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it sounds like you are still working on our august 31st deadline. we are absolutely still leaning towards the end of the month. future american soldiers have to go back in a deal with the problem, confidence in the administration, how many are going to die? either he is senile or in denial but either way, it is reckless for our country and the disaster taking place is his responsibility. why don t you just say the number? we are going to leave it at 7,000 right now and i understand that is not a satisfying answer. this is sickening. i can t believe this is happening in our country today. particularly, the decision we heard today, he will have blood on his hands. americans held hostage, behind enemy lines: day ten. sean: we are now day ten of americans held hostage, trapped behind enemy lines and clearly president biden is letting the taliban call all the shots. he will not commit to keeping u.s. forces past the taliban s august 31st deadline. he wi ....
quickly, about 16 miles per hour. that puts it about 30, maybe 40 miles from the rhode island coast. by 2:00 p.m. it s clearly on shore, and then it s just going to rain itself out. notice the winds are not an issue as we get through this evening. the highest gusts will be out on long island, possibly block island, newport. the legacy of this storm we ve already had tremendous amounts of rain around new york city and portions of new jersey. still a couple flash flood warnings. 36 million people are in flood watches. it is going to pour this afternoon, all night tonight, and periods of tomorrow. we are going to see additional rainfall totals up to about 5 to 6 inches. i m happy to see we ve gotten the storm a little bit weaker, now down to 65 miles per hour. bill karins, one question for you. did i hear you correctly that you say this is going to impact 36 million people? that s how many people are in the potential risk area for flash flooding. so not all of those pe ....
the airport in kabul is the only way to leave the country by air and thousands of foreign nationals and afghans are trying to do that. this gives you some sense of the desperation. a toddler being handed over to soldiers at the airport. and this woman is being helped over the wall by soldiers. but even getting this close to the airport is difficult. the taliban control the checkpoints on the route to the airport. kim sangupta is the defence editor for the independent and he s in kabul. there is no guarantee that if you go past one checkpoint that you will pass the other. the taliban have got every single checkpoint from the city centre up centre up to the airport. they ve also got that checkpoint which then veers right into the military airport. and, really, that chances of getting through these checkpoints depends to a large extent on the type of fighters there are manning them. some have been ok, but then again, you ve got others where fighters are extremely aggre ....
president ashraf ghani who posted a statement in exile now in the united arab emirates saying that he had to flee to avoid more bloodshed in his homeland. we re also watching the white house where president biden is scheduled to speak about the pandemic response in about 90 minutes from now, and just hours after his administration unveiled a plan to offer a vaccine booster shot starting the third week of september. this has hospitals in hard-hit areas continue to struggle with the rising number of cases, particularly those among people who remain unvaccinated, but as you can imagine we begin this hour in afghanistan, and here to start things off for us peter baker, new york times white house correspondent and an msnbc political analyst. we should note that peter was also first american newspaper journalist to report from afghanistan after 9/11. kevin barren is with us, the executive editor of defense. great to have you both with us. peter, let s start with you about ....
while the u.s. scrambled to evacuate the embassy, chaos at kabul s airport as people desperately try to flee the country. and haiti s earthquake, a staggering jump in the death toll with search teams yet to arrive in some of the hardest hit regions. as a storm that compounds the disaster takes direct aim at the country. thanks for joining me this hour. for the first time in almost 20 years, the taliban are in near complete control of afghanistan. if nothing changes, it appears they ll be the country s rulers once again. the militants wrapped up a blistering advantage over major cities over the weekend ending in the surrender of kabul. video from al jazeera shows heavily armed taliban fighters lounging in the presidential palace. the u.s. state department says all embassy personal he will have been evacuated. they were flown out by helicopter to the airport which has been secured by u.s. troops. that hasn t stopped chaotic scenes like this. gunfire rang out earlier as ....