1,800 people and destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes in and around new orleans. time is running out for evacuations as louisiana prepares for the storm. some highways have been packed w for much of the day with thousands of people fleeing the coast. and then there s that dangerous evacuation overseas in kabul. three days remain before president biden s deadline for withdrawing american personnel from afghanistan. hundreds of thousands of afghans may still be trying to leave the country. no doubt they know the window is closing to get out via the u.s. airlift. this morning the roads remained closed outside kabul s airport. we had seen large crowds trying to push inside the facility.n those crowds have largely dispersed after thursday s suicide bombing and last night o drone strike. a statement from president biden warns that more strikes will come. commanders have apparently informed him that an attack is,h quote, highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours.
i m carol costello. the eastern seaboard bracing themselves for the worst of irene on this american morning. good morning, everyone. it is it s wednesday, wowp halfway through the week. august 24th. welcome to american morning. feels like it s halfway through the week. he had like a hundred years of news in two days. we started off yesterday with what was going on in libya, these hurricane preparations, and then an earthquake. right. did you feel it? christine and i were together working. i thought it was a little vertigo. i said, is that the subway? and we were with somebody who said the lights are swaying. yeah. this ligds grid was swaying. i did not feel it. i was in a shoe store buying shoes. you thought that s what it was. my husband is in baltimore, he really felt it. he e-mails me and says, get out of wherever you are. i m thinking, how does he know i m buying shoes. hopefully, gladly there are more stories of that sort. only something like