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surge as henri is set to become in fact it is the first hurricane to hit new england in 30 years. plus chaos in kabul. a dire situation continues to unfold at afghanistan s main important. and imminent approval. cnn has learned the pfizer vaccine could get full fda approval as soon as monday. what this could mean for the fight over vaccine mandates. hello again, everyone. thank you for joining me, i m fredricka whitfield. we begin with this breaking news this hour as hurricane henri gathers strength and takes aim at the northeast. more than 40 million people could be impacted, henri became a hurricane just last hour and could be as strong by the time it makes landfall which is expected on long island, new york. cities are preparing for massive storm surge, flash flooding and strong winds into next week. alisyn chinchar is tracking this storm for us. what more do we know about the potential impact? there s a lot of impacts to go around. let s begin with the basic ....
the national hurricane center, they literally came in five seconds ago, the forecast did have the center making landfall at the 5:00 p.m. advisory right into the hamptons, around south hampton, it shifted westward again. now we re making it toward eye islip. all of a sudden, 24, 48 hours ago this was in the buzzard s bay and new port and rhode island area and everyone in cape cod who pulled their boats out of the water saying they may catch a break. people from long island, now all of a sudden heading toward new york city and the long island sound, everyone is going we have one day to prepare. that s it. you have saturday. because this storm is coming in in a hurry early sunday morning. the landfall time is up. so let me go to the graphics and giving you a new update and we re still dealing with it as a tropical storm. did not reach hurricane intensity quite yet. and heading to the north finally at 9 miles an hour. and now it s going to accelerate northwards on its jo ....
towards new york city, and all over the long island sound, people are saying we have one day to prepare. we have saturday. this storm is coming in a hurry. the landfall time has been up, saturday morning. we are still dealing with it as a tropical storm. it did not reach hurricane intensity quite yet. it s getting sheared and now heading towards the north finally. nine miles per hour. anna cherney to new england, it will parallel the coastline of the carolinas. how about that band at the end to the left? very unusual, doesn t happen that often. it s kind of similar to that band as to what sandy did. sandy is a different beast. it was much, much larger. sandy was a huge immense storm. this may be the same intensity but size wise no comparison. this storm will have its own problems. you notice that the winds will quickly die off, by the time we get to monday morning, wind damage is done. the wind damage of the storm is as three go throughout sunday. it s already getting c ....
a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. here is what is happening at 2:00 p.m. eastern, 11:00 a.m. pacific time. we have breaking news and several updates to share on hurricane henri. moments ago new york governor cuomo issuing a state of emergency for parts of the state and deploying hundreds of national guard members. i feel confident saying to new yorkers they could not be in better hands in terms of an experienced team. now, that doesn t mean that mother nature doesn t win. she wins. she wins. she won at super storm sandy. she wins every time. but we will be doing everything that we can do to be prepared. the state of connecticut is also under a state of emergency. we re also getting a brand-new update from the national hurricane center. henri is now picking up speed, moving faster with landfall less than 24 hours away. let s get right to nbc news meteorologist michelle grossman with all of th ....
on whether we will be required to wear masks in public again. to give first this afternoon republican senator rand paul asking the justice department for criminal referral on welcom to the program, this is americ reports . great to be back with you fo the day. so this new development comes after the two sparred on capito hill yesterday. senator paul slamming dr. is fauci previous the possibly par possibly came from. the senator a leader telling fo news, warrants doctors didn t agree with him about covid, but are afraid to cross impaired. this is that as gained a lot of traction in recent months, and as we await the results, th 90 day intelligence committee review which are expected next month. we begin with jenkins live with more. good afternoon. the hearing was supposed to focus on that s viking delta variants, but it turned into a brawl over covid origins. watch. this paper, that you are referring to, was judged by a qualified staff up and down the chain ....