Path of where it could make landfall. A key update is expected at the top of the hour, we ll bring it to you as soon as we get it from the national hurricane center. We have a team of reporters following the latest for you right now. We ll begin with that monster storm, the latest guidance from the national hurricane center as kendis mentioned has tropical storm henri impacting the northeast later tonight, possibly making landfall as a category one hurricane. More than 4 million people under a hurricane warning, with storm surges set to hit long island, connecticut as well as rhode island. Overnight tonight. Now officials across the northeast are urging residents to prepare for floods and possible power outages. Joining us right now is nbc news meteorologist michelle grossman and nbc meteorologist janessa webb in long beach, new york. Michelle, starting with you, the latest tracking we got a couple hours ago, we re looking at what are we looking at in terms of possible paths and streng
In afghanistan to try to evacuate the u. S. Embassy in kabul. Some 3,000 american forces arriving by tomorrow. Their mission, to help american civilians and u. S. Allies get to the kabul airport to be air lifted out of the country. The military says this is a temporary mission. The speed with which the taliban is taking control appears to have caught the u. S. By surprise. The deteriorating conditions are a factor, a big factor, in why the president has approved this mission. Clearly, from their actions, it appears as if they are trying to get kabul isolated. The taliban has quickly retaken control of nearly every major city, and have just taken control of a province, just miles from kabul, with the capital now in its sights, nearly 20 years after u. S. Forces invaded and just a short time ago afghan president gani addressing the nation for the first time in days. He did not resign as many expect he do, as the taliban demanded he do so as well. Instead saying his focus is working to st
Massive power grabby democrats. It would disenfranchise millions of americans. And it would do precisely the opposite of its nominal title for the people. It is instead for the politicians. Because it entrenches politicians and people cannot vote them out of office. It would strike down every reasonable voter integrity law in the country. That isn t true. A police reform bill is floating in limbo for months. While he might cry that the bills are not for the people and we know what people he is referring to census numbers released this week beg to differ. The u. S. Population is diversifying. The white majority shrinking for the first time in american history. Let s talk about it. Joining me now former florida congressman and political analysis carlos carvalo and my friend angela rye. Congressman, happy to have you back on the show. I m really interested in the perspective on this because i think as we maneuver through capitol hill i have covered politics for over 20 years now. I don t
didn t say that s making headlines. also learned there could be another delay in a vote on both the spending bill and the bipartisan infrastructure bill. the house speaker not committing to the previous deadline set for monday. saying she s confident both bills will get passed. and in a new sign, things are getting real. the white house telling federal agencies to prepare for a government shutdown. we re also watching for developments from the cdc which could announce at any moment who will be qualified to get a booster shot of pfizer s covid-19 vaccine. let s go ahead and bring in our nbc news team, ali vitali on capitol hill. mike memoli at the white house and joins by jake sherman punchbowl news founder and msnbc political contributor. ali, start with you. a big day of developments and speaker pelosi making news late this morning? reporter: a busy day and frank lif busy week. right to frame it as news for what was said and not said. in terms what we actually heard fr
confusion. also tonight, public schools in the nation s capital are taking a dramatic step to stop the rapid spread, requires negative tests before students and staff can return next week. we ll talk to mayor bowser. wolf blitzer is off today, i m jim acosta, and you re in salesforce. the situation room. . the verdicts in the sex trafficking trial of jason carroll is working the story for us. jason, maxwell has been found guilty on five of six counts of sex trafficking of a minor for jeffrey epstein. this is a huge case there in new york. what this case really boils down to, jim, is whether or not ghislaine maxwell knew about the abuse that had been going on for all of these years, and whether or not she was a part of it. that s really the foundation of this. a jury came back and found that she was guilty of both. the jury made up of six men, six women, deliberated for six days, and found that she was guilty of five of six federal counts the minor, a victim named caroly