the vast majority in louisiana, new york, and my home state of new jersey. over in connecticut, a funeral procession will get under way within this hour for a state trooper, sergeant brian mould, who died with his police cruiser was overwhelmed by floodwaters. hundreds of thousands of people are still without power. some might not get it back until the month of october. after touring the damage in both regions, president biden said the crisis demands an immediate response. climate change poses an existential threat to our lives, our economy. it s here and it s not going to get any better. this is code red. the nation and the world are in peril. that s not hyperbole. that is a fact. let s dig deeper into all of this and bring in allison barber and sam brock, in louisiana, and kathleen miller in cranford, new jersey. she is the mayor there. sam, let s start with you. the numbers i am reading are crazy. 300,000 plus people without power, 3,000 in shelters, 25,000 displaced i
the 105-year weather event flooded the new york subway system. drivers in the tri-state area were trapped from highways to side streets and they ve suspended their service between washington and boston today for the entire day. new york governor hochul speaking earlier about the devastating impact. even the morning after we are still uncovering the true depth of the loss. the human loss, simply in their cars, in their homes and basements succumbed to the brutal ravages of a brutal storm. this is the first time we ve had a flash flood event of this proportion in the city of new york and outlying areas. the president also, of course, issuing that statement. he will be speaking momentarily. the flooding also swamping the philadelphia area in bridgeport, pennsylvania. this dramatic rescue by boats of people and their pets just hours ago, and a major blow to roe v. wade. the supreme court refusing to stop a texas law that went into effect tuesday night in effect banning all ab
will still likely be weeks before power is fully restored. and the white house announced a short time ago that president biden will visit louisiana on friday to tour the damage. and about 2,000 miles away in california, a desperate battle sunday way right now to try to save south lake tahoe as thousands of firefighters are struggling to deal with a series of wildfires burning across that state and the caldor fire s growth now heading to the nevada state line forcing people to flee the region just before the labor day weekend. we re going to begin this hour with the aftermath of hurricane ida. joining us to start off our coverage nbc news correspondent sam brock in la place, louisiana, roughly 30 miles northwest of new orleans and nbc news correspondent shaquille brewster in the big s. shaq, you re one of the places seeing long lines and lots of people waiting to get supplies they need just for basic survival. tell us about the situation as you ve been observing it today. re
white house. in less than four hours, the president will speak on the day america s longest war has finally ended. the last flight with the final group of u.s. service members onboard took off, including this man, the last service member to leave the country. 20 years after combat operations began this morning, we will talk about what it all meant and if it was worth it. all of that, as we see a very different kabul airport this morning. taliban fighters walking around the airport there. we have courtney kube, and secretary of defense for russia, ukraine and she s private a network of private citizens as well working with afghans that directly or indirectly supported our path to safe refuge out of afghanistan. the first full day this war is now over in afghanistan, we have all seen the iconic photo i just showed, army major photo, the last service member to leave afghanistan. there s still some hundreds of americans there, 1 to 200, not to mention thousands of afghan allies.
will join us later this hour. let s gun with afghanistan. here to start us off with the latest, nbc news white house reporter and nbc national security and intelligence correspondent and nbc news pentagon correspondent courtney kube and lieutenant jern and deputy security adviser for iraq and afghanistan. thank you all for being here. we ll start with you, mike, outside the white house. talk about this decision to stick with that august 31st deadline. what led to that decision? well, aaron, i want to start by noting that president s scheduled remarks that we were expecting initially at noon and then 2:00 p.m. have just been postponed yet again. we now expect to hear from the president sometime after 4:30 this afternoon. if the president is watching as i hope he sometimes does, i say this not as a criticism but as the data point to really speak to what white house officials have been a dynamic situation. we do expect as white house officials and other administration official