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and run out of russia our moscow correspondent sarah rainsford files herfinal report from the country after being labelled a threat to national security. good evening. i m christian fraser in london. tonight, a hugely symbolic moment. the commander in chief, joe biden, addressing the nation to formally put an the end to the united states longest war. last night, it was the pentagon that confirmed the details of the final withdrawal. the president preferring to put some space between the operational details and the much bigger, more poignant questions america is asking of itself and of their president. what was it for if the taliban are now back in power? by by the time i came to office, the taliban was in its progress military position since 2001. controlling or contesting nearly half of the country. we were left for a simple decision. eitherfollow country. we were left for a simple decision. either follow through on the agreement made by the last administration and ....
over, but the ordeal is not. with an estimated 100 to 200 americans according to the administration and thousands of afghans not able to get out before the deadline. this hour president biden gets abupdate from his national security team in the situation room ahead of his remarks later today on the end of the 20-year war. msnbc will bring that to you live. we are live now at the white house with a preview. major general chris donahue the last u.s. servicemember to leave afghanistan. you see him boarding a c-17 which took off just before midnight kabul time. this morning an exclusive first look at the dozens of u.s. military vehicles and aircraft left behind but the pentagon saying about their status. we have a lot to get to on this tuesday morning. i m hallie jackson in washington along with peter al sand ear the the white house, court ekube posted up at the pentagon and retired admiral stavrides, chief msnbc analyst. give us a preview of what you anticipate we might he ....
at least one person has died after a tree fell. ida was a category 4 when it made landfall with winds that reached 150 miles per hour. louisiana s governor said it s one of the strongest storms to make landfall in modern times. the entire city of new orleans is now in darkness. people in some areas have reported flood waters reaching up to their chest, pleading for rescue. more than a million customers are without power across the state. people who evacuated are staying in shelters. louisiana s governor estimates several dozen decided to ride it out in place. we re better prepared now in terms of our protection system. but when you have mother nature throw at you a storm this strong with the surge, the wind, the rabe that we re talking about with hurricane ida, there s going to be devastating impact. and we have to do everything we can to save lives in the immediate response, and we ll get to the property repairs later. but i can tell you for several days, we re going ....
were inaccurate. what the president said was there could be cases where on the ground commanders coordinating with the taliban to get people through checkpoints and get them evacuated were saying here s individuals we need to get through and in any case that we re aware of, those individuals got through. but, again, these are this is coordination that s happening on the ground and i think we can all agree there s a difference between providing a list of people that want to depart pro actively and working at the moment on the ground in a coordinated tactical way to get people out and evacuated and save their lives. reporter: decisions on the ground rather than a general massive list? absolutely. thank you, everyone. i ll be back tomorrow. good afternoon, everybody. you re watching the 3:00 p.m. hour. we were watching the white house press briefing covering the two major studies that we re going to cover this hour as well. one is the withdraw from afghanistan as w ....
deadline for evacuations to end and for all u.s. troops to withdraw from that country. it is believed that less than 250 americans remain in afghanistan. in the next hour secretary of state tony blinken will deliver remarks on the next stage in those efforts to evacuate americans and our allies from afghanistan. we will bring those remarks to you live when they begin. earlier today the pentagon announced that 1,200 people have been flown out of afghanistan in just the last 24 hours. and then in total more than 116,000 people have been evacuated from afghanistan just since august 14th. it is likely to go down in history as one of the largest airlifts ever. looming over this operation in its final hours is the threat of more attacks by isis. just today u.s. forces intercepted a barrage of rockets aimed at kabul airport. that comes on the heels of a drone strike by the u.s. targeting a vehicle that was carrying explosives and foiling a bomb plot. that strike reportedly kil ....