I m phil mattingly in for boris sanchez. Good morning, phil. I m christi paul. We re tracking ida, the category 1 expected to rapidly expand today. Mandatory evacuations are in place. The latest on the track and potential impacts are coming down. Plus, breaking news out of afghanistan overnight as the u. S. Retaliates against isisk for that suicide attack that kills 13 u. S. Service members. What we re learning about that air strike and the evacuations still ongoing. Also, delta danger. Troubling new details just how contagious the new domestic nent variant is. One state reports its highest coronavirus case count since the pandemic began. Plus, the texas house approves that draft of new voting restrictions after democrats return to the state, breaking gridlock over the issue. Could that controversial bill soon be headed to the governor s desk? good morning. Welcome to your new day. Saturday, august 28th. Christi, i m struck by just how significant the news is right now. How important s
Evacuated so far and are there any left to go? that s the update we are waiting to hear any moment now. We did here from the pentagon this morning so far 4400 american passport numbers have been evacuated from afghanistan since this effort began about 10 days ago. The big question they did not answer and is going to be up to secretary blinken to answer is how many are left. That has been a really big focus of this, is making sure every single american gets out. President biden and his national security advisor had both voiced confidence that, yes, they do think they can get every american out by the 31st. We ll be waiting to see what those numbers look like. I anticipate it will be fairly small. One reason the who i saite hous declined to offer those numbers is they said it was so fluid, it was changing by the hour. We didn t get a number on evacuations until the pentagon confirmed yesterday. It s up to 4400 today. We ll wait to hear from secretary blinken. Thank you very much for that
Worstcase scenario. Taliban rout across the country. One that ended with mujahadin inside the palace and chanting death to america. 3:45 p. M. Eastern time in washington the american president joe biden plans to address the nation. That after a weekend of silence as americans watched an american retreat and american embarrassment. Describe the scene you are seeing at that airport, nick patonwalsh. The american investment was so palpable and this extraordinary modern place and contractors came in on dozens of flights a day and now over run by people to reach a civilian flight unaware that those have been cancelled and racing towards u. S. Cargo planes to get on any way they possibly could and rendering the system the americans set up here to try to get out afghan who assisted them. Many thought when they announced tens of thousands of afghans out that you never would see chaos but these sorts of scenes are startling and led to u. S. Suspension of flights. I ve seen flares must be helico
We have fought too long and too hard. 21st century jim crow assault is real. More than a dozen states have already passed gopbacked bills that make it harder to vote. We have grit, we have resolve, and we are determined to find a solution. They have fled the state specifically to come to washington because washington is the one place this disaster in texas, and this disaster in every other state where republicans are rolling back voting rights can be fixed. Texas democrats will use everything in our power to fight back. Your vote matters. Your vote is your power. Good evening, and welcome to this msnbc special presentation, the texas democrats. I m joined by my colleague jonathan capehart in washington. Hi, lawrence. So, as you know, tonight is a little different than we had planned. And, as you know, more than 50 texas democrats effectively shut down a special session of the texas legislature in order to stop passage of a republican voter suppression bill. And they did this by coming
Their bills in the committees, take them out to the senate floor. There s a lot of weeks involved, but the big deal, the huge deal is that bernie sanders got an agreement of all the budget community members, which really represents the whole senate in that way, and now he has his agreement extends to nancy pelosi, and as far as you can tell, every democratic member of the house. That s what we were talking about last night, is this just a small group in the senate, this budget committee who agrees, or do they go outside the committee, make sure nancy pelosi s on board, you know, obviously make sure chuck schumer is on board, the presidents on board, and the out they did that. Nancy pelosi was surprised last night to see what that agreement was. She was in line, everybody was in line. Bernie sanders did a masterful job to make sure everyone was in line before he brought this to the public spotlight. Lawrence, your irreplaceable. You can never quit your job, you can never do anything els