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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 eva ....
we re going to bring in latasha brown, co-founder of black voters matter, who is right now at the lincoln memorial in washington, d.c. latasha, are you with me? all right. we re going to stand by for latasha. she will be joining us as soon as she s mic d. we want to check in. are you with me yet? can you hear me? i can t. can you turn it down a little bit? okay, we can hear you. we re going to see you in just a second. i want to make sure that you can hear me. latasha, do i have you? i can hear you. great. we ll see you there you go. we see you. we see you, and we hear you. okay. the peril of live tv. we re happy to have you. hi. you look great. let s get into it. i want to know what is the point of this march, and what exactly are you hoping to accomplish? you know, today we re doing this make good trouble march because what we rally because we need to make good trouble. you know, we are right now in 2021, we have less voting rights now than we had in ....
and tell them to do whatever it takes to pass the for the people act. the for the people act was defeated in the senate and is effectively doa. so the best action is to pass legislation championed by late georgia congresswoman john lewis who spoke at the original march on washington nearly six decades ago. if they can t do the right thing, they should at least do something for self-preservation. clearly, the people want to vote. and the way they want to do it is without impediments. these restrictions are for that. that s why martin and andrea king and i are calling and the lewis family are calling for people to pass the john lewis act federal. the backdrop of all of this is the filibuster. if democrats can t find a way to kill it or to modify it, passing any kind of voting rights legislation will remain nothing more than a dream. joining me now to discuss, judith brown dianis and dean obeidallah, msnbc daily columnist and host of sirius xm s the dean obeidallah s ....
today. let me say this loudly and clearly. if you re one of the millions of americans who said that they will not get the shot until it has full and final approval of the fda, it has now happened. the moment you have been waiting for is here. time for you to go get your vaccination and get it today. that s what it sounds like when the president of the united states is basically saying it s happening, guys, this is happening. and while it is a serious thing, you can kind of lean into the positivity of it because doctors say this is the route to get through this terrible pandemic, get everyone vaccinated. people have as we emphasized a range of reasons for making their own health care decisions. this does apparently knock one of them off the list. do people that have been holding back, will they go forward now? we are seeing the costs of lack of vaccination. there are southern states where there s a dramatic rise in cases and people are rushing to the hospital. you se ....
quickly, about 16 miles per hour. that puts it about 30, maybe 40 miles from the rhode island coast. by 2:00 p.m. it s clearly on shore, and then it s just going to rain itself out. notice the winds are not an issue as we get through this evening. the highest gusts will be out on long island, possibly block island, newport. the legacy of this storm we ve already had tremendous amounts of rain around new york city and portions of new jersey. still a couple flash flood warnings. 36 million people are in flood watches. it is going to pour this afternoon, all night tonight, and periods of tomorrow. we are going to see additional rainfall totals up to about 5 to 6 inches. i m happy to see we ve gotten the storm a little bit weaker, now down to 65 miles per hour. bill karins, one question for you. did i hear you correctly that you say this is going to impact 36 million people? that s how many people are in the potential risk area for flash flooding. so not all of those pe ....