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.
Come to light, so what is the president going to do about them. Were also following the decision to leave u. S. Track sensation, Shacarrie Richardson completely off the roster for the upcoming tokyo olympics. Going to fire. Be careful. Richard engels exclusive report from inside a Fire Fight between Afghan Forces and the taliban. Well have the latest on that. Incredible reporting. We have Sam Stein, former aide for the george w. Bush white House And State department, elise jordan, and host of Politics Nation and president of the national Action Network, reverend Al Sharpton is with us this morning. Were going to begin with former Police Captain, Eric Adams, poised to become new York Citys next mayor after being declared the winner in a hotly contested democratic primary. The ap called the race for the Brooklyn Borough President Last Night after thousands of Absentee Ballots were counted. The numbers saw former City Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia cut the lead to 8,000 votes. Wit
moments ago. secretary mayorkas, thanks for coming to the sunday show. thank you very much for having me, jonathan. so mr. secretary, the administration seems to be sort of haggling over language. it s not a crisis. some have called it a challenge. why not just say flat out what s happening on the southern border is a crisis? jonathan, we re not haggling over language. we re focused on mission. and that is securing the border, and the border is secure. the border is closed and that s what we re focused on. and i will not use language that is not applicable. we have dealt with surges in migration at the border before. we have a plan. we are executing our plan. we will succeed. we know what to do. we are doing it. and that is the fact of the matter. mr. secretary, what is driving the surge at the border? i mean, i know these surges have been happening, they happened under president trump, they happened under president obama. they are now happening under president bide
the tide level in charleston harbour was reported as the fifth largest ever recorded. idalia made landfall in florida as a category three storm, before charging across georgia. at least two people have died due to driving accidents in wet conditions, and nearly half a million people are without power across florida, georgia and south carolina. now that the rain has mostly cleared in florida, the impact of idalia can be seen. this is footage from cedar key, filmed by our team on the ground there. as you can see, although the skies were blue and the sun was shining, the destruction is clear to see. live now to our correspondent helena humphrey, who is in ha rd hit cedar key. what are conditions like where you are now? you like where you are now? have to keep in mind, her on you have to keep in mind, here on the big bend of florida, this is the worst storm they have seen in over a century, want to show you some of the destruction we have seen on the ground, if i move out of shot
we re live with the latest. plus, taste the expletive out of the blue, a january 6th rioter who bragged about using a stun gun on police learns his fate from a judge. and the race against time in the atlantic, with less than a day s worth of oxygen inside a missing submersible, more ships are rushing to a search area two times the size of connecticut, hoping to find five people alive. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to begin right there with the latest on the search and rescue with nbc s kristen dahlgren, we don t know for sure how long they may have breathable oxygen. we know yesterday it was 40 hours, now we re probably down to 15 if that was right. but clearly from the press conference we just heard, this is 100% search and rescue still? reporter: yeah, absolutely, chris, and as for that question about how much breathable air is on board, they wouldn t field that today, they said there were a lot of factors that play into i