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
right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, it is thursday, august 26th, i m john berman with brianna keilar. 36 hours left. that is the breaking news. sources tell cnn the evacuation effort in afghanistan will end in the next 36 hours. remember, the deadline for u.s. withdrawal is actually august 31st. this news means the end of direct efforts to get people out days before that deadline. we know there are american citizens still trying to get out. for thousands of green card holders, legal permanent residents, that hope is faint or all but gone. u.s. efforts are under way to help 2,000 local embassy staff get out. we did just learn that 13,000 people were evacuated from afghanistan in the last 24 hours. that is still a very large number but you can see that number getting smaller and smaller less than the 20,000 we had seen the previous two days. huge security risks complicating this evacuation over the next 36 hours. overnight, the
may have left, some may not actually be u.s. citizens, and some may want to stay. we believe the number of americans actively seeking assistance to leave afghanistan is lower, likely significantly lower. reporter: president biden has promised to bring home every single american who wants to leave by next week. as secretary blinken offers this warning about threats on the ground. we re operating in a hostile environment in a city and country now controlled by the taliban with the very real possibility of an isis-k attack. reporter: in the last 24 hours, the u.s. and its allies have evacuated approximately 19,000 people. while the u.s. has until the 31st to leave kabul, officials say evacuations will end before that so the military has time to pack up and leave. after the 31st, what happens to the airport is up to the taliban. that won t be an american responsibility. reporter: tens of thousands of afghan allies who worked for the u.s. are still waiting to be evacua
the subscription site, onlyfans, has announced it will block sexually explicit photos and videos from october. there s been a record number of bids to be the next uk city of culture the taliban is tightening its grip across afghanistan, and there are growing concerns about religious and media freedoms under the new regime. the human rights organisation, amnesty international, says the group murdered nine men from the hazara minority last month some of them were tortured. while the german broadcaster, deutschewelle, says taliban fighters carried out a door to door search to try to find one of its journalists he d left the country, but they shot dead one of his relatives. here, the prime minister is due to hold a cobra emergency meeting on the afghan situation this afternoon. our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, has the latest. the long, desperate wait for relief. all around the heavily guarded airport, thousands of afghans are still desperate to get out. people with