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northeast with record rainfall, flash flooding and tornadoes. the first ever flash flood emergency was issued for new york city. it has now been downgraded to a flash flood watch. but the city s subway system is flooded with most lines effectively shut down. a ban is now in place for all non-emergency travel in the city for the next few hours. new york governor kathy hochul says right now the situation remains dire. we ve engaged our utilities. first of all, we were actually preparing for the hurricane henri last two weeks ago. so we were already having the assets in place. so we re not inexperienced in this. but it is always quite shocking when you literally see the streets of new york looking like the river s flowing and people just in shock over what s going on. especially the images of what s happening in the subways. so these are dangerous situations. we want to make sure people stay away from them. so we can take all the precautions in advance. and we did de ....
that this group of folks here, they are the epitome of resiliency, they take care of each other, they feed each other, we re going to continue to be here with you. i want to thank the governor, senator schumer, the mayor, and just for the collaboration of resources here. and we want to make sure that we re all here. thank you. for the people that live here on this street and close by. we don t govern by press conference. it s not just today, it s tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day. you will see a different tone, a different era of collaboration. i was a counsel member for 14 years. i know what is takes to get the job done. you don t just show up one day, you show up until the job is done. with that we will take questions. thank you. also i want to acknowledge others who have joined us today. excellent questions. those are my questioned today. we have to identify the areas we have as a ruler in abilities on our streets. we need to be able to fix those first ....
they will resonate for years. will the president s next words? we re covering this remarkable moment from every angle with our team of reporters and experts standing by. i want to start with the white house. jeff zeleny is there. how did the president spend his morning preparing and any insight into what he might say? reporter: we know the president and vice president spent at least part of the morning with their advisers getting the final briefing on the final day of america s longest war in afghanistan, getting operational briefings and hearing about the final flights that took off yesterday afternoon here in washington time. at midnight in afghanistan. we know the president is going to lay out a series of what led him to this decision. we know this is a decision that president biden has long wanted to make. it goes back to a trip he took six days before he became vice president in january of 2009. as a senator as vice president elect he went to afghanistan on a fac ....
taliban to maybe find some negotiation space for they ve said no more afghans can leave. clearly there s 10,000 at the airport. so something is happening behind the scenes that s helping some people get through. can you talk about that to some extent? i ll turn it over to the general. i ll start with that last question first. it kind of comes off of some things that mr. kirby just said with that constant communication. i know the most senior commanders on the ground are out and discussing with the taliban leaders that are manning these checkpoints exactly what the documentation needs to look like, times and coordination, details of that. as we know, though, there are reports that some aren t able to get through there. i can tell you that the department of state, the consulor affairs are working with commanders there to ensure that documentation, names and those things, as often as required, are being communicated to the taliban that are at those checkpoints to all ....
you can bet the issue of what is happening at kabul and the airport and the bedlam in and around there going on and on and disrupting thousands from even getting out of the country will come up. ahead of that, to jennifer griffin at the pentagon on where this stands right now. jennifer? neil, a somber briefing with very few answers. a defensive posture from the defense secretary and chairman of the joint chiefs that said now is not the time for after action reports or discussion of regrets. the picture that they painted was bleak and dependent on the taliban. the bottom line is afghans and americans can not get to the airport due to taliban checkpoints. u.s. military planes are leaving halfful due to bureaucratic bottle necks. people told that their paperwork is not in order around turned away. the defense secretary said there were limit tos the u.s. forces on the ground and offered this frank admission. we don t have the capability to collect large numbers of peopl ....