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donoghue. the allies who helped our troops did not make it to the airport gates in time. we believe there are still a small number of american, under 200 and likely closer to 100, who remain in afghanistan and want to leave. the taliban celebrating the u.s. withdrawal with fireworks and gun fire after midnight and taliban fighters surveying the kabul airport and the destroyed arms, ammunition and aircraft that the americans left behind. coming up, we ll be speaking with former defense secretary and the cia director leon panetta on the withdrawal from afghanistan and what comes next. we re also following the devastating aftermath of tropical storm ida. millions of residents along the gulf coast could be without power for weeks. louisiana governor john bell edwards is scheduled to hold a press conference. we ll bring that to you live when it happens. first, the latest on afghanistan, nbc s chief white house correspondent peter alexander and pentagon correspondent cour ....
emergency. the u.s. is in direct path of a massive storm swirling towards louisiana. hurricane ida has entered the gulf waters as a category 1 storm but could become a category 4 before landfall tomorrow. tomorrow being 16 years to the day that hurricane katrina terrorized the state. yeah. take a look at what hurricane ida looked like when it hit cuba yesterday. this storm smashed into the island twice before heading toward the u.s. and the thing that s interesting is it didn t deteriorate over land. it actually strengthened. which is unusual. and in new orleans, people have been told you ve got to seek shelter. particularly, for some areas. the mayor says it s just too late to issue mandatory evacuation orders at this point. time is not on our side. the city cannot issue a mandatory evacuate because we don t have the time. that is a rather ominous warning, cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is tracking the storm. allison, one of the major concerns that makes this ....
and the horrifying images that we ve seen as a result of yesterday s attack. we are learning a little bit more. two suicide bombers essentially targeted two different gates. one, abby gate, which is a major choke hold with thousands of people lining up, pushing to get into the airport. and the other one outside the barron hotel. this is where we were just about a week ago. this is where the british had been using as a standing operation, a place from where they do their processing, their evacuations. they have said now that evacuation operation is completely finished, but they hasten to add that this is not because of the attack. this was already on schedule and they have simply finished the evacuations they needed to do. but to give our viewers a little bit of a better sense of how this happened, just based on our experience, what you had was the taliban guarding the outer perimeter, and then the next line essentially were u.s. forces. while the taliban were doing sort ....
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