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KPIX CBS Weekend News August 30, 2021

0 that is it for us at 5:00 and we will see you here at the clock for more news. >> the weekend news captioning sponsored by cbs >> duncan: tonight ida shows no mercy. the hurricane smashes into louisiana as a powerful category 4 stormt. the results, catastrophic. the wind and rain relentless. new orleans is paralyzed, with. >> i'm omar villafranca in new orleans and hurricane ida is here and the city is bracing for impact. >> duncan: also tonight dig fliified transfer, president biden in dover, delaware paid respects to the latest u.s. troops killed in america's longest war. as it comes to a chaotic end.iny to as sage the grief. >> duncan: in kabul, u.s. forces strike again, a drone targets suspected car bombers in the final hours of a perilous aner, we remember ed asner, actor and tv icon. >> you got spunk. (laughter) >> well. >> i hate spunk! >> this is the cbs weekend news from new york, here's jericka duncan. >> duncan: good evening. and thanks for joining us. want to get straight to hurricane ida, it made landfall in louisiana today, battering the south eastern gulf coast with an onslaught of water and dangerous winds trk hit exactly the same day as hurricane katrina 16 years ago. ida roared ashore the destructive winds of up to 150 miles an hour. more than a foot and a half of rain is expected over several days. this as ida as seen from space. it's a monster, life threatening hurricane. millions of people are in its path. today president biden promised to put the country's full weight behind rescue and recovery operations. we begin with omar villafranca in new orleans. what are conditions like where you are? >> we are here on canal street. the wind is starting to pick up and the rain is really coming down in sheets at this point. the power is still on in the central business district and here in the french quarter but across the state almost half a million people, half a million customers are without power as the big storm takes aim at the big easy. ida is slamming southeast louisiana, packing triple digit high winds and torrential rain. the category four hurricane made landfall midday. 40 people decided to ride out the storm in grand isles, defying a man tore evacuation order, officials have received multiple calls for rescue. >> first responders can not get to you so those folks are just going to have to hunker down. >> this morning hurricane hunters flew their plane into the eye of the storm and caught this stunning picture of ida building up strength. on the streets of new orleans, last minute prep came down to the wire. >> i'm just afraid that. >> 16 years to the day after katrina's devastation, mayor latoya cantrel says her city is ready. >> now is the time that we have been preparing for. >> ida is the first stress test of $14 billion in upgrades to the levee system. >> will it be tested? yes, but it was built for this moment. >> here on the south shore of lake pontchartrain we are seeing heavy winds and waves already splashing over the wall. >> the threat from ida's wind, rain and storm surge is significant. >> we're were tect-- projecting 15 to 20 inches of rain over the period of today and into tomorrow. at times exceeding a rainfall rate of three inches per hour. >> and conditions are expected to worsen with night fall. >> we're going to ride it out. we'll see what happens. >> once the storm passes, there is something else to worry about, the pandemic. the city is considering opening up the convention center as a shell ter, but they're concerned about spreading covid. jericka? >> duncan: omar, thank you. we want to go now to cbs's mireya villarreal who is in homa louisiana near where ida came ashore. you lost power before the storm hit, what is happening there now? >> so right now this is the moment where everybody talks about hunkering down. we obviously are just starting to see the northern part of the eye of the storm. we expect to be in the eye probably in the next hour or so but as you can see right behind me we're-- there is a lot of wind, definitely a lot of rain right now. >> duncan: this is an area that will get hit, possibly the hardest when we take a look at all of this. what are officials telling you right now at this hour? because things seem to be getting worse. >> they're absolutely getting worse, jericka. we expect on the backside of the hurricane we will have way harder winds and rain coming our way. officials are mostly concerned about the aftermath, the flooding that will come, the storm surge that is expected, between 10 and 15 feet for this area alone, not to mention all of the debris that will come down with these massive winds. >> duncan: mireya clearly a lot of wind out there right now, thank you. cbs news jeff berardelli is tracking the latest, what can you tell us. >> this storm has overachieved at every step, came on shore with 150 miles an hour winds, we system is moving inland but look at it, six hours later it st still in tact, still a cat 4, the system is moving to the northwest right now, the worst of the winds into homa. after this the system will move north and eventually northeast. power outages, widespread all across the southeast and it is very hot this time of year, folks will be without air conditioning for at least a week or two. this is the official forecast track, in tennessee, during the day we are dealing with this through the end of the week because it heads to d.c., new york and boston with very heavy rain. how much? >> some folks will still see another foot of rain in the southeast and believe it or not at least four to eight inches will make its way up the appalachians into pennsylvania and maybe new york city as well. so we're not done with the storm quite yet. >> duncan: jeff berardelli with what we need to know, thank you. >> tonight president biden is facing the most devastating month of his tenure in office. it is a tri feka of crises including a powerful hurricane, a resurgent pandemic and the chaotic and deadly u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. cbs news chief white house correspondent nancy cordes joins us tonight with more on the president's latest actions, nancy, good evening. >> jericka, good evening to you, president biden directed the pentagon to retaliate for thursday's suicide bombing at the kabul airport. and basedwh this weekend t pa thects hrough.of s . fsty remains of 13 service members returned to u.s. soil at dover air force base in delaware. 11 men, two women ranging in age from 20 to 231. they were marines, a soldier and a navy corpsmen. staff sergeant darren hoover's father said his son died doing for others what they couldn't do for themselves. >> best kid in the world. you couldn't ask for any better. lovely family. his sisters absolutely adore him. >> back in washington this afternoon president biden said he had spent some time with the families of the fallen. hey lo their lives in service for our country. and while we're praying for the best in louisiana, let's keep them in our prayers as well. >> they lost their lives in a mission that is set to wrap up in just 48 hours. national security advisor jake sullivan insisted that despite the hazards, any u.s. citizen left in kabul can be evacuated if they wish. >> we have the capacity to have 300 americans which is roughly the number we think are remaining, come to the airport and get on planes in the time that is remaining. >> but getting to kabul's airport is still fraught. just this morning a u.s. drone took out a vehicle the pentagon says was heading to the airport with bombs inside. >> this is the most dangerous time in an already extraordinarily dangerous mission. these last couple of days. >> more than 115,000 americans and afghans have now been flown to safety. some of them have already reached the u.s. but the administration continues to face withering criticism from republicans who opposed a full withdrawal of u.s. troops. >> this is one of the worst foreign policy decisions in american history. much worse than saigon because after we left saigon, there weren't vietnamese terrorists who were planning on attacking us here at home. >> nancy, still so many concerns, what happens to any americans or eligible afghans who don't get evacuated before the military pulls out on tuesday? >> jericka, today the white house put out a statement with dozens of other countries to say that they had received asurances from the taliban that any foreign nationals or eligible afghans would be able to leave the country even after the 31st. the problem is that obviously it becomes much more difficult to hold the taliban accountable for those assurances once all u.s. troops are gone. >> duncan: nancy cordes at the white house. thank you. >> while those countries as you just heard have made that commitment to help, getting out. cbs's charlie dag ata is in doha qatar where many of the evac uees have landed on their way out of kabul. >> a plume of smoke rose above the kabul sky line again today after another explosion near the airport. this time the results of a u.s. drone strike targeting suspected isis-k suicide bmers. -- say there is uncertainty whether the strike destroyed a car bomb or explosive suicide vests that were being loaded into a car. it came just hours after the white house warned that a terrorist attack against the airport was highly likely. just tonight gunfire sent people scattering outside the airport underlining the tensions as the mass evacuation comes to an end. the white house now says more than 1230-- 120,000 people have been evac yaided, including 5400 americans. now with the august 31st deadline for a full u.s. military pullout looming, the focus has shifted to bringing their own troops back home safely. but as the number of u.s. forces dwind eled, they become more vulnerable to isis-k militants intent on attacking them before they're gone. they leave behind hundreds of thousands more afghans desperate to to escape taliban rule, now backing up at the border with pakistan. the fear is it is just a hint of the mass exodus to come. the u.s. state department said they received taliban assurances that all foreign nationals and afghans who want to leave the country can. however sources have told us even those with the right documentation have been prevented from leaving. >> duncan: charlie d'agata, thank you. freight ahead on the cbs weekend news, covid summer surge, the unvaccinated fill hospitals nationwide, and remringhe life of actor advocate ed asner, and later reports notebook, elizabeth palmer reflects on america's longest war.

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