Several inches of rain. Which is why you have the Flash Flood Threat for several states. Its important to note earlier this week they had a lot of rain from the remnants of fred now you have two systems bringing a tremendous amount of Rain Saturating the ground. We talked about the high Wind Gusts its not going to take much to bring trees and Power Lines down, which is why were anticipating Power Outages. Storm surge also going to be a concern. This area here, hamptons, nantucket, providence, talking 3 to 5 feet. But even around boston and down towards the jersey coast, still 1 to 3 feet of Storm Surge there. This is a Multistate Issue and concern from this particular storm. Allison, thank you. Lets go to derek now where much of New England is buckling down for this. What kind of preparations, if any, are taking place now . Reporter there are preparations taking place. People have been removing boats from the Marinas Upshore from here. Theres also been beaches and some of the local par
Chaotic scenes like this one playing out over and over again as taliban fighters clash with crowds desperate to escape right now, an estimated 14,000 people were at the airport in kabul waiting to board Evacuation Flights to whatever will take them. Theyre fighting time and space with this operation. Cnns Clarissa Ward and her crew captured these remarkable images aboard a C17 Cargo Plane as they prepare to take off for d doha, qatar. 2500 americans have gotten out in the last week. Some taken to this u. S. Air base in germany. They are among the lucky ones. Thousands still outside the airport in kabul are braving 90 degree heat, sleeping on gravel, their cries for help drowned out at times by the gunfire of taliban fighters. An update on the piece of video with the infant who passed through the crowd and hoisted above barbed wire to u. S. Troops. Reunited with the father and is safe. Warren lieberman at the pentagon. President biden cancelled a trip to delaware to get updates. What ca
Mitigate risk by making sure everyone who comes in has been vaccinated, at least partially. that s right. celebrate what it is to be vaccinated and then you can enjoy gatherings like that. athena jones, thank you so much and of course, you can watch the we love new york city homecoming concert tonight, 5:00 p.m. eastern, exclusively on cnn. the newsroom continues with jim acosta. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. today, the pentagon confirming reports that some americans have been beaten or harassed by the taliban as they desperately try to escape to the airport in kabul. the u.s. embassy warning americans, do not comespecifica instructed by the u.s. government because of the security risk potentially outside the gates.