country are stepping in to save louisiana s homeless pets, they helped move these dogs and cats out of hurricane ida s path. not only did it keep them safe from the storm, it could also give them a better shot at finding a home. several shelters from boston to san diego now have them up for adoption and made room in louisiana shelters for those animals injured or separated from their owners duringed storm. thank you for letting me join this morning. cnn s coverage continues right now. good tuesday morning to you. i m jim sciutto. a new chapter, an uncertain one begins. the last u.s. military planes left afghanistan. and today for the first time in nearly two decades, there are no u.s. soldiers deployed on the ground in that country. this image captured the moment. major general chris donohue,
needs. and other people crowding into families homes. lots of movement through mississippi, tennessee, up through the northern part of louisiana as people escaped the storm. who are they mingling with? we re mixing a lot of areas that still had a ton of covid-19. we re really worried about that sort of transmission risk and how do people stay comfortable when obviously you re usually in your own home you take your mask down. going through those areas offering vaccination, especially in north louisiana where we have a lot of electricity and reaching people with the things that they need. dr. catherine o neil, listen, i m glad your power is still on, you re still able to provide the services which are so important there. thanks so much for being with us. thank you. have a great day. just ahead, three talk radio hosts who railed against vaccines all sadly ended up meeting the same fate. plus, there are blatant lies about president biden that are being spread by right-wing
states down south are still without power. and it could be for weeks before that power is restored. the storm left a trail of destruction in louisiana and mississippi, and now comes the scorching heat with no power. temperatures could hit 103 degrees today. overnight, two people were killed when floods washed out a major roadway between mississippi and louisiana. first, afghanistan, the challenges still ahead, and the legacy of what has been left behind. joining me now is pentagon press secretary john kirby. thanks so much for being with us. you know, i m cognizant of the fact that you spent your life in public service, a big chunk of it in the military. what s it like for you to wake up this morning and after 20 years, for the first time in 20 years, to have no u.s. troops in afghanistan? yeah, i think we re all still processing that, john, to be honest with you. it is something that for two decades we ve all been connected
what have the impacts been of hurricane ida? after the storm started making landfall, we started to see power outages around town. that brings the first wave of patients to the hospital who are looking for extra care. maybe have a concentrator at home for oxygen. we have so many people who have oxygen needs during this covid surge at home who are looking for extra medical care. we tried to get that out to them as much as possible. but you start to see some of that wave of patients. and then as the storm got worse, people really did hunker down. the hospital became very quiet. we slept about a thousand people in the hospital, being able to have a day and night shift for days to come just in case we had more issues than we anticipated, and we did. many of our health care workers live east of the storm and east of the hospital. so we have a lot of people without power who are working in the hospital today, a lot of people who don t have a home to go back to yet. a lot of tree damage and
or where were you before the storm even came? so, just in the last week we started to see just a slight decrease in our number of patients admitted every day. obviously in the last 48 hours, we ve seen less people. our concern is always that those people are at home, that they re not able to get to us. yesterday we knew that there were quite a few people who were unable to call ems because we had such a communication problem around the region with cell phone towers out. but overall we hopefully were in the down swing of the surge, but that down swing is still seeing record highs and our hospitals today 170 patients admitted with covid and 40 on the ventilator. hospitals below us had many covid patients, too. as we see this movement of people, people not being able to access medical care like they would want to, what we worry is that this surge will see a bump up and trying to vaccinate through this and trying to seek those people out and get them to medical care so that they don t