with fewer options to get out after the deadline. my question is what could they have done differently to have avoided this situation we're in now? >> the biden administration should have planned for this. remember, they did this in reverse. they evacuated the military first and left behind u.s. citizens and these afghans who have helped us, these special immigrant visas, should have been done the opposite. we should have focused on getting the individuals out safely and made they are sure' out as well as this equipment we left in the hands of the taliban. that should have been first.

and the united states military the last to evacuate. we did it backwards. and we see the conditions in doha. this administration failed at every turn and that's why i think we need the afghanistan commission and a 9/11 style commission, the truth about how we find ourselves at this point extraordinarily regrettable. >> is there bipartisan support for that? >> i believe there is. i believe the speaker allow it to come to the floor, i think there are people on the other side of the aisle who want to get to the truth and facts about the entirety of what happened in afghanistan, to the day we went in until now. we have a right to know. we have a right to get to the truth and facts of the situation. the american people have a right to know. this needs to happen immediately. griff: and lastly, congressman, with just about 20, 30 seconds left. you come from a heavily military family district. are you hearing any stories, any situations that are of high

concern to you? >> i have, griff. i've talked to folks across the district, many military families deeply concerned not only about their loved ones that are down range, but also, the state of mind of our veterans now who feel betrayed what's happened in afghanistan for the effort that they put into it and also we have a very large population of afghans in the district. we're hearing on a daily bases working on hundreds of cases to get them out of afghanistan. griff: keep us posted as you get information, if you will. >> thank you, griff. griff: stay tuned, on fox news channel. more coming up on this in the next hour, we'll speak with marine veteran congressman from massachusetts and a lot more on afghanistan tomorrow on fox news sunday. with chris wallace and finally our friend howie kurtz takes a

deep dive into the fallout tomorrow on the fox news channel. jacqui: now to the major threat brewing off the gulf coast. the national hurricane center warning that preparations ahead of hurricane ida should be, quote, rushed to completion. new orleans mayor is expect today give an update on preparations in the city at any minute now. we've got team coverage of what's expected to be a life altering storm with casey stegall, and chief meteorologist rick reichmuth at the weather center. rick, let's start with you, what's the latest? >> they say it's got to be done quickly. the storm is moving fast in its forward trajectory right now and it's going to get to the coastline sometime tomorrow and we'll start to feel the impacts tomorrow morning early. so today is the day you have to be out of there likely or certainly have your plans in place. this is visible satellite and you can see on that the center of the storm really starting to become defined. when we look at the infrared satellite you can also start to see the center right there opening up. i think we're about to see a lot of convection, that's a lot

of storms, additional stronger storms around the center of the storm. probably showing a strengthening storm getting better organized and that's why we think we'll have the rapid strengthening later today. hurricane warnings anywhere you see this red, excuse me, tropical storm warnings in the yellow, but you notice the red, hurricane warnings go far inland. when the storm makes landfall because it's likely at a category 4 strength it will take a long time to wind down below hurricane force winds and that's far inland. this is what we're looking at, category 4, sometime early evening tomorrow, and to the left, later landfall and farther right, an earlier landfall, but in the middle is the track where the icons are that you see. the storm goes over really warm water and really warm really deep. the storms often that area of low pressure pulls up water from below the surface. that water below the service is also really warm in this case, so that really gives it the

fuel that we'll expect to see and see it strengthen. some morning at 7 a.m., already watching winds in grand isle of almost 60 miles per hour. new orleans already at tropical storm force winds and tomorrow by noon, tropical storm force winds in new orleans and well over hurricane acrossed areas by grand isle. and later on tomorrow night, watch this. we have hurricane force winds in new orleans, morgan city inland winds almost 100 miles per hour. this storm is going to have a lot of wind with it, it's going to have the storm surge with it and it's going to have the rain. that rain is little exacerbated because it's going to start to slow down in forward movement around the time it's making landfall. 18 hours of prolonged rains and 15 to 20 inches of rain, a lot of inland flooding with this as well. if you're right on the coastline, obviously, places like grand isle, morgan city, you're going to be watching the worst of the wind and the storm surge, but you go inland a

little bit and we're going to have a lot of damage from the really strong wind and then inland flooding. way nt -- i want to point out last week we had the flooding in waverly, tennessee. we'll see a lot of moisture through that exact area and i want to point that out and a lot through the northeast that had fred last weekend as well. and the storm is going to be far inland and be with us for a number of days. jacqui: not a lot of time to prepare. thanks for that. griff: jacqui, louisiana clearly going to get a direct hit from hurricane ida, that's where we find our senior correspondent casey stegall in baton rouge where they're urging people to hunker down. >> good to see you. forecasters, in fact, are calling this a quote, life altering storm, not verbiage used very often by the weather

center. what is happening around this region in baton rouge, stations like this set up with are folks are driving up, filling sand bags to go then to take back to their property so they can try to defend their homes. there are at least eight of these in bot ton rouge alone, which by the way, rick was talking about being inland. well, baton rouge is nearly 70 miles directly north of morgan city and it's to the west of new orleans. ida is currently on track to come right over us. there is a mix of voluntary and involuntary evacuations, mostly in the lower lying coastal areas and now as we've said, the race is on. while the sun is still shining for people to get their affairs in order. >> and so, the next 24 hours are very, very important. now is the time to finish our preparations, and i want to encourage everyone to understand that by nightfall tomorrow night, you need to be where you inland to ride out

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>> on the ground in afghanistan, veterans are working around the clock to get thousands of allies and americans out of the country. with us now are two who are helping with the evacuation efforts. let's bring in combat veteran and ceo, cory mills and calling in live from a neighboring country of afghanistan, and marine com veteran chad is in the middle east.

we'll not say where he is. and my hat's off to both of you, you're doing the lord's work, and cory, what are the latest on the ground and what are your efforts doing right now? >> so, thank you, griff, for having us on. as you're aware after the recent explosions, which we had guys on the ground for, they've already welded two of the gates that cut down the flow of those trying to get in. and in many cases, americans on the outside waving their passports and such trying to get in waved off. and you understand that the safety of the security members is key, but there were 1100 siv's were supposed to be taken to hungary. we're seeing a continual flow and the military's objective now is to get equipment out and not necessarily focus on

personnel. that's why we have now tried to set up an alternate path which enables us to an assault force, helicopter assault force, enabling us to try to get into a certain company and accepting those, trying to get americans as well that are not going to be able to -- to the gates right now under imminent threat. >> so, picking up, chad, a little bit where cory was talking about. obviously, we know the deadline is coming soon and in fact, when the u.s. stops coordinating flights at the kabul airport, there's going to be no real way to get on flights. how is that impacting your efforts? what will you do now? >> it's not only the flights, i'm working right now, working directly with a military unit trying to get people out. the problem is places to bring them. you know, we quickly assembled our team with our allies and put a team together on the ground in kabul, a team in the middle east, joint operations

command center as well as in washington d.c. and consolidate our efforts. in six days, 12 of us in six days got 12,000 people out it was a strategic effort and i'm proud of our team for doing that, but we have been stopped and the reason we cannot take any more out is not because of our capabilities on the ground. it's because there's no where else to put them. the 12,000 that we brought out, we brought to a country that gave us limits of 4,100 so we overshot our mark a little bit and we're joking with our team, overachievers, but so many countries that were taking people and we filled those countries up and it's so tragic. as we celebrated as a team today we just kind of paused and everybody is somber and sad and it sounds like a lot, but there are thousands and thousands there still left behind and losing hope. griff: tragically, there are thousands more, particularly the siv applicants. cory, let me ask you, as we

talk about the heroic efforts you guys are doing, there is some coordination in terms of when you are manifesting on flights and actually getting your folks to the marines to get through this, it's really an amazing sort of a veteran, private, and military operation, is that correct? >> yeah, i think that's exactly right. not only this working with the actual service members who are enabling to ensure that they're trying to call into the gates and making sure that there's a checklist on our manifest and again, this manifest is comprised not just americans, but given to us from other departments from the government and other agencies trying to pull out their staff and there's been coordination and some missed steps where we could have gotten more aircraft in and it's been waved off after the necessary-- waived off because maybe some threat or in some cases, the

they didn't feel the aircraft was large enough, and every life that's taken matters and so, you know, it's one of those things that certainly it's a lot of coordination and like you said, it god's work. griff: it's teamwork and it's an understatement about the mistake being made and you guys are answering the call. and let me ask, a few second, why are you doing that? why are you and cory doing this? >> for me anybody who understands afghanistan, understands strategy and seeing this coming. and i have an interpreter with eight deployments with a joint special operations command and we worked in a pair, afo missions for special operatings all through afghanistan and pakistan and i became very close to him and i love this guy and i was committed to getting him out and his wife and six kids and that's how it

began, but as i assembled my team to get him out we recognized how many others were left there and we do it for one, as many as we can. and he came out and we had stopped to reach 12,000. griff: chad, we have to leave it there. thank you very much. cory mills, stay safe, great work to you. jacqui: griff, new orleans mayor is about to brief on hurricane ida press. we'll bring that to you live. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ oh! are you using liberty mutual's coverage customizer tool? sorry? well, since you asked. it finds discounts and policy recommendations, so you only pay for what you need. limu, you're an animal! who's got the bird legs now? only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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>> president biden is set to be briefed by fema in just about an hour and we expect to hear more from the new orleans mayor any moment now at a press conference. we go now on how the latest new orleans is preparing nearly 16 years after hurricane katrina. we're joined by mike tobin there. how are you doing? you're in the french quarter there? >> i am in the french quarter and 16 years to the day when

hurricane ida makes landfall. we heard a little bit of thunder as there's bad weather whipping up in front of hurricane ida, but the people in the quarter are doing what they do in the quarter. pretty relaxed right now even though they're on track to get hit with another powerful storm. the evacuation orders have gone into effect for low lying areas outside of the protection of the levee system of new orleans. la fourche, terrebonne, they don't have shelters, so there is ne 0 no plan b. and governor john bel edwards, said that it's only getting stronger. the mayor says too late for evacuation in the crescent city, traffic would pile up if everybody would try to get out and people need to ride it out and trust the fortified levee

systems and the people here trust the old buildings been here through many stormsments i'm a native new orleans, i'm used to this. i've been riding out storms since i was a child. i have faith in god first and the french quarter. all of these buildings have survived every storm. >> it's just another storm, i mean, not too scared, it's new orleans, i've been here my whole life. they're been coming at us. nothing we can do. you cover it up or run. >> the saints preseason game was moved and canceled altogether. and one meteorologist with the national weather service says this will be a life altering storm for the unprepared. there could be two feet as way and the storm surge 15 feet west of the mississippi and 11 foot at lake borne. the fortified levee system is go to get its first major test since katrina.

>> mike tobin in new orleans. stay safe. jacqui: migrants are arriving at the southern border in record numbers as the supreme court reinstates the remain in mexico policy and what are you seeing there, bill? >> yeah, jacqui, good afternoon, so far what we're seeing, looks like not a whole lot of impact is coming out of this supreme court decision because mexico has to agree to reimplement that policy and it's just unclear right now if they're going to or if there are plans to do so and in the meantime, these migrants keep showing up by the hundreds. take a look at the video we shot out here last night, again, this is something we witness every single evening out here in la joya, texas and they walk around the incomplete border wall and turn themselves. the family units, a lot of women and children from guatemala, honduras, el

salvador and we've talked to them and they've heard about the supreme court ruling and worry they might get sent back into mexico, but until there's a decision they keep coming and the migrants tell us it's bad for the journey when it comes to women. take a listen. >> he says he's heard of women being abused throughout the trip in mexico. luckily, nothing happened to them. >> and to that point, take a look at this video right here. earlier this week we came across this scene. there were paramedics working on two little migrant girls unaccompanied and under the age of 10. the border asked us to stay back and say it was a sensitive situation and we later learned both of those girls have been sexually assaulted in mexico before they came across into the united states and that's a problem, a major problem that happens a lot down here on the border. take a look at the photos here. this is why it's so concerning.

unaccompanied minors are pouring into the country. and these are out of tucson and recently apprehended a group of more than 100 unaccompanied kids. these are all children and little kids who came here completely alone and troubling given the danger of the journey. it's not all families and little kids showing up obviously. here in the rio grande valley they've apprehended more than 145 gang members including ms-13 just the fiscal year alone and the question is, how many are not being caught. who else is coming in. just yesterday, la joya, they found two guys from sri lanka, they're coming from all over the world. >> thank you for that. griff. griff: jacqui for more on the continuing crisis at the border we'll bray in former ice director and fox news

contributor, tom holman. and we heard from the report from bill, and the key word who is coming in? he said sri lanka. i want to ask you in the wake of the situation in the crisis in afghanistan and the border. do you see a tie to the vulnerabilities of who is coming into our border? >> absolutely. look, i've been saying, griff, for two years that this border, when it's vulnerable, it's just not vulnerable do illegal immigration, it's illegal to threats, public health threats because they're releasing covid cases, but i've said from day one, it's a national security issue. border patrol arrested 17 nationals from afghanistan this year. if you look at special interests, those on terror watch lists they'veline arrested five. there are 300,000 got-aways. terrorists don't want to get caught. they're part of the 300,000 who got away. and that's how the fentanyl and

the bad guys go through. if they arrested five, how many didn't they arrest? the u.s. government will admit they've arrested 15 known terrorists in the last decade. that's what they'll admit to. but the report is 100, in panama, hsi along with panama special agents en route to the united states in the last five years and luckily we caught them in panama from there. this is extreme on the south border. 50% of the border patrol off the line processing aliens, we've never been more vulnerable to terrorists entering this country in my year. the biden administration, we have' got to secure this border, it's an extreme national security issue at this time. griff: let me draw on that. because the outgoing border patrol chief, rodney scott, in the message to his farewell to the border patrol agents, he views this not just as a crisis at the border, but in his words

a national security crisis and some coming across the border hit the terror watch list, but now we have the cvp saying if their board, a small number of afghan evacuees flagged for concerns at bases around the world and we have cvp agencies like yourself who have experience doing the vetting. do you see that threat highly increase now because of the mass evacuate in afghanistan? >> yeah, because cvp personnel don't know who these people are. there's no u.s. embassy there, there's no consul office there. and how are we verifying passports are genuine? how do you verify the identity documents who these people really are. i know for a fact talking to law enforcement at dulles airport here in d.c., that a

lot of these afghans getting off the planes they have zero identification. not one piece of pipe who they are. here is the problem. how do you vet them when you don't have any documents from the afghan government or from the american consulate. something else and-- >> tom, i hate to-- i hate to cut you off. we've got to go down to new orleans now. we're joining the press conference there. >> mr. ramsey green who is our deputy cao of infrastructure. ms. lauren nash, who is with the national weather service and thank you so much for being embedded in our eoc and getting directly, i appreciate that. and of course tyrell morris who is our director of 911/311 the orleans parish and joined by colonel bailey with the louisiana national guard.

thank you all again for being here. now, this is an update, of course, from yesterday, i'm just getting out of my briefing with our public safety team, our unified command on every single level. what we know is today, right now, everyone has to make a decision to leave voluntarily, which i'm recommending, do that. prepare yourselves. if you're going to leave you need to do that now. we need to make sure that you are in a safe place, everyone, where you're going to leave voluntarily or stay on site, hunker down, wherever that is, hopefully that's your home, in our city, but in a safe space if you stay. you need to be prepared. prepared for damaging winds, power outages, heavy rain, tornados. what i'm told is that this storm in no way will be

weakening. there will be, and there are no signs, again, that this storm will weaken. and there's always an opportunity for the storm to strengthen. as you know, this continues to remain a very fluid situation and we know, again, that time is not on our side. it's rapidly, it's growing, it's intensifying. that's again, if you're voluntarily evaluating our city, know you is the time to leave. you need to do so immediately. if you're planning to ride it out, again, make sure that you're able to hunker down, you have your supplies in hand so that you're able to respond post storm and we, the city-- . that's new orleans mayor, latoya cantrell urging residents to heed the warning to get out while you can. we'll check back in as things

develop. jacqui. jacqui: president biden is moving forward with withdrawing u.s. troops from afghanistan in the next three days after 13 americans were killed in the bombing at the kabul airport. joining us now for analysis is democrat strategist and former from the department of homeland security, and director of the national security law at mason university and for the senate foreign relations committee. thank you for being with us. there's a long ways to go before it's all over, but when it's over there's going to be plenty of time to pick apart specific decisions made carrying out this withdrawalment more bradley speaking for the purpose of the panel discussion, the president maintained it's time to end the war in afghanistan and withdraw and he stands by his decision. is that the right decision, we've had troops in japan since world war ii and in south korea for 70 years. i'll go to you first.

>> we've have served for a long time, but those troops were welcome. in afghanistan president trump cut a deal with the taliban and said we'd move out by next may and we've only had 2500 troops. at that level we would not be able to sustain and and keep the troops secure. because he made the deal with the taliban we had to end this. jacqui: your answers to that? >> i don't think that's correct. the fact of the matter is we've had three presidents in a row, president trump, president obama, president biden, for we've been safe from a terror attack because we've been fighting this conflict over there and keeping al-qaeda and isis on the run. we saw what happened in 2013 when we pulled out of resip tus ly -- precipitously out of iraq and we had to go back in. i i predict that will happen

here. and we saw the isis-k and their attack at hkia. and that's going to cause a huge issue for the u.s. going forward. jacqui: since the u.s. began its involvement in afghanistan, i believe president biden is the only president who has had a child in the military. and lost his daughter in a car accident and then his son beau. do you think he's hardened to those that would say we should have kept troops there or have the stomach to send troops back if necessary or factor into his judgment? >> i think that he's served on the intelligence committee for a long time and chair of foreign relations and he was the vice-president. he has the strength to get our troops wherever needed to protect america. but at the end of the day, when president trump negotiated with

the taliban and said that in exchange for them not attacking our troops, not attacking american bases, that the united states will move out by next may, if we had reneged on that, then we would be in a confrontation with taliban. that was the agreement that was signed, the taliban came to the accords in doha and signed an agreement saying that they would not harbor any terrorists in exchange for this. so, this was foregone before the biden administration took over and so, you and i can debate and talk about whether president biden should have took out the troops or not, when he should have took them out, but the decision was made in the last administration and if this administration would have reneged on it, then we would have to expand the number of troops beyond 2500 and would have had to send tens of thousands of troops to secure afghanistan and that's basically it, we've been in the war for two decades, double down and send more troops or

could not have stayed at the levels we were at. jacqui: jamel, the last wordments we haven't lost an american troop since 2020 and even the handful we've lost the last few years has been a small number and the idea that somehow we couldn't have gone away from the deal and done a proper deal that would have kept america safe, it's false. here is the thing, who is back in afghanistan today? isis-k. who killed american soldier in afghanistan today, isis-k. there's there, haqqani network, and those we have been at war with are in control of the capital and if any troops there, so be it. jacqui: and we appreciate the time and appreciate the conversation. we'll have you back soon. covid-19 cases are rising past the 200,000 a day mark. we are going live in atlanta on this next. do you take aspirin? plain aspirin could be hurting your stomach. new vazalore is the first liquid-filled aspirin

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griff: fox news alert as we report on two major breaking news stories today. the state department saying it's everied confirmation that at least 5400 americans have been safely evacuated from afghanistan since august 14th including 30 americans in the last $300 in the last 24 hours. and closer to home, hurricane ida strengthening, president biden is set to attend a briefing with fema ahead of the storm's expected landfall tomorrow which is 16 years to the day that hurricane katrina slammed the coast. welcome to "fox news live," i'm griff jenkins. jacqui: i'm jacqui heinrich. three days left before the deadline for the u.s. to be out of the country despite thousands of afghans and others still scrambling to leave. david spunt at the white house, doug luzader in washington and lucas tomlinson at the pentagon,

trey yingst in doha, qatar. they're, test start with you. >> reporter: 66 flights have taken off from kabul, evacuating around 7,000 people. this brings the total number of evacuees since the taliban took over to nearly 120,000. though we know people are still trying to leave the city, the numbers so far lower following that blast on thursday. the taliban has increased their perimeter around the airport trying to curb the flow of people into the abbey gate and the canal area. you can hear in the voice of people still desperate really to just get out of the country and flee the taliban. that august 31st evacuation deadline quickly approaching. there is an understanding that some civilian flights to kabul could resume after the americans leave, but they would need to be controlled by a player like turkey or pakistan. a taliban spokesperson saying today they are still reviewing whether or not another country

would help control the airport, and it's too early to decide. once that critical lifeline, though, ceases to be an option, thousands could flee on foot. the united nations estimates that nearly half a million afghans could flee to neighboring countries by foot in the coming weeks. all of this really bibling up to be a major -- bubbling up to be a major humanitarian crisis as ngos will have to rely on the taliban for access. jacqui: trey yingst, thank you so much for that. griff: for more on the drone strike, cat tomlinson joins us live from the pentagon where he has been closely watching things. hi, lucas. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence says these two isis planners were plotting to kill more u.s. troops at the airport in kabul just three days before president biden's deadline. john kirby described the u.s. forces killed. >> they lost a planner and they lost a facilitator, and they've got one wounded. make no mistake, nobody's writing this off and saying,

well, we got them, so we don't have to worry about isis-k anymore. not the case. >> reporter: the pentagon says it will not be releasing the numbers who killed these two so-called high profile planners. i'm told a reaper drone carried out the strike. located along the border with pakistan and eastern afghanistan, the same thing where president trump dropped the moab, the mother of all bombs, three months after taking office. the strike approved by president biden coming less than two days after the deadly suicide attack that killed 13 american service members and wounded 20 as well as killing over 160 afghan civilians. the reaper fired just hours after another warning urged all americans, quote, leave immediately from the gates of the airport. many of those gates are now welded shut. >> there are gates that are

closed, absolutely, right now. as we said earlier, we do have gate that is continue to be open as we coordinate and still work with the department of state to get people in for evacuation. >> reporter: there are now less than 4,000 u.s. troops remaining at the airport in kabul. by tuesday they'll all be gone. it'll be the first time in nearly 20 years there will be no u.s. military presence in afghanistan. griff? griff: cat tomlinson -- lucas tomlinson, thank you. jacqui: the pentagon is now releasing all of the identities of the 13 u.s. service members killed this week in the attack at the kabul airport. doug luzader has more on those men and women killed serving our country. >> reporter: hello, we are getting some breaking news, the pentagon has just released the list of these 13 individuals who were killed, service members. and just looking down the list here, they hail from all over the country, from california to nebraska, ohio to massachusetts. and we're also getting a better

picture of some of these individuals, and we're going to start with max soviak. he was a former high school athlete, and he leaves behind 12 brothers and sisters. rylee mccollum was just 20 years old. he had recently gotten married, his wife is expecting a baby. in just three weeks. 20-year-old david lee espinosa, her mother said her son had only been in afghanistan for one week before he was killed. another 20-year-old, lance corporal jared schmitz, his father told the local radio station that he is devastated, of course, by this and that his son had always wanted to become a marine. and kareem nikoui, also just 20 years old. his father steve spoke with tucker carlson last night. he said his son had expressed some concerns about this mission. >> i'm still in shock. the family is devastated. from what i saw of the airport

that they were in, it looked like a turkey shoot. basically, it's funneled into, like, a single-file type entry point. >> reporter: all of in this, of course, brings back some pretty painful memories for many other families who have lost service members including this father whose son was killed merely a decade ago. >> now, for us, we're coming on the tenth anniversary of chris' death. andfact that they -- and the fat that they gave, you know, their all for what they believed in and in representing the united states there and then to see this debacle, i just have a lot of questions like everyone else, i'm sure. you know, how could we possibly get to this point, you know, after 20 years of being there? it's just, i'm, i don't want even have words hardly.

>> reporter: the pentagon has just released the complete list of the service members killed in thursday's attack from the army, the navy and, of course, the marines. jacqui: doug luzader, thank you for that. griff: president biden remains at the white house this weekend meeting with his national security council on afghanistan and also receiving a briefing on fema from, about hurricane ida. david spunt is live on the north lawn for us. busy day at the white house, david. >> reporter: hi, griff. that briefing between the fema administrator and president biden will take place in about 20 minutes here at the white house complex. the president tracking that, obviously, tracking what's going on in afghanistan on the ground in kabul. the president, vice president, other members of the national security team set to meet in the situation room today the talk about what's going on there. they are keenly aware that, god forbid, the there may be another attack around the airport. that is something they are watching. now, we've heard a little bit

about some of these gates that are closed around the airport. i want to show you a map that shows some of those gates. state department officials are warning americans at abbey gate, the site of the suicide bomb, the north gate or the ministry of interior gate to leave immediately. the president will continue to get the latest intelligence on the ground in afghanistan over the weekend. >> the threat is ongoing and it is active. it is, our troops are still in danger. that continues to be the case every data they are there. this is the most dangerous part of the mission. >> reporter: the evacuations are continuing as we speak. the clock continues to tick loudly, and the window will close here over the next 48-72 hours. and, griff, there's an increasing chorus of calls for the united states military to retake bagram air base north of kabul. we left in the middle of the night early last month, in july. critics of president biden say we need bagram to open up

another runway to help get people out. >> i believe we could have maintained it safely. we'd just gone 18 months with no casualties, that we could have maintained two runways. >> reporter: we've been hearing all different numbers from the white house and defense department. the latest number, 6800 people out, that includes afghans, americans. that's from 3 a.m. yesterday morning, august 27th, to 3 a.m. today. but as we look at that clock, just continues, continues, the pressure here continues to grow here at the white house, but a full working weekend for the president and vice president of the united states. griff? griff: it is, indeed. david spunt at the white house, thank you. jacqui: all right. for more perspective on afghanistan, we're joined now by democratic congressman from massachusetts and marine corps veteran, served our country in afghanistan. congressman, thank you for joining us. >> >> good to be on. jacqui: as a marine corps

veteran, you served in afghanistan. what were your first thoughts when you heard about the bombing at airport and the marines who were killed and what are your thoughts today after we're learning about this strike against the isis-k planners? if as we understand it, don't know if those individuals were involved in the thursday attack but were looking ahead to more future attacks. what are your thoughts on all of this in. >> the united states marines are no better friend, no worse enemy, and our afghan allies have seen the united states marines as no better friend, and now isis-k is going to meet them as no worst enemy. we are going to extract justice for this atrocity whether it takes 10 days or 10 years. the architects will be killed. jacqui: the biden administration says they've planned for all contingencies, and i want to ask you, does it look like that to you? once the military leaves, we don't know at this point if the airport's going to to be operational. we just heard in a report

earlier in our show, how do you get allies and americans out without an airport after the 31st since the administration has continued to promise that our commitment doesn't end after the military does finally withdraw? >> all americans who want to leave afghanistan and who meet the security threshold to lead afghanistan can leave afghanistan before august 31st. we are not going to leave americans behind. we have also made substantial advances in evacuating our afghan allies, more than 100,000 personnel in the last month. going forward as we transition from a military to a diplomatic posture, the evacuation will retain the leverage over the taliban that can aid getting people out of the country who might be at special risk of reprisal. remember that 90% of the taliban's foreign reserves are held by u.s. banks. they don't have the technical competencing the run an international airport. we may not have boots on the ground past august 31st, but we

do have influence. jacqui: we've heard that so many times though, and i'm just curious, what does that actually look like? because, you know, we've heard about our ability to pressure them, but can you use the taliban effectively to complete our goals here since they've taken over the country and we're going to be out? how does that actually happen? >> well, there's absolutely uncertainty in this kind of a situation. how it actually works is that you take the leverage that you have over a counterparty, and you negotiate. this is what diplomacy is. we do in this with governments that we don't like throughout the world. we operate counterterrorism missions in dangerous places throughout the world without boots on the ground. afghanistan is going to enter an entire tranche of countries with whom we have to work despite having a deep reservoir of distrust and where we have to, as necessary if, execute

counterterrorism missions despite not having boot on the ground for rigorous human intelligence. so we do know how to do this. it is imperfect, certainly, but this is what it looks like to wind down a 20-year war. 20 years ago we invaded afghanistan, critics of the president right now have no plans to dig ourselves out of this. this president made the high integrity decision to let afghans fight for afghanistan. it is messy. there needs to be an action review -- afteraction review to examine mistakes made, but it's a high integrity call. jacqui: i want to play you some sound and get your reaction. listen. >> we are still facing a deadline that the president refuses to move. i believe the deadline needs to be extended. i don't think we should be at the mercy of the taliban telling us when to get out. jacqui: congressman, what are your thoughts on what you just heard? >> it's been the same refrain

for 20 years, more time, more troops, more treasure, we can fix this. there is no winning a counterinsurgency. you need a strong political partner. we've never had that in kabul. jacqui: okay. >> so we've got to exit, and we've got to do so responsibly, but we cannot, we cannot win a counterinsurgency in afghanistan. jacqui: congressman, really appreciate your time. we've run out of time. hope to talk to you again soon. >> likewise. griff: fema is warning that anyone in the path of hurricane ida should complete final preparations as soon as possible. the storm expected to make landfall as a cat 4 hurricane. president biden is set to hear from fema if leaders about preparations later this hour. we've got team coverage. casey stegall in baton rouge, but let's start with rick reichmuth with the latest in the weather center is. hey, rick. rick: griff, interesting storm. we're starting to see the center

of this become defined. this is what the satellite are looks down on earth and sees, this is the infraif red satellite, also -- infraif red satellite. still not getting its act together so far is. we do expect that to happen over the next number of hours as it moves over really warm water and expected to get to major hurricane strength. that means hurricane warnings in effect anywhere you see the red, and when it makes landfall at a cat 4, cat 3 hurricane, it's going to take a lot of time before it diminishes in strength below that 74 mile-an-hour range. it is where we're looking at for storm surge. the worst of it is where it comes onioning shore and to the right. that said, remember the little towns in here, morgan city, homa that are going, necessarily -- or absolutely need to be evacuated because those towns will not be able to handle the storm surge, about 10-15 feet,

that will move far inland as well. storm surge is going to happen across parts of mississippi and alabama, maybe the panhandle of florida, but that won't be the worst of it, certainly. this is the official track. you'll notice category 4 making landfall sometime late tomorrow afternoon. that said, as of 8:00 this morning we had winds potentially forecast to be up to 140 miles an hour, now the hurricane center has brought that down just a little bit to 130 miles an hour. still a cat 4, still all of the same issues, but 130 is a tiny, little bit better. maybe that would be a trend if we see the forecast weakening it just a little bit. we can hope for that. want to point out this is the track of the storm, but impacts are going to be felt very far away from the center of this storm. and far inland. we do expect this to slow down in its form of motion, that means rainfall totals are going to increase even far inland and significant flooding. this is one of the forecast models, this is tomorrow morning we're seeing winds well into the

tropical storm force, places like grand isle. by tomorrow, it'll be way too late. because this storm will be so strong at landfall if, areas across inland will be seeing hurricane force winds probably into new orleans. new orleans not as worried about a storm surge issue, but we are certainly going to see hurricane force winds and a lot of rain, obviously, inside that bowl, and the only thing they can do is pump out that water. if you get rainfall falling too fast, that could be a problem. and flooding fall inland including parts of tennessee where we saw that flooding in waverly last weekend, so want to point that out. and eventually across parts of the northeast where we also had all of that flooding from hurricane fred last week. we're going to be feeling impacts across a lot of the eastern part of the country, but tomorrow is the day across the immediate louisiana coastline. griff: chief meteorologist rick

reichmuth in the weather center, thank you. jacqui: hurricane ida is expected to hit louisiana as a dangerous category four storm. our correspondent casey stegall is in baton rouge where officials are urging people to brace for this arrival, casey. >> reporter: yeah, they are, and, for the, we're going to give you a live look at what's going on which is the preparation phase. as you heard, the window quickly closing. as you know as well, the two biggest threat with this storm to life and property would be wind and water. ida expected to bring a whole lot of both, and you've got major sandbagging operations, dozens set up in baton rouge and across the whole region. people are driving up here, this is a volunteer deal. the dump truck comes in, drops sand, and it goes away pretty fast. properties are being boarded up to protect against wind, and then you also have a mass exodus underway. look at this video. roads are jammed, gas stations

are madhouses. all of this very familiar to folks who call this part of the country home, many with fresh fears after a historic hurricane season last summer. >> this is stronger than laura from last year. this will be a life-altering storm for those who respect prepared and ready -- aren't prepared and ready to take what ida's going to throw at us. >> reporter: people in neighboring alabama and mississippi, as you heard rick saying, also on alert. heavy rains and possible storm surge is potentially capable of happening there. the impact of ida very far of reaching, it is a monster storm. but the path is pretty much locked in. not a whole lot of deviation, it sounds, and louisiana, no doubt, it appears once again will be taking the brunt of another hurricane. back to you. jacqui: casey stegall, thank you

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griff: one of the largest airlift operations in history with thousands of refugees evacuating from afghanistan. greg palkot is live in germany at ramstein air force base. hey, greg. >> reporter: hi, griff. yeah, the feeling in that we are getting as we spend time here at this u.s. base in germany is that we are in the final, desperate stages of evacuation of people from afghanistan. and not too far from where we are right now, a u.s. military hospital where those marines who were injured in thursday's attack in kabul are being treated. take a look at a what we saw and what we heard today. regardless of or perhaps due to the horrible explosion we saw in kabul this past week, evacuations continue here at ramstein air base in germany. 20,000 have come in, some 5,000 have left to safer climes. >> actually got to talk to the

marines that are here. they're doing well and good news is that they were stabilized, and there was a good chunk of them that get to go home. and as far as our operations today, it's remained steady. >> reporter: some 100 planes full of afghan refugees have arrived here so far; some direct from kabul, others via other bases. all the people here vetted, checked out, fed, house, some we're told here as long as a week and then transferred to commercial u.s. planes and heading to the states. take a listen to what some of the folks told us today. >> the country is going in the wrong way, like it will not be the same as it was. my brother, my family, all people who work in armies stay over there, everybody, their life is in danger. >> reporter: they're still trapped, they're still stranded. >> they're stranded, sir. >> -- because the taliban, they

didn't allow us to go to school or university -- >> reporter: taliban would not be good for the future of women in afghanistan. >> no. >> reporter: no to the taliban, griff. we heard more from those folks, more from the general, too. for example, the fact that he is a father makes this humanitarian effort even more meaningful. but again, everything we're seeing on the ground here in germany points to the final stages of this operation as the terror threat looms, as the deadline looms and as we see fewer flights coming here. the end of one chapter but maybe the start of another even more dangerous one. back to you. griff: it is. greg, great reporting there. one quick follow-up, and that is we've heard some about the flights slowing down or taking off. are you seeing a smaller population arriving? >> reporter: a smaller population of afghan refugees arriving. we asked pointedly whether that

was a fallout from the attack on thursday. that was denied but, frankly, yeah, we're seeing a wind-down of the flights coming in. but still there are thousands and thousands here that have got to get mostly to the united states. there's still a big operation here, and the evacuations should continue for the next couple of days. but, again, that deadline looming big, big anding strong, griff. griff: greg palkot live in ramstein, germany. great reporting, greg, thank you. jacqui: it's incredible what people are going through before they finally make it here. i was reporting over the past week there was at one point people were stuck on a plane on the tarmac at dulles for ten hours. instead of the multiple layers of vetting that they have to go through in this process from leaving afghanistan, going to a third country and finally coming here. and, you know, they're a stand ising up, they're not resting, they're not sleeping, they're not getting meals at regular hours. this is tough for them. i didn't have i didn't have and when this is all over, there is

kudos to be given to our department of state employees and dod and military folks who are trying to process this massive airlift. jacqui: president biden is fulfilling his promise to retaliate against isis by ordering an airstrike that killed two members in afghanistan, just days after 13 americans were killed in a bombing at the kabul airport. joining us now is former cia covert operations officer and ceo of portman squared group, mike baker. thank you so much for being with us, mike. >> sure is, thank you. jacqui: reporting on this unmanned drone strike indicates that the isis-k planner our military took out was plotting future attacks on our u.s. forces so both human and signal intelligence were used. my question to you would be, if we have the kind of capability, why wasn't it used to prevent thursday's bombing? were there some complicating factors that prevented that?

>> yeah. that would be speculation on my part, but typically what you do is you develop a target list, ahead of time. obviously everything we've had this individual, both individuals without -- any target of potential value whether it's isis, isis-k, haqqani network, al-qaeda, taliban, we've already identified, we've built profiles. so we've got a target list that you can turn to. but the problem is you've got to marry that up with operational opportunity, right? so there's actually gotta be eyes on target or intelligence that says this window of opportunity, we can make this strike. then you've got to make the call, right, and it's got to go through the process of saying, yes, we can green light this attack. it's a process. we've been doing this process for years and years and years. look, during the obama administration while president biden was v or p, they relied very heavily on drone strikings because, you know, at a certain point they decided rather than trying to pick up these targets off the field and interrogate for intelligence, we're just

going to paint the target and terminate, and that way we don't have to worry about what do we do with them when we hold them. president biden understands very are well this drone strike capability. it's good that we've done this, it's just this is a very heavy lift, right? we've already talked about in the past what do you do, how do you gather this intelligence when you don't have the same level of access, you know, now that we're going to be out of the country. we can do it, we've been doing it over the years. jacqui: you're kind of getting to my next point with that. you know, the president's defended his decision to withdraw saying al-qaeda doesn't have the same presence that it did in afghanistan as it did after 9/11, we've got those other the horizon capabilities -- over the horizon capabilities, but with your intelligence background, do you think we're going to actually be capable of doing that? might there be a challenge of sending forces or drones when you've got a lot of flight time to get from one place or the other? >> right, you've identified a key issue here which is if you

have to worry about this over the horizon capability, meaning you don't have your resources in country, on the ground, you know, with a shorter time, then, yes, that creates more of an issue because oftentimes, again, when you identify a target opportunity, you've got a limited amount of time either because that target is -- you've got visibility at that moment, or you've got visibility when they have no civilians around them, whatever the reason. so, yes, it does complicate the issue. but, again, this is something we've been doing. you have to' rely on other means of communications, you tend to have to rely even further on technical communications and opportunities in that regard. but, you know or this is a problem that we're going to be dealing with for some time. now, i will say a pragmatic approach to this, and this is going to sound odd, but if you just ask yourself what's in our national security interests. well, it's to not allow afghanistan to be usedded as a targeting, training,

facilitating site for extremist groups to attack the west outside of afghanistan. that's a narrow definition of what is our national security going forward. if that's the case, then we should hope that the taliban is able to structure a government, right, that can -- jacqui: mike, we've got to leave it there. i'm sorry to cut you off. >> sure. jacqui: thank you so much for joining us. hurricane ida gaining strength over unusually water. category four storm, coming up we are going live to new new ors next. lucia. who announces her intentions even if no one's there. and sgt moore. who leaves room for her room. with usaa safepilot, when you drive safe... ...you can save up to 30% on your auto insurance. get a quote and start saving. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. (vo) unconventional thinking means we see things differently,

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jacqui: louisiana now bracing for hurricane ida to make landfall this weekend, expected to arrive as a powerful category four storm. with the latest on how new orleans is preparing nearly 16 years after hurricane katrina hit, we're going to go now to mike tobin who's live on the ground for us. >> reporter: hi there. we've had some rain coming down over the last hour or so, and buck see behind -- you can see behind me some of the boards

going up. officials have stressed that it's decision time. if people are going to evacuate or hunker down, the time is now to make those decisions. the emergency operation officials are expecting that the damage will come in the form of flooding. there will be structural damages to the buildings from the wind that's coming, and they expect widespread power outages. in fact, they expect that the damage is going to be so widespread, it could take as long as three days for emergency crews to get to people. so right now people need to be making decisions about how they are going toen endure a rough three days. >> the time is not on our side. if you are voluntarily evacuating our city, now is the time to leave. you need to do so immediately. if you're planning to ride it out, again, make sure that you are able to hunker down, you have your supplies in hand. >> reporter: now, the evacuation order for new orleans is optional because new orleans is

protected by the levee system that was refortified. for areas outside the protect of the levee system, the evacuation order is mapping story. there will not even be shelters for a plan b. the order is to leave and leave now with the plan to be gone for a few days. the hurricane is over open water, it is expected to hit a little bit west of here, but there's nothing to slow it down can. it is only getting longer. of the levee system fortified after hurricane katrina is about to get its first major test since that time. it has had some hurricanes come through, but this should be the biggest test of it yet. still, you have people down here in the french quarter pretty relaxed. they're at the bars. i wouldn't say they're jam packed, but a lot of people are confident that the crescent city has made it through storms in the past, and they believe it's going to make it through this one. yuk jim fingers crossed. mike tobin in new orleans for us, thanks so much. griff? ♪♪ griff: well, as the taliban asserts control over afghanistan, afghans living here

in the united states are doing something they couldn't do in kabul, protesting. several cities are sites for demonstrations taking place today starting in new york city's bryant park. our senior correspondent, laura ingle, on the ground there. hi, laura. >> reporter: hey, griff. many of the organizers here at this event say that they hope this demonstration will not only raise awareness for the humanitarian crisis going on in afghanistan, but also to help highlight what they say is the urgent need for aid going to both afghans on the ground in afghanistan and the refugees coming here in the united states. giving you a live look, many on hand today who have families stranded in afghanistan are sharing their stories and what their efforts have been like to get their loved ones out of harm's way. from to san francisco, nine major cities are holding large scale save afghan lives events. this demonstration in midtown manhattan is just one of 30

events going on around the world with 13 countries participating at this house. as more e refugees are being evacuated by the day, demonstrators are sounding off, calling on the u.s. government and the international community to commit to an open door policy for refugees by removing quota limits and expediting processing for special immigrant visas noun known as sivs. in addition to increasing direct aid from the u.s. to afghanistan on the ground and also demanding that the united states cease all current aggressive military actions in afghanistan. thousands of afghan refugees have made it to the u.s., currently being housed at military installations and sent into temporary resettlement across the u.s. 1200 at fort bliss in texas, between 2-3,000 at fort mccoy in wisconsin and thousands more expected to be housed at fort lee in virginia. and community organizers say they don't want to point the

finger at anybody they think may have caused this problem right now, what what they're focused on is saving lives and helping those who have been affected by this crisis. griff? griff: laura ingle in bryant park for us, thank you. jacqui: 50 years ago robert f. kennedy was asaws a nateed in los angeles, now his killer is being a paroled. more next. ♪ ♪ (phone notification) where we've just lowered our auto rates. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ and savings like that will have you jumping for joy. now, get new lower auto rates with allstate. because better protection costs a whole lot less. you're in good hands with allstate. click or call for a lower auto rate today.

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♪ griff: president biden is being briefed by fema director delawarean kriswell as hurricane, ida gains strength in the gulf of mexico. the storm is forecasted the make landfall 16 years to the day after hurricane katrina devastated the gulf coast. let's listen in. >> -- can of hurricane katrina, and it's a stark reminder that we have to do everything we can to prepare the people in the region and make sure we're ready to respond.

administrator gris welshing you and i have spoken extensively about this, and we spoke to the governors of hah, alabama and mississippi -- louisiana, alabama and mississippi to ask what they need from us before the storm arrives. and i've already signedded an emergency declaration for louisiana to make sure we're ready for the surge response capability to deal with whatever comes our, their way. our way, but it's their way. you know, we deployed 500 emergency response personnel in texas and louisiana in addition to 2,000 fema personnel already supporting our covid response in the region. and we've prepositioned food, water, generators and other supplies in the area. power restoration and mobile communications support teams are also enroute. we've also closely coordinated with the electric utilities to

restore power as soon as possible and to support your response and recovery efforts. and above all, i'm urging the people of the area to pay attention and be prepared. i want the say it again, pay attention and be prepared. have supplies for your household on hand, follow the guidance from local authorities. and if you have to move to shelter, make sure you wear a mask and try to keep some distance because we're still facing a highly contagious delta variant as well. administration, administrator, you're, you know, i'm going to turn this over to you in a moment here to give an update on the latest steps we're taking. and i want you to know what more -- i need to know everything you think we need to be able to do. if we haven't gotten the authority for it, tell me now. we'll get it done. most importantly, i just want to say to all of you, thank you,

thank you, thank you. everything you're doing to prepare for this dangerous storm is going to mitigate the impact of the potential natural disaster results that are going to be visited on so many people in the region. the work you're doing is vital, and you all know it. so, administrator, let's you and i have a conversation, tell me what you need and what's going on. >> all right. thank you, mr. president. as you probably heard from director graham, we are beginning to see the rapid intensification of the storm. what we're doing here in the nrtc and i'd like to welcome you to the nrtc, this is the heartbeat of your federal family that has come together to support the people -- >> i've been there with you, remember? [laughter] >> i know. >> last time -- [laughter] >> full and active. >> you guys are the best. >> they are. so we're preparing, mr. president, for catastrophic

wind -- [no audio] jacqui: all right, we just with heard from -- griff: all right. we're gonna step out of that now. that's fema director deanne kriswell updating the president, coming to the president from fema's national response coordination if center. a lot of lessons to be learned, expected to hit 16 years to the day that hurricane katrina hit. they have new levees now in new orleans. hopefully, it will not hit there. if it does, perhaps they will have learned lessons and have the new technology to protect that coastline. jacqui: all right. and we heard just a very similar speech last sunday ahead of a storm in the northeast. speaks to the season that we're in.

sirhan sirhan, the man who assassinated robert f. kennedy in 1968, might soon go free after he was granted a if parole yesterday in california. final decision will come from the governor. christinacoleman spoke with douglas kennedy, one of his sons, and she joins us now with that story. >> reporter: douglas kennedy is one of just two of robert f. kennedy's surviving sons who actually support the release of their father's killer, sirhan sirhan. >> i believe that all prisoners who are no longer a threat to themselves or others should be released from prison. i do not believe prison should be used as a punishment. so i would hope that the governor would take into account whether sirhan is a threat to himself or others. >> reporter: douglas, who's a fox news correspondent, spoke remotely during the virtual parole hearing yesterday, and

for the first time he faced the man who murdered his father more than five decades ago. >> i have lived my life in, avoiding his name in the newspaper, avoiding his image. and to sit across from him on a video screen where he could see my face and i could see his face allowed me to see him as a human being. and all human beings are worthy of compassion and love. i believe he is as well. >> reporter: sirhan says he does not remember killing robert kennedy, though he did try to take responsibility at yesterday's hearing. this is his 16th attempt at parole x this time prosecutors did not participate in the hearing due to a policy under l.a. county's district attorney george gascon. gascon believes a prosecutor's role should end at sentencing. the parole board found that 77-year-old sirring han was not

likely to commit another crime. most of robert kennedy's other children strongly oppose the decision. his daughter carrie released a statement saying in part, quote: our father's death impacted our families in ways that can never ad adequately be articulated, and today's decision has inflicted enormous additional pain. she goes on to say they will challenge the board's recommendation every step of the i -- the way. >> listen, we, i come from a very large family. i grew up with six older brother withs, four sisters. we have different opinions on a lot of things. i have a lot of compassion for my siblings and their stance. this is a traumatic and awful experience to not only grow up without a father, but also to watch the images of our father being killed over and over again

on television. so i have great respect for all of my siblings and respect any stance that anyone takes in my family. >> reporter: the parole board staff now has 90 days to review the recommendation, then it will be sent to the governor for consideration. jacqui: christina coleman in los angeles, thank you. ♪ griff: some veterans now organizing to help those in afghanistan in any way they can. among those, founder and president of new york city veterans alliance kristin route. she has served in the u.s. army, the u.s. army reserve and the u.s. army national guard for more than 23 years. she has been in afghanistan in 2006, 2010 and 2012 for a combined 31 months serving this nation. kristin, my hat's off to you. thank you for your service to this nation. you're continuing to do that right now. you've been assisting countless

americans and afghan allies. tell us where the, where does it stand? what's the latest with what you've been doing? >> well, thank you for having me. i am just one of thousands of veterans who are working round the clock right now to help our afghan allies. the interpreters who served with us, people who, afghans who work in other government agencies, the people that we relied on to be able to do our mission. for example, i've been working the case of my own personal interpreter. i served with him for nine months in 2010. he was, he wore the same uniform that i did. we worked side by side. he was who enabled me to do my mission of partnering with the afghan army. and without him, i could not have been, i could not have called my work remote wily a is success. and i've -- remotely a success.

and i've been working with him for more than ten years to get through an extremely complicated visa process for interpreters. there's a lot of barriers that are built into that process that so many are are not able to overcome, and we have been trying for days now to keep moving him to safe places. he has been under threat, he has four young children and a wife, and he's been trying to keep them safe. and we have made attempt after attempt after attempt to get him, to get him to the airport. and it has just been really an absolute failure where you have veterans and service members outside of afghanistan who are working desperately through all government channels, through back channels, through people we know trying to pull the strings, pull some levers, get their information and say this person is important to me. this is, this is, this person is who i depended on. they have to live. they have to live.

griff: kristin, i understand. he kept you alive, now his life is in your hands, and you are doing everything you can. thank you for doing that. we have run out of time in this hour. you can go to her web site, wartimeallies.com if you want to help kristin. thank you. please keep us posted. >> thank you so much. griff: thank you for your service is. well, that's going to be it for us. you know, i've got to tell you, it's such a fluid and dynamic situation, but my hat's off to these veterans that are trying to help, coordinating with the military and the department of state to get as many out as the clock ticks down. jacqui: absolutely. it's been an incredible effort so far with all the tens of thousands that have come back and hope that more can get out of harm's way. that is all for us this hour. "fox news live" continues with eric and arthel. griff: i'm griff jenkins. jacqui: and i'm jacqui heinrich.

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