infections ravage the unvaccinated. protesters mark the historic march on washington with demands to protect voting rights. voting rights is determining what we are all about. diaz: and later, baby boom. how these labor and delivery nurses are keeping busy becoming their own patients. that s definitely a light in the darkness in a world that is really hard right now. this is the cbs weekend news. from chicago, here s adriana diaz. diaz: good evening. hurricane ida is just hours from roaring ashore, and in a cruel twist, tomorrow marks exactly 16 years since hurricane katrina devastated the region. this video from the international space station gives a sense of ida s size and power. right now, it s a category two storm, but it s expected to grow into a life-threatening category four hurricane. millions are in its path, and today people fled the coast, packing highways ahead of ida s punch. cbs news meteorologist and climate specialist jeff berardelli is tracking w
i m phil mattingly in for boris sanchez. good morning, phil. i m christi paul. we re tracking ida, the category 1 expected to rapidly expand today. mandatory evacuations are in place. the latest on the track and potential impacts are coming down. plus, breaking news out of afghanistan overnight as the u.s. retaliates against isis-k for that suicide attack that kills 13 u.s. service members. what we re learning about that air strike and the evacuations still ongoing. also, delta danger. troubling new details just how contagious the new domestic nent variant is. one state reports its highest coronavirus case count since the pandemic began. plus, the texas house approves that draft of new voting restrictions after democrats return to the state, breaking gridlock over the issue. could that controversial bill soon be headed to the governor s desk? good morning. welcome to your new day. saturday, august 28th. christi, i m struck by just how significant the news is right n
afghanistan. listen, what does this mean about when america will get the americans out? because now is this threat going to delay? are we going back to this august 31 bs? is that a hard out again? that was a media and political party trap. it was a gotcha. what are you going to do? what are you going to do? the biden administration did not deal with it well and they just got on message that they re going to complete the job no matter what. will this spook them into having to make a quick exit? they were finally getting that they can t leave until you get all americans and allies out. here is the good news. they are getting people out. we just got new numbers. since august 14th when kabul fell the state department tabulates as many as 6,000 americans wanted to leave and since then roughly 4500 were evacuated along with family members. secretary blinken says his department is in contact with 500 americans still there and is aggressively reaching out to what could be 1,000 more
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