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conversations with the president on january six, and why the select committee is taking his phone records, and how the unhinge response of public health measures during the pandemic is taking a very dark turn. i m gonna speak in front of the school board, and i m gonna give them an option, they can leave or they can be removed. it all starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. on september 26 2001, almost 20 years ago, 15 days after the u.s. was attacked on 9/11, a dozen cia operatives landed in northern afghanistan. their mission was to lay the groundwork for the u.s. invasion of the taliban -controlled country. since that, day for nearly two straight decades, there has been an american military presence in afghanistan. until today, this afternoon, america s longest war was brought to a close. i m here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from afghanistan, and the end of the military mission to evacuate american citizens, foreign count ....
would make afghanistan closely aligned with them. the british stayed to fight that war, but ultimately it did not work out. the brits left in 1842. but then 35, 40 years later, the british army tried again. the brits were freaked out all over again that a place they thought ought to be aligned with them was actually more inclined with russia, the same thing that had driven them 35, 40 years before. so in 1848, the british invaded afghanistan again. and again they installed their own hand-picked guy, this time for a hot minute they actually thought they had won and that afghanistan would have a long-term alliance with britain, which is what they were seeking in that first and second war. but the guy they installed in the government, he abdicated, and afghanistan went back to its previous ways again and the british left again. how long does it take to forget? it was 35 years between the first war and the second one. it was another 35 or 40 years before they invaded a thir ....
150-mile-per-hour winds, hurricane ida made landfall as a category-4 storm near port fourchon this afternoon. the storm surge has reached four to seven feet in southeast louisiana and coastal mississippi. water has engulfed roads, homes, businesses, and marinas. right now, ida is holding strong as an extremely dangerous category-3, as it makes its way through louisiana. nbc news is continuing to obtain dramatic video out of the gulf coast. here is the roof being ripped off lady of the sea hospital in galliano. stream flow on the mississippi river by bell chase, louisiana, reversed for approximately three hours on sunday, according to data from the u.s. geological survey. in the past, the mississippi river has reversed flow locally during other hurricanes, including laura, isaac, and katrina. the eye of the storm is currently approaching baton rouge and should hit the state s capital city within the next few hours. tonight, roughly half a million louisianians are without ....
this is just some of the destruction in louisiana, that s about an hour south of new orleans. in new orleans, the french quarter was hit hard with significant damage. still dark there but as the sun comes up we ll have a better feel for things. in all, more than 1 million people there are without electricity. the power outage could make the area for susceptible to extreme flooding like we see in this video from grand isle, along the coast. joining us now jay gray. good morning, the power is out in new orleans, what does it look like this morning? reporter: willie, it is a mess right now. once we get some sunshine i think we ll see more problems in new orleans. but a break in the conditions, the winds dropped off, the rain thankfully after 16 straight hours has stopped. we have a chance to look at some of the devastation. you can see the roof top behind me pulled from a building thrown into the french quarter, bringing with it an elevated street sign. you can see the b ....
responding so far. we re keeping an eye on fema headquarters, where president biden arrived a short time ago to get a briefing. we ll bring you that as well. but first the city of new orleans right now, the latest data from the national hurricane centers puts the storm about 150 miles away from the city. catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding are being seen along the state s coast. you can see this surveillance camera from a nearby house, earlier in grand isle, louisiana, a small strip of land that a lot of folks were worried about. we also know more than 120,000 power outages have been reported, so people are already in the dark. we re getting a rare look at the eye of the storm. we want to show you the striking video from a flied above the eye earlier today before it made landfall. it really shows how massive this storm s path of destruction could be. all right. we mentioned new orleans. let s go there now. that s where we find today show c ....