I just this is such a symbolic moment for this White House. And for this president. Obviously you hit it at the biggest point here. The president has delivered on a Campaign Promise to get the united states out of its longest war despite concerns about what the fallout would be. Despite concerns about repercussions. That has happened. We saw the last flight leave. And now the president has to talk about what happens next. Before he does that, i think he needs to answer several key questions im told will be a key component of the speech today. That is what The American presence or efforts in afghanistan are going forward particularly giveren the fact there are still more than 100 american citizens that want to leave the country that are still on the ground. There are hundreds if not thousands of afghan allies who wanted to leave the country who are on the ground. We heard from the secretary of state. Tony blinken laying out the diplomatic efforts and process the u. S. Is launching and g
Said it could have been in a more orderly way. He says 100 to 200 americans remain in afghanistan, and he insists there is no deadline to get them out. The Commander In Chief vowing to continue the fight against isisk terrorists who killed 13 u. S. Service members, warning, and im quoting him now, we are not done with you yet. Lets begin over at the White House with our chief national correspondent jeff zeleny. Jeff, the president waited, what, 24 hours after the u. S. Withdrawal to declare on camera that the operation was a success. Wolf, this was the decision that President Biden has long wanted to make, but as Commander In Chief, he could finally set the course to end americas longest war. He spent far more time talking about the merits of that decision rather than the questions that do, in fact, still remain about the operational decisions that led to a frenzied, chaotic, even deadly war. He was defiant as he spoke today at the White House but left no question he believes he made t
The end of the vietnam war. And President Jerry Ford never said a word. Never once. There was no press conference. There was no statement to the country. He issued a Written Statement after the final helicopter came out. There was none of what were seeing in these last two weeks. And, so, we have seen two of these. We have seen two big losses after Multidecade Wars. This is very different from vietnam. And it is actually a good point. We saw the Commander Today formally announce that the last aircraft was clearing afghan air space. We then saw Secretary Of State blinken give a formal address to the country explaining things in terms of the Diplomatic Mission of doing those things. We have just seen tonight a statement from lloyd austin. But now were going to get another speech on this matter. We have seen several already from President Biden. He says hes going to talk about his decision to not extend past August 31st and the Military Advise he got not to do that and why he thinks its a
Coming to address the scale of damage from hurricane ida. It made Land Fall as a category four slamming into the coast with devastating wind and rain. It is one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit the mainland. Officials say at least two people were killed. Search and rescue operations are still underway in communities along the gulf. Ida came on shore with everything that was advertised. Yep. The surge, the rain, the wind. All of our levy systems, particularly federal systems performed magnificently. Having said that, the damage is still catastrophic. Catastrophic. The storm devastated the electrical grid. More than A Million customers without power in louisiana including the city of new orleans. The Citys Mayor issued a Warning Today for residents who fled ahead of the storm. Dont come back until further notice. We will have much more on the nights other major story just ahead. But First Ali is live for us in new orleans. You are virtually In The Dark, a city In The Dark. And
But that these parts of the point will reach helens in cold will and coming up ill be explaining why this small fight is one of a number of the trying to be the big players in the commercial space market. Ah, we begin in afghanistan, where the u. S. Has carried out a drone Strike Targeting suspected suicide bombers. But according to some media reports, 9 members of one family, including 6 children, are among the dead. The strike was launched in the Capital Kabul, an american official say those targeted were planning to attack the cities at port. It follows a Suicide Bombing on thursday at the airport, where 175. 00 people, including children, were killed child strap. It has the latest from couple it was late afternoon where we began to get reports of what them was being described as a Rocket Attack on a Building North of the airport just beyond the the perimeter. Some photographs have been released since and it shows what seems to be a vehicle that is has been hit close to that house b