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in new york, the city issued the first ever, first ever flash flood emergency. those are subway tunnels you re looking at there last night. they saw rainfall in just five hours, enough to fill 50,000 olympic size swimming pools, record rainfall in central park and happening right now in bridgeport, pennsylvania, water rescues underway. we ve seen live on our air in the last hour residents being pulled from their homes in those inflatable rescue boats there. still people in need and still people s whose lives are in danger. let s begin with the storm chaser. he s ray likener. you were following this during the worst of it overnight. tell us what you saw then and what you re seeing this morning. are you there? hello. bad connection there. we re going to come back to you, ray, when you have a better connection so we could hear what you ve seen. i do want to go to evan mcmorris santoro in queens, new york, which saw some of the most devastating effects of the storm over ....
streets, homes and, as you can see here, the subway. at least 13 deaths were reported in new york. most of the victims were found in basements that flooded before rescuers could reach them. the streets of new jersey were filled with water. look at this. these are rescue operations happening. this is happening in new jersey there in newark. also, this is in boundbrook. we have live pictures up for you now. you can see just at the edge of flooded roadways there. we know in new jersey and pennsylvania, delaware as well, there are rescue operations happening. we have seen people stranded on roof tops. crews are using excavators, rafts to pull people trapped in their homes. president biden outlined earlier the federal help that he s deployed across several states. and i want to express my heartfelt thanks to all of the first responders and everyone who has been working through the night, well into the morning to save lives and get power back. there s a lot of damage, and ....
white house. in less than four hours, the president will speak on the day america s longest war has finally ended. the last flight with the final group of u.s. service members onboard took off, including this man, the last service member to leave the country. 20 years after combat operations began this morning, we will talk about what it all meant and if it was worth it. all of that, as we see a very different kabul airport this morning. taliban fighters walking around the airport there. we have courtney kube, and secretary of defense for russia, ukraine and she s private a network of private citizens as well working with afghans that directly or indirectly supported our path to safe refuge out of afghanistan. the first full day this war is now over in afghanistan, we have all seen the iconic photo i just showed, army major photo, the last service member to leave afghanistan. there s still some hundreds of americans there, 1 to 200, not to mention thousands of afghan al ....
good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, i m john berman with brianna keilar. it is friday, august 27th. this morning, extraordinary danger, extraordinary courage, extraordinary tragedy. we want to give you the very latest on the situation in afghanistan this morning it keeps changing by the minute. as we speak, evacuations are on from the kabul airport. president biden is still claiming the u.s. is doing everything possible to get americans out. we are waiting for an update on how many people are being flown out and just how many are left. overnight, the death toll from the terror attack rose to 13 u.s. service members. 18 others injured. some of them severely. the death toll among afghans stands at more than 90. officials warn this morning another attack from isis-k could be imminent. possible concerns about vehicle born suicide bombs or rocket attacks. even so, huge crowds once again gathered outside the airport trying to ge ....
the world, it is thursday, august 26th. i m brianna keilar alongside john berman. we re beginning with significant breaking news. sources telling cnn that the frantic evacuation effort in afghanistan is in its final 36 hours. there are still u.s. citizens trying to get out of kabul. others possibly stuck outside the city. and the fate of thousands of green card holders and their families growing dim. these are legal, permanent residents of the u.s., like a philadelphia family with small children who we featured on our show yesterday. for many afghans who worked with u.s. troops, their hopes to escape may now be dashed though u.s. efforts are under way to help almost 2,000 local embassy staff try to get out. so 36 hours left. which is not much. and the complications are only compounded by the huge security risks. overnight, the u.s. embassy blasted an urgent warning to all americans don t travel to the airport and people at certain gates they say leave immediately. one ....