the eastern prop vince enough anderson is still in the threat of another terror attack in kabul. troops are before chewed tuesday s deadline. two hours, ago the u.s. embassy in afghanistan issued another security alert urging citizens to avoid for airport gates at the kabul airport. during a morning meeting today with his national security team, president biden was told another attack in kabul is likely but that measures are being taken to protect u.s. forces at the capitol airport. earlier today, as he spoke of yesterday s bombing, that killed 13 u.s. service members, biden spoke of the evacuation efforts. the mission there is dangerous. it is now it s come with significant loss of american personnel. but it is a worthy mission because they continue to evacuate folks out of that region, out of the airport. evacuated more than 12,000 additional people out of the airport in the last 24 hours. tonight the white house says that since august 14th, the u.s. has evacuated
as the president s meeting begins here in washington, the clock is sticking in kabul, and the president is sticking with the time for the forces to leave the country in six days from now, but with the contingency plans in place should they be needed. the pentagon says some 86,000 people have been evacuated, including 19,000 in the last 24 hours, and 10,000 more remaining at the airport waiting and hoping that the next flight out is going to be theirs. outside of the airport perimeter, military officials have acknowledged that u.s. forces have made a limited number of missions to pick up americans and allies who can t get to the airport themselves. there are also private flights out being organized by veterans, military contractors and aide workers and former spies. some of the contractors are charging the passengers thousands of dollars, but even as the herculean effort is happening with a plane taking off every 39 minutes according to the pentagon, confusion and concern rema
amid mounting criticism over his handling of the withdrawal from afghanistan, president biden yesterday arguing the exit from that country was always going to be difficult. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 23rd. we will have full coverage of the situation in afghanistan, including a report from the ground in kabul in just a moment. but first, what could be a big day in the fight against covid. the fda is working to approve pfizer s two-dose vaccine as soon as today. according to the new york times, the goal was to get the approval by friday but regulators are still getting through a substantial amount of paperwork and negotiation with the company. people familiar with the matter told me that some components of the review could possibly push the approval date beyond today. the times said a spokesperson for the fda declined to comment. it could be very exciting news, mika p. we talked to people that are close to us that said they re not goin
maybe slightly less wind damage and then we re still going to have epic amounts of rainfall. we ve already seen that in some areas of new york city. some areas reported six inches of rain overnight. to the latest on the storm, see where it s located just south now of about new bedford and newport, rhode island. the storm is starting to bend to the left. we are going to have this heading up towards the connecticut/rhode island border. doesn t look like we ll get that island landfall, but it does look like it should be happening near westerly, rhode island. winds are starting to pick up along the twin forks of long island. a wind gust on block island up to 50 miles per hour. slowly the winds are moving onshore and we ll begin to have power outages. right now we re doing okay. here is the new now we re getting hourly updates from the hurricane center. the storm is only 40 miles south-southeast of montauk and heading up to the east of montauk. winds at 70 and moving at 16 miles
towards new york city, and all over the long island sound, people are saying we have one day to prepare. we have saturday. this storm is coming in a hurry. the landfall time has been up, saturday morning. we are still dealing with it as a tropical storm. it did not reach hurricane intensity quite yet. it s getting sheared and now heading towards the north finally. nine miles per hour. anna cherney to new england, it will parallel the coastline of the carolinas. how about that band at the end to the left? very unusual, doesn t happen that often. it s kind of similar to that band as to what sandy did. sandy is a different beast. it was much, much larger. sandy was a huge immense storm. this may be the same intensity but size wise no comparison. this storm will have its own problems. you notice that the winds will quickly die off, by the time we get to monday morning, wind damage is done. the wind damage of the storm is as three go throughout sunday. it s already getting close t