The dangerous category 4 Storm Making Landfall just a few hours ago along louisianas southern shoreline with maximum winds of 150 miles an hour. Louisiana Governor John Bel edwards just finished his latest briefing on the States Response while President Biden was briefed earlier today at femas washington headquarters. This is going to be a devastating a devastating hurricane, a life threatening storm. Please, all you folks in mississippi and louisiana, Mississippi And God knows, maybe even furtherese, take preindications. Listen, make iters isly. Over the next hour we will bring you the latest on Hurricane Ida along with the costs, of course, the political impact of Hurricane Ida as the president has to contend with extreme weather at home and continued chaos in afghanistan after a week of violence ahead of tuesdays withdrawal. All that on politics nation. With me tonight for the hour is msnbcs Richard Lui. First, we go live to New Orleans, where msnbcs Ali Velshi stands by. The latest
Jfk emphasized the importance of the Space Race during a time of fear in the u. S. Incredible men and women took this Challenge Head on. Nasa became a beacon of hope for the nation. I am honored to introduce one of those legends. The man who pioneered apollo 11 and apollo 13. If youve ever heard the phrase houston, Tranquility Base is here, the eagle has landed, with great honor, im here to introduce houston. Mr. Gene kranz. [ applause ] thank you, jared. You know, its a real privilege. I have a couple of aggies in the family, to be introduced by an aggie here. They told me i had three hours to speak, so ill have to be speaking through lunch here, but jared said, no, he says hell give me a call when ive got five minutes. So hes going to stand up and give me sort of a headsup. When i finish, i have a Threeminute Video of the actual lunar landing, and i think that will put this year, this decade of the 50th Anniversary Sort of in context what is happening. I used this at the smithsonian,
Jfk emphasized the importance of the Space Race during a time of fear in the u. S. Incredible men and women took this Challenge Head on. Nasa became a beacon of hope for the nation. I am honored to introduce one of those legends. The man who pioneered apollo 11 and apollo 13. If youve ever heard the phrase houston, Tranquility Base is here, the eagle has landed, with great honor, im here to introduce houston. Mr. Gene kranz. [ applause ] thank you, jared. You know, its a real privilege. I have a couple of aggies in the family, to be introduced by an aggie here. They told me i had three hours to speak, so ill have to be speaking through lunch here, but jared said, no, he says hell give me a call when ive got five minutes. So hes going to stand up and give me sort of a headsup. When i finish, i have a Threeminute Video of the actual lunar landing, and i think that will put this year, this decade of the 50th Anniversary Sort of in context what is happening. I used this at the smithsonian,
Indicates how quickly the story keeps changing. For example, when i was first looking at this just a few hours ago, there were some estimates here that as soon as wed see the taliban being able to take control of things, if they even got to that point it would be early next week. Some today talking in terms of hours. And at thiS Point, theres a great deal of confusion as to what our response is. The 3,000 additional troops, many more to come to back them up and still no word yet about a strategy that will still maintain all u. S. Personnel being out of afghanistan in less than 2 weeks. Lets get the read right now from Lucas Tomlinson who has been following this closely from the start. He joins us out of washington. Lucas. Lucas the reports u. S. Jets are hitting the taliban outside of kabul over fear it is capital with fall anyday. The first u. S. Marines arrived to start evacuating americans. Marine corps chc helicopter, preparing for full Evacuation And Closure of embassy In Kabul, a
[ applause ] howdy. Jfk emphasized the importance of the Space Race during a time of fear in the u. S. Incredible men and women took this Challenge Head on. Nasa became a beacon of hope for the nation. I am honored to introduce one of those legends. The man who pioneered apollo 11 and apollo 13. If youve ever heard the phrase houston, Tranquility Base is here, the eagle has landed, with great honor, im here to introduce houston. Mr. Gene kranz. [ applause ] thank you, jared. You know, its a real privilege. I have a couple of aggies in the family, to be introduced by an aggie here. They told me i had three hours to speak, so ill have to be speaking through lunch here, but jared said, no, he says hell give me a call when ive got five minutes. So hes going to stand up and give me sort of a headsup. When i finish, i have a Threeminute Video of the actual lunar landing, and i think that will put this year, this decade of the 50th Anniversary Sort of in context what is happening. I used this