tonight the biden administration moving to shift the nation s focus away from afghanistan back to the issues here at home. as u.s. officials express growing concern that far right extremists and white supremacists are praising the taliban for toppling the u.s. backed afghan government. also tonight ida still a very powerful storm pounding the midatlantic and northeast with drenching rains, flash flooding and tornados. we re going to check in with our weather center. some really, really terrible weather here in the northeast. and president joe biden harshly criticizing the new texas law banning abortion six week into pregnancy, calling it extreme and a blatant violation of the constulational right to an abortion. i want to bring in now cnn national security analyst juliette kayyem. good to see both of you. president biden is trying to move past afghanistan focusing on the crises here at home-like the aftermath of hurricane ida. we re still dealing with it. surging covid ca
point we don t know the exact death toll. this video just into cnn shows some of the damage on the island there, buildings collapsed into rubble, streets covered in debris. the prime minister is headed to some of the hardest-hit areas now. this could be a massive test for the new leader that took office after the shocking assassination of the president last month. joining us, patrick ottman, an and allison chinchar. what are you hearing about the impact of the outbreak? reporter: as each hour passes by, we see new harrowing images, new accounts of dead pulled from rubble, seeing images of people being treated in the open air because there s still aftershocks and many buildings collapsed in the earthquake. the prime minister said not only is he going to be traveling to the effected zone, the hardest-hit areas of the peninsula southwest of port-au-prince, he is calling on the government to put all of the haitian government resources into treating the wounded and recovering th
bringing with a at least 134 mile per hour wind gusts. authorities are warning of, quote, catastrophic storm surge and destructive winds when the hurricane moves ashore the next couple of hours. most of florida s the washington post coast is at risk of severe flooding and storm surges with some forecasted to reach as high as 16 feet in some areas. the national weather service is calling idalia is an unprecedented event. and here s governor desantis late yesterday on the storm. you ve really got to go back to the late 1800s to find a storm of this magnitude that will enter where this one looks like it s going to enter tomorrow. so we don t really have a historical analog in anybody s memory, so it s likely to cause a lot of damage. let s turn to nbc news correspondent jay gray in florida with more. talk about what the conditions are now and what the biggest concern has been. reporter: yeah, and i think the governor there makes a good point. this is not an area used to
normally when you say that l.a. river, it s a joke. you could drive your car down it. movies have been shot in it. really, there has been so much rain over the last 24 hours from tropical storm hillary that this river as you can see behind me is flowing. it is a fast flowing river and all of that rain that has fallen really causing flooding throughout the region. we are hearing of power outages as well as cancellations. parking lots are underwater. it is making driving conditions throughout the greater los angeles area not only really tough and difficult, but also extremely dangerous. out in palm springs in the desert communities, they got a heavy dose of nonstop rain. at one point it was so bad that crews had to pump water out of a nearby hospital. it s not just the flooding. all of that ring combined with very loose and dry ground is only a recipe for disaster. we saw mudslides and mud flows throughout the region as a result of tropical storm hil hillary. well we have see
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