what he said he's going to do. >> it is striking to hear that same wording 20 years apart as we're trying to get out of afghanistan as we were just about to enter afghanistan as well. ambassador, thank you for your time. i appreciate it. thank you all so much for being with us today. i'm kate bolduan. welcome to our viewers around the world. i'm anderson cooper in new york. this hour the pentagon warns of a specific credible and imminent threat to the kabul airport. that's 24 hours after the terror attack made august 26th, 2021. the single deadliest day of the war for americans in more than a decade. a blast outside the airport blamed by isis-k killed scores of afghans. there was one explosion. the pentagon said initially they believed there were two. two flights landed in germany

carrying u.s. personnel. biden promises no forgiveness for the perpetrators of the attack. we will hunt you down and make you pay, he said. the pentagon insisting the american mission will end on august 31st. the big concern, another attack could derail the effort to get out. 5,400 or so people are said to be waiting for their turn at the airport tarmac or on the tarmac as of this morning. 89 total flights loaded with 12,500 evacuees managing to escape since thursday. cnn is covering the developments from all angles both in the united states and around the world. sam kylie is in qatar. he spent much of the week reporting in and around the airport. sam, what is the situation as far as we know at the airport right now? >> the numbers gathering around the airport are way down. way down for two reasons.

obviously in the first instance because of this catastrophic terrorist attack. 13 americans dead. at least 90 killed according to the afghan health authorities. more than 100 afghans wounded. 15 -- 18 americans wounded. amidst of all this horror, this is an obviously disincentive to go to the airport. on top of that the taliban put on a harder perimeter. they are already -- already had a policy of trying to stop afghans from getting to the airport. it's actually almost bemusing to anybody's managing to get through and get through the gates at all. but we do know from the pentagon that the evacuation process is continuing for those who are managing to get through, albeit in much lower numbers. >> and at this point, i mean, can afghans -- i mean, are there still afghans gathered around the funnel points to try to get into various gates? i know you said the numbers are

greatly reduced. do we know is it still the same situation of afghans getting there and then being searched by u.s. marines and others and army? >> the process varies from day today and if the gates are open. at a gate where we understand the atrocity was committed is firmly closed. they're expected to be leaving over the next 24 hours or even as we speak. there's 1,000 british forces as part of the multinational evacuation effort there. add other gates we've got reports that members of the afghan national army and the afghan special forces who are still part of the coalition, still themselves, hoping to be evacuated toward the end of the operation. they've been flowing flash bang grenades to try to drive people back from the gates. they are running their own sort

of private evacuation processes for friends and family that they can get to the gate. they have their own methods. and equally, the taliban have been employing some of their own crowd control methods which frequently involve shooting in the air. so it's a highly fraught environment. it's almost amazing that there wasn't a fire fight or more of a catastrophe when that gunman opened fire, following the bombing at abbey gate. the pentagon reported a gunfire from there. the troops seemed to show a great deal of discipline in not spraying the crowd and not firing back. and equally the taliban use of gunshots to drive people back. we've seen recent video of that, equally a problem. but equally not seeming to send up the level of already high tensions. extraordinary. >> yeah. sam, appreciate it. barbara star is at the pentagon

where a news conference wrapped up a short time ago. talk about what we learned about the u.s. mission in afghanistan this morning. >> reporter: the pentagon taking great pains to say that the threat from isis-k does continue. that it is serious. that they are looking at it around the clock and trying to be ready if, in fact, there are more attacks. now, they are pressing for additional force protection measures at the airport, and in no small part, pressing the taliban to push the perimeter back to close roads. they're having some success with that but not giving us specifics about what the taliban agreed to. the question is why weren't the measures in place perhaps before the attack yesterday? the pentagon addressed that question. >> we're going to do the forensics on this, barb. clearly try to figure out what went wrong, because clearly something went wrong. but it would be irresponsible if we didn't act immediately to just double down and make sure

that we were -- that we were being as anticipatory as possible. because we still believe there are credible threats. in fact, i'd say specific credible threats. and we want to make sure we're prepared for those. >> reporter: and can they meet the president's promise of retaliation against the perpetrators of the attack? the top general at that briefing said the u.s. military, of course, does have the capability to do that. but i think it's quite clear that what they are still trying to do is find tune, develop the intelligence about exactly where isis-k perpetrators may be and develop some kind of plan. how do you get to them? that is the big question. anderson? >> barbara, interesting that the u.s. now says that there was one, it was one blast. >> yes. they took -- they also did correct that record. and you know, this is why we always point out when there are these incidents, attacks, very often the first reports, quite

frankly, can be wrong or incomplete. a lot of it is based on eyewitnesss and what people think they may have seen or heard. today, now, they say they are quite convinced there was only one suicide bomber at the gate. there was not another explosion at the nearby hotel. >> yeah. barbara, thanks. sam, i want to go back to qatar. the death toll we got in from an official. the death toll according to official has increased for afghans to more than 170 dead. more than 200 wounded. it really gives you a sense just of the power of this blast, the horror of it, and how crowded that area must have been. >> reporter: yeah. incredibly dense number of people to surround a single suicide bomber. bounded by the blast walls we were talking about yesterday which without being too gory about it means that shrapnel and the blast wave itself will bounce back and forward,

concentrating the power of the blasts and killing and wounding even more people. but even taking that into account, and adding in, of course, 170 plus 13 americans murdered in this attack, 183 people killed by one single suicide bomber with this vest. it indicates just how maliciously corp. tent groups like isis-k and isis more widely are. they have been able to bring in the sorts of skills that they developed in syria and elsewhere around the world. a lot of those skills, of course, learned in the originally from hezbollah in south lebanon passed on through iraq and further refined over the years and years of mass murder and terrorism into this sort of mass atrocity. i mean, 170 afghans, 13 americans killed. nearly 200 afghans wounded. more than a dozen americans also

wounded. an astro mom cal number of people from a single attack. the pentagon said there was gun following the initial explosion. some people would have been injured or killed by that wave of gunfire, but the gunmen would have been driven off or killed pretty quickly. an extraordinary level of mass murder, even by the standards of the islamic state. the last massive atrocity was the double bombing at a girl's shia hazara school? kabul involving two car bombs there. another series of mass casualties there. this is the sort of thing they like going in for and this will be a major blow to the efforts of the taliban trying to put across the idea that they are capable and responsible new government. >> yeah. sickening new death toll. sam, appreciate it. cnn national security correspondent is at the state

department for us. let's talk about the threat that the u.s. believes isis-k now continues to pose. >> yeah. i mean, very clearly stated from the pentagon in that briefing just now. isis-k continues to pose an imminent threat to the u.s. mission in kabul at the airport there. multiple attacks. that's the typical pattern that we see from isis-k according to the commander who spoke yesterday after this explosion occurred. and just to give folks an idea for who isis-k is, this terrorist group that we are talking about who conducted this terrorist attack, they operate in central asia. primarily pakistan and afghanistan right now. they were first formed, however, in iraq and syria. that was in 2015. we know that they're ranked the fourth deadliest terrorist group in 2018. significant, 77 attacks in the first four months of this year alone. and there was a car bombing outside a girl's school in may that sam kylie referenced.

that killed at least 85 people. the group relies heavily on suicide bombings. and we should also note that there were some isis-k fighters who were released from prisons on the outskirts of kabul when the taliban took the country under control. we don't know exactly how many of those isis-k fighters were released from the prisons but the pentagon press secretary just said a short while ago that number is in the thousands. so there are more fighters that have been released into the country just in recent weeks. anderson? >> also what is the latest from the state department about how these evacuations are now being run? obviously there's probably a level of detail they don't want to get into now, but what do we know? >> yeah. i mean, for operational security reasons, they aren't giving us a whole lot of detail as to what it looks like when they are saying that they are getting americans safely out of the country, safely to the airport. what we do know is that the

security around the airport right now isn't safe. they're telling americans still to stay away from the crowds that are outside the airport. they told them that before the explosions happened. that's still standing. what we do know is they are working on ways behind the scenes to get americans safely to the airport. but because of the security situation on the ground right now, they're not telling us a whole lot of details, but what we do know is that they're nearing the final phases of that right now. they're going to have to turn pretty soon from evacuation mode to complete withdrawal mode. anderson? >> i appreciate it. let's check in with our senior white house correspondent at the white house. what more is the biden administration saying? >> reporter: i was struck in listening to my colleagues, how they laid out the complexity and fluidity and scale of the current threat that u.s. officials are staring at right now. it gives you a sense of what the president and his national security team are grappling with

this morning. it was the same group that was just starting to sit down just 24 hours ago when the explosion went off. they had to brief the president then. they are still grappling with the fallout of that explosion. but white house officials i've spoken to while they made clear yesterday was a somber and tense day, that they don't have much time right now to sit and think. to sit and try to figure out what happened or what went wrong because of the issues that they're dealing with at this moment. kylie laid out the scale of the evacuation that still needs to transpire and the extraordinarily limbited time window. obviously the terrorist threat, u.s. officials have been unequivocal about how real it is. when you talk to white house officials, they reiterate that over and over again. somebody just a couple hours ago said it's not an if, it's a win. it's kind of the perspective they have at this current moment. and then you have a president who made clear that the u.s. was going to strike back. that there would be repercussions for the attacks. that's something in play.

officials over here made a couple things clear. one, while the president hinted they had some idea of who was behind the attack, beyond the obvious nature of the terror group, that's a process playing out in terms of identifying and locating. they believe they have the capability to conduct a strike if the information is there to do so, right now the expectation is this may be something that has to happen after the withdrawal. it all underscores that in a matter of days the administration is dealing with right now, they have all the issues on their plate. no clear or easy answers. and obviously, a terror threat that is as real as it ever has been in the wake of the worst loss of u.s. military personnel in more than a decade. and certainly the only loss of military personnel due to hostile action since the president took action. >> i understand the president is

meeting with strisrael's prime minister? >> we expect to hear from the president in what's call a spray. the leader lay out remarks befo beforehand. this is the first time we've seen the president since his remarks last night. obviously everyone is hanging on every word given what's at stake. we'll keep you posted on if the president weighs in when reporters are in the room for the meeting. >> appreciate it at the white house. coming up, will future terror threats pull the united states back to afghanistan. leon panetta says yes. >> he documented the aftermath of yesterday's attack. today he's covering funerals. i'll speak to a photographer in afghanistan right now. riends. pay as low as $25 a month. or bring a friend and you both get a month for $5. so the more people you roll with, the more you save. visible. unlimited data as low as $25 a month. or bring a friend and you both get a month for $5. you need an ecolab scientific clean here.

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welcome back to our special coverage of afghan and the evacuations following the explosion. the death toll increased to more than 170 afghans. the pentagon officials warning of potential future attacks from isis-k which claim responsibilities for yesterday's attack. joining me now is our correspondent jim sciutto and cedric lleyton, retired air force colonel. jim, the threats make this evacuation effort even more difficult, more dangerous. in terms of actually retaliating, as president biden has said that the u.s. will, that at a place and time of their choosing, that i guess gives him some wiggle room, but the options for retaliating are made all the more difficult by the withdrawal of u.s. forces. >> no question. this will be a test of the president's reliance now on what you've heard him describe as over the horizon options.

in other words, because you don't have u.s. military boots on the ground, you don't have u.s. intel assets on the ground. you also don't have airfields anymore to fly the drones and other aircraft from a close distance. you have to do all of that from over the horizon. bill burns testified recently saying we have less capability. we can't get the same intel without being up close and personal as it were. so as the president has made this vow and the military working on carrying it out, this will be a test as to how well they can accomplish that. listen, it's been done before. you remember after the u.s. embassy attacks in an za nia and kenya in 1998, they fired the missiles from over the horizon but the targets were gone by the time they got there. you certainly have less capability not being in the country. do you have enough to get targets? we'll see. >> what do you make of the capabilities once the last troops are out?

>> well, i think the u.s. capabilities that we would have are certainly less. director burns is right. as jim mentioned, there are going to be difficulties in getting the intelligence that we need in order to carry out precision strikes. the over the horizon capability from an intelligence standpoint has been around for a while. it's well over 20 years old. it predates 9/11 by a few years. and it's more robust form and it was used to great effect in iraqi freedom as well as in nascent form in desert storm before that as well. there are so many factors to this, anderson, that you have to look at the technical capabilities that we have, but also the fact that it's not just the technical data we can collect. the human interaction is what's necessary to really understand what's happening, and that will be lacking. >> yeah. jim, most i would assume that many of the people the u.s. would rely on for human

intelligence, for eyes on the ground, afghan assets, a lot of those people have probably if they certainly if they were able to, have gotten out of the country. >> left. if they're lucky. right? if they're among the lucky ones or went to ground internally. that was an extremely dangerous job in a place as afghanistan. afghanistan has had terror groups. they are targeting people who cooperate and work with the u.s. military and the government. now the taliban runs the country. and many folks who worked for the u.s. military, u.s. agencies, et cetera, even if they weren't intel dwgatherers, the riskiest jobs are being told go to ground to save their lives. the intel is less because they have to protect themselves and their families. >> leon panetta was asked if

it's right for the u.s. to stick to the august 31st deadline. i want to play what he said. >> bottom line is that our work is not done in afghanistan. we're going to have to go back in to get isis. we're probably going to have to go back in when al qaeda resurrects itself. i understand that we're trying to get our troops out of there, but the bottom line is we can leave a battle field, but we can't leave the war on terrorism which still is a threat to our security. >> colonel, do you foresee u.s. troops having to be back in afghanistan at some point? >> unfortunately, i do, anderson, and the reason i do is because this area, afghanistan and the surrounding countries, are hot beds of extremism. and as a result of that, we can expect that terrorist groups, whether they're known like isis-k or al qaeda, or maybe unknown groups in the future,

might try to use afghan territory to create harm and create havoc. and we have to be prepared for that. before 9/11 we weren't prepared for it. we had very few specialists in afghan languages, afghan culture, and we'd better be careful not to get into that situation again. >> yeah. jim sciutto, lieutenant colonel cedric lleyton, appreciate it. thank you so much. more coming up. today tragedy in afghanistan. we'll talk live with a correspondent who documented the aftermath of yesterday's deadly attack. subway®... has so much new they couldn't fit it in their last ad. so, we're gonna use picture in picture in picture in picture in picture in picture in picture in picture in pict- man, you get the idea! there's so much new at subway®, it's too much to fit in all these pictures in pictures in- a lot of snacks are packed with air but not planters nuts. our dry roasted peanuts

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president biden meeting with israel's prime minister. let's listen. >> they're -- we're going to talk about our relationship. it's strong as can be, but i know you're going to want to know what's happened this morning in terms of my meetings with our national security team. let me begin by once again acknowledging the sacrifice that our military makes every single day, and the loss of these marines and sailor and army personnel. it's tragic. as i said yesterday, and the prime minister and i have talked about it slightly. he's a military man, gone to

war, lost a friend. losing a son or daughter, a husband, a wife, is like being sucked into a big black hole in your chest and you don't think there's any way out. our hearts go out to all those who we lost. the mission there, they performed is dangerous. and now it's come with a significant loss of american personnel. but it's a worthy mission because they continue to evacuate folks out of the region. we met about yesterday's attacks and the measures to complete the mission. and we will complete the mission. i'm not going to take any questions, because of the prime minister being here on

afghanistan now, but i'll be available at another time. but it's great to have the prime minister here. we -- we have become close friends. he's ridden the am ttrak train lot from new york to wilmington, delaware. we had a few corporations in delaware when he was in private practice. but he heads and leads the most diverse government in israeli history. and we've got a big agenda today, starting with covid. we've been talking about it. and 19 in both our successful vaccination programs, and we've talked a little bit. we're going to continue to talk about the issue of booster shots. and as you started your program a little early, met with great results. we're going to start mid september. we're considering the issue given that we should start

earlier. and this is a promising, also these booster program. it's going to start here september 20th, pending approval of the fda and the cdc committee of outside experts, and any question raised should be almost -- that's being discussed. i spoke with dr. fauci this morning about that. we're also going to discuss israel's unwavering commitment that we have in the united states to israel security, and i fully, fully, fully support replenishing israel's system. and we also are going to discuss the threat from iran and ensure they never develop a nuclear weapon. but we're putting diplomacy first and we'll see where that takes us. if diplomacy fails, we're ready

for another option. we'll support the deeper ties as well with the arab and muslim neighbors and globally. that's a trend that i think should be encouraged, not discouraged. and we're going to do all we can to make value added. we'll also discuss ways for increased peace and prosperity for israelis and palestinians. and we're also going to direct our teams to work toward israel fulfilling the requirements of the visa waiver program to get that done. mr. prime minister, i want to thank you for coming. the u.s. will always be there for israel. it's an unshakable partnership between our two nations. and i have known every israeli prime minister for a time. i look forward to us establishing a strong personal relationship. welcome. >> thank you, mr. president.

on behalf of the israeli people, i want to extend our condolences and deep sadness for the loss of the american lives in kabul. the american service members lost their lives while on a mission to save other people's lives, and that's the very definition of courage and sacrifice. may they rest in peace. especially on this day, i want to be crystal clear, israel always stands together with the united states of america unequivocally. i also want to thank you for your warm words now and in our private meeting which attest to your support of the state of israel. but that's not new. it's gone on decades, and you always stood up for us,

especially during tough times, like a few months ago when thousands of rockets were being shot on israeli towns and cities, and that's when friendship is really tested. we trust in your support, mr. president, and israel knows that we have no better or more reliable ally in the world than the united states of america. i come here from jerusalem, our capitol, and i bring with me a new spirit. a spirit of good will. a spirit of hope. a spirit of decency and honesty. a spirit of unity and bipartisanship, of folks who as you suggested, harbor very different political opinions, even opposing, yet, we all share

the deep passion to work together to build a better future for israel. and that's what israel is about. we're out to be good, to do good. but in our region, doing good is not enough. israel has to be strong in order to do good. be strong so we can do good. and we cannot lose sight for even one moment that we're in the toughest neighborhood in the world. we've got isis on our southern border. hezbollah on the northern border. islamic jihad, hamas, iranian militias that surround us. and all of them want to kill us. kill israelis. they all want to annihilate the jewish state. that's why israel always has to be overwhelmingly stronger than

any of our enemies and indeed of all our enemies combined. that's why i want to thank you, mr. president, for helping yet again to fortify israel's strategic advantage. obviously the main issue we're going to be talking about today here is iran's race to nuclear weapons. we talked about it inside the room. i was happy to hear your clear words that iran will never be able to acquire a nuclear weapon and that you emphasized that you'll try the diplomatic ruout, but there's other options if that doesn't work out. so these very days illustrate what the world would look like if an erratic muslim regime acquired a nuclear weapon. iran is the world's number one

exporter of terror, instability, and human rights violations. and as we sit here right now, the iranians are spinning their s centr centrifuges, and we have to stop it. and we both agree. so we've developed a comprehensive strategy that we're going to be talking about with two goals. the first goal is to stop iran on its regional aggression and start rolling it back into the box. and the second is to permanently keep iran away from ever being able to break out a nuclear weapon. as i told you, mr. president, israel never had and never will ask america to send troops to defend ourselves. that's our job. we will never outsource our security.

it's our responsibility to take care of our fate, but we do thank you for the tools and the back. you've been giving us and are giving us. we'll also talk about covid and the delta variant which is wreaking havoc across the world. you were the first to call the pandemic the pandemic of the unvaccinated, and that is -- could not be more true. just about a month ago i took a tough policy decision that israel would pioneer the booster shot, the third shot. i can report to you, mr. president, and to everyone, that we've reached almost 3 million israelis that have received the booster shot. and the bottom line? it's safe and it works. the good news finally is that the tide is turning in israel.

you're a man of faith. as am i. and the synagogues across the world, we read biblical portion, and tomorrow we're going to be reading words of the prophet isiaah. [ speaking foreign language ] what this means, i can say anything now. right? what this means is the sons and daughters of the jewish people are going to come wback to our land, are going to nurse our ancient land and rebuild it, and

this ancient jewish prophesy is today's israel reality. and it's a miracle that you've been so central and so part of it for so many years. so mr. president, today you and i and you've been so generous with your time in these difficult days, you and ri going to write yet another chapter in the beautiful story of the friendship when our nations, the united states of america and the jewish and democratic state of israel. both of us who seek to do good and need to be strong, both of us who are a lighthouse in a very, very stormy world. thank you, mr. president. i look forward to working with you now, and for many years forward. thank you. >> well, thank you, and you have given me credit, much of which should go to barack obama for

making sure that we committed to a qualitative edge you would have relative to your friends in the region. he's the one that deserves that. >> thank him as well. >> thank you very much, folks. president biden not taking questions about afghanistan. made brief remarks about the situation there. the reporting earlier today. his national security team told him this morning another terror attack would likely or an attempt would be likely in the coming days as this mission, as the president continues to insist that the mission will draw down by august 31st.

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dangerous period. john bolton joins me now. ambassador, reaction to your. do you believe another terror attack is likely? >> well, i think the intelligence points in that direction. i wouldn't be so sure that it's going to be isis-k this time. i think you've got terrorists wheels within terrorist wheels here. terrorist enemies one day can be -- our people are in grave danger. it's a very dangerous environment. >> it's certainly a sort of -- the situation has made rather bizarre bedfellows where the taliban is now being given intelligence by u.s. forces to a limbed degree to inform them about what sort of threats they are -- the u.s. is hearing about, that they can kind of

adjust the check points that they have if you can call them check points. >> well, look, i think this is reflective of the overall error of judgment to withdraw at all. i mean, right now we're in an impossible situation. so we're doing things that otherwise would not even be comprehensible or justifiable. the execution of this withdrawal has been bungled and is one reason we're in such jeopardy now. but it still points to the fundamental aspect of the error of withdrawing at all. the notion that we're now relying on taliban will come back to haunt us. >> were you surprised that the biden administration continued to follow the policy which president trump put into place and the deal that president trump made directly with the taliban? >> no. i think biden has been very clear for a long time. he and trump actually see this

exactly the same way. they both wanted it to get out. now, there's finger pointing, biden saying we're stuck with the trump deal, trump saying well, they could have done it differently. look, the basic mistake that's playing out here is that trump negotiated this deal only with the taliban. there are a lot of mistakes in the deal itself. but the fundamental problem of dealing with this terrorist organization is that the trump negotiators delegitimize the afghan government. the government we set up. the government with which all the many flaws had at least some democratic legitimacy of which taliban had none. by derecognizing the government in effect, we shattered the morale of the afghan army. the army is saying well, if the americans won't even protect that government, why are we going to end up protecting it? that's why honestly, nobody should have been surprised that the army collapsed so quickly

when biden announced the final withdrawal. >> do you think we will see american forces back in afghanistan at some point in the near future? >> well, i'm very worried. that's where it's going to end up. this is what happened when we withdrew from iraq in 2011. we had to go back because of the emergence of isis, and the differences among these terrorist groups really are a lot less than meet the eye. in fact, isis's criticism of taliban is that it's not hard enough. i think we've got to look as well at the supporters of the terrors, including particularly pakistan and others who have been subsidized taliban and other terrorist groups. i just think it was very easy to say let's end the endless wars as if you could just take one step and nothing else would happen. there would be no further

strategic kconsequences. it was never true, and sadly, i fear we're going to pay the price for that ignorance. >> it's so interesting. history shows us that we never really know or can predict the ripple effects of an action. we think we know if we do x, you know, y will happen. but there are often ripple effects that one can't really even foresee. >> well, as donald rumsfeld said, there are no knowns and no unknowns. i think it was a known known here that by kacancelling the insurance policy of having american and nato alert to the terrorists, watching the terrorists in afghanistan, made it less likely we'd have to fight them in the streets and skies over america. now, i hope my prediction is wrong on this, but this is seen -- what has happened here is seen as a taliban victory

over the united states. i don't mean just the botched execution for which there is no excuse. but simply the fact that after 20 years, taliban is back in power in afghanistan. it's given terrorists all over the middle east a huge psychological boost, and there are many reports of foreign terrorist fighters already coming into afghanistan. i think looking to reestablish the kind of sanctuary that al qaeda had there before 9/11. and the most likely outcome is now we are moving to going right back to the pre9/11 environment. >> john bolton, i appreciate you being on. thank you. >> we're expecting a white house briefing on afghanistan in a moment. we'll bring that to you live. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ life is full of surprises when you least expect it. (woman laughs) and open. what happened to all your things?

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we are expecting a briefing on the white house on the continued security threat in afghanistan. we'll wring it live. that should be in a few minutes. millions of renters are in danger of losing their homes in the coming months. the supreme court just threw out the biden administration's pandemic-related eviction moratorium. we are joined now by an analyst. earlier this summer the justices allowed the moratorium to stay

in place. what changed? >> it's amazing what's changed in the last couple months. most is in terms of the surge of the delta variant. this is a real loss for 11 million renters who have been behind in their payments, loss for the biden administration and the liberals on the court. you remember on june 29th, the supreme court said they would allow it to continue but for one more month. if it's going to be renewed, it has to be congress that renews it, not the cdc and the biden administration. so the biden administration really had an uphill battle with the contention that the renewal that it put in place earlier in august and that was supposed to expire in october was valid under an old 1944 public health law. supreme court said late last night no, the conservative majority said that that law really was for things like

fumigation, pest extermination, not for any sweeping eviction moratorium order. the three liberal justices who dissented said that the majority was misconstruing the law, and most importantly, that it was not taken into account the surge in cases from the covid delta variant that have just caused so many more hospitalizations and deaths. the press secretary for the biden administration said last night, as a result of this ruling, families will face the painful impact of evictions and communities across the country will face greater risk of exposure to covid-19. anderson? >> joan, thank you very much. appreciate it. obviously we'll continue to follow and see what the next step is. tropical storm ida is heading straight for the u.s. expected to become a major hurricane by the time it approaches the gulf coast this weekend. our meteorologist is tracking this. chad, what's the latest on the

storm? >> the word major you used is a technical term. it's category three or higher. this storm is going to get into a warm gulf of mexico. hurricane watches are already posted for parts of louisiana and mississippi and hurricane warnings for the western edge of cuba. it's going to make its way into the gulf of mexico. temperatures there are 85, 87, and almost 90 degrees along the coast. a 65 miles per hour storm is going to turn into 120 miles per hour storm. and make a run at the northern gulf coast. the cone is a little bit wide here. it could be alabama, mississippi. it could be probably all the way over to louisiana. but we're focusing in now. we're getting closer. as we do, that storm is really looking like it's setting itself right around grand isle, louisiana. plus or minus 50 miles one way or the other. you get the idea. all the areas you see in purple, that's 100 or 10 miles per hour wind gusts or higher. everywhere you see purple here,

7 to 10 foot storm surge. even 11 feet in some spots. that's what we're worried about. it's going to rain a lot. you know about this. when it rains on top of wet ground, the ground will saturate and run off and we get fresh water flash flooding too. >> thank you, chad. i'm anderson topper in new york. we're going to have more. let's take a quick pause. the fall of afghanistan and the latest from the airport in kabul. at any moment the white house is expected to hold a briefing with the press secretary. we'll bring that to you live. the latest and most ominous headline, we've learned the national security team has warned president bide than, quote, another terror attack in kabul is likely as the mission some enters the most dangerous period. right now u.s. troops soldier on in their mission evacuating as