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a spokesman, captain bill irvin, adds there were significant secondary explosions from the vehicle which indicated a presence of a substantial amount of explosives. this official said there were no indications of civilian casualties at this time but that assessment could change, we're told. the air strike took place in a crowded kabul neighborhood outside the airport. we're told the u.s. military used this over-the-horizon capability and unmanned drone which means the drone likely flew from a military base in the gulf like the one on friday. i think it's notable the timing of this military strike, it was just as the president chairman of the joint chiefs general mark mille and defense secretary lloyd austin met with families of the fallen at the dover air

force base. we're getting more details but right now we can confirm it was a drone strike in the kabul neighborhood and the threat was imminent. howie: the early reports was that it was an explosion near the airport. we didn't know what side it came from. let's talk about your role at the pentagon this week. i want to play some sound from one of the many briefings where you asked questions, this one with defense department spokesman john kirby. >> how can you say with such certainty and how can general mckenzie say with certainty that the taliban were not involved in the suicide bombing. >> i didn't hear general mckenzie put it that way. the question asked, was there a failure, the general said there was a failure, obviously. howie: when generals and officials are at the podium saying everything was going according to plan, how challenging is it for you to say that doesn't match the facts you're reporting or the facts on the ground. >> reporter: it's not challenging for me to ask

questions when they're at the podium. it's not challenging because this is a foray i've been covering for more than 20 years, certainly since u.s. forces went in 20 years ago, we've been covering this story almost daily since then. so we have the context to challenge the pentagon whether they're generals or spokespeople or defense secretary, standing at the podium, because we know what is actually happening on the ground. we have good sources, after 20 years of covering this conflict, so asking the questions and demanding answers and listening to what they're saying and then asking for clarification, not difficult. what is difficult is trying to get at ground truth in real-time in what has been so very difficult this week, i think, is for us to explain and even for the pentagon to explain the very complicated relationship that they have had to work out with the taliban in real-time, as they had to retake that airport, control the airport, and get

117,000 afghans evacuated and americans evacuated in the last two weeks. it truly -- those relationships and how they are actually depending on the taliban for security and at checkpoints outside the airport, that is really difficult for us to explain to our audience. howie: there is no substitute to having been to afghanistan so many time as you have since 1993. you said it's a national shame that the u.s. will be leaving after the august 31st deadline, so many afghan national behind who helped our war effort over 20 years. talk more about that if you would. >> reporter: well, as you mentioned, i started going to afghanistan in 1993 when i was based in islamabad. my husband was the ap bureau chief in islamabad. we watched as the taliban were formed in 1994, 95 timeframe. we know what it was like during the civil war after the soviets pulled out. we know what happens when there are vacuums in a place like

afghanistan. what's been challenging is to hear the president say we have no national interest in afghanistan when we know after watching this for so long, after reading the intelligence reports and hearing report upon report about the remaining isis threat, the remaining al-qaida threat in afghanistan, and how leaving a failed state and that's what it is, there's no government in kabul right now, despite the taliban purportedly being in charge, we know what happens when you're in a region where -- leaving no government is going to leave a vacuum and terrorist groups are going to take advantage of that. you heard leon pinetta say he thinks the u.s. will have to go back in. from my perch, having been going there since 1993, it's very upsitting also to thine of all of the -- think of all the american allies we will be leaving behind. howie: on that point, let me jump in, you have gotten to know

so many military people, soldiers and commanders over the years, when there is something like a suicide bombing at the airport, when you hear about the casualties, is it hard for you to put your emotions aside when have you to be on the air live reporting, sometimes tragic details. >> reporter: there's no doubt that is the hardest part of the job, the emotions keeping them in check and staying focused to ask the tough questions of the pentagon when you know that there are individuals who have lost loved ones, colleagues, it is -- there is -- this has been one of the most challenging two weeks of reporting of my life. howie: i didn't want to lose the human dimension. glad you're there working, looks like seven days a week. thank you for joining us. >> reporter: thank you, howie. howie: this is a fox news alert. hurricane ida on the verge of making landfall on the gulf coast. let's get the latest from rick reichmuth at the weather center. >> we've got the center eyewall

about to move on-shore across parts of southeastern louisiana. this is the visual satellite. this is the eye. that center of the storm continuing to pull to the northwest and right there is a place called port fashaun. that's where a lot of the oil we consume in the country, all of that goes through that spot. there's been a lot of reinforcements that have been made over the years. it will be tested that's been reinforced since hurricane katrina. there's going to be massive storm surge, nothing i don't think will really survive through that area as the storm of this strength makes landfall. pressure has come up a little bit. that means i think the period we saw this morning, really rapid strengthening probably over, doesn't matter. we're about to use any water source to strengthen anymore as well. because the storm is coming

on-shore as such a strong storm, it will take a long time for the wind to wind down. hurricane warnings are in effect far inland from the storm, we'll see hurricane conditions in places like baton rouge, definitely see hurricane wind in new orleans, going to cause very significant damage and here you go, this is the latest on the radar. the bands up to the north of that are going to potentially have tornadoes that are going to be embedded in them and this storm is starting to slow down in its forward progression, expected to slow down quite a bit. this is right now, this is later this evening, that's tomorrow morning. that slow movement means the rainfall we see from this is going to really pile up. we're going to be seeing spots maybe up towards 20 inches of rain. that's maybe around new orleans which that kind of rain has to be pumped out of that and eventually we see that rain across parts of the northeast. take a look, where you see the pink, that is guaranteed that we'll be seeing very significant flooding. pretty much the entire state of mississippi, parts of tennessee

and in towards kentucky, knolls the next couple days have a very significant chance of very dangerous flooding so while we have the storm making landfall now, get ready. inland impacts from the storm are also going to be very significant. howie: rick, thanks very much. more on the monitor storm this hour. when we come back a hard look at the coverage of president biden and later we talk to glenn greenwald and peter doocy. time, at the magical everly estate, landscaper larry and his trusty crew... were delayed when the new kid totaled his truck. timber... fortunately, they were covered by progressive, so it was a happy ending... for almost everyone. (vo) unconventional thinking means we see things differently, so you can focus on what matters most. that's how we've become the leader in 5g. #1 in customer satisfaction. and a partner who includes 5g in every plan, so you get it all.

howie: fox news alert, hurricane ida looking to make landfall this hour as we just heard, louisiana directly in the path of the storm, category 4. national weather service says this is a life threatening storm with storm surges topping 16

feet. that's the forecast. after the devastating suicide bombing at the kabul airport, it's clear the media's aggressive, confrontational coverage in challenging president biden and his team is absolutely justified. the attack that claimed the lives of 13 american service members followed an extraordinary period of highly critical reporting an analysis. it is called the media's finest hour. no awards need to be given out here. the press is simply doing its job, challenging the administration's assessment in the face of facts on the ground, violence by the taliban, massive problems in getting americans to the chaotic kabul airport and the difficulty of getting afghan whose supported our aware effort out of the country -- our war efforts out of the country by the tuesday deadline. i know why the commentary is sharply different after the largely positive coverage of joe biden's first seven months which was a dramatic contrast with the four year war between donald trump and the media. after one of biden's televised

speeches, richard engle said this. >> you could also look at this as a tremendously humiliating moment of american humiliation, leaving, forced to leave on the taliban's clock and with the taliban's good graces. >> i think history will judge this moment as a very dark period for the united states. howie: it was a somber joe biden, hailing the brave service members who lost their lives and delivering a stern warning to terrorists. >> they were heroes. heroes who had been engaged in the dangerous, selfless mission to save the lives of others. we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you down and make you pay. howie: all week while most liberal and conservative media people have been tough on this

president over the afghan disaster, some began praising the evacuation efforts as a way to defend biden. >> when you hear people talking about the evacuation from kabul compared to what. when has any country ever evacuated from a foreign war in a way that's been better than what we see now. >> the scenario has been fraught with humiliation. if it could not get worse, the taliban is sounding triumphant and unmoving. >> i think the narrative will be, well, he only got 100,000 out. that's failure. i don't know there's anything that biden could do other than promise to leave troops in there for another 20 years in other words to satisfy -- in other in order tosatisfy some. >> he is bullied into submission by the terrorists, the taliban. howie: joining us to analyze

the coverage, mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist and clarence page, columnist for the chicago tribune. would you agree that most of the media are being very aggressive in covering president biden's mistakes and setbacks in afghanistan and challenging the official spin that everything is going according to plan. >> i think you made the great comparison that it only looks tough compared to how the praise has been of biden during the previous seven months of the presidency or during the campaign. it's probably better to compare it to what they were like during the trump administration which we all witnessed day in and day out for four years, it's become a cliche to talk about those comparisons but after the media fueled an impeachment effort over president trump because of a phone call, i don't think you can say they're being particularly harsh. imagine if president trump had lost more than a dozen service members, billions of dollars of equipment, leaving hundreds if not thousands of americans

stranded, the media would be apoplectic. i think they're more concerned about a fundamental disagreement with president biden over departing afghanistan rather than the incompetence of the withdrawal. you're seeing frustration and highlighting of voice that's want to continue the war in afghanistan as opposed to what the american people are concerned about which is the utter failed incompetence of how the evacuation and departure from afghanistan has been handled. howie: i don't think the media need to get a standing ovation for doing their jobs, but what do you think of mollie's assessment that the coverage has not been particularly harsh towards the commander in chief? >> well, i think after the first day the coverage wasn't as harsh because the news wasn't as harsh. the evacuation, thousands of people exceeded expectations that we heard as far as the grim expectations initially of how many would be able to be evacuated and more so, howard,

i'm reminded of the old saying that the first casualty of war is the truth. this is another occasion very much like vietnam where we had -- we've been fed lies throughout the war. robert kagan has an excellent niece the washington post this morning about our history and here we see it happening again. i hope after this war -- right now biden is taking the fall because it's on his watch that we are leaving. very much like gerald ford it was on his watch that we left saigon. howie: you say he's taking the fall because it was on his watch. that seems to suggest that he doesn't bear the responsibility for the decisions and the way he has managed this evacuation. he just happened to be there. >> the evacuation, no question about it, howard, the evacuation has been disastrous as far as that first day but other than that, it's been amazingly effective. we could pick apart all this and it should be picked apart in

congressional hearings but the preparation for the evacuation was not good but that was disrupted partly by the fact we changed presidential administrations. i could go on and on about this. howie: the president looked pretty grief stricken when he took questions after the kabul bombing which included casualties including more than 140 afghans killed. he is going to honor the fallen soldiers coming back. how did his press conference and his vow to seek retribution against the terrorists and the retaliatory strikes, how do you think that's playing in the press? >> i think the entire posture of this president has been alarming, not just in the complete incompetence of the plan for the evacuation and the withdrawal, people were worried that there would be something like what happened earlier this week and the deaths of the service members and the casualties, in addition to that. and he has not seemed to take it

particularly seriously, even the day it happened, a long delay before he addressed people, he seemed tired and not particularly focused on the matter at hand and the media also didn't seem to be -- they seemed to be taken aback by his posture. one of the people in the press conference complimented the president before he asked a question. this is really serious and it's not just about the need for correctional hearings. we already know who is already. we know that mark mille is responsible. i should have been fired. the lack of accountability when we know who has been in command of the disaster is alarming to america and her allies. howie: do you think the media have conflated two things, one is the decision to withdraw, which is popular with the american people, which donald trump set in motion the withdrawal from afghanistan, and the execution and the botching of the execution of getting americans out and with the deadline approaching in just two

days. >> well, the execution, like i said before, there's no question that there was lack of preparation there but also a lack of intelligence. it was expected the -- who expected the afghanistan government to collapse immediately? a lot of people did. we hear from it after the fact, many intelligence reports coming in. that's why we need hearings to sort this out. because of corruption, for one thing, the afghan allies who were prepared things over too, they crumbled. howie: and that absolutely crumbled. i'm sorry to talk over you. there is a question about how quickly that would have happened. some people thought months. ended up being 11 days. more with the panel on afghanistan and later we talk to glenn greenwald and peter doocy. (burke) this is why you want farmers claim forgiveness... [echoing] claim forgiveness-ness, your home premium won't go up just because of this. (woman) wow, that's something.

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of louisiana, category 4 storm, winds topping 115 miles per hour. may make landfall this hour. the national weather service says this is a life threatening storm, forecasting catastrophic damage from those winds. and that's troubling. howie: there was a telling exchange this week between fox's peter doocy and white house press secretary, jen psaki. take a look. >> by pulling the troops before getting the americans who are now stranded, does he have a sense of that. >> i think it's i responsible e to say americans are stranded. i'm calling you out for saying we are stranding americans in afghanistan when we have been very clear that we are not leaving americans who want to return home. howie: mollie, that took place before the suicide bombing. we'll hear from peter doocy on it later. do you think jen psaki was making a semantic argument by calling out peter doocy for

using the word stranded. >> yeah, definitely she was making a semantic argument and an inappropriate one, given the reality of what we know. one of the problems facing the biden administration is their spin is contradicted by the reality on the ground. people are actually -- reporters, lots of reporters are in afghanistan, they know that americans are stranded. they talked to them. there are many other people working in private security who are trying to extricate americans out of the country and all of that reality makes it hard to accept the biden administration's spin and accepting biden administration spin, carrying water for the biden administration, covering for them is what the media are normally accustomed to. it's hard to do that when it shows that what they're claiming are contradicted by gruesome, horrible image that's we're seeing. howie: some americans feel stranded. doesn't mean the administration hasn't been trying to get them out. go ahead, mollie. >> just even the defense department used the language of

stranding to describe what's happening with some americans. it shouldn't be that controversial to admit that some americans are stranded there. howie: there's a piece in the new york magazine that says the description of what's happening in afghanistan and disastrous and humiliating comes from the mainstream's media objective foreign policy journalists. yet says the magazine, this political fiasco was not a development the media covered so much as it one that it created. how do you blame the messengers for reporting some pretty ugly and awful realities on the ground? how is this just media fiction? >> well, the article cites the changing conditions after that first disastrous day that i mentioned earlier. the evacuations picked up and actually succeeded so far faster than initially anticipated. also, we're sitting here talking at a time when evacuations are continuing to go on as well as who knows what actions to go out

beyond the gates of the airport and rescue people in secret military missions, which have already been conduct canned and expect to see more. this story is changing even as we talk but i think it's too soon just to bury the biden administration entirely for a development that's still going on. howie: mollie, i understand it's certainly fair to say there's been a lot of soldiers that risked their lives and some have given their lives to help the evacuation effort that's got egg over 110,000 people out but to suggest it's all media spin seems completely at odds to what we're seeing every day, the reporting on the ground. >> it was an insane thing to say when it was published. it was gruesome after the reality of the bombing that led to the deaths and casualties of so many americans and other afghans. the media coverage is not the reason why things are going poorly. it's the lack of planning and

that is one issue that i think the media could do a better job. i think they're excited that they finally are testing out a little bit of anti-biden sentiment but there are a lot of fathers of this failure going back decades and they need to focus on all of them, not just biden. howie: i agree with that, 20 years, several administrations and there will be more to come on that. good to see you both, clarence page, mollie hemingway, thanks very much for coming by this sunday. next on media buzz, is the coverage of afghanistan colored by pundits who favor endless war, glenn greenwald is on deck and later peter doocy on his contentious exchange with the president. welcome back to milkshake mustaches, high fives and high dives. to 3-on 3s... 2-on-2s... and 1-on-1s. at aspen dental, we see all the moments that make us smile so we make it easy to share your smile with convenient, total care - all in one place. and flexible hours that work with your life. right now, new patients get a complete exam and x-rays — free without insurance, and everyone saves 20% on their treatment plan.

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the worse. as you can probably tell, the winds have really started to pick up as you see some of the trees out here really blowing hard as gusts move through and heavy bands of rain are starting to fall throughout this area and the areas surrounding new orleans and that's a big part of the reason why people, at least when it comes to this storm, have decided to evacuate and leave and even when we were coming into town yesterday, you could see the i-10 west heading to houston, people were jammed on the highway to try to get out or i-10 east, trying to get away from the storm or just straight north. people are really taking this storm seriously. as for the people who decided to stay, for whatever reason, they're really starting to kind of band together. you've got restaurants that are staying open to provide shelter and food and then other people who are just checking on their neighbors and they really say this is just what louisiana is about and they'll be there for their neighbors as hurricane ida gets closer and closer.

.>> i think that louisiana will be the state to stay in, if we were selfish, in my case it's about helping your neighbor. >> when you have neighbors like this, you know you're blessed, neighbors who are willing to help out even though they have their own homes to prepare for but they're looking out for one another. that's what we do around here. i count myself really blessed. >> reporter: there have been a lot of comparisons to hurricane katrina which made landfall 16 years ago. hurricane katrina will be hurricane katrina and this will be ida so we'll see what it brings. there have been a lot of changes especially here in new orleans, the pumps have been improved, the levies have been improved. they will be tested over the next several hours. howie: thank you very much for that report. i remember the awful flooding in katrina when i went there after hurricane katrina that devastating storm. let's turn now back to afghanistan. howie: joining us now fromly f,

glenn greenwald, the author of the new book securing democracy, my fight for press freem and frd justice. let me update the audience. a senior u.s. official quoted as saying that in the attack today, the u.s. missile strike on a car that the united states military believed there were suicide bombers, perhaps multiple suicide bombers in that vehicle, civilian casualties cannot be ruled out. that is a story in progress. turning to the devastating suicide bombing at the kabul airport, you write the deep state ghouls on cnn insinuating or stating the taliban wanted this attack or helped launch it know they're lying, they're desperate to find a way to keep u.s. troops in afghanistan. my question, who are you talking about, how do you know they're lying and shouldn't cnn include their point of view? >> yeah, well, first of all, the

specific segment i was referencing was when they put hr mcmaster on, he was president trump's national security advisor. he's the kind of person who long has been a member of the national security state that brought us 20 years of endless warfare that was not only a huge failure but based on lies, not just in afghanistan but iraq and syria and libya and the idea that it was the taliban behind the suicide bombing attack was not only completely without evidence but contrary to what everyone from president trump to president biden were saying is that the taliban, the last thing they would want, is an event that would keep the united states in afghanistan. they want the united states gone as quickly as possible and the group that is being blamed

including by mcmaster for having done it, isis-k, is not league with the taliban. quite the contrary. they've been at war with the taliban since 2015, a really vicious war. howie: i think that's an important distinction. >> we have to realize this type of propaganda. howie: you have favored getting out of afghanistan for some years now but you say the beltway media and corporate press are pretending to be angry about the details of the botched pullout, the evacuation but they're actually mad about something else. explain. >> i do think there are people genuinely angry about how the withdrawal was effectuated while also favoring withdrawal. i found the first segment you did with jennifer griffin who i respect a lot as a foreign affairs reporter, who talked about the friendships she formed and others formed when they were in kabul with english speaking afghans, i'm sure their emotion about their concern is very genuine. at the same time we have had 20

years of war in afghanistan that killed huge number of afghan civilians, usually not english speaking, sophisticated in kabul, but usually unknown villagers and there was little media attention paid to that. i go back to the 2004 article you wrote when you were the media reporter for the washington post where you detailed how at the washington post, a paper perceived to be liberal, they back paged or excluded any dissent from the bush, cheney arguments about the war in iraq. why would they go to such lengths to help george bush and dick cheney. while they are liberal in many instances, their alignment in reality is to places like the cia, the pentagon, they do generally support war and i think we're seeing a lot of that now. they didn't just turn on biden out of fairness but because they really do believe in this endless u.s. war machine as a matter of ideology.

howie: it wasn't just the washington post. a lot of media organizations did mea culpas for aiding and abating the march to war in iraq. now, you say that some of these corporate media organizations are pure militaryists, they reveer the cia and so forth. if you're right, how did that happen after half a century after the press was a leading platform for the anti-vietnam war movement? >> so that's a really interesting and complex question. i want to kind of emphasize that last correction or clarification you made. you're absolutely right. in 2002, 2003, fox news obviously was in favor of the iraq war but that didn't make a difference. their largely conservative viewership supported it which sold the war where places like the new york sometimes, the new yorker, the atlantic, the washington post, selling the war to american liberals. while there was some opposition to the war in vietnam, if you go to the cold war, very often it

was democrats who were called warriors under kennedy, true man, l bj, and outlets like the new york times and time that worked hand in hand with the cia and with the deep state to disseminate pro-war messaging. so the american left has been against the war in the '60s but i think the corporate press has often been aligned with the democratic party and many of them were hard core warriors of the cold war and also in the post-9/11 era supportive of this endless war and we're still seeing that ideology now. howie: let me just suggest to you that fox news doesn't have one position on the war or anything else, fox news has opinion people and has reporters. i've got 20 seconds. by and large, you like the fact that president biden, however mess ely, is getting us out of afghanistan. briefly. >> i like the fact a lot that trump initiated the negotiation was the taliban and wanted to get out, i like the fact that biden did too. i think there are valid

critiques about how. in general it's long past time to get out of this war. howie: glenn greenwald, appreciate you stopping by this sunday. thanks very much. >> thanks, howie. howie: after the break, peter doocy got the last question the other day to joe biden who then tried to question him. we'll look behind the scenes, next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ deposit, plan and pay with easy tools from chase. simplicity feels good. chase. make more of what's yours.

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winding down his news conference on the day of the isis bombing in kabul when he decided to call on one more reporter. >> let me take the one question from the most interesting guy that i know in the press. >> now 12 marines are dead. you said the buck stops with you. do you bear any responsibility for the way that things have unfolded in the last two weeks? >> i bear responsibility for fundamentally all that's happened of late. here's the deal. you know, i wish you would one day say these things, you know as well as i do that the former president made a deal with the taliban. howie: i spoke earlier with fox's white house correspondent peter doocy from the north lawn. peter doocy, welcome. >> thanks for having me. howie: joe biden never used to give aquestion. now it seems he can't walk away without calling on you as the most interesting guy in the press. what do you make of that? >> i don't know who he polled

before determining most interesting. i think he appreciates we have an audience where there are a lot of people watching and if he thinks that not everybody watching understands his policies the way that he wants them to, i think that sees q and a as one way to get the word out, to use the questions to answer our crowd directly. howie: at that news conference you asked him quite respectfully i thought where. whether he takesresponsibility l events of the last two weeks. why did you frame it that way? >> i think that after several hours of this heart-breaking coverage that was the thing i was most curious about. we've heard him talk for many years about all of his foreign policy experience. this is his first real foreign policy cries civiles i was curious what -- crisis. i was curious what exactly it felt like in that moment, hours after it as the sad news was

still coming in. howie: i think you made some news when biden essentially said i do take responsibility but in the process of that exchange, president biden asked you a question about president trump. >> he was given the commitment, the taliban would continue to attack others but would not attack any american forces. remember that? i'm being serious. no, i'm asking you a question. because before i -- no, no, wait a minute. i'm asking you a question. is that accurate, to the best of your knowledge. howie: what was in your mind as you tried to turn it back on you and pressed you to answer his question? >> i usually go into those presidential press conferences or a jen psaki press conference with notes just in case i am challenged on the premise of a question which happens sometimes. but that is the first time that the president has asked me about something and i did not have the

trump agreement and the most current agreement, whatever it is, with the taliban in-hand but i understood the point he was trying to make and that's why my answer was very short and it is interesting few hours after that happened somebody in the press corps came up to me in the briefing room and said it's about time that peter doocy took questions from the president. we've been waiting for that. [laughter] howie: were you weary of being drawn into answering his question because it looks like you're debating him as opposed to questioning him? >> yes. and i was not there to debate him. it was a horrible day. everybody that was on the complex had the same feeling that it is heart-breaking. you could tell that the president was as somber as we have ever seen him so that was not -- i was not there trying to debate him. i was just trying to kind of get to -- to get into his head. howie: you got into it several

days this week with jen psaki when you asked a question about whether some of the remaining americans in afghanistan could feel stranded. she said that was irresponsible of you to ask that question. were you trying to be provocative or were you surprised by the intensity of her reaction? >> no, they're very careful about language here. i know stranded, whether people are stranded behind enemy lines became a story line but my question was actually about whether or not the president essentially regretted pulling troops out before getting all these americans evacuated and i used the word stranded, it is a word that many other news outlets have used in headlines, in descriptions, in photo captions. it wasn't something that i just pulled up out of thin air, trying to be provocative but that was what she wanted to hone in on. her answer eventually was to -- for anybody in the press room who was concerned about somebody, a u.s. citizen who might be stranded just to reach out directly to the white house

and so they moved on from whether or not people are stranded or not after two days. howie: just briefly, the white house very rarely puts top officials on fox news channel. i asked many times. do you think there's been an evolution of your relationship with the president and the biden white house? >> i'm not sure. i know that i have not been a white house correspondent for very long but i have been on the biden beat for two and-a-half years so i think the combination of a familiar face with somebody who is just kind of tall with crazy hair standing in the back that's easy for him to spot at some of these events might help the most and he always is very generous with his time with fox. howie: being tall is a journalistic advantage. peter doocy, thanks very much for joining us. next we'll check in with the fox weather team in louisiana with the latest on the extremely dangerous hurricane ida.

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howie: a fox news alert, the outer bands of hurricane ida are pummeling louisiana. our fox weather correspondent steve bender is in lafayette, louisiana with the latest on the category 4 storm. >> reporter: you said it correctly, the outer bands are starting to hit louisiana, including us in lafayette. it's been quiet most of the morning. we woke up with blue skies. we are seeing the outer bands come in and with it the rain. i want you to notice behind he me, the road is wet. we've starting to see the rain move in. if you look across the street, you'll notice businesses are not only beloved today on a sunday -- closed today on a sunday, but quite a few decided to board the windows. that is the main threat for us here in lafayette. we could see wind gusts from 70

to 80 miles an hour later this afternoon with the steady burst of rain which could lead to flash flooding on some of the roads. the worst hit area will be coastal louisiana and coastal portions of mississippi like bay st. louis. they're starting to see storm surge in saint bernard parish going over top of the lea levee. that is the concern. when you're looking at the northeastern quadrant, that's the strongest wind impact. the wind is coming from the south to the north and that will pull in the gulf moisture, force the waves potentially up against the levies and this will be a true test for the newly established levies in new orleans. they spent $16 billion on this. this is a strong storm that's coming in and right now we're seeing the outer bands hit the coastal part of louisiana. reporting from lafayette, howie, back to you.

howie: one more question for you. given the legacy, 16 years ago today of hurricane katrina, is there concern bowed flooding in the low -- about flooding in the low lying areas where it's sometimes the aftermath of the hurricane that is the most devastating. >> reporter: howie, definitely some concern because when you add that the storm surge could get up to 16 feet in some of the coastal areas, then it's also the rainfall, when this makes landfall a lot of times the storms stall and we could see dynamic thunderstorms, heavy down bursts of rain along with the storm surge and that's when the flooding could start to take hold in the low-lying areas, something we'll be watching through the afternoon and evening here in louisiana. howie: steve bender, thanks very much. we hope for the best in terms of the storm and the aftermath. that's it for this edition of media buzz. i'm howard kurtz. we have to deal with the latest u.s. strike in kabul, we also had to deal with the approach of

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so you get it all. eric: america strikes back and mother nature's wrath about to strike here at home. two big stories breaking at this hour. first, hurricane ida, now bearing down on the louisiana coast as a catastrophic category 4 storm. you know, it's forecast to make landfall just hours from now and it could strengthen to a devastating category 5. in afghanistan, fox news confirms that a u.s. military air strike today took out several suicide bombers. they were in a vehicle we're told just northwest of the kabul airport. potentially stopping that second terrorist attack that we have all been warned about.