i know everybody misses home, but it is no time to come back right now. in afghanistan, the withdrawal deadline is imminent as the final evacuation of americans and afghans winds down. isis-k claiming responsibility for a rocket attack on the kabul airport. this, after the u.s. conducted a drone strike against an isis-k target on sunday. a vehicle that posed an imminent threat to the airport. up to ten civilians were reportedly killed as a result of the strike. at dover airport sunday president biden and the first lady attending the dignified transfer for the fallen suicide members killed in the suicide bomb on thursday. we ll start with the latest on tropical storm ida with today s show cohost al roker in new orleans, and correspondent sam brock in louisiana. al, first to you. new orleans is in the dark. a rare sight. how are things looking? al roker, i think we have a problem reporter: thank you very much. thank you. reporter: yeah, andrea, we are here. this is
you pay. republicans blame biden. it s a picture of weakness and incompetence. in new covid cases as kids head back to the classroom. the virus is so incredibly contagious, it is spreading among the population, including our children. sourced by the best reporters now. welcome inside politics sunday. i m manu raju in for abbey. getting battered by hurricane ida this morning. the storm is getting stronger every hour and already is lashing louisiana. allison chinchar is in the weather center with the latest. a new forecast from the hurricane center just out? literally in moments ago. those wind gusts up to 185 miles per hour. it now makes it a high-end category 4 storm, only 7 miles an hour off from being a category 5. hurricane hunters, not one, but two different missions are out, investigating this storm, taking as many measurements as they can, before this storm makes landfall. it s expected to be around noon local time or 1:00 p.m. eastern time today in louisi
at least four new prosecutors are investigating sexual harassment allegations against cuomo. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage this hour with breaking news just coming into the the situation room. the secretary of defense lloyd austin is expected to take a major step toward mandating covid vaccination for all active duty u.s. military troops. our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is joining us right now. kaitlan, what can you tell us? reporter: wolf, cnn is now learning that defense secretary austin is expected to seek authorization to make these coronavirus vaccines mandatory for all active duty troops. a defense official told my colleague barbara starr who broke this news that that decision could come as soon as this week. and the defense secretary is leaning towards mandating these vaccines for active duty troops. of course, wolf, if he does de
conviction case. good to have you with us. health experts and officials across the u.s. are raising the alarm. the covid surge is getting worse. take a look, the delta variant is driving an increase in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths from the previous week. every state is reporting more new infections compared to the previous week. dr. anthony fauci said the country has made enough progress that he doesn t foresee any new lockdowns, but there s still a long way to go. i don t think we re going to see lockdowns. i think with i have enough of the percentage of people in the country, not enough to crush the outbreak, but i believe enough to not allow us to get to the situation we were in last winter. but things are going to get worse. concerns about the rapidly spreading delta variant appear to be driving a rise in vaccinations across the united states. vaccination rates have been going up for three weeks now and the average daily rate is the highest it s been in almos
olympic event but there s, still, one more chance to see her compete on the big stage . the world health organization says the highly-contagious delta variant of covid-19 is now found in at least 132 countries, worldwide. and threatening to overwhelm many healthcare systems. hospitalizations across the u.s. have tripled, in the last month. a sure sign of a deepening crisis. even vaccinated americans are now being urged to wear face masks in public, again, especially where transmission rates are high. and you can see there, where they re high, it s shown in red. and florida, again, emerging as a hot spot. over the past week, the state reporting a 50% increase in new-covid cases. we re, also, learning more about fully-vaccinated people, who then become infected. according to the latest data from the u.s. centers for disease control, the so-called breakthrough infections are exceedingly rare. out of more than 160 million americans vaccinated, so far, the cdc says about 6,200 o