conversations with the president on january six, and why the select committee is taking his phone records, and how the unhinge response of public health measures during the pandemic is taking a very dark turn. i m gonna speak in front of the school board, and i m gonna give them an option, they can leave or they can be removed. it all starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. on september 26 2001, almost 20 years ago, 15 days after the u.s. was attacked on 9/11, a dozen cia operatives landed in northern afghanistan. their mission was to lay the groundwork for the u.s. invasion of the taliban -controlled country. since that, day for nearly two straight decades, there has been an american military presence in afghanistan. until today, this afternoon, america s longest war was brought to a close. i m here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from afghanistan, and the end of the military mission to evacuate american citizens, foreign country nat
in the center of the virtual seat today, joey jones, retired marine bomb technician who served in afghanistan. he is also a fox news host. the president just wrapped up a briefing. they say they believe it was one, not two explosions that killed ten marines, two soldiers and one navy medic. it was the deadliest day for american forces in a decade. isis k is claiming responsibility for the attack. the pentagon warned there are still specific and credible threats against the airport, as a race is under way to evacuate americans in afghanistan before that august 31st deadline that president biden set hits. now, biden administration is teetering amid calls for the president to resign and potential investigations into the horrific attacks. the president is also being criticized for his comments last week. no one is being killed right now. we all know terrorists attacked, took the lives of american service members standing guard at the airport, wounded several other seriously.
hospitals where beds were scarce. thankfully, thankfully, courage and professionalism were not. it is not marked down anywhere officially. the fight back against the virus began the first time a nurse turned her mask inside out. we remember that. for protection, she wore a garbage bag over her scrubs. at the time, guys, they didn t have ppe because if you didn t know, nothing, and i do mean nothing, comes between a nurse and their duties. grocery store employees, thank you. health care professionals, thank you. the police, nypd here in full force, i was so glad to see them tonight. thank you, thank you, thank you, nypd. other essential workers took their stations on the front lines. next and slowly, new yorkers began to do what we do. we find a way. you know we were once the epicenter of the virus. now we moved to being epicenter of the recovery. so it brings us to this humid, sticky august night. a storm is on the way, but we re good! we gather for a common purpose to say we
the national hurricane center, they literally came in five seconds ago, the forecast did have the center making landfall at the 5:00 p.m. advisory right into the hamptons, around south hampton, it shifted westward again. now we re making it toward eye islip. all of a sudden, 24, 48 hours ago this was in the buzzard s bay and new port and rhode island area and everyone in cape cod who pulled their boats out of the water saying they may catch a break. people from long island, now all of a sudden heading toward new york city and the long island sound, everyone is going we have one day to prepare. that s it. you have saturday. because this storm is coming in in a hurry early sunday morning. the landfall time is up. so let me go to the graphics and giving you a new update and we re still dealing with it as a tropical storm. did not reach hurricane intensity quite yet. and heading to the north finally at 9 miles an hour. and now it s going to accelerate northwards on its journey
towards new york city, and all over the long island sound, people are saying we have one day to prepare. we have saturday. this storm is coming in a hurry. the landfall time has been up, saturday morning. we are still dealing with it as a tropical storm. it did not reach hurricane intensity quite yet. it s getting sheared and now heading towards the north finally. nine miles per hour. anna cherney to new england, it will parallel the coastline of the carolinas. how about that band at the end to the left? very unusual, doesn t happen that often. it s kind of similar to that band as to what sandy did. sandy is a different beast. it was much, much larger. sandy was a huge immense storm. this may be the same intensity but size wise no comparison. this storm will have its own problems. you notice that the winds will quickly die off, by the time we get to monday morning, wind damage is done. the wind damage of the storm is as three go throughout sunday. it s already getting close t