A very good day to all of you from Msnbc World headquarters. Welcome to Alex Witt reports. Well begin with Breaking News. The northeast is bracing for impact from Hurricane Henri. Landfall expected within 24 hours and right now people have New York to New England are wrapping up their preparations as this storm is closing in. Hurricane hunters flew into the Storm Today and reported winds up to 75 miles an hour, on the Coast Storm Surge up to 5 feet is possible, and Flooding Rainfall expected on alreadysoaked lands. Conditions are going to begin to worsen as soon as tonight. Millions will be without power by monday morning. Our meteorologist Michelle Grossman and Vanessa Webb are watching for us. Lets talk about the latest Forecast Track at this hour. What are you seeing . Alex, good to see you. Were seeing changes since the last time we talked. We have an advisory coming out at 2 00. Now its a Hurricane Category 1 and thats what we expect as it enters into New England it will be downgr
Final respect to Officer Ella french. I have two children. They are my heart. Today i am here it to pass my heart. It the Texas State House is back in business now that enough democrats have returned back to the state. G. O. P. Backed election reform bill. Steve good morning, it is 6 00 a. M. On the East Coast of the united states of america. Its 2 30 in the afternoon in kabul, afghanistan. As you can see right there, a Fox News alert, antitaliban protests spreading across that country with hundreds gathering in the Capital City of kabul headquarter their countrys Independence Day. Demonstration quickly ended when taliban militants opened fire on that crowd. Meanwhile, Taliban Fighters are reportedly going house to house, hanging people who have worked with the united states. Will terrible. ThousAnds are still trying to escape. President biden is expected to address the united States Today as his administration admits they dont know how many americans need to be evacuated. Griff jenkin
Since last saturday. But many more are still waiting. Richard engel documented his own journey at the Kabul Airport and filed this report. Reporter thousands of afghans were evacuated overnight from Kabul Airport. Theyre thankful to be escaping taliban rule, but it isnt pretty to flee a war zone. We watched one group of hundreds of afghans gathered in front of the Departure Hall leading to the runways. They wait outside for hours until the planes arrive. Surrounded by trash, always under guard. Most arrive here already exhausted because to get here they had to navigate through taliban fighters. Who control the airport perimeter and whose idea of Crowd Control is using guns and whips. Outside the airport people dont let me to go in. Did you see the taliban beating people . Yeah. Beating and shooting. They run behind you with the ak47. Boom, boom, boom. What do you think about what is happening right now to your country, to you . Our country is like now its finished. No more afghanistan.
Very good and busy Monday Morning to you. Im jim sciutto. And im poppy harlow. A tragic scene erupting at kabuls airport. Look at this. Those are people scrambling to leave their country as the afghan government collapses and the taliban take control. Incredibly disturbing videos being posted all over Social Media this morning. Afghans swarming the runway, trying to chase down u. S. Air Force Pla planes, some clinging to the sides as they taxi down a runway. Witnesses tell Cnn Theyve heard gunshots fired. Its hard to see how thats, at all, a safe situation. The u. S. Embassy has been ev eva evacuated. Officials are warning americas who are still in the capital not to travel to the airport. The u. S. Has dispatched an additional 1,000 Combat Troops for a total of 6,000 to secure the perimeter at the Airport And Help get american diplomatic personnel and others out safely. About twice as many who were there for the counterterror mission. President biden has been monitoring the situation
Not because there was no evidence. And so he resigned without explanation in lieu of being fired. We also know that the replacement that Donald Trump put in the job, somebody shifted over from the u. S. Attorney position in savannah, also found there was no evidence. The picture thats emerging from some of these interviews, including those of jeffrey rosen, former acting u. S. Attorney, is that Donald Trump was pushing across the body politic, looking for soft places where he could work his will. And it is fortunate for american democracy that where he tried and where it was most sensitive, he encountered resistance, from rosen, from people like Brad Raffensperger in georgia. The challenge of course is what happens next time and are republican officials facing similar pressure willing to do the same thing again that was done with Donald Trump. We dont know the answer to that, and the Senate Judiciary Committee led by dick durbin, the chairman, is trying to get some answers. Jon avlon,