you pay. republicans blame biden. it s a picture of weakness and incompetence. in new covid cases as kids head back to the classroom. the virus is so incredibly contagious, it is spreading among the population, including our children. sourced by the best reporters now. welcome inside politics sunday. i m manu raju in for abbey. getting battered by hurricane ida this morning. the storm is getting stronger every hour and already is lashing louisiana. allison chinchar is in the weather center with the latest. a new forecast from the hurricane center just out? literally in moments ago. those wind gusts up to 185 miles per hour. it now makes it a high-end category 4 storm, only 7 miles an hour off from being a category 5. hurricane hunters, not one, but two different missions are out, investigating this storm, taking as many measurements as they can, before this storm makes landfall. it s expected to be around noon local time or 1:00 p.m. eastern time today in louisi
emergency. the u.s. is in direct path of a massive storm swirling towards louisiana. hurricane ida has entered the gulf waters as a category 1 storm but could become a category 4 before landfall tomorrow. tomorrow being 16 years to the day that hurricane katrina terrorized the state. yeah. take a look at what hurricane ida looked like when it hit cuba yesterday. this storm smashed into the island twice before heading toward the u.s. and the thing that s interesting is it didn t deteriorate over land. it actually strengthened. which is unusual. and in new orleans, people have been told you ve got to seek shelter. particularly, for some areas. the mayor says it s just too late to issue mandatory evacuation orders at this point. time is not on our side. the city cannot issue a mandatory evacuate because we don t have the time. that is a rather ominous warning, cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is tracking the storm. allison, one of the major concerns that makes this storm
welcome to the lead, everyone, i m jake tapper. we begin with our world lead. president biden bracing for the possibility of another terrorist attack after 13 u.s. service members and more than 170 afghans were killed by a suicide bomber outside kabul s airport yesterday. 11 marines, one sailor, and one soldier were among the service members killed. the military is beginning to pack up what s called the retrograde process where not just service members but their equipment are shipping out. still, the evacuation mission is continuing. in the past 24 hours, nearly 13,000 people were evacuated by the u.s. and allies. more than 300 of them, american citizens. in the past 13 days, the u.s. has evacuated a total of 105,000 people. today, the pentagon said nearly 7,000 afghan refugees have arrived in the u.s., and are undergoing processing. this afternoon, the white house reiterated its commitment to evacuating every american by president biden s deadline of august 31st. but sourc
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
may have left, some may not actually be u.s. citizens, and some may want to stay. we believe the number of americans actively seeking assistance to leave afghanistan is lower, likely significantly lower. reporter: president biden has promised to bring home every single american who wants to leave by next week. as secretary blinken offers this warning about threats on the ground. we re operating in a hostile environment in a city and country now controlled by the taliban with the very real possibility of an isis-k attack. reporter: in the last 24 hours, the u.s. and its allies have evacuated approximately 19,000 people. while the u.s. has until the 31st to leave kabul, officials say evacuations will end before that so the military has time to pack up and leave. after the 31st, what happens to the airport is up to the taliban. that won t be an american responsibility. reporter: tens of thousands of afghan allies who worked for the u.s. are still waiting to be evacua