dr. fauci, good to see you. so more than 150,000 cases per day, more than 1,200 deaths per day. icus filling up, and almost all of this is preventable. a new model from the university of washington projects more than 100,000 additional american deaths to covid by december 1st? is that really possible? jake, unfortunately, it certainly is. you know, what is going on now is both entirely predictable but entirely preventable. and, you know, we know we have the wherewithall with vaccines to turn this around, and the reason you see the numbers that are so alarming that you just gave is that we have about 80 million people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated who are not yet vaccinated. we could turn this around and we could do it efficiently and quickly if we just get those people vaccinated. that s why it s so important now
reasons to continue to allow for some number of people to be able to transport out of the country, certainly american citizens. they ve got to keep that airport open. they re a land-locked country. they can t operate in an economy without a functioning airport. these are all questions the biden administration will have to answer, how do you continue moving people out of that country even after our 2500 to 5,000 troops leave. do you think america should recognize the taliban? some are being asked to recognize opposition forces that aren t necessarily running the country. it makes the united states look pretty weak when we re recognizing people that are leaders of the government that aren t actually running the government. but it doesn t mean we shouldn t be talking to the taliban. even though we don t formally recognize them, we ll have to be in conversations with them, they ll have to know the result of their actions if they don t allow people to get out of the country.
vaccinated. what s the latest on shots for children? dr. anthony fauci joins me, ahead. clear and present danger. kabul fights back as the president warns another attack may be imminent. chris murphy and two women with firsthand experience in afghanistan join me in moments. hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is facing a triple threat of emergencies. new this morning, an explosion in a kabul, afghanistan neighborhood. beal give you more information as we have it with two days before the deadline to pull afgha afghanistanis and americans out as the taliban tries to take over the country. also we have the pandemic which at this point should be
almost preventable, with the u.s. averaging 150,000 daily deaths again, unlike back in march when the pandemic was going into first gear. and hurricane ida strengthened overnight to become a category 4 storm with sustained winds at 40 miles an hour. it is expected to make landfall 16 years to the day when hurricane katrina did. hospitals are already overrun as the delta variant rips through one of the biggest infected states in the country. john bel edwards, the catastrophic hurricane has a 15-mile storm surge. it s only expected to get
helicopters, boats. we have generators on the way and supplies, and i talked to a lot of governors around the country last night. they re leaning forward to send additional assets in here as we need them and make those requests. but i will tell you, it s going to be a very, very challenging storm for our state, and it comes at a very difficult time as well. do you anticipate that ida could strengthen into a category 5 by the time it makes landfall? it s possible. the truth is, jake, there is not much difference between a very high category 4 storm and a category 5 storm. the impacts are going to be tremendous regardless. the wind speeds are projected to be within a few miles per hour of a category 5. you mentioned a while ago the storm surge now is projected to be up to 16 feet in certain areas. rain totals could exceed 20 inches in certain areas, and so