american rust. that s what you should watch. jeff daniels. thank you. great to see you. we really appreciate it. that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. hi from, i am stephanie ruhle from msnbc headquarters here in new york city. it is a jam packed monday. a lot going on. we have several new developments in fight against the coronavirus. the united states now surpassing 41 million cases since the pandemic began. the u.s. surgeon general says president biden will announce even more new steps to slow the spread of covid-19 later this week. from the beginning, the president and all of us said we have to use every lever we have to fight this pandemic. that s what you see happening right now. new poll this morning shows more than half sport warnings. at the same time, this was the scene we witnessed over the weekend. completely packed nfl stadiums with many of them not requiring any proof of vaccination or negative test. today is
white house, headed for the northeast to get a firsthand look at the damage left by hurricane ida. elsie huge parts of new jersey and new york remain decimated by deadly flooding. ida killing at least 45 people in those two states. some swept away by cars, others drowning in their own homes. new disaster declarations mean parts of both states are eligible for federal aid, but even that is fraught with complaints from counties left off the list of those eligible for aid. and down in louisiana which got hit by ida first, more than 400,000 homes are still in the dark, nine days after the storm rolled through, and high temperatures continue to raise the misery and risk. all three regions are at risk of more severe weather in the coming days. we have all of the angles covered. shannon petty piece at the white house, allison barber in new jersey, and some brock in louisiana outside new orleans. thank you all for joining this morning. sam, nine days have passed, still hundreds of th
residents do not go home. also, this morning, history. for the first time in 7,268 days, americans wake up without the country at war in afghanistan. this photo capturing army general chris donahue, the last soldier to leave afghanistan. the last flight carrying military personnel, taking off one minute before midnight, kabul time, marking the official end to america s longest war. but this morning, more questions than answers about what exactly comes next. that s where we begin. we begin with the taliban back in power after we drove them out in 2001. we went there to find osama bin laden and take out al qaeda training camps, with former president george w. bush making this pledge to the american people. we will win this conflict by the patient accumulation of successes, by meeting a series of challenges with determination and will and purpose. we did not ask for this miss. this morning, the taliban telling nbc news they took control of the kabul airport after u.s. forc
the destructive storm crashing on shore as a category four. one of the strongest hurricanes to make landfall in the state of louisiana. on the same day as the 16th anniversary of hurricane katrina. the storm so powerful, it reversed flow of the mississippi river. hears what we know. one person is dead. louisiana state health says a 60-year-old man died outside baton rouge after a tree fell on his home. more than a million homes and businesses are still without power across the state and that includes all of the city of new orleans. we are hearing reports of catastrophic damage. 911 experiencing technical difficulties in certain areas, reports of people still trapped. president biden foegsly approving emergency declarations for louisiana and mississippi. we have a team of expert reporters safely across the region now. i want to start with jay gray in new orleans. what is the scene like there this morning? reporter: finally a little bit of sunshine after what has been two day
new urgency. 24 hours after two suicide bombings targeted thousands of afghans trying to flee the country and worst attack on u.s. service members in a decade. president biden vowing to retaliate. to those who carried out this attack as well as anyone that wishes america harm, know this. we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you down and make you pay. you can see it at the white house, the american flag at half staff to honor 13 u.s. service members killed thursday, and 18 others were injured in the attacks. president biden addressing the families of those lost. my heart aches for you. lives lost were given in the service of liberty, the service of security, the service of others. and the service of america. in addition, at least 113 afghan civilians were killed and 180 injured in the attacks. according to an unnamed health ministry source. isis-k is claiming responsibility for the attack that involved a suicide bomber that detonated their belt at an a