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today after deciding not to extend the deadline to american troops to withdraw. this comes as the evacuation mission has accelerated rapidly. the president says the u.s. has helped air lift more than 70,000 people out of the country in just ten days. the president is warning that the withdrawal timetable depends on the taliban continuing to cooperate with the evacuation. there are new questions about whether that will happen. the taliban now says they will not allow afghan nationals to leave the country as thousands are still waiting for flights out. our correspondents, analysts are standing by as we uncover this breaking story. first let s go to kaitlyn collins. we heard from the president a little while ago as he sticks with his withdrawal deadline. reporter: yeah, wolf. he is sticking with that. that means the clock is now ticking. with just seven days left to complete this evacuation from afghanistan before the president says he is going to standby august 31st as ....
some areas expecting up to a foot of rain. tonight s full moon could increase the flood threat, as well, for areas along the coast. we ll explain that. new day starts right now . good morning and welcome to your new day. it s sunday, august 22nd. thank you for waking up with us. good morning to you. good morning, boris. we re all watching henri. this category one hurricane is closing in on the northeast. the first hurricane to directly hit new england in 30 years, which is part of what is so significant here. this is an area that typically gets these kind of storms and several states have issued states of emergency ahead of the storm, which is expected to make landfall soon in southern new england. about 50 million people are under hurricane or tropical storm warnings and mandatory evacuations are already under way in some coastal areas and officials say the time to leave before conditions get worse is right now. you know, a lot of people don t like to leave ....
island for us. chris. reporter: fred, good to be working for you today. we re in east hampton on the southern shore of long island right off new york. we re here because this was the fear of concern path early on, a beach front community, reminiscent of super storm sandy. did not happen, not going to happen. that was a hurricane that bounced off new jersey and then came here. new york will not be directly impacted by this. there will be flooding. we do have some power outages. now it s about time, this storm. as fred was laying out to you, there is a stall. why? because when storms go over land, they slow down and can change direction. henri has been the storm, if you re going to characterize it, as the storm that couldn t make up its mind. it s been changing paths. it hitting rhode island and newport is very different from where it originally made landfall which is the tiny island of block island. a thousand san, maybe 2,500 people in season, a beautiful place. it s ....
how the operation played out. when asked today, the president said he s considering operations as well to get the americans and afghan allies who might be stuck behind taliban check points. he continued to portray the country s sudden collapse as unforeseeable, down playing the internal state department memo we reported on last night which warned of such a fate as american forces withdrew. we re going to have more on all that coming up. first we want to get to the reality, the reality on the ground for so many people. clarissa ward and her team were among the evacuees today, taking their place aboard crowded air force c-17 transport. our producer took these photos, an estimated 400 people on board, most of them afghan nationals. their destination tonight, doha, qatar. we spoke to clarissa a few hours before she departed on that plane. clarissa, you re at the kabul airport. what are you seeing there? i mean, anderson, it s just chaos. right now we re actually on the ....
we begin tonight with new developments in the pullout from afghanistan. evacuation flights are back up and running after being on hold part of the day, the first airport transport landing in germany. at the white house what some saw as effort to project resolve and competence after a chaotic week in kabul and punishing week in washington, president biden renewed his promise to get any american home who wants to leave. he made a similar promise to evac all evacuate all afghans who helped in the war effort. we have breaking news on exactly how the operation played out. when asked today, the president said he s considering operations as well to get the americans and afghan allies who might be stuck behind taliban check points. he continued to portray the country s sudden collapse as unforeseeable, down playing the internal state department memo we reported on last night which warned of such a fate as american forces withdrew. we re going to have more on all that coming u ....