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since august 14th. they solved problem after problem to keep the mission moving forward. they did this because for the thousands of state department and u.s. aid employees who served in afghanistan for the past 20 years this evacuation operation was very personal. many worked hand in hand for years with afghan partners. many of whom became trusted friends. we also lost cherished members of our foreign service community in afghanistan. we ll never forget them. helping americans our foreign partners who have been by our side for 20 years and afghans at risk at this critical moment was more than just a high stakes assignment for our team. it was a sacred duty. and the world saw how our diplomats rose to the challenge with determination and heart. u.s. service members in kabul did heroic work securing the airport, protecting civilians of many nationalities including tens of thousands of afghans and air lifting them out. they also providing vital support right now caring for ....
mile-per-hour winds ripping a catastrophic gash across southern louisiana. at least one person is confirmed dead at this point in time. ida is now a tropical storm but there is still extreme danger with up to 8 inches of rain yet to fall in some cities. the mayor of one louisiana town calling this total devastation. the storm overtopping levies and trapping people on roofs, with no way to rescue them. more than 1 million people are currently without power. this includes the entire city of new orleans, exactly 16 years after hurricane katrina hit. and while ida has weakened some, there is still this big threat that we re tracking of flash flooding and dangerous storm surge and tornadoes. also breaking this morning, rocket fire overnight. targeting afghanistan s international airport. video obtained by cnn shows the burnt out car this was apparently used as an improvised launch pad to fire five rocket. five hours earlier the u.s. carried out a preemptive drone strike on ....
matters. plus as covid cases soar, johnson & johnson sends a booster vaccine. just like other vaccines, the question is how long will the protection last. and serena williams and roger with draw from the u.s. tennis open. it s way, way, way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that s wondering who s left to play in the ugs open. i m sam stein on this thursday, august 26th, and we ll start with the news. with just days left before the united states is scheduled to with draw troops from afghanistan, the state department is trying to track down any remaining american citizens. despite the deadline, secretary antony blinken says the u.s. will stay for as long as it takes to finish the evacuations. let me be crystal clear about this. there is no deadline on our work to help any remaining american citizens who want to leave who decide do so along with the many afghans who stood by us for many years and want to leave and have been ....
and a burned cargo ship near th sri lankan coast and will cause an environmental disaster. at the site of one of the bloodiest chapters in u.s. history, president joe biden has done what none of his predecessors have done before. he is the first sitting u.s. president to pay tribute in person to the victims of the tulsa race massacre. one of the worst acts of racial violence in american history. tulsa s greenwood district encompassed 35 blocks of entirely black owned businesses. and became known as black wall street. on may 31st, 1921, tension neighboring white residents boiled over and neighborhood was burned to the ground. president biden said literal hell was unleashed. during the night, into the morning, the mob terrorized greenwood, tortures and guns and shooting at will. a mob tieded a black man by the waist to the back of their truck with his head banging along the pavement as they drove off. a murdered black family draped over the fence of their home outside ....
this festive season how will the great white way handle the set back? and a magical reunion the cast of harry potter are back together for a 20th anniversary special, on new year s day. thank you forjoining us. for more than 30 years, the human rights organisation, memorial, has been chronicling the abuses of the soviet era to ensure the crimes and victims are unearthed and are not forgotten. but now the supreme court has banned russia s oldest human rights organisation, liquidated it to use their language, accusing it of violating a law requiring groups to register as foreign agents. it comes at the end of a year in which the kremlin has cracked down vigorously on its critics. our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg reports. more and more, it feels as if russia is turning the clock back. liquidate, the judge says, as she orders one of russia s oldest civil rights groups, international memorial, to shut down. the n60 was found to have broken russia s draconian ....