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president said the threat remains very high, could be the highest now as it s been in this entire evacuation mission given that there are still thousands of u.s. troops on the ground. so the president has continued to be updated every single day this week by his national security team. this morning was no different. they spent about an hour and a half in the situation room. and the white house readout of that meeting is pretty blunt, saying that the president was told that right now the threat of an attack is, quote, highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours. he said the situation on the ground continues to be extremely dangerous and of course the threat of terrorist attack still remains high. that s something they re monitoring very closely as they continue the evacuations. it s not clear how long the evacuations will go on, they ve said they will go on until the end but we re told they will be reduced while they pull out resources and weaponry. that will be the next bi ....
troops. president biden is holding firm, he said, to his timeline to get u.s. personnel out of afghanistan by august 31st. saying we are on pace to meet the deadline but he wants contingency plans if they can t make it. intel officials have testified on capitol hill, we re told by multiple sources, on both sides of the aisle, that the administration can t get all the americans and afghan allies out on time. the president said more time on the ground means more time our troops could face attacks. every day we re on the ground is another day we know isis k is seeking to target the airport and attack both u.s. and allied forces and innocent civilians. bret: a version isis not the taliban or al-qaeda. but the president says that timetable of august 31st is contingent on taliban cooperation. and fox news is receiving multiple new reports the taliban is harassing individuals, even passport holding americans on the way to the kabul airport. u.s. troops and civilians are co ....
full approval to pfizer s vaccine this week. do you think this decision will make more americans willing to get vaccinated? this may tip them over towards getting vaccinated. i m pamela brown in washington. you re live in the cnn newsroom on this sunday evening. we re following breaking news out of tennessee. 21 are dead and another 20 missing after staggering amounts of rain unleash catastrophic flash floods. people in humphries county 60 miles west of nashville say the flood waters struck almost without warning. some compared it to a title wave that swallowed victims and swept them away. the waiverly police and fire chief reflecting tonight on how hard this has been for the close knit community. we experienced devastating loss of life over the last couple of days. we ve lost more people in this event than we did in the train explosion in 1978, but we ve seen the community come together. cnn s nick valencia joins me from a reunification center. nick, what h ....
disaster, poverty and political uncertainty. i am pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this sunday evening. president biden is under growing pressure regarding the chaotic situation at kabul s airport. right now it s the middle of the night but we saw another tense day earlier. an estimated 18,500 people packed into the waiting areas today. yesterday similar crowds led to the death of at least seven afghan citizens crushed in the surge of people trying to escape. president biden continued to stress safety is his administration s number one priority, and there are talks about troops sticking around possibly past august 31st. we are working diligently to make sure we have increased the ability to get them out. we changed the gate operations and a whole range of things and that s why we have been able to significantly increase the number of people we re getting out. will the taliban increase their we discussed a lot with the taliban. th ....
on long island. this is coverage of tropical storm henri. parts of the east coast are already feeling the impacts of this extremely dangerous storm. imminent landfall is expected in rhode island. you re looking at a live picture from newport. 40 million people are in the storm s path. tropical storm warnings in effect from long island to cape cod. chris. fred, thank you very much. i ll tell you more about what s happening. the story in new york is a light story. we have one part of the storm cell is stalling over new york city right now. that increases the chance of flooding. we mow the story from last night, a lot of rainfall in areas that weren t expecting it, three, four, five, six inches. the main area for us will be in about an hour. that s when henri will make landfall. about 100,000 people without power, only 2,000 in new york. the bulk in rhode island as fred was referring to. about 65, 66,000. that s going to increase. connecticut, about 12, 15,000, that s go ....