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hospitalizations in the u.s. hit alarming heights not seen since the winter surge announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt substituting tonight and reporting from new orleans, tom llamas. good evening. i m tom llamas in for lester we are coming to you tonight from an american city in crisis and a region in need of help hurricane ida causing catastrophic damage. the view from above just a glimpse of the actual pain felt on the ground families in la place, louisiana running from ida s surge overnight, and today pulled from their homes in boats hospital staff caring for sick patients as parts of their buildings came apart in grand isle, ida s force and surge captured on camera in realtime and now a cleanup under way so people have some place to stay and tonight you ll meet the nurse who cared for dozens of babies in a nicu unit, unable to see her own children to help infants in need of all of this as new orleans faces a new type of disaster no power anywh ....
the question is do we have a full picture of the damage yet? and the european union takes the united states off its safe travel list amid a surge in covid cases. the question is will we see countries issue new travel restrictions for americans? it is way too early for this. what s up, everybody. welcome to way too early, the show that is coming to you from the great city of los angeles live. i m jake soboroff on this tuesday. the last american troop boarded a c 17 aircraft shortly before midnight in kabul last night, marking an end to a chaotic entry from the country. more than 122,000 people were evacuated since late july, including more than 6,000 americans, but despite the massive number airlifted out, officials estimate between 100 and 200 u.s. citizens were left behind. look. there s a lot of heartbreak associated with this departure. we did not getter about out that we wanted to get out, but i think if we had stayed another ten days, we would not have ....
city of houma, louisiana. ida now considered one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the u.s. wind of 150 miles per hour. that s like an f-3 tornado hitting for hours. now, on the left side of your screen, what s left? we know at least one person has died. but louisiana s governor says he expects the death toll to climb considerably in the coming hours. and we re getting reports of people trapped in attics and on roofs and the water is not done rising. a couple of people behind me have a lot of friends and family out there. i got a fairly decent sized boat. if i can get a couple people to ride with me, we ll get out there. no one has any cell phone service. it s just a waiting game. let s begin our live team coverage of ida first with brian todd outside of new orleans. i understand the entire city is right now without power and entire buildings are gone? reporter: that s right. we re just outside new orleans in st. bernard parish just outside of new orleans. w ....
should trust what the taliban said. no, i m not saying that we have very significant leverage to incentivize the taliban to make good. all right. straight to a fox news alert. now, the u.s. intercepting five rockets fired at kabul airport as officials warn our final days inside afghanistan can be the most dangerous. ainsley: meanwhile, ida, now a tropical storm now making landfall as a category 4 hurricane, more than 1 million people are now without power in louisiana and in mississippi. steve: take a look at this. this security cam with a capturing the amount of flooding in just one hour. and you can see it come up and come up and come up. jeff paul joins us live from new orleans where the entire city is out of power. you, jeff, are operating on battery lights this morning. [broken audio] drive to our spot this morning for our reports, and we saw a lot of downed trees and debris in the road. [lost audio] ripped off a building and you can see it snapped a traffi ....
of that country will only increase. the last u.s. planes carrying u.s. troops and state department left personnel left kabul airport at 3:29 p.m. eastern time. they cleared afghanistan airspace and that s when we heard from the general. it marks the end of 20-year mission which began shortly, of course, after the september 11th attacks. roughly 6,000 americans have been evacuated since august 14th. about 250 roughly are believed still to be on the ground in afghanistan with the taliban now in control. meantime, the big story here back at home in the u.s. rescuers are trying to reach people trapped by floodwaters across louisiana as residents are being told not to return to new orleans and other areas across the southeast. more than 1 million customers in louisiana and mississippi, including all of new orleans left without power after hurricane ida made landfall as a category 4 storm. and many of them tonight are still without power down there. at least one person was ki ....