Republican from Blue State maryland, and andy beshear, the democratic governor of red state kentucky. Plus the newly elevated fight over abortion. Texas enacts the most restrictive Abortion Law in the country, dismaying Abortion Rights advocates. As a matter of reality, Roe Versus Wade is a dead letter in texas today. The Supreme Court lets the Law Stand for now, cheering Abortion Opponents. A child is a child. This person is a person. My guests this morning, former democratic senator Claire Mccaskill of missouri and former republican Congresswoman Barbara Comstock of virginia. Also, longterm Power Outages in louisiana. Record Rainfall And Flooding in the northeast. What Hurricane Ida tells us about the threat of Climate Change. Joining me for insight and analysis, yamiche alcindor, the moderator of Washington Week, Washington Post contributing columnist, matt bai, betsy Woodruff Swan of politico, and republican strategist brendan buck. Welcome to sunday. Its Meet The Press. Announcer
With Ali Velshi weathering The Storm. Tonight, Hurricane Ida is a category 2 storm, but a powerful one at that. Lets begin with ali in New Orleans, where the power has been out for some time, and it looks like its going to be out for a while. Reporter yeah, joshua, were in the 11th Hour since landfall of this storm, and its still whipping up. You can see this water behind me in New Orleans, which wasnt sort of inside of the center of this hurricane to start with. So its a very, very powerful storm, and its mostly hitting New Orleans on the backside of this thing. We saw It Pop Up in wind about 2, 2 1 2 hours ago, to pretty intense. It started to let off for a little while, and were still getting big gusts and bands. What ended up happening about a couple of hours ago is we lost power. We lost it in the local area here downtown. I thought it might have been central to this block or building. We learned there was a much bigger problem. It was what they call a catastrophic problem in ener
It could make the final days of evacuations even more complicated. Focusing first on Hurricane Ida, it had been forecast to strengthen rapidly and over the past few hours, and it has done just that. Just a little while ago the national Hurricane Center up graded the potentially Catastrophic Storm to category 4. It is forecast to slam the Louisiana Coast Today hitting the state on the exact same date as Hurricane Katrina 16 years ago. The national Weather Service Office in New Orleans says Storm Surge and high winds could leave some locations uninhabitable for even weeks or months. Both voluntary and mandatory evacuations have been ordered for several louisiana parishes as the national Hurricane Center warns of life threatening situations. Officials say if residents are planning to leave, do it now. Louisianas governor is stressing the dangerous and historic nature of todays threat. When you talk about Rain Totals that could be up to 15, 16 inches in an isolated area above 20 inches, wi
Dan hoffman with insight into the potential Terrorist Attack. Griff jenkins live at the White House with new reporting coming in. Reporter good morning. The deadly debacle in kabul continues Department Of State saying to every american left in country, get away, stay away from the airport. The president issuing a warning in a statement, saying the situation on the ground continues to be dangerous And threat of Terrorist Attacks on the airport is high. Our commAnders inform me a attack is highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby echoing that. Watch. The threats are real, dynamic And were monitoring them real time. Is it as serious as yesterday. It is deadly threat. Im not sure how any terrorist Threat Cant be serious. Reporter they used a Reaper Drone, over the horizon capabilities not naming them leading Military Experts saying exactly high level they are. Here is what kirby had to say about them. The fact two of these individuals are no longer walking on
Louisiana, expected to slam ashore tomorrow. It adds insult to injury for hospitals across the coast already at a Breaking Point with covid patients. This is American Voices. Lots of news today. Well begin this hour with the fight for Voting Rights. Today thousands marched through the streets of d. C. And other american cities like phoenix, miami, and atlanta. The protesters united against the gops sustained attacks on Voting Rights made possible by State Legislatures and gop control. Today the new president of the aflcio, the largest federation of unions in the united states, spoke to Nbc News on the sidelines of a rally in phoenix. We are concerned about what were seeing in terms of Voter Suppression all across this country and really in my opinion the action is out in the community and on the ground. Thats why i wanted to be here in Phoenix Today because these activists are ready to march, ready to mobilize, educate, register voters. We want to be good partners on the ground and mak