i'm poppy harlow in new york. glad you're with us tonight. a storm potentially of historic proportion right now, hurricane ida rapidly intensifying in the gulf, expected to slam into the louisiana coastline tomorrow as an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane, and this comes 16 years to the day hurricane katrina made landfall there. john bel edwards says ida could be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit that state since at least the 1850s.

all flights at new orleans international airport tomorrow have been canceled. all of them. we're covering the updates on this storm this evening. also, the major breaking news we're following this hour out of georgia. the embassy in kabul just moments ago issued a security alert at the airport telling u.s. citizens to leave that air immediately because of a specific and credible threat. this comes just hours after a new warning from president biden that another terrorist attack at the kabul airport is, quote, highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours. after the pentagon confirmed two high profile isis-k targets were killed in a drone strike overnight in retaliation for killing 12 service members and many other afghans. they're saying it's possibly a category 4 hurricane.

are people still there? >> yeah. there are a few who are still here still holding on, even given that houma, where i'm standing right now, could be ending up ground zero where hurricane ida ends up making landfall. that is partially the reason why what you're seeing right now is basically a ghost town right now. we've seen some boarded up buildings. we've seen some sandbags in some of the doorways. houma and the surrounding area, as you know, under a mandatory evacuation. spoke to the sherveg. he predicts anywhere between 60 and 80% of the residents who live here have heeded that evacuation order but certainly not everyone, and you've heard -- we've heard from the governor who is really urging people to get out. he said time is simply running out. >> when you go to bed tonight, you need to be prepared to ride

out the storm and the storm is going to be very severe. storm surge is going to be up to 15 feet, which is going to test all our protection systems down along the coast, which is why we're evacuating people from those coastal areas, the ones that you were just referring to, is the ones that will billion uninhabitable for some period of time to come. >> you may have seen that man waving in the shop behind me. he lives in that house right there. he plans to stay. if you look across the street there in the brick building on the second floor, a man by the name of jason -- the other jason came down to say hello. he plans to stay as well. of course, this is not emergency officials want to harper. they want to hear more from people who are deciding to heed the warns and leave rather than those who are deciding to stay. >> jason, we appreciate you being there, but be careful as the storm gets closer and closer. >> thank you. >> let's go to tom in the weather center. what is the forecast tonight,

tom? >> we're expecting 11:00 p.m. advisory. we're expecting a category 4 tomorrow. that would make it a major hurricane. it's interesting. we're well within 200 miles of landfall and it looks to be around 1:00 p.m. but the last several years it's been interesting what we watched. last year was a record breaking year as far as the number of storms, which broke the biggest record of the year before. our warmer atmosphere and waters, the storms have been undergoing rapid intensification. most of them last year did. we haven't seen that number -- it's been increasing year to year. it's the warmer air temperatures causing this. for every one degree celsius, add 7% more humidity. go back to the beginning of the industrial revolution days, we've added 11% more humidity.

let's talk about the winds. about 5:00, 6:00 in the morning it will be moving into grand isle and reaching the northern part of louisiana later in the afternoon. we're expected sustained winds at 130. you look at the wind profile, and we've seen a little trend in the track, but we'll get a new one at 11:00, we're looking at some of the worse eyewall winds up towards baton rouge. the circulation is not the eye. it's much lower, but if we can keep it away from lake charles, that's some good news, too. it's going to be to have a tremendous amount of wind strength. it takes time for a category 4 to be downgraded. the computer models have been spot on. just a little slower with the european. 1:00 p.m. local time landfall maybe 2:00. give or take an hour. then you toss in the storm surge.

here's the problem. when you have inundation that is well inland, here is your warning. this is no, sir just coastal surge or katrina surge. when it comes inland and the rain is making it out to the gulf it's going to impede that process of draping. this is where the problem comes in more new orleans. they are going to most likely not have a problem with the surge. everything has been eradicated at o 20 billion into the system but when you talk about new orleans being in a bowel and the heavy amounts of rain, if they get 10, 15 inches of rain, their pumping system can only remove one inch in the first hour and only a half inch an hour after that. then you toss in the winds. this is where it becomes a problem with catastrophic wind damage. again, sustained at is 30, throws not even the gusting. the power outages, many saying catastrophic could be for weeks.

that doesn't include the tornadoes that could spin up. doesn't include the inundation, the surge, the flooding, anyone trying to ride this system out, i'm praying for you are because it's going to be a long couple of days. you're going to be in darkness. you're going to be flooded. and the road crews won't be able to get there. i i wr . >> some of those eastern parts of the state are what they're most worried about. >> yes. >> in terms of being potentially uninhabitable for a long time. thank you. >> sure. >> let me bring in the president of jeffson parish in louisiana. it sits east of houma where you are, jason, and this is the area where ida is expected to make lachl. thank you for staying up late and being with us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> of course.

you have downs in jefferson parish that's outside the levee protection system, are under mandatory evacuation orders and you've called on every one who can lead warning that you're expecting an unsurvivable storm surge. that's a quote. what's your message to anyone listening tone? >> that's where my concern is. in jefferson parish, we have dense living in urban areas, but a couple hours away from us is also part of our parish is our most vulnerable communities in grand isle. that road has been closed. the people that are there are stuck there until after the storm and that is certainly our concern. we were begging them to get out, but i know we have a couple dozen people down there. that is truly our concern right now because that storm surge is going to be so strong for such a long period of time, it will be unsurvivable. that's what we're warning. >> you have experts saying

customers in the direct path of the storm as intense and powerful as what hurricane ida is look to be should face power outages for three weeks. you should plan for the possibility of extended power outages even past that. does there come a point that you're unable to go in and help those people? >> well, that is certainly a concern. look, our skmupt very vulnerable right now. we are very vulnerable with covid. we are dealing with our fourth surge. we were coming in sort of at full capacity kpat already. that's it's so heartbreaking to be dealing with this now. the state has assets. we have the louisiana national guard here to help with our firefighters, our police. we are ready to do search and rescue after this. but of course, it is hot in august down here in louisiana, and being without air condition,

our vulnerable people, it's going to be very, very difficult. after the storm, you'll see people wanting to leave. >> of course. i mean, think of the dangerously high temperatures and if they don't have power, what position that puts them in regarding air conditioning. we have this video we can play it for people. crews working to close the floodgates in jefferson parish earlier today. what other steps have been taken to protect people, to protect property, to do what they -- kind of obviously a lot has changed and improved infrastructure wise since katrina. >> yeah. we are really facing this storm in a different position than we were in 2005. we have a levee system. they're higher. we have pump stations that pump. we're in a bowl and all the water that falls in here has to get pumped out. we have operators that are able to stay there during the storm so we can monitor that really right there, so we're very --

we're in a different place, but still, with this storm being, you know, slow and very strong, ice certainly something that we're very concerned about. but i'm leer at the emergency operations center. we have people here and we're prepared. >> we're glad you're preechld. thanks for taking the time with us this evening and good luck to you. we appreciate i am. we're also following significant breaking news out of kabul, gaerch. the embassy has issued a security alert, a new one just this evening, telling americans to leave due to a specific credible threat at multiple locations. more on this next.

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breaking tonight, the u.s. embassy in kabul issuing a new security alert telling all americans to leave the airport there immediately. this warning from the embassy says there's currently a specific and credible threat, and this comes as president biden vows to carry out more retaliatory strikes after the deadly attacks that killed 13 u.s. service members and 170 others. john harlan is at the white house. what more are we learning from the president? he was pretty clear and unequivocal, saying this is not

the last strike. >> there's no doubt biden has badly shaken on the attack on thursday that took the lives of 13 u.s. troops and scores of afghans, that is precisely what he did not want to happen as he was trying to complete the extrication of the united states from this 20-year war. he was quite worth right today after meeting with commanders in the situation room saying that it is highly likely that we get hit another time at the kabul airport sometime the next 24 to 36 hours and the embassy issued a statement stg people in the vicinity of the airport to leave because of a specific cell threat. the president is trying to show determination to hit pack at isis-k. you said the planners, facilitate ost as the funny called them, were taken out in that drone strike, in the president's state he said this

is not the last, we will continue to hunt down anybody involved and make them pay. the situation on the ground continues to be dangerous and the threat of terrorist attacks remains high. all the while, those evacuations continue at a narrowing pace for sure. 2000 in the last 12 hours, well over 100,000 since october 13th. to put that into perspective, it was estimated 16,000 americans in the country. between 50 and 60,000 afghan allies they wanted to get out. they have now ex tri -- overseen the extrication of a much larger number than that. it's not clear that all of those afghan allies have gotten out. in fact, administration officials told me that there would be a significant number of deserving people who don't get out. they're going to continue trying after the u.s. is gone. as for the americans, the state

department has indicated that there are a few hundred americans left who want to get out some may have left the country. they're determined to get those americans out by august 31st or quickly afterwards if that doesn't happen, and we'll see what their ability is to get people out who want to get after august 31st. >> job, just n o that appoi point i heard anthony blenken say that the operation to get our allies out do not end on the 312 of august, but then how are they going to get them out? are there any specifics about what the plan is? >> no. i think it is clear that to the extent that they're in particularly are americans, that's who biden is placing the highest priority on -- americans who are still left after august 31st, who either have been trying to get out and have been unable to or hesitated and then

decide they want to get out, it's clear that the united states, if diplomatic efforts to get that done don't work that they're not ruling out some sort of special operations to extricate people. >> wow. >> that's clearly going to be difficult to accomplish. they also hope that the kabul airport with the help of turkish personnel is able to reopen to commercial flights. the taliban says they will not prevent people from leaving kabul after august 31st. you can't trust the word of the taliban. we'll she if they deliver on that. but the u.s. has some financial leverage. they will have other allies who have the ability to put some pressure on. we'll see what happens after august 31st, if, in fact, this mission concludes then. >> thank you very much for the reporting tonight. let me bring in new yorker staff writer susan glasser. thank you for being with me.

>> thank you, poppy. >> i actually would like to begin with something you said this morning on this network that was striking. you said i'm very worried about the next couple of days. you have seen a lot and you report on all of it, including the worse scenarios on the global stage. what are you motives worried about tonight? >> well, i mean, there's something like 72 hours left for the self-imposed deadline for the remaining u.s. troops to leave. that makes it in some ways the most dangerous part of the evacuation potentially, because anyone who wants to take a shot at the u.s. military, this is their last chance to do so. you've seen these increasing calls of alarm, including from president biden himself saying there's a tightened risk of terrorist attack and i keep thinking back to last week, as i'm sure you do, when we were

aware, u.s. officials were saying day after day, you heard jake sullivan, the national security advisor saying there is this thunderstormous risk of a suicide bombing attack of something from isis-k and yet in the end that's exactly what happened. it's the chronicle of a massacre fore told. there's this sort of horrible sense of racing the clock to see how many people can get out and, you know, can we accomplish this on the part of the u.s. military. are we without any further loss of life. it's a nerve-racking period. >> when you have such public pronouncements of the risk to come, it's unique, to say the least, to see what president biden wrote on that instagram post, highly lukely at attack. then the public statement in the last hour or so from the usa embassy. can you explain why that would

be publicized? >> it's very interesting. i agree. i've been struck by their, you know, desire to do this. in part, i think they are responding to the biden administration's responding to the thought that they were caught so flatfooted by the an ruptd collapse of the afghan government and, you know, 11 days essentially from the taliban offensive to the takeover of the country so par hally i they want to make sure we're not going to be caught flatfooted again. there are enormous risks to life and to everyone involved in this very hazardous evacuation. i think part of it is to make sure that they're being transpaper and not being accused of with holding crucial information, given the criticism at the beginning of the evacuation operation. i think it also, communicating the risk, not wanting people to stampede to the airport, especially if they're the kind of people who top have documents or aren't likely to make to it

the airport in the first place. the chaotic scenes around the airport and so many people thronging the entrances is part of the respect why it was so hard to distinguish between them and the suicide bomber in the end and this project lost something close to 200 afghans and 13 u.s. military person pell already. >> susan, i'd like your response to this interview that my colleague jim sciutto did yet what human rights activist. i'd like your response to what she said in a message directly to president biden. listen. >> when you say we'll not forgive and we'll not forgive, it's exactly what he did. he forgive the taliban. he forgot what they did and he was leaving. there's no hunting down on anything. >> now, the administration has been clear, the phase of this

over the horizon capabilities and strikes like the drone strikes we saw against isis-k. what do you make of her statement in dealing with the taliban in its fight against isis-k in afghanistan? >> well, look, i will be paying close attention to what is the messaging and what do we hear from the biden administration after the u.s. military troops are withdrawn on august 31st and they're no longer directly minute by minute in coordination with the taliban over the airport and obviously, this is a very dangerous period of time. so i'll be curious. were there changes at all after the withdrawal? i heard a senior u.s. official, they have no plans in the foref

foreseeable future. the united states back before 2001, i'll be listening closely to see if there's any change once u.s. troops are out of harm's way. >> that's an important parts. saw susan, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> amid the chaos, the dpeer, the danger, as afghans and americans are escaping and evacuating, one evacuation flight was able to celebrate this. ok. this is something beautiful we want toably you tonight, a beautiful buntle of joy. the crew of a hurricanish airlines plane helped deliver a baby girl this morning at an altitude of 30,000 feet. this happened over kuwaiti air space. her name is hava and she and her 26-year-old mother are both doing well. the family is headed to the united kingdom. hava is one of at least four infants born during the evacuation.

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one of the strongest storms going all the way way back to the 18 fifths. that's what governor john bel edwards says about hurricane ida 16 years to the day after hurricane katrina made landfall there. as the storm gets stronger, president biden is urging people to pay attention and to be prepared. tom sadder joins us from the cnn weather center. >> yeah, poppy, to add on what the governor said, records go back to 1851. if you look at category 4 or higher for the state of louisiana, you had one in the 1850s. one in the 1890s before they were named. then you had betsy, camille in 1969 and laura. again, this is rare company here. you look in the last year, laura and stayed zeda were major hurr.

now, if anything is going to weaken the storm system, it's not going to be dry air. it fought that off earlier today. we don't have any wind shear to tear this down. it most likely be a cycle call the eyewall replacement cycle. it's like spinning a top on a table. it can only sustain itself so long before it starts to wobble. it weakened and spread out. it takes time for them to get their act back together and get the strength back again. typically, the storm weakens when this happens. the process sometimes takes four or five hours, sometimes it can take ten to 12. if that was going to happen, it was probably going to happen now. we'll know more at 11:00. if you're going to have an eyewall replacement cycle, let's do it before landfall. if it's going through the process now, all bets are off

and it could strengthen. so a lot of information coming out in the next half-hour. you can see the ridges and the high tops around this. the system is still running on all cylinders. most likely if it's not going through this process, it could be a category 3 at 11:00 p.m. >> wow. we're very close to that, half an hour away. tom sadder, thank you very much. let me bring on daniel lorain from lafourche parish. can you hear me? >> yes, ma'am. how you doing, poppy? >> we're great. we know you're right in the path of this storm. mandatory evacuation orders for your parish with the last two shelters open, right, at a last resort. >> yes, ma'am. hurricane ida is knocking on the door. we had a mandatory evacuation for the entire parish at 5:00 a.m. this morning. we have shelters at central lafourche high school and

thibodaux high school. at 6:00 p.m. they went into a curfew and in point lafourche we have a system and floodgates and locks and as of 6:00 p.m. tonight on the southern end of the parish headed towards pouchon, the gates are closed, so nobody can go in and out. they shut down. it's just a waiting period. i'm sure in the morning we'll probably have some outer bands and i -- >> can you -- did enough people leave? >> there's a lot of people that left but i wouldn't tell you that everybody left, because like i said earlier, that to leave, it takes money and not everybody has the funding for it. not everybody, you know, the proper weeks to take often. i didn't leave my wife and

daughter and her left. we're about 30 miles north of port fuchon where that thing is headed toward puchon or houma. this is the first time i could remember back when i was 12 years old in 1956, hurricane betsy. we'll see what happens and we'll hope for the best. >> why -- why did you stay? >> well, you know, i got my son and law and i got my other brother-in-law stayed and i stayed. if they need me for something we'll be around. we'll be all right. we're cajun. >> well, sir, i mean, we all want what's best for you guys. authorities with telling people to leave and you're staying. do you think maybe it's time to go? >> no, no. i'm just going to ride it out. it's basically almost too late for anybody to leave.

if you don't leave this morning, it's way too late. once the rain starts in the outer band starts, it's over with. but we'll be lrmt. we got good levees. we got boats and -- we just -- we -- >> ok. i hope you are right. i wonder if you have advice for anyone else who may -- who may be staying? >> oh, i'm sure. listen. the people that are in this area, you know, we are classified as cajuns, we're about 75 myles southwest of new orleans, so we were born and raised in the marsh and automatic. it's one of those things. we just got to put all this in god's hands and who's thope for best. >> we hope for the best and wish you automatic the protection

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breaking news tonight out of afghanistan, the u.s. embassy in kabul has just issued a security alert for the kabul airport. this is due, in their words, to a specific credible threat at multiple areas, and this new warning comes just hours after president biden said the georgia mission faces a, quote, high likelihood of a terror attack in the next 24 to 36 hours. >> they're real, dynamic, and we are monitoring them literally in real time. we're taking all the means necessary to make sure we're focused on that threat stream and doing what we can for force protection. >> let me bring in military analyst and retired air force ced rirk layton.

he oversaw critical special operations missions when he was in the middle east, one of the best people we could talk to given your experience. thank you for being with us. let's talk about exactly that. how do you get these remaining americans out, as many afghan allies out as possible when 13 u.s. service members have just been murdered in a terror attack at the airport and now the president says another one is likely in the next 24 to 36 hours, and the embassy tomorrow is telling every american to leave. how do you do that? >> well, poppy, it's complicated. it's one of the toughest things. it's one thing if you're protecting a vip, making sure that the vip is not attacked by a terror group or a lone assailant or something like that. it's quite another when you're dealing with thousand tens of

thousands of people, especially talking about afghan nationals, who protected the u.s. serving both as translators as well as anything in an assistants capacity curing the 20 years that we were involved in afghanistan directly. so it's -- becomes very complicated from a planning standpoint. basically, what you have to do is you have to make sure that you gather people up in certain areas and that those areas where you gather them up aren't known to the taliban or to anybody else, and that's an almost impossible task when you've got so many people that you have to gather up and in so many areas and could potentially be active then, so it's a very tough kind of terrorism problem. it's a tough area for us to be working in. >> the situation that the united states is in right now on the ground in afghanistan for the remaining 72 hours or is not only one of defensive and skeptical, to say the least,

position against the taliban, right, which can't be trusted, and fighting now against isis-k in the sky in this -- over the horizon capability that we have now switched to there. i mean, can you explain to people how one navigates that, given your experience on the ground in the middle east? you see the u.s. working with the tal be ban against isis-k? >> well, as the old saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. >> right. >> many this case they're not really friends but they can work together to a common interest. it is possible, as bizarre as it sounds, that on occasion we might actually work with the taliban if isis-k remains an enemy of the taliban. that's another key if. if isis all of a sudden becomes friends with the taliban, all bets are off. all these things are likely. there are a lot of temporary alliances that is happen in the middle east or in afghanistan,

and that's one of the key difficulties, you know, you've got capabilities that really depend on people being on the ground and then you have other capabilities that over the horizon piece that you mentioned that can word from work locations, they can work from overhead satellites or drones, even aircraft, but those are the kinds of things that have to be put together in a kpleeks architecture to get a clear intelligence pick of what's happening on the ground. >> the biden administration has said repeatedly we're done, we're out on the 31st of august. last tuesday, but they are also saying there will be other efforts to get any americans who remain there who want to get out out and our afghan allies. can you explain or do you have an understanding of what the plan is for that? how do you ex tri indicate them

when our troops are gone? >> that becomes really difficult and the answer is you really can't do it with them being gone completely from the scene, so what they're going to do is they're going to have to inserts troops or, you know, could even be third nation troops coming in to help with the evacuation of -- repatriation of american citizens or afghans what worked for us and that's going to be a complex issue as far as diplomacy as well as potential for force on force type situation and a force on force type situation is equivalent to a shooting incident and that's something we have to be very careful of, because if you do get involved in that, this could get out of happened, and that can be a real big problem. >> of course. thank you so much for your expertise tonight. >> anytime. >> tomorrow, the families of 13

americans serving in afghanistan are sufferings deeply. they are mourning the loss of their loved ones. they were sons, daughters, brothers and sisters, and they were all so young, all of them putting their lives on the line to save the lives of others, leaving behind a legacy of self-lessness. tonight, we learned their names and we remember who they were in and out of uniform. marine lance corporal rylee mccollum was going to be a father. his sister said he wanted to be a marine his whole life, so much so that he carried around a toy rifle and cowboy boots. he was a beautiful soul. tough as nails with a heart of gold. someone who could not stand

injustice, someone who would stand up for those bullied in his class. corporal degan page was an animal lover with a soft spot in his heart for dogs. maxton soviak's mom rachel told him to be safe and he said don't worry, mom, my guys got me. they won't let anybody happen to me. 22-year-old marine corporal hunter lopez grew up in southern california. both his parents worked for the riverside sheriff's department. he reportedly planned on following in his parents foot stems and becoming a shefb deputy after he got home. marine corps lance corporal jared schmidt was just 20 years old. his father says his whole world

was the marine corps. his dad said he was particularly close to his 9-year-old special needs sister who quote worshipped the ground he walked on. she was from market, california and six days before the attack, the defense department posted this photo on social media that was taken to her instagram account. look at that. there she is holding a little baby. and the caption from her "i love my job." 31 marine corps staff sorge darren hoover. he went by his last name, taylor. he remembers his son as, quote, the best son that two parents could ever ask for, describing him as someone who always stepped up to defend the little guy. his sister says i'd give anything to speak with him one more time. these are the other service members who lost their lives.

and as we wait to learn more about them -- and we will share more an them with you as soon as we know more. we wane to recognize their sacrifice. 25-year-old marine corps sergeant rosariopicharado. lance corporal dylan merola. 20-year-old marine lance corporal kareem noukuie. ryan knauss and finally 22-year-old corporal humberto sanchez of logansport, indiana. they were automatic so young. we remember them, we honor them and we grieve with their families tonight.

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mandatory evictions have been ordered for parts of at least seven parishes across louisiana tonight.

this is powerful hurricane ida making its way toward gold coastline there. many people are heeding the warning. they're getting out. look at that traffic as people try to evacuate. this is video along interstate 10 in baton rouge, a long line of cars as people try to get out of the path of the storm. ed lavandera joins me on the phone. are more people heeding the warnings to evacuate? >> reporter: you really are, poppy. we're just pulling into baton rouge coming along interstate 10 and that long line of cars continues tonight, even approaching the 10:00 hour. it's clear that that long line of evacuation, cars trying to get out before the arrival of this hurricane. a long line of cars backed up from basically lafayette to baton rouge this evening. headed west out of the storm's

path. we understand on the other side of the storm as well some people heading east as we know the storm is projected to basically pass directly north into louisiana and into -- people who are heeding these evacuation orders today moving east and west along the interstate. we anticipate that we're going to see this long line of traffic well into the night as state officials here have been warning that by the time the sun comes up tomorrow, people really need to have decided whether or not they're going to ride out storm " in their homes -- higher ground elsewhere and drier ground elsewhere. here at this late hour on this saturday eject, vening, you see thousands of people hitting the roads getting to a safer place. >> good to see so many people trying to get out. ed, thank you for the reporting. good luck and wishing you and

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hurricane ida is grange strength and barreling toward louisiana coastline, set to hit louisiana as an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane tomorrow on the 16th anniversary to the day that hurricane katrina made landfall. the state's governor is warning that time to prepare is running out and that ida could be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the state in more than a century. all flights tomorrow at new orleans international airport have been canceled. more on that in a moment. we're also following the devastating news out of afghanistan. the u.s. embassy in kabul tonight just issuing a security alert at the kabul airport telling u.s. citizens to leave the area immediately due to a specific threat, that warning from the embassy comes just hours after president biden said that another terrorist attack at the kabul airport is highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours. more from afghanistan in just a