[bleep] leaving americans behind! [bleep] shannon: the panel standing by with reaction. look at new york city s crime prevention program that plans to pay at risk youth for things like getting their diploma or driver s license. a troubled liberal progressive city is sitting travel ban on texas. we will preview what will happen with the votes had to take place in a few hours. we begin with the president trying to push past afghanistan to his domestic policy agenda, ignoring questions from the press. today ignoring insults from angry folks in new jersey. white house correspondent kevin corke has the latest. great to be back with you. it s obvious that the white house desperately wants to change the subject to something else, anything else. with an unknown number of americans still stranded in afghanistan despite biden s promise to keep the troops there until all americans were evacuated, there is been and likely won t be any respite for americans angry and demanding answe
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 power
3,000 will be in place. deaths and devastation after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hits haiti. we see new harrowing images, new accounts of dead being pulled from rubble, people being treated in the open air. haiti s prime minister declaring a state of emergency as the u.s. geological survey warns of rising casualties and widespread destruction. hospitals overwhelmed by seriously ill patients as the delta variant tears across the country. the situation is dire, and we are simply out of time. we have zero icu beds left for children. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom on this busy saturday. the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan is taking a major turn right now. president biden a short time ago announcing he is sending a total of 5,000 troops to afghanistan. that is double the number of u.s. forces that were there when the president announced the u.s. exit four months ago. the additional troops are deploying to help get americans out as the cou
live, from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. we are tracking this breaking news out of afghanistan where the taliban have seized jalalabad. that s according to an afghan official. the last of the capital kabul, the only major city still controlled by the central government. we are, also, learning that the city has fallen. that means at least 24 of afghanistan s 34 provincial capitals are now in taliban hands. the news comes, as u.s. president joe biden has authorized sending a thousand more troops to afghanistan. that s on top of 4,000, already, cleared for deployment. they re meant to help get u.s. personnel and their allies out of the country, as the taliban offensive rolls on. now, that swift advance has triggered an exodus. thousands of people, trying to escape the taliban have fled to kabul and that s putting even more pressure on a weakened government, surrounded by enemies. cyril vanier has reported from inside afghanistan and for the latest, he
united states, canada, and around the world. i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. another, key afghan city, jalalabad, has fallen to the taliban. that makes the capital, kabul, the only major afghan city, still, under government control. we are also learning the taliban have seized nilli. that means at least 24 of afghanistan s 34 provincial capitals are in taliban hands. now, the loss of jalalabad is among the government s most crushing defeats, yet. this video appears to show the militants in the city, but cnn can t independently verify it. a local official says the city was surrendered without resistance. the taliban have been waiting on this moment, for almost two decades. u.s. president joe biden announced, last april, all u.s. forces would withdraw by september 11th and in just four months, the taliban have kabul, largely, surrounded. u.s. lawmakers want answers on how this was allowed to happen, and may get their chance to ask them. a source says, the secretar