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island for us. chris. reporter: fred, good to be working for you today. we re in east hampton on the southern shore of long island right off new york. we re here because this was the fear of concern path early on, a beach front community, reminiscent of super storm sandy. did not happen, not going to happen. that was a hurricane that bounced off new jersey and then came here. new york will not be directly impacted by this. there will be flooding. we do have some power outages. now it s about time, this storm. as fred was laying out to you, there is a stall. why? because when storms go over land, they slow down and can change direction. henri has been the storm, if you re going to characterize it, as the storm that couldn t make up its mind. it s been changing paths. it hitting rhode island and newport is very different from where it originally made landfall which is the tiny island of block island. a thousand san, maybe 2,500 people in season, a beautiful place. it s ....
in rhode island less than two hours ago. look at the images out of new port, long island. henri is dropping a staggering amount of rain in many parts. winds are beginning to whip up, threatening to down trees and power lines. chris cuomo is on long island. what are you experiencing there? reporter: here we are in east hampton. happy to be working for you today. the story here is duration. first, the headline is new york got lucky here. we were worried about another superstorm sandy. the hurricane that was a category one that hit new jersey and bounced in new york. it had so much flood surge that came along with a tidal surge from a moon tide. here we were, again, seeing the track of henri coming and basically the same direction and a moon tide once again in the lunar cycle. that s why there was so much concern. but henri, if it s going to be remembered for something, it will be remembered for being confusing. it s been shifting the track, and as it came close, it boun ....
there were cabinet meetings. stephen miller peddled his racist his steer yeah. he and his enablers would undermine anything from special immigrant visa issue and demonstrating it. more on that in just a minute. president biden said he is focused on getting americans out any way possible. we re running into everything, everything that we can to provide safe evacuation for our afghan allies, partners, afghans who might be targeted with their association with the united states. i can t promise what their final outcome will be but as commander in chief, i can ensure you i will mobilize every resource needed. 5800 troops are at the airport in kabul to get americans out. approximately 2500 americans have been evacuated. over the past 24 hours 3800 people have been ferried from kabul in six c-17s. we are committed to this highly important mission to bring americans and siv applicants out and vulnerable afghans including women and children safely out of afghanistan. since ....
processed and ready to fly. maybe to expand the perimeter around the airport and the commander on the ground the airfield is secure. every day if security operations commanders are always what we can improving the security environment. so as the commander on the ground at every level finds those things that need to be improved to increase the security to allow mission success, they are going to do those things they have the authorities to do on a daily basis. so i think as you saw today the ability to continue state department afwoilt bring more people on and to continue those that s what we ll continue to look at over the next few days. do they have the ability to expand the perimeter around the airport? i don t want to get ahead of where we are. the mission remains security at the airport and inside the perimeter of the airport and that s what we re doing. there are, as we speak, there is no plans to expand beyond that. i think we leave it at that. the other ....
necessary. the question is was the chaos avoidable. and there is a growing humanitarian crisis in haiti as crews struggle to get to the country following a deadly earthquake and tropical storm. the question is much more can be done to help the island nation recover. it is way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early. i m alicia menendez on this august 19th. the biden administration is employing new strategies to fight the new virus like encouraging booster shots and mandating vaccinations for staff. nbc s miguel almaguer has the latest. reporter: making it official, the first booster shots for the general public will go in the arms on the 20th. most adults fully vaccinated for the first eight months will qualify. a top priority, protecting health care workers, nursing home residents, and seniors who were vaccinated first. the booster shot, a third dose of the same formula and vaccine for those who were fully inoculated with pfizer or ....