The attempted assassination of Donald Trump about to begin. The new Acting Director of the Secret Service set to go before two committees. Well bring you that hearing live. Plus battle for the battle thegrounds. Vice president harris heading to georgia for the first time as 2024 President Ial candidate will get the latest on the Harris Veep stakes, including why the governor took himself out of the running. Also ahead, republican reset of the gops j. D. Vance hopes to recalibrate his place in the race. It is 10 00 a. M. Eastern, 7 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart in. We begin with Breaking News on Capitol Hill this morning. A joint Senate Hearing into the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is about to get underway. The new Acting Director of the Secret Service and the Deputy Director of the fbi will be taking questions from senators on the Judiciary And Homeland security committees. It comes one day after the fbi revealed that the former president has agreed to sit for a victi
And just doubled the capacity here. How do things look on your end . Perfect because were building a better network every single day. Were following two major breaking stories tonight. First, all u. S. Service members are out of afghanistan, officially ending our countrys longest war. But up to 200 americans and countless afghans who helped u. S. Troops have been left behind. Plus a desperate search under Way Tonight after Hurricane Ida ripped through louisiana. Homes are demolished. Entire neighborhoods now covered in water. And more than A Million people are without power. Two people have died from the storm and the governor is warning that he expects the number to rise considerably. This is as Louisiana Hospitals are already stretched thin by the covid19 crisis. I want to get straight to cnns Alex Marquardt with the latest on the final u. S. Troops leaving afghanistan. Reporter just as the day of august 31, the deadline to leave, began in afghanistan, the announcement was made. Im h
Mileperhour winds ripping a catastrophic gash across Southern Louisiana. At least one person is confirmed dead At This point in time. Ida is now a tropical storm but there is still extreme danger with up to 8 inches of rain yet to fall in some cities. The mayor of one Louisiana Town calling this total devastation. The Storm Overtopping Levies and trapping people on roofs, with no way to rescue them. More than 1 Million people are currently without power. This includes the entire city of new orleans, exactly 16 years after Hurricane Katrina hit. And while ida has weakened some, there is still this big threAt That were tracking of Flash Flooding and dangerous Storm Surge and tornadoes. Also breaking this morning, Rocket Fire overnight. Targeting afghanistans international airport. Video obtained by cnn shows the Burnt Out car this was apparently used as an improvised Launch Pad to fire five rocket. Five hours earlier the u. S. Carried out a preemptive Drone Strike on a potential Suicide
Indicates how quickly the story keeps changing. For example, when i was first looking at this just a few hours ago, there were some estimates here that as soon as wed see the taliban being able to take control of things, if they even got to that point it would be early next week. Some today talking in terms of hours. And at thiS Point, theres a great deal of confusion as to what our response is. The 3,000 additional troops, many more to come to back them up and still no word yet about a strategy that will still maintain all u. S. Personnel being out of afghanistan in less than 2 weeks. Lets get the read right now from Lucas Tomlinson who has been following this closely from the start. He joins us out of washington. Lucas. Lucas the reports u. S. Jets are hitting the taliban outside of kabul over fear it is capital with fall anyday. The first u. S. Marines arrived to start evacuating americans. Marine corps chc helicopter, preparing for full Evacuation And Closure of embassy In Kabul, a
And shallower seven. Zero that devastated haiti 11 years ago it is stronger but 6 miles down. Not as many predicted to be killed that there is Death And Devastation on an island and now Fox News Coverage on reaction from the haitian community and then on the tropical storms that are threatening the region but first lets go to the latest with the disaster in haiti. That struck off the haitian coast 6 miles beneath the surface we were talking about that debt very important. What you need to look out for is especially in what is relatively shallow water believe it or not at 10000 meters is the possibility of a tsunami the united states did issue a Tsunami Warning almost immediately but then lifted it. The reports on the ground suggest that while some coastal area was flooded it did appear to retreat so good news on that front but the second danger is that what it can do on the island itself a stranger and there things are not quite as good it was felt in the capital in fact many people im