Become rescued from floodwaters after hurricane ida after of ravaged the gulf coast. the damage is widespread. just look at the destruction in grand isle, louisiana, captured by cnn on a flight with the u.s. coast guard yesterday. more than 1 million customers are still without power in louisiana and mississippi. and they re now being warned that it could be weeks before it is restored in this brutal summer heat that the gulf is experiencing. donnie romero is live in new orleans with the very latest. what are you seeing there today? reporter: well, it is really what we re feeling, kate. and it is the heat you re talking about. we re about 2 million people in this area. it is so hot and then top of that you have people with no power. more than a million and the numbers keep climbing, instead of going in the opposite direction so you don t have a chance to cool off. there is no a.c. whether you don t have power. this is why. this transformer fell down during the storm on top of the car
But basically what pakistan is saying now is we have more than 1 million afghan refugees and we simply can t cope with any more. clarissa ward, cnn, at the border crossing. thank you so much for that. joining me now, for more is jane ferguson, a special correspondent for pbs news hour. she s on the ground in kabul as the evacuation unfolded. thank you for coming on. clarissa lays it out well. since there is no way out by air, the only option is land and she s reporting on kind of this crush of humanity trying to get through the main border crossing with pakistan. what are you hearing about how hard it is going to be now that the united states is gone to get anyone out of afghanistan? getting people out now, kate, is going to be very, very different. it is going to be the opposite most likely of what we ve seen in those scenes at the airport where it was a huge public crush, people who are fleeing the taliban had to brave the
Thousands of people in california are fleeing the lake tahoe area because of a rapidly spreading wildfire. mandatory evacuation orders have in place for the popular tourist destination of lake tahoe. and it is leading to gridlock on some roads. as firefighters are battling yet another raging wildfire out there. officials say that the two week long blaze has burned more than 191,000 acres. cnn s dan simon is live in south lake tahoe, california, with more on this. dan, i could see the smoke all around. what else are you seeing? reporter: well, we are definitely seeing and experiencing the smoke. you could just see the thick haze. but unfortunately, kate, we re looking at potentially a worst case scenario with the flames inching toward the lake tahoe area. as you said this is a popular tourist area, popular in the
Were actually siv applicants. now that is important because this is the focus of the whole operation. and american citizens too, afghans who had assisted the american presence there as well. but it was really siv applicants they were trying to help. that process was fuzzy, it is fair to say. a lot of people applied for it and not everybody got the case number they need. but it is working out who these 120,000 people were that is so important for the u.s. and they try to find homes for them and the challenge is for the millions of afghans they left behind and the tens of thousands of siv applicants they left behind. how do they live under the taliban. emboldened now they are now. and with a history of being brutal towards those who disapprove of how they want to run the country. kate. nick, stick with me. i want to also add to the conversation cnn s chief white house correspondent kaitlan
Or the european union or anything else or on boris johnson for prime minister about that but i think nevertheless that she will feel that the relationship was repaired, she will be pleased with how the press conference went. he praised her enormously for her job and how much they got to know each other and what a wonderful time he had with her over dinner the night before. so i think she will probably feel quite a lot of successful matchup givpatch up given that taken the position of not doing a love actually hugh grant moment and call him out saying this is not acceptable behavior from the head of state of my closest ally. i want to get to that one moment where you did see a real break between the two on immigration in a second. let me add to the conversation cnn s international diplomatic editor nic robertson. nic, this is though a kind of a consistent theme if you will that we see with president trump. walking in, shake things up, sometimes blowing things up when it comes to enter