so enjoy the afternoon. thank you. you re welcome any time, alex. i will show up one day and you ll be like, wait, did i invite her? thank you. new tonight, the like of novak djokovic goes on full displace in an australian court. the number one tennis player will get a visa hearing in the next six hours after spending day four in detention at a hotill facility. documents filed by his lawyers claim he was granted by a medical exemption to enter the country after he contracted and recovered from the coronavirus in december. let s go to ralph sanchez. i tell you, this has gotten a lot of buzz around the world, this particular story. what are we expecting from the hearing? yeah, alex, so djokovic, the australian government have been volleying back and forth in court filings over the last couple days. that s given us some sense of what kind of arguments we might hear in court. djokovic s case is twofold. one, he says he tested positive for covid in mid-december. that should give him
refugees. let s go to ralph sanchez from doha, qatar. where is blinken going? what s the agenda for him? he is heading first here to doha qatar and then on to germany. there are a couple of prongs to this trip. he is going to thank qatar and germany without whom the unprecedented air lift from kabul would not have been possible. he is hear to thank you who s who helped pull it off. and he is here to get those still trapped in the country out. a component of that is getting the international airport up and running again. no time line yet on when that might happen. encouraging news in the last 24 hours. the qataris are now flying daily aid flights in and out of the airport. there are domestic flights, flights within afghanistan, taking off and landing from that
hospitals that are now full with covid. at the same time trying to evacuate individuals there and telling them to go to congruigate settings which are exactly the place you would want to avoid in the middle of a pandemic. so, they re doing what they can to hand out supplies, to hand out masks and hand sanitizer. but really hoping this doesn t compound the tragedy down there in the middle of what could be and expected to be potentially lethal storm, alex. absolutely. the president is certainly in the middle of a horrific and terrible storm, in fact, on so many fronts. he did make the point yesterday in his news conference he said people in the southern part of the region there in the gulf coast, wear your masks as you are evacuating and dealing with the oncoming hurricane ida. heidi, thank you for that. heidi just mentioned the ongoing threats. let s go to ralph sanchez joining us from dohar, qatar. we got some alerts here at msnbc
for dover base and that is where the dignified transfer will happen of the 13 fallen u.s. military members. so it is a very solemn day for this president. let s talk about the concerns that you have and when you look at this withdraw overall, are there questions that you feel still need to be answered? if so, what are they? are they around intelligence? are they around military action? are they around diplomatic correspondence? the rapid pace they fell to the taliban? i think there are many questions. at this point, my questions are on how many more americans need to be evacuated. how many more of our allied partners need to be evacuated. can we and i ve expressed this to the administration directly to the secretary of state directly to secretary of defense directly isn t there a way we
spot. then the eye is going to move over morgan city. we re going to see wind impacts there. let s talk about storm surge i want to back up a bit. when the winds push the ocean water, the salt water on to dry land. it happens fast and it s strong and it s unsurvivable. so, we heard of a lot of people evacuating. that s good news. we hope everyone did because it comes fast and it s hard to go up against storm surge. then you add rainfall. scary totals. up to 20 inches of rain. all these grounds are so saturated. we had a very rainy july. we had a very rainy august. and now we re adding 20 inches in some spots. and we could see torrential downpours. now new orleans is a bull effect. we heard about this with katrina. the rain gets in and can t get out. the pumping systems, 92 are working. alex, we re talking about