we have been keeping an eye on a number of alerts of damage from the storm, and power is the primary issue, and entergy is the power company, and they are out of power and it s causing an imbalance in transmission. this is a compounded problem because they need that for a lot of things, including pumping water away from the levees. let me be clear, we have no reports of damage to levees. there s reports of flash flooding and an emergency that has been issued by the weather service, but that s not pursuant to damage of the levees. we will keep an eye on that and continue to update you as the evening goes on. we have plenty of correspondents out in the field, and ali velshi is in new orleans, and janessa web, we ll start with you. what can you tell us? we are dealing with a destructive and deadly storm system and it s dark across southeast louisiana, and we saw the storm make landfall eight hours ago and it s downgraded to a cat 3. can you see that we re dealing with severe w
they re in the crowd. we asked the pentagon for comment. we have breaking news as well. new details of the top american commander in afghanistan. to be clear, these are not the ongoing talks between diplomats in qatar. this is a rear admiral speaking directly with the taliban. also tonight, new groups that foresaw this. telling you about the extraordinary action they saw to warn their boss that the situation could rapidly deteriorate and that they feared a catastrophe which is exactly what came to pass. which is exactly why the biden administration is scrambling, why it s now knows negotiate with the taliban and why despite evacuation efforts some of the growing number of transport planes are leaving kabul less than full. people who want to leave cannot safely get through taliban checkpoints to the airport. they have made it clear they re not getting afghans and neither do they know how many afghans are still in the country. john kirby wouldn t say. he wouldn t give a number.
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in america s justice system. this is american voices. we begin this hour with the rise of the delta variant across america as students head back to school. resistance continues across the u.s. against the the two known weapons we have against covid, masks and vaccines. the biden administration just reported a positive milestone, nearly 1 million new vaccinations today alone. after nearly 1 million shots went into arms on friday. that is the biggest two-day total we have seen in a month. but despite that progress, doctors in texas fear this new surge will linger. hospitals there report record number of covid patients, and hospitals are struggling with a shortage of nurses. florida health care workers are also stretched thin. new reporting from the tampa bay times says florida hospitals are, quote, filled with more coronavirus cases than at any point during the pandemic. after 17 most of his fighting the ravages of covid-19, the end is no longer in sight for doctors and n
the u.s. against the the two known weapons we have against covid, masks and vaccines. the biden administration just reported a positive milestone, nearly 1 million new vaccinations today alone. after nearly 1 million shots went into arms on friday. that is the biggest two-day total we have seen in a month. but despite that progress, doctors in texas fear this new surge will linger. hospitals there report number of covid patients and the state is struggling with a shortage of nurses. florida health care workers are also stretched thin. new reporting from the tampa bay times says florida hospitals are, quote, filled with more coronavirus cases than at any point during the pandemic. after 17 most of his fighting the ravages of covid-19, the end is no longer in sight for doctors and nurses who say they re risking their mental health and burnout dealing with this fourth pandemic wave. despite doctors and nurses working tirelessly to save lives, republican leaders across the sout