Requirement by august 31st. And judges in texas and florida push back against bans on mask mandates. The School Districts are violating state law. Parents rights are very important, but theyre not without some reasonable limitation. Im Pamela Brown in washington. You are in the Cnn Newsroom on this saturday evening. A monster named ida. The hurricane is intensifying quickly and drawing chilling comparisons to katrina. Ida is charging straight toward louisiana right now, and its due to make Landfall Tomorrow as a categoryfour storm. Near New Orleans and on the 16th anniversary of katrinas catastrophic siege of the Gulf Coast. Louisianas governor says ida will be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the state since the 1850s. Parts of louisiana are under mandatory evacuation orders, and time is quickly running out to escape the impact zone. Mississippi, which was also ravaged by katrina, the governor has declared a state of emergency. The national Weather Service is warning that ida co
President said the threat remains very high, could be the highest now as its been in this entire Evacuation Mission given that there are still thousands of u. S. Troops on the ground. So the president has continued to be updated every single day this week by his national security team. This morning was no different. They spent about an hour and a half in the situation room. And the white House Readout of that meeting is pretty blunt, saying that the president was told that right now the threat of an attack is, quote, highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours. He said the situation on the ground continues to be extremely dangerous and of course the threat of Terrorist Attack still remains high. Thats something theyre monitoring very closely as they continue the evacuations. Its not clear how long the evacuations will Go On, theyve said they will Go On until The End but were told they will be reduced while they pull out resources and weaponry. That will be the next big phase of this. Of c
Uk. last saturday, an afghan mother gave birth on a u.s. military evacuation plane just after it landed in germany. the next hour of cnn newsroom starts right now. now is the time to leave. the national weather service warning some areas could be uninhabitible for weeks or months as hurricane ida barrels toward the gulf coast. pay attention and be prepared. have supplies for your household on hand. the u.s. strikes back for the kabul bombing that killed 13 u.s. service members. the two high-profile isis targets were killed, zero civilian casualties. meantime, the mission to get american forces and their allies out of afghanistan reaches its final phase. we continue to evacuate american citizens and vulnerable afghans to meet the mission