this storm heading straight for rhode island, parts of the eyewall already on shore and we re seeing the storm move to shore as we speak. more than 1500 people under tropical weather alerts right now concerned about storm surge in the harbors and the bays of rhode island, new york and massachusetts. concerns about flooding in the coming hours and widespread power outages because we re talking about a part of the united states not used to seeing tropical weather barrelling into shore. storm surge as well. we re going live in a moment to derek van dam who is in newport, rhode island who can give us a sense of what s happening on the coast. but first let s go to allison chinchar for the latest on the track. allison, any updates from the national hurricane center? we ve got several, in fact. we re learning it is moving very, very close to shore. landfall is expected imminently here. what we re also seeing is that little bit of downpush in wind. the winds are at 60 miles an hour
This just in. A bulletin from kabul. Taliban fighters have entered the afghan capital. This represents the collapse of the afghan government. The end of american nationbuilding dreams and the beginning of a frightening new era for many afghan civilians. I m brian stelter. This is reliable sources. It s 7:30 p. M. In kabul. Darkness is falling on the afghan capital. There is a rush now taking place and evacuation at the u. S. Embassy. A u. S. Official just now telling cnn that a majority of the u. S. Embassy staff are out of the diplomatic compound in kabul. Some of them now at the airport, some are being taken off in airplanes out of the country. Others are staying at the airport for the time being. Reporters in kabul are reporting new developments basically every minute of every hour. There has been gunfire heard in the capital. There have been traffic jams in some parts of the city. Other parts of the city look like a ghost town, according to witnesses who are there. As you know, wit
Last stronghold of the afghan government. Afghan president ghani has now fled the country. Taliban fighters have entered the capital city of kabul where the american flag has been taken down from the u. S. Embassy as the u. S. Undertakes an urgent evacuation of american personnel. The rapid crumbling of the country shocked the u. S. And u. S. Allies and caught the biden white house flatfooted on saturday. After pulling out almost all of the 2,500 troops when he took office, he s deploying troops back to get americans safely out of kabul, warning of a swift u. S. Response if the taliban inte interfered. Sources tell cnn the majority of the u. S. Embassy staff are now out of the embassy compound. That s a sharp tsharound when president biden called it highly unlikely the taliban would overrun the country, at the time striking many experts in his own administration as unrealistic and prompting questions as to whether biden was cherrypicking intelligence or indifferent to it. As american d
And what may have been missed. All the talking heads are talking about alexandria ocasiocortez. We ll look at dana bash s indepth interview. The coup is dripping out. Why is this newsworthy more than six months later? because most people don t know how close the country came. And, because someone might try to do it again. So authors and reporters and house and senate investigators are all piecing together the events the last winter, and in the words of cnn s zach wolf, the full picture of trump s effective coup is only now starting to emerge. Trump s campaign was more intense than we knew at the time. It was more insistent than we knew. For example, there is a recenting reporting that trump told his acting attorney general, jeff rosen, just say the country is corrupt and leave the rest to me. He wanted the department to open the door so he could walk through it and remain president even though biden won. It s one of the biggest political stories of our lifetimes. But it s in the past.
Media advocates on edge. And later the first joint interview with patrick jimjong. Learn about their plan to rejuvenate the new york times. Donald trump s allies resent hearing about the insurrection. They complain bitterly about the continued coverage. You can hear it in tucker carlson s voice. You can hear his resentment. But their and his attempts to deny reality, to come up with reasons for an inside job, the fbi made me do it, all that stuff, that is one of the reasons why the insurrection remains in the news. University of illinois professor nicholas grossman said it better than i could. He said repeating the news of january 6 is tedious, even exhausting. But the people lying about, downplaying, defending and apologizing for it appear inexhaust i believe. So the choices are keep repeating the truth, shooting down lies and conspiracy theories, or conceding to them. Reporters giving up is not an option. Keep reporting, keep debunking the crazy stuff. But it s sad how inevitable thi