Tonight. right now, voting rights rallies are underway across the country. protestors are demanding protection from a wave of ballot restrictions in republican-led states. we ll get into that with texas congresswoman sheila jackson lee. president biden says another attack on the airport in kabul is, both, likely and imminent. this after a deadly u.s. drone strike against the terror group isis-k. and a federal judge sanctions lawyers who spread former-president trump s big lie about the 2020 election. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. let us begin tonight with hurricane ida. residents are trying to head inland as this major storm approaches. bill karins starts us off tonight with the latest on ida.
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Bill, we are talking about a significant day tomorrow as well. it sounds like we don t have bill as well. we are working on getting bill if we can, because tomorrow is really significant. it just happens to be the 16th anniversary to the day of hurricane katrina hitting new orleans. so we are going to continue to track the hurricane and bring you the latest on that. i believe we are now going to continue on with our coverage here of voting rights rallies. do we have jacob? all right reporter: hey, lindsey, i m out here in your home stay. going out to phoenix yeah, jacob, can you hear me. this is the crazy thing. the forecast, 109 degrees of a high there in phoenix. hot temperatures that i am well used to. so they ve moved this event inside to keep everybody safe. reporter: not us though. we are outside in the sun. i could use the vitamin d, it is not a big deal. but everybody did go inside. there s about 450 people inside this church here in phoenix. in all seriousness, this
Soldiers die on the battlefield. as you can see the u.s. forces dropped the combat missions in 2014 and afghan soldier and movingen police were the only one fighting against the taliban. and they had lost more than 60,000 troops on the ground so far. so afghans were not prepared they were left unplanned unprepared that s why the taliban were able to take over the country. sayee, i am so pleased you came on the show today to tell us about the good news about your family getting out of afghanistan. i hope you see them soon. thank you so much and stay safe. thank you so much for having me. stay with us. we will continue this discussion about the relocation of refugees from afghanistan with congresswoman ilhan omar with a former refugee herbison in a bit. but after the break we ll check on the nation s capitol where voting rights rallies are getting underway. do not go away. e getting underway
Certainly fail as we said, alex, but it is putting renewed pressure on that 60 vote threshold. whether or not the filibuster should continue on. there are at least two democratic senators not yet on board including senator manchin so the hopes to move forward are very bleak for making any changes there, alex. thank you for the update from the capitol. let s bring in beto o rourke, former texas congressman and former democratic presidential candidate, a busy guy holding 19 voting rights rallies in texas with another one tomorrow, and thank you for making the time for us, my goodness. let me ask you about what you think about the showdown set for tuesday. because if this bill is expected to fail, how can that possibly be interpreted as a win for democrats? i d love if you rephrase that, i don t know if the bill is going to fail, the vote might fail, but as we understand the senate, there are a number of procedural and other votes that take place before a bill can succeed, and i thi