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The u.s. estimates, they will be wrapping up, heading home and that will be said and done. neil? >> neil: just incredible, trey. thanks very much. the white house is saying that 6,000 americans have been evacuated from afghanistan. i assume that is since the taliban took over. so doing the rough math, of the 115,000 that have been airlifted, 6,000 were americans and the rest presumably afghan nash names or friends of the united states. im sure they will update us on the figures. i apologize for ...

0 tonight before dumping rain in tennessee and ohio river valleys tomorrow. theres flash flooding and mudslides along the way. we wish those people well and a quick recovery in a very difficult situation. thanks nor being with us today for "the story," august 30, 2021. the "the story" continues tomorrow. see you back here. >> neil: thank you, martha, very much. were on top of two storms gripping the world right now. certainly our part with the flooding and damage and winds and still more floodin...

Saw as many people did the leaves that failed. in the years since then there have been a lot of improvements throughout the state of louisiana, right here in houma weve seen improvements on levees. we saw improvements on levees in the ninth ward. in chauvin, there is much improved floodgate there. its about 15 feet. most of the levees around here stand at about 12 feet. you look at some of the dire predictions of hurricane ida, storm surge from 10 to 15 feet. you can do the math and see there co...

We can also tell you that your window of time is closing. it is rapidly closing. and just like we said yesterday, by the time you go to bed tonight you need to be where you intend to ride this storm out. >> reporter: unfortunately, this area is no stranger to strong hurricanes. they are very familiar, of course, benchmark storms being katrina. we cant forget about the year of 2020 where four named storms wreaked havoc on the state of louisiana. remember that completely altered the natural barrie...

The area of concern. the area that had 136-mile-per-hour wind gusts, this band, you bring that northwards, and thats going to get very close to new orleans in the next couple hours. thats just one of the things were watching. it is slowly weakening. it was 150 at landfall, which was now almost five hours ago, and now its at 130. so still a strong category 3 hurricane. and they had it going north-northwest at about 10 miles per hour. i was doing some math from when it made landfall to where it is...

>> literally in moments ago. those wind gusts up to 185 miles per hour. it now makes it a high-end category 4 storm, only 7 miles an hour off from being a category 5. hurricane hunters, not one, but two different missions are out, investigating this storm, taking as many measurements as they can, before this storm makes landfall. its expected to be around noon local time or 1:00 p.m. eastern time today in louisiana. it is expected to strengthen further. theyre actually calling for landfall to be...

What number theyre at at the moment. of course, the evacuation operations are beginning to slow dramatically. the last 12-hour period, if my math is correct, had about 900 people flown out, despite the sheer number of aircraft that are going into the airport, it seems that theyre more involved in the retrograde process, the packing up and bringing them out. in the next 48 hours, 72 hours, well see the last american soldier leaf afghanistan after americas longest war which will be, frankly, a mon...

Area. you have to get about 50 plus to start getting the down trees and thats when the power outages begin. most have been new orleans southward. that will be expanding as the storm system moves on shore. it made landfall with winds of 150 miles an hour. that makes it, it ties it for the strongest ever landfall in louisiana. it ties laura from last year and you have to go back to 1856 for the last one that was 150. you can do the math on that.

They are really banking on that doing its job to keep the water at bay. just to give you a comparison, the surrounding levees in and around the parish stand at about 12 feet. when you look at the dire predictions, the storm surge could be anywhere between 10 and 15 feet. you do the math and you can see why theres so much concern. again, emergency officials say that even for those 12-foot levees that are backup levees that are in place that werent in place before that they are hoping do the job. ...

For those of us who are elected, we need to be here for dealing with the after math when it happens. and, you know, we have a lot of elderly people in new orleans and also people who cannot afford to leave town. so we have to be here for when they needed it and we also need to be here to make sure that when our first responders come in, there are people ready to greet them. >> from covering these i know how many folks sometimes ignore those evacuations, you know, they saw listen, ive been throug...