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in thursday a suicide bombing in afghanistan. u.s. has struck back at terrorist, two isis k bombers were eliminated by a drone less than 2 miles from the airport in kabul. the deadline to withdraw is quickly approach, we ll have more on the latest development in afghanistan, we begin with hurricane ida our report mike tobin is with us in new orleans. reporter: we re in one of the ebbs with the wind but it comes and goes, something that remarkable, is here on canal street, as far as the eye can see all power went out. the entire city went dark, about 45 seconds ago, all power came back on. power outages were feared and promised and are materializing, here in the crescents city we saw power out then return. one thing we re watching, are the so many light fixtures here. they are really getting a work out in terms of foundation as the wind picks up, they are moving. some minimal damage is that billboard it is dangerous. because it is made out of sheet metal, it has peeled o ....
i will moderate the questions as we have done before. i will call on you. please you ask your question, identify yourselves and your your let so the general has an idea who he s talking to. we have a hard stop at 3:30. general mackenzie, over to you. john, thanks. this is a hard day today. as you know, two suicide bombers detonated in the vicinity of the abbey gate at hamed karzai airport. the attack on the gate was followed by a number of isis gunman that opened fire on civilian forces. we know 12 u.s. service members have been killed in the attack and 15 more service members have been injured. a number of afghan civilians were killed and injured in the attack. we re treating some of them aboard hkia. many others have been taken to hospitals in town. we re working to calculate the total losses. we don t know what that is right now. their loss weighs heavily on us all. i ll talk about that as i go through my prepared remarks. we continue to focus on the protection of ....
what it will be that it will be without risk of loss. but as commander in chief, i can assure you that i will mobilize every resource necessary. and as an american, i offer my gratitude to the brave men and women of the us armed forces are carrying out this mission. are incredible. as we continue to work the logistics of evacuation were in constant contact with the tale bon working to ensure civilians have safe passage to the airport. the committee to protect journalists is warning that women are particularly at risk of taliban persecution. it says since they took power, 2 prominent female journalists have been bought from their jobs. the death toll from saturday earthquake in haiti has risen to nearly 2200 people. and with southern haiti s only medical oxygen plant damage. hospitals are struggling to creep. treat the growing number of corona virus patients. india is approved. what it says is the world s 1st d n. a vaccine against corona virus for emergency. use. the st ....
ingrained in the minds of millions of the afghans left behind. cleaning to u.s. military aircraft, desperately trying to flee the taliban. i am very upset today. i didn t expect it overnight. they took off my flag. this is my flag and they put their flag. shannon: live images out of afghanistan this morning, tuesday morning there is the world watches and waits to see what will happen next. we have got the latest on where the situation stands right now plus accusations that president biden is playing the blame game instead of trying to solve the current crisis. our panel foreign policy experts is standing by live to weigh in. plus the debate raging over vaccine mandates and passports. the question many americans who ve recovered from covid are asking if they already have natural immunity, then why should they comply with the mandate in order to do things like go to a restaurant or the gym? we will talk with one immunologist who earned a medical exemption for his son ....
flooding the airport. some dying in the process. bill: the pentagon will brief in 60 minutes and well oh he carry that live. it will work to fly out as many as possible over the coming weeks. that is going to be a proper cities. process. the taliban formed a barrier around the airport, not letting anybody inside a certain area of the perimeter. dana: look at this photo here. more than 600 people crammed into an american airplane headed for qatar. they were told the flight crew let them remain on board. bill: the biden administration arguing it was inevitable. republicans calling that argument absurd. it goes to show how full of crap the administration really are. they are trying to play it both ways. they re trying to say we knew they weren t going to be able to protect things and that s why we were getting out. didn t matter if we stayed a month or year. they didn t care and we see the consequences. we didn t blame them we dealt with them and confronted t ....