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Were killed out in the attack outside kabuls airport. more than 170 afghans killed as well. the u.s. president joe biden traveling to dover airforce base in delaware where the bodies of those service members were returned to the u.s. were following developments from hong kong and white house reporter jasmine wright joining us now from washington. we begin with you though anna. another u.s. strike in kabul. what more do we know about it, the casualties, and at this late point how many more americ...

Who were not or came in later in on. >> the focus of the rally, what were the expectations for this rally? what were people in the white house saying was going to happen at this rally? what were they playing? did they play with the timing for any reason to perhaps coincide with the counting of the elector al votes? thats the kind of questions that the investigators are look at from a procsecutorial standpoint. >> understood. always good to have you on. thank you. >> an attempted rocket attack on...

Well be live with our correspondent in kabul. also in our programme... warnings of life threatening floods in the southern united states — as hurricane ida hits — the most powerful storm since katrina to land in the area. president biden had this warning. this is going to be a devastating, devastating hurricane. a life—threatening storm. china limits the amount of time young people can game online — to just three hours a week. teenagers are up in arms — but reports suggest parents not ...

Said to be a rocket attack streets away from kabul airport. it may have been the target. the us says it unleashed a drone strike, too, hitting a vehicle of suicide bombers heading to the airport. gunfire. and next to the airfield, gunfire. this, a likely salvo from taliban guards struggling to control the crowds. machine gun fires. today, military flights are still taking off, but britains airlift has ended. not long now before america packs up, too. in a fleeting twilight, afghans hold fast to ...

Item now tropical storm, was ens and powerful. lashing the gulf coast with torrential rains and high winds. the entire city of new orleans is without electrical power. more than 1 million people. so far at least one death blamed on the storm but that number were told could grow as the full scope of the tragedy is known today. at the same time, we are watching afghanistan. where we are now just hours away from the august 31st deadline for troop withdrawal and getting americans out. president bide...

Theyre most vulnerable. thats what isis-k is trying to exploit with that kind of rocket attack. >> thank you so much. were watching as this final -- the final moments of this operation tick down. thank you so much. joining me for more is the senator -- there were as many as five rockets fired at the kabul airport overnight. whats your reaction to that? >> its very clear that the threat level remains very high in the final moments of our evacuation process. >> and thats exactly what we heard from...

Impact. d.o.d. stands ready to assess as requested by fema. thank you. >> okay. >> dont have anything to add so were go to questions. lena. >> general, one quick follow up and then a question. the -- did they strike and hit all of the five rockets or did some land in areas where there is no casualties? >> so we could assess the reporting from last nights rocket attack, we assessed that five rockets were in the air and went, three landed off the airfield, were no effect and c-ram was able to effe...

Get at least promises behind the scenes of taliban of some sort of dangling a cooperation with regard to repatriation of americans, this is an unholy brotherhood that needs to be looked -- brood that needs to be look into. >> until we get to august 31 deadline. >> you may see another rocket attack. i would be surprised if there is not. depends on how much intelligence taliban is passing to us. real problem begins september 1. that is when afghanistan is fully under taliban control. hundreds of a...

Philadelphia, certainly pittsburgh over the next couple days. there is the heavy rain. everywhere thats orange is 4 to 6 inches. 20 to 4, a little less in the yellow. we have wind. not big wind like yesterday, but we still have 40 miles per hour gusts, 23 in evergreen. pensacola, 37 last hour. that was likely with a thunderstorm. >> chad, its good to see you. thank you so much. coming up, u.s. stops a rocket attack aimed at kabuls airport hours before the u.s. withdrawal deadline. the latest o...

Although we continued the outreach and wouldve been prepared to bring them on until the very last minute. but none of them made it to the airport and were able to be accommodated. we brought some of it out, and we demilitarized some of it. youre very much aware, of course, of the rocket attack that occurred yesterday where five rockets were fired at the airfield. our crams were very effective in engaging the two rockets from falling on the airfield. we elected to keep those systems in operation ...