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the national weather service warning the storm could hit some places in southeast louisiana and make those places uninhabitable for weeks or even months. that warning just released. hurricane ida is expected to make landfall in that state, louisiana, as a category 4 hurricane tomorrow. almost exactly to the day, 16 years after hurricane katrina landed as a category 3. our team of reporters is covering the storm from all angles. nadia and jason are on the ground for us. let s begin with allison chinchar at the cnn weather center. what is the update from the weather center? brand-new update, showing gusts have ticked up a bit to 105 miles per hour. the forward movement is the same. northwest at about 16 miles per hour. it s a category 1 now, but it is expected to intensify and strengthen as it moves through the very warm waters of the gulf of mexico. likely becoming a category 2 sometime in the next few hours. a category 3 by this evening. then a category 4 by tomorrow ....
the pfizer vaccine can come as soon as next week. the news comes as hospitalizations reach their highest levels yet . good morning. we are thrilled that you are with us, this saturday, august 21st. thanks for waking up with us. good morning, christi. good morning, boris. good to see you and good to have you all with us this morning. 5 million people in long island and connecticut in the eye of the storm of tropical storm henri. the storm expected to strengthen into a hurricane later today. it s likely to make landfall on new york s long island tomorrow. if henri stays on the course, it will be the first hurricane to directly hit that area in 36 years. connecticut and massachusetts, for example, have both activated their national guards in anticipation of the life threatening storm surges and widespread power outages that are expected ahead of henri s land fall. sc massachusetts governor charlie baker said this about what people should expect. we re activating ....
day. tropical storm henri is tracking to make landfall in the northeast. what the federal government is doing right now. plus, imminent approval. a source telling cnn the pfizer vaccine could get full approval as soon as next week. what that could mean for efforts to get more americans vaccinated as hospitalizations among kids reach their highest levels yet. and desperate to leave. look at these pictures here. thousands of afghans camped out at the airport in kabul. what we re learning this morning about those evacuation flights and the efforts to get americans back home. good morning and welcome to your new day. we re grateful to have you this saturday, august 21st. good morning, christi. good morning, boris. good to see you. this morning there are more than 5 million americans in the northeast that are getting ready for what could be the first hurricane to hit new england in 30 years. it s a tropical storm right now. warnings for that have been issued for ne ....
these videos shot from cnn. it is believed they are carrying u.s. personnel. embassy staff are being flown to the airport, there are plans to leave skeleton crew of embassy staff behind. l let s bring in our clarissa ward live in kabul. there are conflicting situations of how close the taliban are in the city. reporter: we know they are in the city. they want to enter peacefully. the group s spokesperson delineating the rules of conduct inside kabul saying they ll not come and search your homes or ex tort money. they ll not fire on you unless you fire on them, guaranteeing the protection, he said of businessman and also afghan soldiers and those working security services provided they do not try to stop the taliban from entering the city peacefully. of course this has been graded on the ground here with chaos. people desperately trying to get out of the city. we had a team at the passport office this morning, huge lines of hundreds and hundreds of people trying to org ....
only 2500, would be out of the country on may 1st. the idea that the status quo could have been maintained by keeping our forces there i think is simply wrong. we have team coverage on the ground in afghanistan and across the globe tracking the latest developments. we begin with cnn international security investigator nick peyton walsh. what is the situation right now? it s comparatively quiet. i have just heard a couple of crackles of gunfire over there. about an hour ago we saw a trace of fire with helicopters above. the skies are a little bit quiet but there have been consistent helicopters moving, we think american personnel around the airport where they re mostly headed. developments in the just last hour, we ve been seeing pictures broadcast by al-jazeera. from what it looks like possibly one of the key offices of former president i should say president afghani. one said he had been in guantanamo bay prison for eight years but essentially not feeling any rea ....