U. S. Service members. Two Highprofile Isis targets were killed. Zero civilian casualties. Meantime, the mission to get american forces and their allies out of afghanistan reaches its final phase. We continue to evacuate american citizens and vulnerable afghans to meet the Mission Requirement by august 31st. And judges in texas and florida push back against bans on Mask Mandates. The School Districts are violating straight law. Theyre not without some reasonable limitation. Im Pamela Brown in washington. You are live in the Cnn Newsroom on this saturday. A monster named ida. The hurricane is rapidly intensifying and drawing chilling comparisons to katrina. Specifically and ominously, ida is charging straight towards louisiana. Right now as we speak, it is due to make Landfall Tomorrow as a category 4 storm. Near New Orleans and on the 16th anniversary of katrinas catastrophic siege of the gulf coast. This afternoon, Louisianas Governor doubled down. He says ida will be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit The State since the 1850s. Parts of louisiana are under mandatory evacuation orders. And time is quickly running out to escape the impact zone. The national Weather Service is underscoring the dire stakes warning that ida could leave some places, quote, uninhabitable for weeks or months. We are covering all the angles of the approaching hurricane and the growing sense of urgency. Lets begin with Tom Sater in the cnn weather center. Tom, you have a new update from the Hurricane Center. What are you learning . Well, this is a visual satellite. As the sun sets you start to get a lot of detail. You see shadows, ridges of thunderstorms but the well defined eye. Moments ago the latest advisory has come in and what we know is the pressure is dropping. That means its getting stronger. Once the pressure drops, it takes a while for the winds to react and they pick up in their intensity. Weve jumped from 100mileperhour sustained winds to 105. This environment is conducive for it to blow up even more. Typically these storms will fight off some dry air. A lot of times youll have a little weak shear that tries to break them down. There is no shear. Nothing but extremely warm, high Octane Fuel for those temperatures as its going to make its way to the north. Now, Something Else of note that is interesting. They have extended the Surge Warning to the east all the way to the Alabama And Florida line, and that now includes mobile bay. So their surge is increasing. Why is it extended eastward . In the last hour and a half if you watch closely, and this is where its going to be interesting in the next several hours going forward tonight, we watch the center of The Eye. Its like spinning a top on a table. Its not going to stay in one vertical position with complete symmetry. Its going to wobble somewhat. And we have found or the national Hurricane Center has found that the center of The Eye has wobbled somewhat to the north and the northeast. Why is that important . If it moves just five, eight miles, it throws off the projection of where landfall will be. Youve got to extrapolate the entire distance of 300 miles so that can shift somewhat. We did have that and ill show you the new one. Computer models want to make this Landfall Tomorrow as a category 4. But you dont have to be at the core of the center to feel the effects. Early this morning we had a Wind Gust in Key West of 67 miles per hour. Thats exactly what we had with landfall when henri moved up into areas of New England knocking out power. There will be tornado watches throughout the day tomorrow. Also in the brighter colors of orange and yellow, possibilities of Power Outages. The big concern with this is catastrophic winds that will be in excess of 110 miles per hour. If we have a category 4 with 130mileperhour sustained winds, those Wind Gusts to be 145, 150, 155. We always look at the Computer Models and these will change now that more data is coming in. The Hurricane Hunters have taken off about 4 30. They are getting ready to enter the center of ida so well get a lot more information in the next couple of hours. But this is the american model. We like to compare it to the european. This is at 1 00 p. M. Local time and we have our landfall. It looks pretty close to grand isle. This one is a little further offshore which means the timing is a little slower with. This but each and every change, pamela, and where that center is could change that track as mentioned. Earlier this morning it was 50 miles from New Orleans. If it continues that movement and that trend to the east, we could see this move closer to a higher populated area. Why is that important . Because those east winds. And if New Orleans gets into the Eye Wall and those strong winds, widespread Power Outages. Not just to the east, wrapping around to lake charles, which has Tens Of Thousands of homes still with tarps. Still moving up to central tennessee. Its going to drop a lot of rainfall. Hour by hour now well be watching every little movement, every little change and the information coming from the national Hurricane Center. Youll be tracking it all for us. Meteorologist Tom Sater, thank you very much. Nadia romero is on the ground. City officials are warning of Power Outages and significant flooding. Are people prepared . Reporter pamela, it depends on who you talk to. There is one group of people who say im from New Orleans. Ive survived rita and katrina and im not moving for ida. Those are the folks planning to hunker down in place. Then we have other people, take a look, theres a taxi leaving right behind me. This is what you see all across the french quarter, people getting in a taxi, a ride share, trying to get out of town as quickly as possible. We ran into some tourists who say their flights were cancelled or flights were booked so they couldnt leave so theyre stuck here. There are other people trying to get out of the city and these Business Owners boarded up because theyre not messing around. They realize that this could be a significant storm. You can always tell when youre in an area that is used to having storms because they board up their windows and number then or letter them. Up 1, 2, 3 so they know exactly where that plywood goes each time theres a storm. Thats what Business Owners are afraid of, debris breaking through their windows and sending glass all over the place. Listen to the warning from the governor here, John Bel edwards telling residents to get out, get to High Er ground, evacuate if they can. This will be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit anywhere in louisiana since at least the 1850s. We can also tell you that your window of time is closing. It is rapidly closing. And just like we said yesterday, by the time you go to bed tonight, you need to be where you intend to ride this storm out. Wherever you sleep tonight is where you will be until after the storm because the governor says theyre not sending in Emergency Response crews to help you in the middle of the storm. Theyll wait until the storm passes and then come out. The national guard, some 4,000 of them on stand by ready for this storm. The first Thing Theyll do is clear the debris out of the roads, especially around hospitals, then work their way through neighborhoods to see if there are people who are trapped. Remember, were talking about significant flooding, a Storm Surge and wind that could knock out power, which is why were seeing people at the long lines of Gas Stations fueling up their cars and the Grocery Stores just barren right now. We had to ask one of our photographers, dominic swanson, to stop at one of the Grocery Stores in alabama to get water for us before coming all the way here to louisiana because we couldnt find any water anywhere in town. Pam. That says a lot. Some ominous words coming from louisiana Officials Today as they are urging people to leave, evacuate before Hurricane Ida gets there. Nadia romero thank you so much. Now lets go southwest of New Orleans to houma. That is a city in the crosshairs of the approaching storm. Cnn Meteorologist Derek Van dam is there for us. What are you seeing there, derek . Reporter yeah, pamela, in fact residents are taking advantage of that very narrowing window of opportunity to sandbag, to prepare their homes and to protect themselves from this Monster Hurricane that is approaching. This is a particularly vulnerable location. Im in the terrebonne parish, home of about 100,000 people. Where im standing right now, only 10 feet above Sea Level and thats pretty much the story across much of this particular parish. Of course there are a system of levees in place, floodgates have been closing and will continue to close up until the approach of Hurricane Ida. Of course this is within the city and a state that has been hit particularly hard by the covid pandemic. Low Vaccination Levels and high hospitalizations adds a complexity to this whole situation as well. Talked to a nurse from this particular area just off camera telling me that shes never witnessed or experienced in her entire career of working here a mandatory evacuation aside from katrina. But they were easily able to evacuate patients from her hospital during katrina. This time there are no hospital beds available in the regional hospitals here, so that obviously complicates things as they want to evacuate people but they cant. Pamela. Derek van dam, thanks so much. Up next, the u. S. Strikes back for the Kabul Bombing that killed 13 u. S. Service members. How the surgical strike went down and who was targeted. Plus, a warning from the President Tonight about a potential new threat. Also ahead, it has been 58 years since dr. Martin Luther King delivered his famous I Have A Dream speech. How activists are marking that anniversary with a nationwide march for Voting Rights. Not touching is still touching protection. Adding Lysol Laundry Sanitizer kills 99. 9 of bacteria. Detergent alone, cant. Lysol. What it takes to protect. 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S. , narrowly escaping the talibans takeover. Kimberly dozier is a cnn global Affairs Analyst and retired Brigadier General Mark Hemet under president george w. Bush. General, first to you, what is your reaction to this warning from the president . Well, it indicates as kim said there are multiple threat streams and every Intention And Reason for another attack and thats to respond to the attack on the isisk leadership. So i would expect that theres going to be an attempt and obviously they know when were leaving, so its very obvious when its going to happen, between now and the 31st. And what do you think, kim . What does this signal in terms of where afghanistan is heading now that the withdrawal is supposed to be done by august 31st. Well, isisk has always been fighting with the more moderate parts of the taliban internally, and now theyre going to be pushing at the taliban to be more extreme. They have criticized the taliban for making a deal with the u. S. , for letting its soldiers leave, quote unquote, peacefully. First of all, this is one of their last chances to get an attack on a large number of u. S. Troops of some sort. Probably something like an rpg or some sort of rocket from outside the base aimed at those within. It means that while u. S. Officials have been quietly trying to push the Taliban And Pakistan has as well to be somewhat moderate in what it forms as a new government, perhaps allowing some form of voting, perhaps putting a woman in one of its senior ranks if you do something like that, isisk is only going to grow and make more of a problem for us. And just in the immediate future, how do you protect our Service Members in the wake of the 13 Service Members dying after that attack . The president has said he has directed all resources to go toward protecting them, but how do you do that . Our troops have been doing this for 20 years and know how to protect themselves. The most spectacular way of making the point to President Biden is running a vehicle into the afghan civilians. Theyre at far more risk than our troops. If they want to get the point across to President Biden, theyll go after those large masses of afghan civilians still trying to get into the base. Its worth noting that our troops, as you said, this is what they want to be doing, helping Afghan Allies, helping others get in and evacuate. Theyre doing this in the face of this threat. Looking ahead, as you laid out the landscape in afghanistan, what this means for isisk, i remember when the Khorasan Group was just gaining stream in isis, 2016 or something like that, and there was a big concern about these Lone Wolf attacks. There would be isis sympathizers in the u. S. That would launch attacks. How big of a concern is that now with the u. S. Withdrawing . Well, the Isisk Group has mostly been focused locally domestically. Theyre an offshoot of some militant groups in pakistan that dont think the pakistani government is theocratic enough, extremist enough. So perhaps they threaten the west in the future but right now theyre going to be one more distraction for a taliban government that is trying to for the first time govern the entire country in a modern era, in a modern way, with a population that expects them to have electricity on and the Water Running and the Phone System working. Otherwise the taliban is going to face an insurgency from its own people just because people expect them to be better than the last Group Or Hope that they are. And how significant, general, was the strike against those two isisk members . Will that have any impact moving forward . It was tactical in nature. Its going to be tactical in effects. I want to go back to that other point that was made. The fact remains that whats isisk doing now . Theyre celebrating. Every Terrorist Group in the world is celebrating because they now have the formula about how to get the americans out of the country and how they can now use this as Recruiting Material to increase their ranks and weve given away afghanistan, so they not only have the cause, they not only have the place. Isis isnt about to do a Lone Wolf attack. Theyre going to be too busy celebrating after the 31st at this great victory they have just achieved. So what do you think the u. S. Needs to do to avoid that . Well, its too late. We should have stayed after the 31st to demonstrate we are willing to get not only american citizens but those that fought alongside of us back to the united states. Kim thinks the taliban is now going to be taliban 2. 0 and very moderate. I think thats not in their dna. If they have a minister of womens affairs, shes going to be in charge of observing the stonings of adultrouses in the Football Stadiums they used to do. We are going back to pre9 11. Ignore the charm offensive. They dont have it in their ideology and their dna. I would say the taliban has a political wing thats a bit more moderate but also understands what kind of face they have to present to the rest of the world to get international aid, et cetera, but they have a Military Wing that wants to implement all the things you just described. Thats going to be a tension going forward. But the last Point Weve got to remember, those marines and other servicemen and women who lost their lives in that attack did so because they were taking extraordinary risks to try to find american citizens and siv candidates, people who worked and fought alongside them in that crowd to pull them into the airport. Thats what exposed them to the risk and that is what the afghan people will remember, them taking those kind of risks and paying the ultimate price to try to save them. Kimberly dozier, Brigadier General, thank you both for your analysis. 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Hurricane ida is poised to wreak similar if not more damage. Katrina was a category three storm that stalled over The State. Ida is predicted to hit as a category 4. The national Hurricane Center expects ida to make landfall sunday, bringing damaging winds, Power Outages, heavy rain, tornados and more. Ken graham, the director of the national Hurricane Center in miami, joins me now. So help us understand this. If ida slows down enough before landfall, what are the chances ida could become a category 5 hurricane . Well, pamela, i think at this stage just looking at the latest data from the aircraft, weve got aircraft out right now and i was listening to the conversation back behind me. I think the biggest story is it looks like the Wind Field is expanding. Its not just about this intensification and getting to la larger, but this is a significant Wind Field. When you think about forecasting a category 4 storm, 135 miles an hour, its just a large area of folks that can get these hurricaneforce winds. Thats going to be the big story. New orleans metro area, the north shore, any one of these areas could get hurricaneforce winds. Thats prolonged Power Outages, roofs off houses, trees down. Just a significant, large, dangerous impact. How much is New Orleans in the dangerous zone with this storm . Looking at this latest forecast, if you think about this Wind Field, pamela, this is a good way to look at it. When you look at the center, the actual hurricaneforce winds could stretch out 30, 40, 50 miles from the center. Tropical Storm Force winds could stretch out 100 miles from the center. When you move this forecast forward and think about the winds, not just a point on the map but an expanse outside that point, that puts some of those hurricaneforce winds easily into New Orleans. Thats why theres a danger of those winds, damaging prolonged winds. Youve got the Storm Surge and rainfall on top of that. Lake pontchartrain, 5 to 8 feet of Storm Surge, mouth of the mississippi river, 10 to 15 feet of Storm Surge. Thats inundation. Thats the maximum that we could see at any one of these points. Thats water up your pant leg. Thats an incredible amount of dangerous water. You were part of an Awardwinning Team that made critical repairs to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Is New Orleans ready for this Storm Given what you just said . Will the levees hold . That is what its looking like now. I think theres some local levees that you have to be careful about. These are people that really need to get out of those areas. But the big part is the rainfall as well. Its not just the Storm Surge. Even the improvements with the levees, if we keep back that water, look at the Rainfall Forecast here. Were talking 10 to 15 inches of rain, some places getting 20 inches of rain. In addition to these other hazards that i talked about, this is a very lifethreatening situation. Even with the rainfall, right along the center, our forecast, something similar to that, but that center and right side puts New Orleans right over that area that could get that heavy rain. Not just there, mobile, the mississippi gulf coast, and look how far it stretches inland. Theres places in Central Mississippi that could see 5 to 10 inches of rainfall. So a dangerous situation. Pamela, 90 of the fatalities in these tropical systems comes from Storm Surge and inland rain. Weve got to be ready for that in addition to the dangerous winds. Ken graham, thank you. As Hurricane Ida targets louisiana, hospitals across The State are already near capacity filled with covid19 patients. As of right now the hospitals there will not be evacuated. Officials are encouraging people not to come to the hospitals in louisiana unless it is life threatening. Thanks to the delta variant, covid19 hospitalizations across the u. S. Surpassed 100,000 again this week. Thats a level not seen in eight months. Cnns Polo Sandoval is tracking the latest developments from florida, where Mask Mandates in schools are still a hot button issue, polo. Reporter they certainly are, pam, especially after Yesterdays Order from a judge here in florida that sided with many School Districts in The State that have been defying Governor Desantis Attempt to try to prevent Mask Mandates from actually being put into place. The judge there ruling that the governor does not have the authority to issue this kind of Blanket Mandate that would prevent Mask Mandates from actually kicking into place. With the u. S. Still falling well short of the 70 Vaccination Rate experts say is needed to achieve herd immunity, troubling new information about the delta variant. A study out of the uk finds that the now dominant Delta Strain is not only more contagious but also more dangerous, doubling the risk of hospitalization compared to the once common alpha variant. Thats bad news for many americans. Only 52 of whom are fully vaccinated against covid. The White House is urging people to get the shot. If youre an american who is not yet vaccinated or if youre an employer who has yet to adopt vaccination requirements, we have a very simple message. Get off the sidelines, step up and do your part. As the government pushes americans to stay safe, the debate over masks rages on. The new York Department of health will require students, Faculty And Staff at all public and private schools in The State to wear masks while inside school buildings. Judges in texas and florida or pushing back against bans on Mask Mandates implemented by republican governors in those states ruling that School Districts are allowed to require students to mask up. 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Back here in florida, the States Health Department recorded just over 150,000 new covid cases in the last week alone here, pam. That is the highest number for a Sevenday Period since the start of the pandemic and certainly speaks to the fact that it is far from over. In fact the Health Care System that you see here behind me, tallahassee memorial Health Care, they saw an average of 41 patients, treated about 41 patients a Day Back in january during the last surge. Right now that number about 135 patients. So as one Health Care worker told me today, pam, the Situation Isnt as bad as what they saw months ago, it is worse. It is much worse right now here in florida. Theyre just exhausted, these Health Care workers who are working so much, seeing things get worse there in states like The One that youre in right now. Polo sandoval, thank you so much. An unprecedented effort is under way to get afghans who helped westerners during the war out of harms way. 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He told harndon that he was at the gate just minutes before the explosion saying god saved me and my sister. Mr. Hardon joins us now. Hes now an Awardwinning Journalist and author. He has reported from dozens of countries writing about terrorism and war. His latest work is the upcoming book The Untold Story of the Cia Mission to avenge 9 11. Toby, thank you for joining us. Were so happy to hear your translator was not hurt but what was it like for you to learn how close to tadanger he was . Hi, pamela. Thanks very much for having me on the show. Yeah, its heartbreaking. Its kind of a Roller Coaster of emotions and facts and speculation all mixed together every single day. So yeah, my heart sank. I had a real feeling of dread when i didnt hear from him for really an hour or two after that attack. He was just getting away, checking on his sister, checking on his family. Then i did hear from him. And so, yes, there was a sort of a surge of joy. But then, of course, hes still in this situation. He still has to go back into danger to try to get into the airport. And yesterday he was picked up, he had a Rendezvous Point with one of these outside groups, a former Cia Officer put me in touch with somebody, so he was in the right hands, he was on a bus. He then spent 26 hours standing on this bus outside a gate, once again in danger. He was turned away first by u. S. Military, and then hours later by the taliban. And so now hes getting a few Hours Sleep and were going to go through the same cycle again once he wakes up tomorrow. And now you have President Biden Warning Tonight that there will likely be another attack in the next day or two. Are you still hopeful that he will be able to get out . Is he hopeful at this point . We have nothing else to do but hope. But time is running out. Weve got less than three days now. And every day it gets it gets more dangerous, it gets less likely that hes going to be able to get through that gate. The Terrorist Attack on thursday obviously was a huge tragedy. Thankfully he and his sister survived, or escaped without injury, but it vastly complicated the situation. He went through that yesterday. Weve got another warning from President Biden saying another attack is likely, so i mean the tension around that airport and the difficulties of getting through. I mean it shows how much he wants to get out and how so many afghans want to get out that hes going to risk his life as hes done every day for nearly two weeks now to get out. Its a race against the clock. Right now we have to hope, but its not looking good. Why is this so important to you to help him . Well, its kind of simple human really, he helped me. I was in afghanistan for six weeks at the end of last year. I was up and he worked with me. He is 29 years old, an intelligent young man. Learned his english mostly from movies but its very good. He had a journalistic instinct which translators often dont. He helped track down two doctors who witnessed the last moments of mike span, who was the first american casualty after 9 11, Cia Officer, so he showed a real resourcefulness. We had great conversations. I remember us talking about movies. He was very interested in idioms and vernacular english. I remember explaining to him what the phrase a Perfect Storm meant and also what the Term Groundhog Day meant and now hes going through a Groundhog Day every single day outside that airport. Its not just a movie, its life and death. And it shows the desperation and so many others trying to get out, willing to risk their life to go through that Groundhogs Day every day. Trying unsuccessfully going back the next day. Do you think the biden administration appreciates the urge anticipates urgency of what may happen here . What may happen if the u. S. Does leave people like your translator behind . I hope they do. Ive applied for an siv for him and then a p2 and i was advised that that was a better route to go. I havent had any word back from The State department, absolutely nothing. No case number. So really it feels like his fate is in the hands of brave afghans, afghan americans, americans who want to help, private groups who are going to do their best to get him out. So yeah, its one of those times where you feel a little bit abandoned by your government. And i know that he feels certainly sort of abandoned by the afghan government that sort of folded in the way it did. And also by the u. S. Government, which has promised to get american citizens and Green Card holders, but also american allies out of that country and away from, you know, the prospects of a medieval taliban regime. Toby harden, thank you so much. Please keep us updated on how this unfolds. We hope that he can get out. I will. Thank you very much, pamela. 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At least 18 states enacted 30 laws this year that make it harder for americans to vote. Rallies are happening in places like texas, where just yesterday republicans moved their bill one step closer to the governors desk, after democratic lawmakers left The State in a failed bid to stop it, calling it racist. Our Suzanne Mazanne Malveaux is washington. Reporter there are thousands of people gathered across the country but here in washington, two Minerain Rail Mineral tw main rallies. King said the 1965 voting Rights Legislation was critical. At the time you had to guess the number of Jelly Beans in a jar in order to vote. You have this voter rights, original landmark legislation, activists say, thats being chipped away. Take a listen. This is a battlefield of morals and you are armed with the truth. And the truth is a flame you cannot extinguish. People have done it before and will do it again. We will demand federal Voting Rights until we have them. So dont give up. Dont give in. Dont give out. You are the dream and this is our moment to make it true. Reporter so what he is actually fighting for is the John Lewis Voting rights act to try to restore some of those provisions, pam. Also the focus was the filibuster, that Senate Procedure that requires 60 votes to pass legislation. Reverend Al Sharpton taking clear aim at that, explaining why that has been so detrimental to civil rights. This is not a law. This is a senate custom. Well, sitting in the back of the bus was a custom. Making us drink from the colored Water Fountain was a custom. Making us stand in the gutter while others walked on the curb was a custom. We are the custom breakers. We are the filibuster busters. Reporter noticeably absent, pam, reverend jesse jackson. He was here in washington, d. C. A couple of weeks ago. I had a chance to catch up with him. He was protesting Voting Rights and was even arrested as well. But he and his wife are now battling covid19. 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Service members and at least 170 other people dead. The department of Homeland Security is tracking three primary threats, one being the Possibility Isis or Al Qaeda members could use this Relocation Process to enter the u. S. Afghan allies who were able to escape the horror are seeking shelter around the world, including the u. S. And today we saw more Refugees Land at washingtons dulles airport to start a new life free of the talibans grip. Cnn chief white House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins and Cnn Pentagon Correspondent Oren Liebermann join me now. Kaitlan, the president is sounding the alarm about another possible attack. What more do we now . Reporter yeah, pam, as this evacuation is wind