clogged with traffic from texas to alabama. mississippi s governor has declared a state of emergency. his state was also ravaged by katrina. the national weather service is underscoring the dire stakes warning that some places might be, quote, uninhabitable for weeks or months. we are covering all the angles of the approaching hurricane and the growing sense of urgency tonight. let s begin with meteorologist tom sater and the cnn weather center. how is it looking? well, we just received the 8:00 p.m. advisory from the national hurricane center. there are some changes, but the track doesn t change with this. we re going to get a lot more information for the 11:00 p.m. advisory. when you look at an infrared satellite imagery, the bright colors, they re the cold or higher cloud tops. a lot of convective activity around the core, as you would expect. when it really starts to circulate you know it s still a breathing machine, but also on, of course, the feeder bands. rain to jac
all flights at new orleans international airport tomorrow have been canceled. all of them. we re covering the updates on this storm this evening. also, the major breaking news we re following this hour out of georgia. the embassy in kabul just moments ago issued a security alert at the airport telling u.s. citizens to leave that air immediately because of a specific and credible threat. this comes just hours after a new warning from president biden that another terrorist attack at the kabul airport is, quote, highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours. after the pentagon confirmed two high profile isis-k targets were killed in a drone strike overnight in retaliation for killing 12 service members and many other afghans. they re saying it s possibly a category 4 hurricane. are people still there? yeah. there are a few who are still here still holding on, even given that houma, where i m standing right now, could be ending up ground zero where hurricane ida ends up making landf
that attack and 20 others wounded. all that made it such a difficult day here all the way into friday. that s when we began to learn, not only the names and ages, but the lives and the stories of these service members. that made it all that much harder. this is all part of that process in dover, delaware, at dover air force base, watching this final journey home, just part of it with the dignified transfers here. it s never easy to see this. certainly, it s even harder to see that many of them, one after another. i suspect even with the secretary of defense there, there are many service members, officials, enlisted officers watching this happen around the country realizing what it means to have lost a brother, sister, colleague, service member, somebody who was part of the family here in the pentagon. they re so young. some of them were just babies 20 years ago when 9/11 occurred. now they re being brought back to the united states in these transfer cases. it must be so dif
siege from the delta variant. our team on the ground along the gulf coast. and rob marciano tracking the storm s path. also developing late tonight, the kabul airport under threat. president biden warning another attack is highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours. and overnight, the deadly u.s. drone strike against isis-k in afghanistan. the pentagon announcing two high-profile targets killed, another wounded. retaliation for that deadly suicide attack in kabul that killed 13 brave american service members. tonight, u.s. officials releasing the names of the fallen, including this marine seen cradling a baby at the airport days before. plus, the daring rescue mission in kabul. one of the largest airlift operations in history. thousands of afghan refugees arriving at ramstein air force base in germany. leaving their lives behind. our will reeve is there. news on the pandemic. pediatric hospitalizations skyrocketing. the new alarming record from the deadly summer covid sur
suicide bomb was detonated yesterday. he wanted to be a history teacher and a wrestling coach when he returned to civilian life. he had a baby due in just three weeks. three weeks. she said he will be remembered by his family and friends and those who loved him and there are many who loved him and knew him. he will be remembered for the way he made those around him stronger and kinder and able to love deeply. rylee mccollum from wyoming. there are 12 other names, 12 other heroes whose names are sadly yet to come. we still believe there are credible threats. in fact, i d say specific credible threats, and we want to make sure we re prepared for those. specific credible threats, that s pentagon spokesman john kirby preparing the public for possible new suicide attacks like yesterday s or other forms of attacks by isis-k fighters. it was a suicide bombing that killed 13 american service members and at least 170 afghans outside kabul airport. today in kabul family members col