i know everybody misses home, but it is no time to come back right now. in afghanistan, the withdrawal deadline is imminent as the final evacuation of americans and afghans winds down. isis-k claiming responsibility for a rocket attack on the kabul airport. this, after the u.s. conducted a drone strike against an isis-k target on sunday. a vehicle that posed an imminent threat to the airport. up to ten civilians were reportedly killed as a result of the strike. at dover airport sunday president biden and the first lady attending the dignified transfer for the fallen suicide members killed in the suicide bomb on thursday. we ll start with the latest on tropical storm ida with today s show cohost al roker in new orleans, and correspondent sam brock in louisiana. al, first to you. new orleans is in the dark. a rare sight. how are things looking? al roker, i think we have a problem reporter: thank you very much. thank you. reporter: yeah, andrea, we are here. this is
responding so far. we re keeping an eye on fema headquarters, where president biden arrived a short time ago to get a briefing. we ll bring you that as well. but first the city of new orleans right now, the latest data from the national hurricane centers puts the storm about 150 miles away from the city. catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding are being seen along the state s coast. you can see this surveillance camera from a nearby house, earlier in grand isle, louisiana, a small strip of land that a lot of folks were worried about. we also know more than 120,000 power outages have been reported, so people are already in the dark. we re getting a rare look at the eye of the storm. we want to show you the striking video from a flied above the eye earlier today before it made landfall. it really shows how massive this storm s path of destruction could be. all right. we mentioned new orleans. let s go there now. that s where we find today show co-host
the days are not too bad for getting out and about, but the nights are a bit chilly at the moment, and the forecast for the rest of the week brings more of this largely dry weather, rather cool by date but with further frosty and foggy nights in some places. the main areas of culture being kept away from our shores by this area of high pressure which will be with us for the next few days. often under high pressure with you completely dry weather, but thatis with you completely dry weather, but that is naby keita the moment, we have some showers popping up on some persistent rain across south west scotland but that is not the case at the moment. many spots are dry with sunshine, temperatures 82 may be 13 or 1a degrees to the far south west. daytime showers will fade, some areas of cloud left behind, miss transphobe developing in places, another chilly night, a widespread ground frost, perhaps not as cold as last night for many parts of north east scotland still getting down
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