recognise the all male government announced by the taliban. the home secretary will hold discussions with her french counterpart about the surge in the number of people crossing the english channel to the uk. over 1,000 migrants have made the journey so far this week. britney spears father has filed court documents seeking to end an arrangement that gave him control over her finances. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. mps will vote later today on the uk prime minister s plans for a national insurance rise, to pay for the nhs and social care. yesterday borisjohnson announced what he called the biggest catch up programme in the history of the nhs. £36 billion, raised over three years, to deal with the backlog caused by the pandemic. more than £5 billion of that will go towards changes to social care in england. scotland, wales and northern ireland will also receive an additional £2.2 billion to spend on their services. the money will also b
extremely dangerous category 4 hrk, 16 years to the day that hurricane katrina hit. some could see storm surges of up to 15 feet. the governor warns that ida will be one of the strongest storms to hit the state since at least the 1850s and the clock is stick ticking. you have a few more hours, really, to prepare, because early tomorrow morning we re going to have weather degrade rapidly. this news breaking just in to cnn, the embassy has moments ago issued a security threats telling all u.s. citizens in the vicinity of the kabul airport to leave the air immediately. this h is due to a specific and credible threat and it comes just hours after troubling new warning from biden on that front. the president saying his demanders are telling him that another terrorist attack in the kabul airport is, quote, highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours. and as follows, the pentagon kirmg that two high profile isis-k targets were killed in a drone strike overnight, retaliation for the
u.s. citizens near the airport. president biden warns another attack is highly likely. the special edition of new day weekend starts now. sunday, august 29th. thank you so much for spending some time with us this morning. good morning to you, phil. good morning, christine. no shortage of huge news. i know. starting today with the real danger that we re watching as it barrels toward communities along the gulf coast. hurricane ida has gained strength as phil said earlier. it s approaching the coast of louisiana and it s a beast. yeah. there s no question about it. overnight ida strengthened into a powerful category 4 storm. it will make landfall sometime today bringing as much as 20 inches of rain to some areas. the potential for storm surge and strong winds. fema trucks and generators are in the area. the national guard has been deployed. experts warn the pandemic could make emergency responses more difficult. yesterday bumper to bumper traffic stretched for miles a
requirement by august 31st. and judges in texas and florida push back against bans on mask mandates. the school districts are violating state law. parents rights are very important, but they re not without some reasonable limitation. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday evening. a monster named ida. the hurricane is intensifying quickly and drawing chilling comparisons to katrina. ida is charging straight toward louisiana right now, and it s due to make landfall tomorrow as a category-four storm. near new orleans and on the 16th anniversary of katrina s catastrophic siege of the gulf coast. louisiana s governor says ida will be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the state since the 1850s. parts of louisiana are under mandatory evacuation orders, and time is quickly running out to escape the impact zone. mississippi, which was also ravaged by katrina, the governor has declared a state of emergency. the national weather ser
united states, canada and around the world, i m kim brunhuber, this is cnn newsroom. watching states, canada and around the world, i m kim brunhuber, this is cnn newsroom. in respect . fears of a potential terror attack at the airport in kabul have uk warning citizens to stay away. the concerns are based on a very specific threat stream from an isis offshoot known as isis-k. and the uk foreign office cited a high threat of terrorist attack. there is now very, very credible reporting of an imminent attack and hence why the foreign office advice was changed last nirght. the people should not come to kabul airport, they should move to a safe place. thousands of afghans are crowded around the airport hoping for a flight out of the country before the u.s. military s mission ends next week. and the state department says about 1500 americans still may be in afghanistan. it has made contact with about 500 of them with specific instructions on how to get to the airport safely