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the issues that we re facing right now in afghanistan as the clock ticks. lara logan is here as well. two veterans working hard to do everything that they can to get people out as the clock ticks down. their heroic stories and the help that they re getting from the u.s. military. all that is coming up. let s begin with the latest from jennifer griffin. you were in the briefing today. what are we learning at this point as we get closer to the exit time? right now it s 11:30 p.m. in kabul. 30 minutes from august 31st, which of course is the deadline that president biden has set and the taliban has set for all u.s. forces to leave. we know the u.s. military has until midnight august 31. so that would be about 3:30 eastern time tomorrow. we re in the final hours. it s not clear how many more evacuees they ll get out. we heard from the white house press secretary that 6,000 americans have been evacuated as part of 122,000,000 since august 14. she suggested there s a handfu ....
after storming to gold with a superb win over three time champions the united states. hello. two us officials have told the reuters news agency they ve carried out a military strike in the afghanistan capital kabul. the officials said the strike targetted suspected isik k militants. these are the latest pictures we have from the afghan capital we ll bring you more details of the incident when we have it. we are piecing together more information at the moment. let s take a look at some of today s other developments. it comes as the prime minister marks the end of britain s 20 year military campaign in afghanstan called the efforts by the armed forces heroic and said the uk departure from afghanistan was the culmination of a mission unlike anything we ve seen in our lifetimes . the last flights have begun arriving at raf brize norton with military personnel and diplomatic staff as the largest evacuation of its kind since the second world war draws to a close. more ....
follow i do want to track this story. we are, of course, following this potentially catastrophic hurricane barreling towards the u.s. gulf coast. within just the last few minutes, the ida was upgraded to a major hurricane. a category 3 storm. and is expected to rapidly intensify even more in the coming hours. it s forecast to pummel the the louisiana coast sunday as a category 4 storm now. both, mandatory and voluntary evacuations have been ordered for several louisiana parishes, as officials warn of these life-threatening situations. louisiana s governor is stressing the dangerous and historic threat of hurricane ida. what we re telling people is you just have a few more hours really to prepare because early-tomorrow morning, we re going to have the weather degrade rather rapidly. storm surge is going to be up to 15 feet, which is gonna test all of our protection systems down along the coast. this is just a very serious storm. it ll be one of the very strongest s ....
who catch coronavirus than those who ve had a vaccine, according to a major new study. five years after the last bhs stores closed for good, what do we do with all our empty department stores? i ve been finding out. and it s the bank holiday weekend. are you heading to the beach? join me here in crosby on the merseyside coastline, where the rnli are issuing a warning and some advice to help keep you safe. going for a second gold on the paralympic track. war veteranjaco van gass stormed to victory in the individual pursuit. can he do it again in the 1,000 metres sprint? good morning. the largely dry, settled theme to the weather continues, we got sunny spells out there today, and for most of us, a bit more sunshine through the weekend, too. i have all your details throughout the morning s programme. good morning. it s friday 27th august. our top story more than 90 people, including 13 us soldiers, are now known to have died in yesterday s attacks at kabul airport. president ....
is almost nine times higher in those who catch coronavirus, than those who ve had a vaccine, according to a major new study. we ll bring you up to speed with the paralympics where world records have been set in the velodrome and at the athletics track. coming up nearly a0 years since they last released new music are abba about to make a return? we ll speak with the founder of a abba tribute band. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the uk s defence secretary has said british forces have entered the final stages of flying people out of kabul. ben wallace said it was a matter of deep regret that not everybody could be evacuated. it comes after 90 people were killed in two bomb blasts. this includes 13 us military personnel. most of the dead were afghan civilians. an emotional us presidentjoe biden had a message to those behind the attacks saying, we will hunt you down, and make you pay. the uk says the kabul bombings will not affect t ....