this hour. of course, we re going to keep watching the hurricane and bring you any updates that we get throughout the morning. we do want to pivot right now to the situation in afghanistan where a terror threat is forcing u.s. officials to alter their evacuation plan. a defense official says there is a strong possibility that isis an islamic state group based in south asia is trying to carry out an attack. the group could target crowds outside the airport in kabul. the u.s. military looking for alternative routes to get americans and afghans to that airport now. more than 26,000 people have been evacuated so far. but in a sign of how desperate the situation is around the airport, authorities say seven afghan civilians died after they were crushed by the crowds that were swarming the gates. president biden monitoring the situation, we re told. we do expect to hear from him later this afternoon. u.s. officials say they re
step in vowing legal action to protect school leaders battling desantis over masks. we re not going to sit by as governors try to block and intimidate educators protecting our children. reporter: but desantis is refusing to budge on school policy seeming to relish a fight with the white house over schools. seriously if the federal government can come in and overrule the rights of the parents with covid and force masking of kindergartners and first graders given how covid is such a small risk relative to past flus and other respiratory viruses, will they be able to do that every single school year? reporter: cnn, new york. thanks for that report, evan. we want to tell you in georgia a group of mayors is sounding off on brian kemp over his executive order that allows businesses to disregard local covid safety measures. later this morning, we ll talk to the mayor of savannah. he has something to say to the governor and he ll say it here.