with u.s. officials in touch with officials abroad on this situation, including in the situation where we know this was a u.s. national who was on a tour. again, one that is open to the general public. and trying to understand what the circumstances were of this person crossing this demarcation line. of course, abby, a lot of questions here. it s a fast-evolving situation and one that the white house and administration officials are going to be working around the clock to get their arms around as they try to find some resolution here. hey, will, back to you. you know, as i covered the white house over the course of the last couple years, i think every month or two i would check in with the nse. you tried to open lines of communications with the north koreans. has there been any progress. the answer has always been firm and unequivocal no. there has been no reciprocation at any point. as we try to figure out what happened on the ground the
allowed to leave but at the same time, obviously, the notion of an area in kabul that is outside of taliban control is kind of unworkable. most importantly here is clearly a heightened threat environment for those remaining troops on hamid karzai international airport. it s unclear who is behind the recent blasts. initial reports suggests eisis- but it s a fast-evolving situation. yeah. looking at live pictures the airport and not seeing much movement there. let s talk about what happens next. the u.s. and other countries putting out statements saying they re going to put it to the taliban to allow people to leave after tomorrow. how is it supposed to work? reporter: it s part of the general game of leverage between the taliban, who so far appear to have left the united states to leave in orderly fashion. even provided perimeter
underway in louisiana this morning. among the crews are members of the volunteer rescue group the cajun navy. they re assembling boats lending resources to high-water rescues and other concerns. for more on the effort, we ll bring in jordy westworth from the cajun navy. it s one of the reasons they asked people to get out of the way because they re so worried about this particular period when you have people asking for help in a dangerous situation and help can t quite get there just yet. still too dangerous. where are we on the spectrum of hunkering down to full blown rescues? caller: we are getting close to rescues than the hunkering down part, thankfully. it s been a long night waiting to get to sunrise and better conditions to get to some of the people that are trapped. we re hearing reports of downed bridges and water levels
building like we have. we have to think and pray for the people here this morning. yeah. we are listening to the wind. feeling it on the ground, i know, is different. thank you for being there for us. stay safe. we ll come back to you in a little bit. a beast of a storm here. some residents told to evacuate immediately because of a levy failure and high tide in grand isle, louisiana about 30 minutes away from now. the flood threat is active. our meteorologist is tracking this monster storm live with us. cnn weather center. it s good to remind people that, you know, new orleans and some of louisiana had more rain so far this year than they usually do on average. it s a very wet and soggy situation. one reason why when the storm came ashore, it had the organized eye wall. it s so wet there. absolutely. it s a very good point here, as well. metrological phenomena that.
the only emergency vehicles we see on the roads are the blue lights flashing occasionally. i think they re making sure trying to scope out the situation, of course, we ll get a better idea of the devastation once we get first light here in the next couple of hours. it was a scary moment for our crew yesterday as the worst of the storm came in and that was about 5:00 p.m. evening time. it was still daylight but then once it worked its way into my time, it was a disaster. there was natural gas leaks in the area. there were trees that fell on cars behind us. you can see over my right shoulder here, this is a small taste of the problems that we re going to be dealing with this morning. this was more of a wind damage disaster here than a flood damage. we haven t seen any extensive flooding in and around the general hotel area that we re located in. but really what we re talking about here was a true nightmare. a scary situation for people who did not have admittedly the luxury of a reinforc