All flights at new orleans international airport tomorrow have been canceled. All of them. We re covering the updates on this storm this evening. Also, the major breaking news we re following this hour out of georgia. The embassy in kabul just moments ago issued a security alert at the airport telling u. S. Citizens to leave that air immediately because of a specific and credible threat. This comes just hours after a new warning from president biden that another terrorist attack at the kabul airport is, quote, highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours. After the pentagon confirmed two high profile isisk targets were killed in a drone strike overnight in retaliation for killing 12 service members and many other afghans. They re saying it s possibly a category 4 hurricane. Are people still there? yeah. There are a few who are still here still holding on, even given that houma, where i m standing right now, could be ending up ground zero where hurricane ida ends up making landfall. That is
Flying out to third party countries. And also looking for other places to fly some of these evacuees. That is what led to a pause. The white house described it as a brief pause. Our clarissa ward and team on the ground in kabul described this as an eighthour delay. Hardly a brief pause. It gives you a sense of how difficult this process is to bring people in, fly them to the countries and process them. That caused a bit of a backup. A significant backup, actually, but the white house is saying that president biden will announce that the flights are resuming. They will resume. The order has been give ton start the flights up again. But the question here is is the state department, is this government bureaucracy working as fast as it needs to here? that s one thing on the minds of officials here at the white house as they ve been meeting with the president and others, trying to get some of this backlog unjammed, if you will. That s been a challenge of the morning. This is just the airpor
As just gut wrenching scenes like this emerge, video showing an infant being passed over barbed wire, handed over the kabul airport wall to u. S. Troops. As these desperate scenes play out, we are learning new details about an urgent classified cable that u. S. Diplomats sent to the state department in mid july warning that swift action needed to be taken or they feared possible catastrophe. This morning president biden will be breesed on the latest from afghanistan and he will then address the nation a few hours from now. We ll have more from cnn s clarissa ward on the ground at kabul airport in a few moments. Right now the u. S. Is warning embassy allies to escape afghanistan. Their safety just in terms of getting to the airport is uncertain. Officials say the kabul airport, quote, may open or close without notice. Cnn s kylie atwood is live this morning from the state department. Kylie, it s clearly a very fluid situation there. U. S. Diplomats and u. S. Military reacting to the lat
We have a team of doctors standing by to ansz those questions. Post them on twitter with the msnbc answers. One way to address the once in a generation problem, vaccinations. For the first time in nearly seven weeks one million doses of the vaccine were administered on thursday. That includes $560,000 people getting their first dose. Ly talk with a small business owner that got 92% of his workforce vaccinated after most of them initially refused. His advice for how other small businesses can do it, too. I know it is a lot to digest, and just thinking about going back to the office with everything going on can give anyone anxiety. We re here to help. Ahead, advice on protecting your mental health as you return to the workplace. We re kicking off the hour on the future of work. Jake ward is in san francisco, the first major city to require vaccinations for indoor activities. Great to have both of you here. Jake, workers there will be required, as i understand it, to show proof their full
Clear message to president biden. Fox friends first starts right now. You re watching fox friends first on this friday morning. I m ashley strohmier. I m carley shimkus. We re going to get straight to a fox news you alert as president biden leaves for vacation in telling wear, the u. S. Sends 3,000 troops back to afghanistan. They re going to help evacuate the u. S. Embassy as the taliban takes over of three more afghan cities. Jackie ibanez joins us with the latest. Reporter: the taliban captured two major afghan cities, the second and third largest after kabul. The provincial capital is reportrd to have fallen. This comes as part of a weeklong blitz. The taliban s growth shown on the map, you can see it in the red. They ve captured 13 of afghanistan s 34 provincial capitals. While kabul isn t directly under threat yet, the military is not wasting time sending 3,000 troops into kabul to help embassy personnel and other americans evacuate the country and an additional 3500 troops out o