That is set for 11 45 eastern, 10 minutes from now. House Freedom Caucus members weigh in on the situation in afghanistan at 12 30 eastern today. A bit ater, live coverage of the bike addressed the nation about the end of the countries longest war, set for 2 45 eastern and you can watch those remarks live here on cspan or listen with our free seats free cspan radio app. The wall street journal, reflected across the country, very simple, americas longest war ends, with a picture of the Plane Loading for Departure Yesterday in kabul, 3 29 eastern time. One photo you might be seeing in the news as well in a number of places is a night vision shot. This is a tweet from u. S. Central command. The last american soldier leaves afghanistan. Chris donahue is the commander of the u. S. Army 82nd airborne division as he boards the c130 in afghanistan. They used the same photo this morning in the associated press reporting, ending americas longest war, the United States completing its withdrawal f
Along the Gulf Coast we expected from such a storm. It ripped the roof off the lady of the Sea Hospital in galliano which is south of New Orleans. You can see the damage in louisiana there. Tonight, as we mentioned, the power is out for hundreds of thousands of people. Louisiana Governor John Bell edwards says his states entire National Guard is activated. More than 4,000 are out in support of the emergency effort, but officials are warning residents to prepare for at least three days of sheltering in place. This historic hurricane comes on the 16th Anniversary of another historic hurricane, katrina. Thankfully, officials expect the levees in the new Orleans Area to hold this time. From nbc News World Headquarters in New York, im Joshua Johnson continuing our special coverage of Hurricane Ida. Welcome to the week. Let us begin with the latest on Hurricane Idas path. Meteorologist Bill Karins joins us now after a very long day, and bill, we just got the latest update from the national h
We have been keeping an eye on a number of alerts of damage from the storm, and power is the primary issue, and entergy is the power company, and they are out of power and its causing an imbalance in transmission. This is a compounded problem because they need that for a lot of things, including Pumping Water away from the levees. Let me be clear, we have no reports of damage to levees. Theres reports of Flash Flooding and an emergency that has been issued by the weather service, but thats not pursuant to damage of the levees. We will keep an eye on that and continue to update you as the evening goes on. We have plenty of correspondents out in the field, and Ali Velshi is in New Orleans, and janessa web, well start with you. What can you tell us . We are dealing with a destructive and deadly Storm System and its dark across Southeast Louisiana, and we saw the storm make landfall eight hours ago and its downgraded to a cat 3. Can you see that were dealing with severe weather tonight, ev
It has been 12 hours since i had a reuters sure in louisiana, on the 16th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. But even as it has been downgraded from a hurricane for two hurricane one, over those 12 hours ida is wreaking havoc, especially from the Storm Surge its leaving in its wake. Authorities the last hour reported a Levee Failing about lafitte just south of New Orleans and officials warn that more than 200 people are in intimate danger there and need to seek higher ground. One death has been confirmed elsewhere in the states, a 60yearold Man was killed when his house was hit by a fallen tree near Baton Rouge. And the entire city of New Orleans is in the dark tonights, the Power Companies say its catastrophic transmission damage. The number of people without power throughout louisiana, is now more than 1 Million, and rising. And there are fears that some of those people could remain without power for weeks. One area of particular Concern Tonight is louis knit louisianas hospitals, wev
Biden approved a major Disaster Declaration for louisiana. I became sure as a category four storm with maximum sustained, winds over 150 miles per hour. It has been weakening as its moved inland, but slowly. And it is now to a category two. The national Hurricane Center says it is still bringing catastrophic Storm Surge, Extreme Winds and Flash Flooding, to southeastern louisiana. And that has brought scenes like this in The City of houma. The extraordinary power of those high, winds meanwhile, the entire City Of New Orleans is in the, dark without Power Tonight except for those with generators. The Power Companies is ida caused quote, catastrophic Transmission Damage. Across louisiana more than 930,000 people have lost power. We have also had our first confirmed death, caused by this hurricane. A 60yearold Man was killed when a tree fell on his home, just south of Baton Rouge. Of course this catastrophic storms taking place during the pandemic, in a state that has one of the highest C