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we are following two major breaking stories tonight. first all u.s. service members are out of afghanistan, officially ending our country's longest war. but up to 200 americans and countless afghans who helped u.s. troops have been left behind. plus a desperate search under way tonight after hurricane ida ripped through louisiana. homes are demolished. entire neighborhoods covered in water. more than 1 million people are without power. two people have died from the storm and the governor is warning that he expects the number to rise considerably. this disaster hitting after louisiana hospitals are already stretched thin by the covid-19 crisis. i want to get to alex marquardt for the very latest on the final troops learning afghanistan. >> reporter: just as the day of august 31st, the deadline to leave, began in afghanistan, the announcement was made. >> i'm here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from afghanistan and the end of the military mission to evacuate

american citizens and vulnerable afghans. the last c-17 lifted off from hamid karzai international airport on august 30th, this afternoon, at 3:29 p.m. east coast time. and the last manned aircraft is now clearing the airspace above afghanistan. >> reporter: central command's general frank mckenzie says the diplomatic sequel now begins led by secretary of state tony blinken, who insists the commitment to afghanistan remains despite no diplomatic presence. >> now, u.s. military flights have ended, and our troops have departed afghanistan. a new chapter of america's engagement with afghanistan has begun. >> reporter: the final hours have been, u.s. officials say, the most dangerous after a massive suicide bombing last week by isis-k that left scores dead, including 13 service members. early monday morning, five rockets were fired at the kabul airport. isis claimed responsibility. the pentagon says its anti-rocket defense system engaged, and no casualties were

reported. the vehicle used to launch the rockets turned to ash. it came just hours after u.s. central command said a drone targeted an isis vehicle with a large amount of explosives. the air strike was in a residential kabul neighborhood and, centcom said, stopped an imminent threat on the airport. >> there was a secondary explosion and it assessed that what was there was going to be used in a high-profile attack. >> reporter: but the multiple explosions also killed civilians. a relative told cnn at least ten were killed from a single family. seven were children under 10 years old. neighbors described a massive bang to cnn. then everything was engulfed in smoke. they tried to put out the fires with water and took the dead and wounded to the hospital. the pentagon says it is investigating. >> nobody wants to see that happen. but you know what else we didn't want to see happen? we didn't want to see happen what we believed to be a very real, a very specific, and a

very imminent threat to the hamid karzai international airport and to our troops operating at that airport. >> reporter: until the final moments, the evacuation flights continued but slowed down. in the end, more than 123,000 people were evacuated, and among them, 6,000 americans. but some u.s. citizens are left behind. around 100 to 200 according to the state department. those americans who wanted to leave were not able to reach the airport. the military says that they were ready to evacuate them until the last minute. in the words of general frank mckenzie, we did not get everyone out we wanted. it has been an extremely dangerous situation over the past few days around the airport. on top of those americans, there are thousands of afghan citizens who are also desperate to get out of the country. this is now a top priority for secretary of state tony blinken, who says the u.s. has gotten assurances from the taliban that people will be able to leave the country. don? >> thank you very much for that, alex. joining me now, cnn white house correspondent john harwood and

retired general mark hertling. thank you, gentlemen. i appreciate you being here. general, i just want to tell you i appreciate your remarks and the way you handle the coverage of the remains of the service members returning here. >> thanks, don. that's kind. >> thank you very much for that. riveted and just -- it was just a great way you've paid tribute to those service members. so, john, i'm going to start with you, though. the u.s. is officially out of afghanistan, but we're told that there are still between 100 and 200 americans who needed to be evacuated. what are you hearing from the white house? is there a plan to get all of these people out of the country? >> don, it mostly involves exerting diplomatic pressure by the united states and its allies on the taliban to live up to the commitments that alex mentioned in that piece, to allow safe passage for people with proper documentation to leave the country through the kabul

airport. the united states is going to reengage with afghanistan from qatar. the embassy's closed within afghanistan, but they're going to operate from qatar. and for those 100 to 200 people, i think one of the things we have to recognize is these are complicated decisions. there's a reason why many of these people did not leave for months when the u.s. government was directing people to leave. it's because they have deep ties to afghanistan. many of them are dual nationals with families in the country. not an easy decision, and many of those waited until the last minute. there's another 280 or so, according to the state department, who are americans, who don't want to leave. in both cases, they could change their minds. secretary of state blinken indicated that if somebody has said they want to stay but changed their mind, the united states is going to try to go to bat to help them get out as well. and some of this is going to depend on the behavior of the taliban. if the taliban, because they

want to loosen some of the international aid purse strings and govern in a way that is recognized by the international community and be successful where they haven't been in the past as a governing force, they may moderate their behavior and fulfill those promises. if they don't, if they revert to the medieval brutality that they have been known for for decades, then some of the people who said they want to stay may change their mind and want to leave. and the one thing i don't know in that instance, because then diplomacy would not be particularly effective, general mckenzie indicated today that more than 1,000 americans had been taken to the airport by special forces. i don't know, and i am sure that general hertling can educate both of us on whether those kind of operations could be possible if we don't have military footprint in the country. i don't know the answer to that, but i think if it is possible, i think they would keep that option on the table. >> that was my next question, so

thank you for that. the question is, though, general, without u.s. forces on the ground as john mentioned, do you think the u.s. can still fulfill their promise to get all of these people evacuated? >> i do, don, because, you know, the military has the capability to do an awful lot of things, many of which the american public don't realize. there are areas around afghanistan that can be used to launch operations. that's the so-called over the horizon capability. it's not just striking at terrorists. there's some other capabilities that, you know, could be carried out, extractions and the like. but what i'm most concerned about is the capability of re-establishing air links within afghanistan. it's going to take the taliban, if they do become the government of afghanistan, a long time to get flight links out, to have the kinds of certification they need for international travel,

for even national travel within afghanistan to get certified. so that's going to be challenging. but, again, i would just say simply that the u.s. military has the capability to quite a few things. >> general, i want to put this video up. i want you to check out this video. it's from "l.a. times" correspondent showing the taliban entering a hangar at the kabul airport, examining helicopters. general mckenzie said today the u.s. either removed or demilitarized weapons and equipment that were at the airport. but officials have admitted that, you know, some weapons fell into the taliban's hands. are you worried that we've strengthened the taliban by leaving all of these weapons behind? by the way, remember the controlled explosions at the beginning? i understand they were to get rid of some equipment as well. but are you worried about this, that they're strengthened by leaving some of these weapons and equipment behind? >> well, i'd only state, don, that might be the wrong term to use. the military didn't leave a lot of weapons behind. remember, there were foreign

military sales to the afghan national army and the afghan security forces. unfortunately on many of the bases throughout afghanistan, those weapons were locked up for the use by the afghan military. so did we leave them for the taliban? no, we did not. we either sold or gave them to our afghan partners throughout the last couple years. i'm very concerned not so much about the aircraft because the taliban won't be flying those aircraft that you saw in that propaganda video they've already posted. as general mckenzie said, they have decommissioned them. i am worried more about the 300,000 plus m-4s, m-16s, the couple of tens of thousands of machine guns, night vision goggles. we have just upped the capability of the taliban with some of the most technically advanced weapons in the world. there's also trucks, humvees, those kinds of things that aren't as susceptible to giving them an advancement on the battlefield. but it certainly would give them

the capability to do things that they're not having right now as we've seen from all the humvees driving around kabul in the films lately. those are all former afghan national army humvees. so, yeah, am i concerned about it? yeah, because i've seen lists of the kinds of things that we've given to the afghan national army and the security forces, and there's a bunch of stuff. and it's unfortunate that it's now fallen into the hands of taliban. >> john, more than 123,000 people were evacuated in 18 days. look, that's quite a feat. most of these people are refugees, so where are they heading? >> well, they're heading multiple places. something more than 90 countries have indicated that they will take at least some. i think the united states will clearly take the greatest number. you know, canada has pledged to take 20,000 or so. i think the uk over a number of years has pledged to take 20,000 or so.

but many of these are going to be held at interim locations while the vetting is taking place to make sure that they can come to the united states. it will obviously get very complicated if people don't pass the vet. what do you do with those people who don't pass the vet? we also ha a domestic political issue coming because many trump-style republicans want to make the argument that it's bad to let afghan refugees come into the united states because they don't like immigration. they think it's changing the face of the country and limiting the control of people who thought they had control of the country. so this is going to be a very complicated situation. you know, you have on the one hand the laudable desire of the american military and the american government to say, we're going to live up to our pledges and help people who

helped us, and there's going to be political attacks from the other side saying, why are you letting all these people in? that's going to be one of the big challenges in the post-evacuation phase of this situation. >> gentlemen, thank you very much. again, thank you, general, for your service and for the way you handled this weekend. really appreciate it. >> thanks, don. i want to turn to the americans who are still in afghanistan tonight, still desperate to be evacuated. the secretary of state antony blinken says there are less than 200 people and likely closer to 100. well, here's what else he had to say. >> our commitment to them and to all americans in afghanistan and everywhere in the world continues. the protection and welfare of americans abroad remains the state department's most vital and enduring mission. if an american in afghanistan tells us that they want to stay for now and then in a week or a month or a year, they reach out and say, i've changed my mind, we will help them leave.

>> joining me now by phone is y yasmeen, one of the american citizens still stuck in afghanistan. i appreciate you doing this. you've been trying to leave afghanistan for days. you were repeatedly directed to different gates at the airport. tell me how difficult it's been for you. >> unbelievable. unbelievable. i don't have words for that to use. my mom and my son, 11 years old son, and my mom that she's already have a difficulty of, you know, to walk, and with my two brothers and their wife and a lot of kids, we've been directed -- we arrived there on monday, monday morning. and when we arrived, it was already 1:00 a.m. at night. so after that, we've been told like on the ground and, you know, someone told us from the embassy that we have to go

directly to the airport. and at the time we could not make it, and we couldn't go. we went to a relative's house, and then tomorrow in the morning, we tried to step out, and it was impossible at the time when we went there due to the crowd. it was unbelievable crowd. so we came back, and then we went back around 7:00. >> i understand it was incredibly hot during your journey. you went 20 hours without eating, drinking, or even using the bathroom? >> that's correct. and people on the ground that they know that, been contacting them every minute, every minute that we are here. and they were saying, like, we are sending someone. that was like thursday evening. so they asked us to come to the, like, the pacific gate. they give us the code and the number and send us a picture. if you see someone, you can show that as well, or someone will call your name. so we went to the gate.

it was the santa cruz, so we went there. somehow, i just like threw into the crowd and tried to call all the security guards that was there, and they were not listening at all to anyone. i always heard if you're a citizen, you just show them your passport. they will let you through. but that was not true at all. i was screaming at them and showing my passport and holding it high that i'm a citizen, i just want to get through. waiting for more than two hours, and just the same thing repeating over and over, and i could not step further because they had guns, and they were shooting at everyone. they were pointing on their feet and shooting at everyone's feet and shooting at the sky as well. so i was so scared, i could not step further to, you know, show to them closely. but none of them was willing to

listen. >> what are you going to do now, then, yasmeen? >> i have no idea. i mean i tried my best. i tried my best. we were there for six days, six days day and night. we were circling around. we were told go to this gate and that gate. the other day that the explosion happened, at that time we were there, and that was the gate that i was being directed to go there and someone will assist me. so when we arrived there and during the first checkpoint and the explosion happened -- >> just real quick, i understand that you've heard from secretary blinken. you heard him say that the state department is getting ready to help americans in afghanistan even after this. do you have anyhow that's going to happen? do you feel confident that it will happen? >> i have no idea to be honest with you because i also asked from people on the ground the same thing. they were telling me the same

thing. they didn't even had any idea when they're leaving and what's going to happen next and who's going to, you know, receive help from them. no one knows anything. >> well, yasmeen, want to thank you for joining us. we're sorry you're in this predicament and please keep in touch with us. be safe. thank you so much. >> of course. thank you. greatly appreciate it. hospitals in louisiana hit with a catastrophic one-two punch, the pandemic and now the aftermath of one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the united states. can hospitals keep up, and what happens if they can't?

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at our lady of the lake regional medical center in my hometown of baton rouge. thank you for joining us, doctor. i know you're busy, but we're so glad that you're here to give the information and tell the story. it's still a search and rescue operation with an unknown number of injured. are you seeing patients arrive at your hospital yet? >> we are. it seems like the floodgates opened today and all the campuses in our network, a lot of patients coming by ambulance, by private vehicle for typical complaints but also for complaints probably related to the hurricane. >> yeah. state health officials are saying that some smaller hospitals had to evacuate tonight after being damaged in the storm. you know, beds were already in short supply. how much of a strain is this on the system? >> it's going to be a strain on the system. fortunately we didn't suffer any catastrophic damage at our lady of the lake or any of our hospitals in the baton rouge region. we've had a little bit of damage

here and there, but structurally everything is fine and we're fully functioning. we have a task force that's figuring out how can we see more patients in the same number of rooms, same space, with the same providers. so we're working on that game plan now to flex, so as these hospitals are starting to transfer patients, you know, we can be elastic. >> so i visited down there before ida hit. i didn't visit your hospital. i was at baton rouge general because i was born there. there were more than -- i think 2,000 covid patients in louisiana hospitals before ida hit. how much does a catastrophic storm like this add to an already desperate situation? how much does this tax you, the hospital, the personnel, the system? >> well, it's tough because we still are seeing new covid patients that are coming in. you know, that's not changing. the patients that were already here in the hospital, they're

still here for the most part. the thing that we're noticing today that we were expecting was that patients that had been home on oxygen with covid, as their power is out, they run out of oxygen because one of the ways they get oxygen is through something called a concentrator that requires electricity. >> mm-hmm. >> so as the elect is out, they -- you know, they start to run out of their oxygen supply. so then they come here because they don't have power and they're looking for oxygen. so there are shelters. there's one at southern university that they can call 211, and they can see if they have availability there so they can go and plug in their own concentrator so they can have oxygen if they don't need to actually come into the hospital. >> okay. look, you know, speaking of that, louisiana has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, only 41% of people vaccinated. look, i know you've got to be worried about the displacement

caused by ida, but how it can help, you know, spread this virus with people being in close quarters or, you know, just not being able to social distance or wear masks in the way that they would before because they're dealing with some extraordinary circumstances. >> sure. well, i've told people since march of 2020 that you can social distance in your house. so even if you're having to get multiple people in a family together, neighbors together because of, you know, loss of property, try to stay six feet away from each other. it's not perfect, but it's better than piling up on a couch. so stay six feet away from each other. wash your hands. try to stay in the same pot in the house. clean surfaces. wear your mask. we got some of our covid testing sites back up today. hopefully we'll get some of our vaccination sites up and

running. we were making some headway since you and i last spoke. you know, people were changing their opinions on the vaccine and getting vaccinated, and i think we need to continue to build on that momentum even though it kind of set us back a little bit. >> are you worried about the numbers going up after this because it seems like -- no pun intended -- the perfect storm? >> i think it's inevitable when you have a very contagious virus and when people are getting together not by intention at this point but out of necessity, i think the numbers are going to go up. >> doctor, appreciate your work. be safe. be well. thank you so much. >> absolutely. appreciate it, don. 45,000 students and staff quarantined because of covid in florida. so why are parents there still arguing over masks? >> as you can see, fists are now flying. all of this on live television. fists are flying.

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oh, professor, here we go. thank you, sir. it's good to see you. i just want you to watch this. a fight breaks out after a county school district in florida decided to require masks for teachers and students for 30 days starting on september 1st with no opt-out option. this is live coverage from our affiliate. take a look. >> are you shocked at what this has become? >> not at all. been watching it on social media for weeks and months and months. >> okay. right here. look right here. so as you can see, fists are now flying. all of this on live television. fists are flying. unbelievable what we are seeing here today unfold live. >> fights breaking out over having to wear a cloth mask to prevent the spread of a disease. this is ridiculous. this is where we are now.

>> well, you know, it's just basic facts. 180,000 children were infected last week. our hospitals around the country and particularly where low vaccination rates are filling up with children. the highest number, the highest group affected now, are teenagers. we know that children give it to each other. they give it to their families. infected teachers can give it to their classrooms if they're not wearing masks. this is really serious business, particularly labor day is approaching quickly in schools, not just select schools, all over the country are going to be opening up in the midst of a pandemic which specifically targets young people. this is really serious now. >> i want you to listen to dr. fauci reacting to the model predicting another 100,000 americans will die from covid by december. watch. >> you know, what is going on now is both entirely predictable

but entirely preventable. and, you know, we know we have the wherewithal with vaccines to turn this around. and the roeason you see the numbers that are so alarming that you just gave is we have about 80 million people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated who are not yet vaccinated. we could turn this around, and we could do it efficiently and quickly if we just get those people vaccinated. >> so when you hear predictable but entirely preventable, can we still turn it around? i mean it's crazy that he'd have to say that, right? it is preventable, but yeah. anyway. go on. >> it breaks your heart because we now have more vaccines than we need. we can go to any pharmacy and get the vaccine for free. it is heartbreaking not only to see people who are dying who don't need to die, but to see our children suffer. and, you know, the other problem

with this is this isn't going to be over once there's no more covid because there's something called long covid. and increasingly we're understanding that a very large fraction of adults and children who contract the virus, even though they may not be sick, are very sick, may suffer these long effects which have mental effects, cardiac effects, effects on many things you'd want your children to be able to do. so this is extremely serious not to mention what tony just said -- what dr. fauci just said, that about 100,000 more people may die. if you look around the world and see that where people are vaccinated, they don't go to the hospital. there's a huge difference between being vaccinated and not being vaccinated and how likely you are to be hospitalized even if you catch the virus. it's an enormous difference, a 90% difference. we don't need to go through this

again. >> you know, louisiana is dealing with the aftermath of hurricane ida. the yikesicus are 80% full. hospitals in kentucky are overwhelmed by a new all-time high covid hospitalizations. how worried are you about the strain on our hospitals? i just had a physician from our lady of the lake in louisiana talking about the strain on staff and the system. >> well, it's a tremendous strain without the hurricane. with the hurricane, it's a double strain because some facilities have been shut down, and people are being forced to congregate in a time when the virus is rampant. there will be more infections. but even without the hurricane, you go to those states that are low vaccination rates, they are just like we were this time last year. remember what it was like last year with the extra hospitals, the extra beds in the parking

lots? that's happening again, and it doesn't need to happen now. last year, we could do very little. but this year we can do a lot, and we're not even doing the very minimum for our children, which is having them have masks. and people are, as you saw, going into brutal fights over the issue. it's just -- it's just -- it makes you sad to see that. >> yeah. thank you, professor. i appreciate it. >> my pleasure. it's a pleasure. >> they're in louisiana. they're in d.c. they're in haiti. chef jose andreas is all over the place. he's a good man, and he's here to talk about it right after this.

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some officials in the city are worried it could be weeks before it is restored. my next guest is chef jose andreas. he is feeding hurricane victims with his group world central kitchen. we're so happy he's there. i know you're on the ground. i know you're seeing a lot. as i understand, you got people even where you are who are in need. what's going on, chef? >> well, it's been a long day for everybody, and i began my day searching for the companies that had food. we already had many with

generators, but we were looking for more. it was a very successful day. we were able to get tens of thousands of pieces of fruit, cheese, bread, and chicken. so that was good. but once we got food, what we like to do at world central kitchen is go to look for the people that need us. obviously in new orleans and surrounding areas, but then we began driving away. where? places like houma, that we know has been in one of the hardest hit areas. so we arrived there. remember it's very difficult to speak to anybody. it's not like you can get a cell signal. we began feeding one of the shelters with almost 100 people in downtown houma. we began feeding some of the firefighters, some of the police, some of the sheriff office, and this is the way we do it. we scout. we stop here to speak with you. there's a hotel called evergreen

plaza. no lights. all of a sudden, they saw we had world central kitchen. some people know us. and all of a sudden, we had like 100 people coming out from the dark rooms of this hotel. >> chef, show me. show me. >> well, we've been feeding them already for the last half hour, waiting for you. but that's the hotel in the back. it just happens that we finish, but there's people back there with the phones saying hi. people going back to their dark rooms. every room you see there, every dark room is a family with children, elderly, and they are in the middle of nowhere. and even this gas station where we are, they have electricity like this one, or they have a generator, but they don't have gas, or they have gas, but they don't have a generator. so this is the situation 24

hours after this hurricane. >> how many people you think you've been feeding? you said you went to a shelter. there were 100 people there. now you're out here where you were just driving by, finding people in need, right? >> i think today was not a huge day in terms of food. we need to remember that in the first 24 hours, people have food at home. the situation is all the restaurants very much are shut down. obviously the supermarkets, and obviously the refrigeration, whatever people had in their freezers may be still okay. but we are on the edge of people having to throw all that food away. many restaurants owners knew world central kitchen was cooking in downtown new orleans. that's the louisiana way. they began bringing us the food to our centralized kitchen. so this is what's going on. but starting tomorrow, i believe, the next one, two,

three days is when it's going to be a real need with a lot of people in need of food because there's not going to be many places to buy it yet, or there's no restaurants to order it from. so it's when i see the need in the number of meals is going to be increasing dramatically. >> i'm glad you showed us what's happening. before i let you go, i want to tell people this. chef andreas' organization is providing -- been feeding families arriving from d.c. we have some video of that. and arriving in d.c. from afghanistan. then we have a little video that -- so that's folks arriving in d.c. from afghanistan. that's him getting ready to do that. and i also understand he just got back from haiti feeding victims of the horrible earthquake there. so you're doing what folks should be doing. i got to run. take us out. >> thank you. i'm not doing it. it's many, many people doing it. in haiti, we've been doing a

great good job. the de americans are there around the world when people need help. >> very simply, i'm going to say thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. as a resident of baton rouge, i grew up there. that's my hometown. thank you, thank you. i appreciate it. thank you, chef. for more information on how you can help all the communities who we have spoken about, please go to cnn.com/impact. hurricane ida is threatening more flooding. we're going to bring you the very latest on where it's heading and how bad it will get after this. i used to pre-rinse because mom did. but i wasted up to 20 gallons of water every time. now, we just scrape and load. finish quantum works without pre-rinsing, cleaning your dishes to a shine. join the millions of americans skipping the rinse to save our water. when you really need to sleep you reach for the really good stuff. new zzzquil ultra helps you sleep better and longer when you need it most. it's non habit forming and powered by the makers of nyquil.

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orleans. much of new orleans experiencing its wettest year on record leading town this particular storm making landfall. so the soil already fully saturated. so any additional rainfall leads to surface flooding. that's why we've seen so much flooding reports across portions of louisiana. the concern as the system migrates, they're right here across portions of season even into areas of metro northeast. the concern there is when you look at rainfall in some of these areas and the expansive nature of this, don, 1,200 mile coverage between louisiana to cape cod where flood watches are in place. but in portions of the ohio and tennessee valley, you've got natural ground. when rain falls out of the sky, about 10% of it becomes runoff. about 90% of it is absorbed into the soil. put that into some of these major cities of the metro northeast, about 55% of it hits concrete and becomes runoff. >> thank you, pedram. i appreciate that. be safe. thanks for watching, everyone.

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welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. just ahead here on "cnn newsroom," the last american military flight has left afghanistan ending a 20 year war and leaving behind a lot of uncertainty. plus -- >> this was hours of agony. >> under water in ways that we have never seen before. >> hurricane ida causes catastrophic damage across southeastern louisiana and now a massre