Landfall as a strong category 4 storm in the next hour or so. The national hurricane center is reporting catastrophic storm surge and hurricaneforce winds moving onshore right now. Also happening right now, president biden is at dover air force base where he ll attend the dignified transfer for the 13 american servicemen and women killed in kabul on thursday. We ll bring you those moments when they happen. Stand by for that. Also this morning, the pentagon says a u. S. Drone strike took out a suspected isisk car bomb which was targeting kabul s airport. Full reporting on that as well. We have a team of reporters standing by, first of all, in louisiana, ready to take you inside the storm as it makes landfall in the next hour or so. Let s get right to cnn meteorologist chad myers. Where is the storm now and what s the latest projection? when can we expect landfall along the louisiana coast? sure. We call landfall when the center of the eye crosses over a beach or anywhere. Right now we r
Children in the school district. They simply showed up they say to make their voices heard. That was nbc s dasha burns th reporting from williamson county, tennessee. Well, it is the top of the hour and good to be with you tonight. We re watching two evacuations this evening. Hurricane ida is approaching land from the gulf and many coastal residents are leaving the coast. Meanwhile the dangerous evacuation effort continues overseas in kabul. Th it s a race against time to evacuate all american personnel before the deadline to leave afghanistan. Plus the pfizer vaccine now has full fda approval, so why are some americans choosing to selfmedicate with a drug used on horses?at and despite living through so turmoil and uncertainty, a new poll shows today s youth are still optimistic about the future. We ll discuss this and more with our saturday night panel. From nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. Welcome to the week. This has been an emotional somewhat unrelentin
Stick with the of kabul is imminent. Speak of imminent fall of kabul. The fall of kabul. The taliban has entered the city. The fall of kabul as the taliban completes its takeover of afghanistan. Broadcasting live from inside the presidential palace. Greg: i blame those pesky whites and pharmacists. You would figure we would have a plan for this but this is the most botched pullout since hunter knocked out that stripper. 20 years, doing $2 and no plan. Or maybe we had a plan but joe left it at the men s room. This crowd is quiet. Oh, now you are laughing. Wake up, people. I know it s monday but [bleep] if we knew this would happen the moment we left, what gives. I m not here to see i told you so because i never did. I was like most everyone else, spending the last decade forgetting afghanistan existed and watching the bachelor which is either a testament to the effect of effectiveness out of our military are my very short attention span. The telegram sets its sights on kabul. Lori light
Welcome to the lead. I m pamela brown, and we begin this hour with our health lead. Momentum is building for a vaccine requirement as we learn sobering new details about the pandemic. More than 103,000 people were diagnosed with covid19 just yesterday. Dr. Anthony fauci has warned that number could double soon if americans don t take action. Hospitalizations have spiked more than 40%. The spikes in cases and hospitalizations being seen across all age groups, not just the elderly or the frail. The biden administration says there is a silver lining, however, more people are heeding the warnings and getting vaccinated. More than 864,000 doses reported a ministered in one day, and the majority of those were getting their first shot. The administration offering high praise for businesses, universities and health care systems that researchmenting vaccine requirements for workers or even customers. But as cnn s nick valencia reports, that could be much tougher for mom and pop businesses. Repo
Brand new hour. I m victor blackwell. Good to be with you for this special holiday edition of cnn news room. The death toll now 27 people. 118 still missing in that building collapse. Now, local authorities fear the outer bands of tropical storm elsa could lash the search area with strong winds and heavy rains as searchers brace for this bad weather, officials say as of last night, teams are working under safer conditions with better access to parts of the disaster site. That s in large part of the demolition of the 81 units that still stood after the collapse. Experts recommended that demolition because the storm is coming. Tropical storm elsa could have knocked over the damage building into other structures, into the road, caused a mess. Last hour, miami dade county s mayor explained why people who lived in the 81 unit, the remaining section were not able to retrieve their belongings r before the demolition. That building had shifted, actually moved and it was only being held up by t