♪ hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes. appreciate your company. coming up on "cnn newsroom," new york city declares a state of emergency as hurricane henri takes aim at the northeast. plus the delta variant spreading. young children can't get vaccinated, yet some governors are suing to prevent mask mandates in schools.

our top story now, more than 40 million people across the northeastern united states are under hurricane or tropical storm warnings right now. hurricane henri has been building strength over the atlantic and landfall is expected in the coming hours on either long island or southern new england. we've got live pictures to show you. this is from columbus circle near central park in new york. mayor bill de blasio declaring a state of emergency ahead of this storm saying in a news conference that heavy wind, rain, and storm surges are expected in the hours ahead. it certainly looks wet there in columbus circle. the mayor is urging everyone to stay indoors if they can. flash flood warnings are in effect for much of the new york city area, including newark and atlantic beach. have a look at what happened a few hours ago in central park. a massive crowd attending the "we love new york city" concert told to leave, go home.

they'd been enjoying the show until severe weather moved in, and here was the thing, lightning was reported nearby so that triggered the concert organizers to cancel it. they halted it and then called it off. as performers gathered in tents backstage, waiting out the storm, as cnn's live coverage continued, here's what happened. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> performers doing what performers do, an inprompt due performance caught on smartphone and beamed around the world. that's the killers by the way. the concert was officially canceled, new york's mayor tweeting, the safety of everyone in attendance had to come first. now let's head to the airports. the storm causing flight cancelations and lots of them. some 300 on saturday in new york and new jersey. more than 80 flights scheduled for sunday out of laguardia

airport in new york already canceled. in connecticut, both mandatory and voluntary evacuations have been posted across several coastal cities. and the state's governor encouraging others to shelter in place. in fact, across the northeast, millions of residents have been preparing for the storm for days. people have been removing boats from the water, boarding up their homes, and stocking up on food and essential items. emergency personnel and disaster response teams on high alert and prepositioned as well. listen as three state governors weigh in on the preparations. >> i feel confident saying to new yorkers that they could not be in better hands in terms of an experienced team. now that doesn't mean that mother nature doesn't win. she wins. she wins. she won at superstorm sandy, she wins every time. but we will be doing everything that we can do to be prepared.

>> we plan and prepare for the worst and hope we never have to use those plans. it may be in this particular time that will be the case. >> we're prepared for what could be a tough storm. we've got the folks on the ground, ready to hit the ground running and do everything we can to keep you safe. >> the u.s. president, joe biden, will be giving remarks and updates on the storm and also about afghanistan at 4:00 p.m. eastern time on sunday. cnn will, of course, carry that live. last hour i spoke with lieutenant commander robert mitchell. literally, he was flying through hurricane henri, aboard one of the hurricane hunter aircraft. here's how he's tracking the storm. >> every time we go into the storm, we're really just trying to measure the winds and the effects of the different dynamics of the storm as it's trying to grow and progress along its forecast track. what we try to do is provide information on the wind speed,

the rain rates, and the sea surface temperature to the forecasters at the national hurricane center. they can provide their forecast and updates and try to warn the public of where the storm is going. >> what's the ride been like on this trip? >> this storm has been uniquely bumpy. our flight yesterday was heavily influenced by some of the dry air that was coming in from the west. and so we had some of the strong est turbulence we've had in storms in years. all that dry air coming into the hurricane has caused a really tough ride for us to try to fly into the center and measure each of the quadrants of the storm to try to get a good picture of what the storm is trying to tell us. >> just explain that again. you get into the center, you're trying to measure what? >> yes, sir, we try to measure

all four quarters of the storm with sensors, including sensors that can measure directly the sea surface wind speeds as well as the dropson that measure the entire atmosphere. we try to get ourselves into the center of the storms to be able to mark exactly where that storm is so that the models have a way to project that out into the future. so we try to drop sensors on a dropson right at the center of the storm to measure central pressure and wind speeds to be able to feed that into the forecasters so they can make their forecast and figure out what the storm's doing. >> and how quickly, like from what you're doing right now, how quickly will that translate into information that we down here on the ground can use? >> so the information that we're gathering is sent realtime through satellite back to the

national hurricane center, and some of the forecasters, so by the time we land, that information is already being utilized in the forecasts to make those updates. >> these flights continue throughout the path of the storm? how long do they go on for? >> we've been doing this flights the last few days. each of our flights, current flight is going to be about nine hours long. and between us and the air force reserve squadron that flies in, we'll be in the storms continuously until landfall. >> and how rare is a storm like this for this part of the country? i was hearing there hasn't been one this strong in this part of the coast in decades, really. >> during the hurricane season, you always have to be prepared for storms like this. this storm on this track with the dry air coming in from the west, the last time that i flew on something like this was superstorm sandy. that was a much stronger storm.

and had much more organization prior to being impacted by some of the weather systems coming off the u.s. but this track is a kind of left-hand turn that is going to make the next day here somewhat rare. >> yeah, i covered sandy on the ground up there. i hope this is nothing like that. what a privilege to get to speak to you up there as you are gathering this information in realtime. lieutenant commander robert mitchell, really appreciate it, thank you so much. we've actually just learned that all beaches in east hampton and montauk in new york will be closed on sunday. let's bring in meteorologist tyler mauldin for more. with all that information we were getting from the lieutenant commander, you probably already got it. what is it telling you? >> you see the squiggly lines, looks like silly string? that's their flight path. it looks erratic, but there's strategy here.

they go into each quat rant, quat rant 1, 2, 3, 4. they go over the center. what they found was a 76-mile-per-hour wind, a healthy hurricane. maximum sustained winds there above 75, gusts as high as 90. it's moving to the north at exactly 21 miles per hour. and on this track it's going to continue to maintain that hurricane intensity. eventually making landfall near the connecticut/rhode island line, possibly eastern long island, as a strong tropical storm or category 1 hurricane. you see it already being picked up on the new york city radar. new york has been really taking it on the chin over the last several hours. all of this rain is streaming off of the system. here in new york, central park, we've picked up several inches. just in the entire area here, about 4 to 5 inches of rain in parts. in central park specifically, so far tonight we've picked up nearly 4 inches. we actually picked up nearly 2

inches in one hour. the detail rainfall record for august 21st is about 4.5 inches. we were close to seeing a daily record in a matter of hours. we're going to continue to see really heavy rainfall from long island, new york city, all the way up into possibly new hampshire. some of these, and this is going to be on the west side of the track. on the east side we're going to see storm surge. this record rainfall here, because some of us will be dealing with record rainfall as the system stalls out over new england. that's going to lead to the potential for an already saturated ground to become more saturated. you add in the tropical storm to hurricane-force winds here, we're definitely going to see some power outages across the region. i don't think this graphic here is bullish enough with those power outages. i think we could see hundreds of thousands without power when this is all said and done, michael. >> wow. fascinating to see the data from

the aircraft as well. nice job knocking that up, tyler, thank you, tyler mauldin, value-adding to our coverage. severe weather also causing devastation in middle tennessee. at least ten people have died during severe flash flooding. this was in humphries county which is about 60 miles west of nashville. the sheriff's office told a cnn affiliate two of the bodies they recover wednesday toddlers. more than two dozen are still missing. officials say around 50 national guard troops have now been deployed to help with rescue operations. at kabul's international airport, the crush of thousands of afghans and others hoping to be evacuated was always dangerous. well, now we learned it has indeed turned deadly. the uk's defense ministry says at least seven people have died among the swollen crowds trying

to escape the taliban. it's not known exactly what happened. some were apparently crushed to death. but one witness described the ongoing chaos. >> girls, elderly, kids. kids were suffocating, crying. on top of that, they're shooting right next to the kids. >> the british defense official reported fatalities among a crush of people just outside the airport and at another incident at a nearby hotel where a large crowd had also gathered. president biden is expected to address the deepening crisis later on sunday. u.s. officials estimating about 2,500 americans have been evacuated in the past week. but an unknown number are still in the country, and the u.s. embassy is now warping them not to come to the airport unless told to do so. growing fears are emerging that terrorists might try to attack the airport or that sea of

people surrounding the gates. because of the emerging security threat, the u.s. says it is setting up alternative routes in kabul to safely escort stranded americans and qualified afghans and foreign nationals to the airport. we have learned that the administration is now considering pressing u.s. commercial airlines to assist in this mammoth operation. the pentagon says military planners are constantly adjusting as circumstances change. >> we're fighting against both time and space. that's really what we're -- that's what we're -- that's the race that we're in right now. and we're trying to do this as quickly and as safely as possible. i'm not going to speculate about whether windows are closing or opening. we're focused on accomplishing this mission as fast as we can. >> and cnn is following all these developments from istanbul. it's interesting, you'd think

things would improve with time in terms of the logistics, but it seems there are just increasing problems at the airport and how to get people to s. >> reporter: michael, it's one week into this situation, and it's not only chaotic, it seems to be getting more dangerous by the day. so chaotic and so dangerous that the u.s. is now telling its citizens not to travel to the airport until they get a message notifying them that they should head to the airport. we have seen over the past few days those crowds outside the airport growing. you've got thousands of people who have converged on the airport. and not all of them qualify to get on these evacuation flights. you've got so many desperate afghans who are trying to flee the country. i mean, we saw that desperation tragically turn into death yesterday. according to the british m.o.d., as you mentioned, at least seven people, civilians, lost their

lives outside and around the airport's perimeter. and this is coming after reports we've gotten the past few days that at least 12 people lost their lives trying to get to the airport. and it's not just the risk of getting caught up in a stampede right now. we're hearing from u.s. officials saying that there's a strong possibility, they say that isis might be planning to carry out an attack. they don't give details about this alleged isis plot possibly to attack the airport, but they say it could involve car bombs, suicide bombs, or mortars. so they are concerned about this situation, and they say that they are working on alternate routes, access points, to get people into the airport. it's really not clear, michael, how they're planning to do this with very limited options of how to get into that airport. but what we do understand from

u.s. officials is that they are coordinating this with the taliban, they are working on this plan right now, and we also heard the u.s. officials saying that, look, there are no plans right now for them to go out and physically collect americans and bring them to the airport, but they've not rule the this out. we understand the state department has set up this task force to directly communicate with americans who want to leave the country, to try and coordinate these efforts. in all of this you've got afghans who worked, who helped, who associated with the u.s., who are watching all this and no matter what assurances they're hearing from u.s. officials telling them that they are also a priority, that they won't be left behind, there is a real fear amongst them that they will be left behind. and that window of opportunity to get out of that country seems to be coming to an end very soon with that deadline drawing near

for a full u.s. withdrawal on august 31st, 10 days to go michael. >> evacuating those afghans who worked with the u.s. starting months too late. ja jamona karachi in istanbul, thank you. covid cases are growing worse among children in the u.s. as passions flare over mask debates in schools. how kids are paying the price for pandemic politics. we'll have that coming up. from our darkest blacks, to our lightest blondes it nourishes while it colors. plus avocado, olive and shea. change a little, oror a lot. nutrtrisse. nourishehed hair. better color. by garnier, naturally! ♪ ♪ welcome to allstate. where everything just seems to go your way. ♪ ♪ you're in good hands with allstate. click or call for a lower auto rate today. shingles?

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kids quarantined. >> that seems like a lot. >> it is. >> scary? >> no, but one of my friends said that everyone around her was quarantined, so i'm pretty sure she was scared. >> are you worried you might be quarantined? >> maybe. >> reporter: at least 15 states have now mandated universal masking inside school buildings. following cdc guidelines for safer reopening amidst the delta surge. >> the masks are uncomfortable, but it's for safety. if i wear my mask, that means i get to see my friends. i'll just wear a mask. >> reporter: cdc data showing last week, the hospitalization rate for children is 33% higher than it was in january. the previous peak. as cases have stacked up, school systems have faced widespread quarantines and rushed to make policy changes. between the 1st and 13th of august, mississippi reported around 6,000 cases among students. 1,500 among staff. and that's just from the counties reporting data. mississippi leaders reinstituted

hybrid learning options. despite the urgency of these numbers, pandemic politics remain. in florida, the state board of education vowed to punish two school boards that passed mask mandated. other boards voted in mandates too, defying governor ron desantis, who opposes universal masking rules. >> it just -- if you look at your guidelines, if everybody wore the mask, from what i understand, there will be less quarantine, even if you had the same positive cases. >> reporter: more than 8,000 cases among students and staff have been reported in florida's largest school districts. more than 29,000 people have quarantined so far in just those districts. and the largest district, miami dade, hasn't started school yet. president biden has said he'll step in, vowing legal action to protect school leaders battling desantis over masks. >> we're not going to sit by.

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heavy rains from the storm that forced hundreds of flight cancelations in new york and new jersey. the national weather service says some areas could see flooding overnight. states of emergency declared in new york, connecticut, and rhode island. officials in other nearby states are also warning residents to prepare for potential impacts from the storm. let's bring in meteorologist tyler mauldin for the very latest. what are you seeing, tyler? >> it's been more than 30 years since we've had a direct landfall along long island, connecticut, or rhode island. however, henri is on its way, and it could wreck the record books for us. hurricane warning for long island, connecticut, rhode island. the areas shaded in blue, tropical storm warning. we're feeling impacts even though the system is way down to the south. however, it's going to quickly approach, and here's the timing with our future satellite radar image. we really begin feeling the strong bands push into massachusetts, rhode island by the time we get to 4:00 in the

morning tomorrow, or this morning, actually, 4:00 a.m. sunday. and it continues to push to the north, eventually makes landfall once we get to 2:00 in the afternoon. notice that new york continues to get socked by really heavy rainfall. we have already picked up multiple inches. and henri isn't even close yet. we'll continue to add to those totals. in fact, pretty much all of new england will continue to pick up really heavy rainfall. in addition, we have a full moon, so we have astronomical high tides, which is higher than normal tides because of the moon. then henri's approach is going to coincide with the regular high tide. for that reason we have storm surge warnings up for pretty much the entire coast of southern new england as well as the coastline of new york. we could see that storm surge get all the way up to five feet in spots. >> all right, tyler, thanks for the update, tyler mauled dip.

mauldin. ♪ all right, i want to go back to another one of our top stories, that is, of course, the fall of afghanistan. for years qatar played the role of middleman between the u.s. and the taliban. it hosted peace talks between the two groups, and it has been home to taliban negotiators and u.s. troops. cnn's sam kiley sat down with qatar's foreign minister to discuss his country's legacy in the taliban takeover. >> reporter: no western ally has as much experience with the taliban leadership than qatar. this tiny gas-rich nation already hosts the vast american air base and command center at al adade, and it's used in operations against the militants. but it's also hosted and mediated the peace deal between the u.s. and taliban under the

trump administration that arguably set the timetable for american withdrawal, afghan government collapse, and taliban victory. sheikh mohammad allal danny, foreign kun administer, was in there. >> do you regret the process that listened the rise of the taliban? >> list ning a process to save lives of people, i think this will never happen for us, as long as what we are doing with good faith as a country, trying to save lives of people, even if we save a single life, we were trying the last mile, we put it this way, in order to have any negotiation between them and the government. but unfortunately the events occurred very quickly after the departure of the afghan

president and the situation over there. >> reporter: qatar is now the leading diplomatic connection to the taliban in kabul. >> we are trying our best to push them to stress on them the importance of acting and behaving as an engaging party over there, as part of afghan society. but we cannot predict what their action will be until they come back to us with a year answer. we didn't sense from them a rejection of these ideas that we put forward for them. but we didn't also hear from them an acceptance for these ideas yet. you need to engage, you need to agree on a peaceful resolution over there, a form of power sharing that everybody is presented, protect the minorities' rights, protect the basic human rights for the people, the women, the right of education, all these things. this is what qatar is standing

for. other than that, then not only qatar but the rest of the international community cannot help. >> you've still got a very important embassy, one of the few functioning in kabul. are they really listening? i detect in your response when you say, well, they haven't rejected us. but nor are they accepted the broad ideas of moderation, that there is -- you know these people, there is a real concern that we might see a return to sort of medieval-type rule that we saw 20 years ago. >> none of us, i think, wants to see afghanistan to be such a country. what we can judge right now is the current activities on the ground. the current activities on the ground, until now, we've been facilitating the evacuation. >> do you think they're men who

can still control their own movement? can they still control their own movement? >> well, i don't know exactly like for taliban, but any group, any military group, they always have their differences and disagreements among them. and you won't see them, you know, having the same approach and the same attitude. and i'm sure that the people who are here negotiating are different also than the people who are there. >> reporter: amid the chaos unfolding at kabul's airport, where thousands are trying to escape, qatar is using its local influence to help people get out. >> we hope that this evacuation will not take a long time, but i think to remain for a week or two. >> reporter: no matter how hard qatar has worked alongside its allies, the route across kabul to even get to the airport is becoming an even more dangerous gamble. sam kiley, cnn, doha, qatar. the u.s. has spent 20 years

in war in afghanistan and has poured $145 billion into the effort. supporting the afghan government, training security forces, building infrastructure. now the watchdog agency, the special inspector general for afghan reconstruction, has been analyzing all of this for years, really, and the latest report dissects the failures in state craft and nation-building that led to the taliban takeover of afghanistan. now the nonprofit journalism organization propublica has been tracking how the u.s. has spent money on trying to build democracy in the country and also found billions of wasted dollars. megan rose is a reporter for propublica. she joins me now from washington, d.c. and you've written a lot about what we're about to discuss. the inspector general has for some time put a spotlight on government financial missteps in

afghanistan. this was particularly sharp criticism. i think they said clumsy and ignorant. what do you was the headline in terms of the culture of how money was used or wasted? >> i think you hit it on the head right there. the fact that there was no coherent strategy was the underlying theme of that report. they just did not have a plan going forward with what it was they were trying to accomplish. that was always changing. how they were going to do it, how were they going to figure out if it was successful, how they were going to make it sustainable. there was just never a plan. so 20 years and $145 billion and nobody really had a place of where they were trying to get, other than this grand idea of, let's make it better and more stable. >> yeah, in many cases, no idea where it went. i've seen myself in afghanistan and iraq, for that matter, where there was almost a hubris or an unintentional arrogance in assuming that we know best what

the locals need, often without asking the locals in a meaningful way. i saw a school get rebuilt three times because every time it was finished, the taliban destroyed it again. what were the main failures in terms of goals and executions? >> so that was a big thing, never talking to the afghans. they didn't have a stake at the table, or there wasn't a consideration to, if this is a good project, can it be maintained? can they afford it? and unfortunately, the answer was almost unequivocally always, no. and so we would go forward with these projects regardless of whether or not the taliban was going to come through and destroy it or if it was going to fall into disarray because the nascent government didn't have the know-how to keep it built up. a good example is hospitals. you see throughout the country we would build these great big

hospitals, and they didn't have the doctors to staff it. they often didn't have the need for these modern hospitals in these areas. because we built them where the u.s. military happened to be standing, not because there was an overall strategy of, here's the best places to build a hospital. >> it's head-shaking. i know you mentioned in your article a $335 million power plant that the afghans couldn't afford to run. i think one of the saddest aspects of the report is it identified, i don't know, little appetite to change course. i mean, the beast had been created, and it ran and ran, and that, in fact, was in many ways counterproductive. it fueled corruption and created insecurity. >> yes. yeah, we were almost always our solution to when things weren't working was, more money, bigger projects. just pour in more resources. and then, of course, all of this influx of cash was not being funneled correctly or it was going to warlords who would then use it to enrich themselves, it

was sometimes going directly to the taliban. and so we just saw insecurity increase. we always -- often had the opposite effect of what we were trying to accomplish. >> and i wanted to ask you this. you personally and propublica have look the at this issue for years. in 2015, propublica identified $17 billion in likely wasted money. six larceny years later, it seems not much was done. were you surprised that despite the criticism all along the way, the waste and misuse and corruption basically continued unabated? >> it is pretty flabbergasting. you'd think having a special inspector general whose entire goal is to look at how things are going in realtime and give you feedback would lead to some sort of changes. but it hasn't. we did this big reporting and didn't see much reaction at all. iraq had the same kind of

special inspector general and the same lessons learned report that came out in 2013. that did not impact anything that was done in afghanistan. you know, quite frankly, we had after action-type analysis of vietnam that seemed to have gone into the ether. and so despite the outrageous headlines and the waste of money and the tragedy that's happening in the afghanistan streets right now, as the security forces we poured $83 billion into training have completely disappeared, we just see this happening again and again. now is actually one of the biggest critiques in this latest inspector general report is that we have no plan for keeping this from happening the next time we go into a country like this. >> it's head-shaking, isn't it? terrific article in "propublica." megan rose, really appreciate it, thanks so much. >> thank you. a grim task more than a week after that devastating earthquake hit haiti.

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♪ it has been more than a week since that devastating earthquake struck haiti, but in some areas survivors are still bidding final good-byes to the loved ones they lost. what you're seeing there is a funeral held for four members of the same family on saturday. the victims included a 90-year-old woman and three children. the grief too much for some mourners, who collapsed during the ceremony. the earthquake struck august 14, killing more than 2,100 people. the earthquake has also left more than 12,000 haitians injured. but those who can get proper medical care are lucky, because hospitals in the earthquake zone are now flooded with far more patients than they can possibly handle.

the most seriously injured are being evacuated to the capital, port-au-prince. as joe johns reports, they have terrible stories to tell. >> reporter: the helicopter convoy bringing the most seriously injured from the earthquake zone to port-au-prince, haiti, running from sunup to sundown. today they're greeted by a surgeon, a broken bone specialist, who quickly evaluates their condition. the 7.2-magnitude earthquake left more than 2,000 people dead and over 12,000 people injured, causing hospitals in haiti to be completely overwhelmed. a short distance by air from la caille to port-au-prince, but getting here can be a slow process. this 23-month-old girl suffered a laceration running from thigh to ankle in saturday's earthquake. when she finally was flown into the capital, her leg was badly infected. >> took a long time to get her here.

it about three days. the facilities are pretty good, it's the issue that they are dealing with in the countryside. >> reporter: many of the patients coming in, children. >> translator: as i was sleeping, the bed was shaking. and then i ran. and there was a brick in front of me that fell on my feet. >> reporter: from the airport, ambulances fan out across the city, taking the patients to hospitals that should best suit their needs. here at the hospital run by doctors without borders on the west side of town, where the staff have been dealing with more than just the rapidly filling beds. >> translator: the hardest part is when a staffmember knows or sees a patient to whom they may be related, and it's tougher for them. >> reporter: the stories of the patients, heart-wrenching.

"my first son died next to me," this mother of four says. she lost not one but two sons in the earthquake. both dying right next to her when their house collapsed on top of them. she was pinned in the rubble for hours before being rescued. >> translator: when they started digging and they made a hole, i grabbed one of the people's feet so they knew i was alive. >> reporter: after being pulled from the rubble, her right leg was amputated. but she says her spirit is unbroken. >> translator: i have a sister and a mother who are living in the states. i want them to know to stay strong, because god is giving, god will take away. >> reporter: joe johns, cnn, port-au-prince, haiti. >> incredible courage. you can find out how to help the people of haiti suffering from this earthquake. go to cnn.com/impact. plenty of good, reliable resources there to look into.

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unicef says 1 billion children around the world are at extremely high risk from the impacts of climate change. a new report shows that young people are facing direct threats from extreme weather conditions, like cyclones, heat waves, and droughts. and it's putting those kids and their futures in danger. kim brunhuber reports. >> reporter: across the globe, an entire generation faces a dire threat. now, their voices demand to be heard. >> we have gone for so long having these conferences with only coming up with empty promises and -- and empty, vague plans. >> reporter: young activists voicing their frustration after the united nations children agency, unicef, published a new index friday. it finds that almost all of the world's 2.2 billion children will suffer from the climate

crisis. its impacts range from toxic air to catastrophic floods to detrimental heat waves. >> in order to -- to really change things, and to find solutions to the actual climate crisis, not only just -- not just to the symptoms of the climate crisis. we need to go to the root of the climate crisis and we need to treat it as a crisis. unless the people in power are willing to do that now, then it will just continue like now. >> reporter: the index was launched in partnership with the youth-led climate movement spearheaded by swedish climate activist, greta thunberg, who's been rallying students from around the world to demand more action. the index finds that half of the globe's children live in countries at extremely high risk. the ten nations most exposed are in africa, which illustrates a disconnect, the index says, between where most greenhouse gases are emitted and where young people face the worst impacts. >> climate change come from agriculture-based society. we are struggling to -- to

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hurricane henri forced the big apple to cancel what was supposed to be a big night of fun. ♪ rapper ll cool j there, before organizers had to pull the plug on the "we love new york concert" on saturday. bruce springsteen, paul simon, and other top names were set to perform before this vaccinated and tested crowd to celebrate new york's comeback through the pandemic. but the concert was cut short during barry manilow's set and then cancelled after nearby lightning strikes. with hurricane henri hovering offshore, organizers sent people home saying too dangerous to continue. bummer. thanks for spending part of your day with me. i'm michael hoelmes.

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