plus, 0% interest for 60 months. ends monday. esidenbid's national curityis king hut that to amecans outside the u.s. >> well, ed, first of all, it is something that we are very closely tracking, whether there are any threats to the u.s. homeland or u.s. interests anywhere else in the world. what the intelligence community has assessed to date is that the relevant terrorist groups in afghanistan do not possess advanced external noting capabilities, but, of course, they could develop that. and that is something we need to be very focused on. what we have proven over time in other countries, ed, we're capable of

suppressing the terrorism threat, including external plotting capabilities, without a large permanent presence on the ground. we have done that in places like libya and somalia, and yemen, and we will do that in afghanistan as well as we go forward. >> o'keefe: is there any possibility after tuesday that some kind of retaliatory attack on isis-k will en volve sending military personnel back to afghanistan? >> he doesn't intend to extend the war. but that being said, he'll talk to the commanders about what facilities they need to get the people who killed our troops at kabul airport and to make sure we are degrading and debilitating isis-k who conducted this attack. yes, we will continue to take the kinds of over the horizon strikes, like we did over the weekend, against the isis-k facilitators and plotters, and, yes, we will consider

other operations to go after these guys. >> o'keefe: in plain english, "over the horizon" means from somewhere else? >> from outside of afghanistan without keeping thousands of groups on the ground in the middle of another country's civil war. >> o'keefe: got it. there are a few hundred americans left in afghanistan that the state department is aware of that want to get out of the country. will they all get out by tuesday? >> what we're doing right now, ed, is working one by one with those individuals and their families to direct them to a rally point near the airport, to come into the airport, and to get on the planes and go home. there are those americans, though, ed -- and this is important -- who have chosen thus far not to leave kabul. maybe they have extended family there. our message to those americans is that after august 31st, we will make sure there is s passage for any american citizen, any legal permanent resident, and, yes, we will ensure the

safe passage of those afghans who helped us to continue coming out after the 31st of august. >> but how are you going to do that? doesn't that mean relying on the taliban? >> this isn't about reliance. this is about ensuring we use the leverage we have available to us, and it is considerable, to hold the taliban to its commitments. the taliban have communicated to us privately and publicly, that they're allow tor for safe passage. and we've lobbied dozen of countries in saying to the taliban if they do not follow through, there will be significant consequences. and the economic leverage and the other forms of leverage we continue to possess we believe will be affective in ensuring we can get other people out who want to come out after the 21st 31st of august. >> o'keefe: if you're pulling all of your u.s. military equipment out of there, if you're pulling out all, if not most, of

your diplomatic personnel on there, what other leverage is left? >> you just mentioned economic leverage. we're talking about afghanistan relationship to any kind of reserves and resources. that is a significant source of leverage. the united states is rallying the international community in a united way to ensure that the commitment on safe passage is not just a commitment to us, but to everyone else. we obviously retain a variety of capabilities that are both not economic and not diplomatic, that we could bring to bear in the event american citizens are somehow held at risk in afghanistan going forward. o t u. plan to leave u.s. personnel in afghanistan after tuesday? >> our current plan is not to have an ongoing presence in afghanistan as of september 1st. but we will have means and mechanisms of havinguning ab coo

process out these applicants, and facilitate the passage of other people who want to leave afghanistan. and, over time, depending on what the taliban does, how it follows through on its commitments with respect to safe passage, how it deals with the treatment of women, how it deals with its international commitment not to allow afghanistan to become a base for terrorism around the world, we can make decisions on other issues as we go. the onus will be on the taliban to prove out its commitment and willingness to abide by the allegations that he has undertaken and that are imposed upon it by international law. >> o'keefe: jake, you've known the president a long time. they call the presidency the loneliness job in the world. how has his moral been in recent days? >> i would describe the president's approached to this in recent days in one word: focused.er focused 24 hours a day on protecting

our forces and getting these commission complete, >> o'keefe: does he still have confidence in his entire national security team? >> that's obviously a question for you to ask. that is something from our perspective is your job. our job is to execute. our job is to get this mission complete. and right now the president is looking to his entire national security team to make that happen, to take this next critical, dangerous period, where we face acute threats as we speak, minute by minute, ho hour by hour, from isis-k, to ensure our troops have the protection they need and to ensure they have what they are required -- what is required to be able to carry out the rest of this mission. the whole goal here was to get u.s. military forces out of afghanistan by september 11th. whose idea was it to use 9/11 as the deadline?

>> when the decision was taken by the president to draw down our forces in afghanistan, and he took that decision back in april. we had an impending may 1st deadline, at which point the trump administration had negotiated the removal of all american forces from the country. the president asked him commanders, how much time do you need to be able to get out of afghanistan in a way you feel will protect the forces and allow you to execute a drawdown that also protects our allies as they were coming out. they gave him a timetable of 120 days, four months, and that is what has guided his decision-making about coming out of afghanistan from the start. it has been the tactical advice of his commanders on the ground, and that is how we will ultimately bring this mission to a close. >> o'keefe: they didn't explicitly said 9/11, and they said four months, and you realized it was 9/11 and it would end? >> we said the mission would end by the

anniversary of 9/11. it was based on a 120-day timetable as briefed to the president by the commanders who felt that was the appropriate timetable to try the completion of ther why i asked this, you don't oversee everything, but this summer because the july fourth deadline. and there is this 9/11 deadline where the taliban will be back in control of afghanistan on the 20th anniversary. has there been any conversation about perhaps not using dates on a calendar to set white house policy anymore? >> ed, i've got to tell you, right now what we're thinking about all day and all night, including every single hour of last night, how do we protect our forces at the kabul airport against imminent threats from isis-k, and how do we get those remaining american citizens and others out of the country. that's what i'm focused on. that's what we're? trying

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u.s. bank. we'll get there together. ♪ >> o'keefe: we turn now to america's covid crisis. more than 90,000 americans are hospitalized nationwide. most of those cases are related to the darroll. delta variant. mark strassmann reports from atlanta. >> reporter: today's double trouble along the gulf coast has a nickname, a mash of covid and ida. the pu punishing winds and rains, and evacuees spreading the virus. but this pandemic already has a first circle of misery, and it's florida. florida is averaging more than 21,000 new cases a day, and the death toll keeps climbing. case lo loads buckle

hospitals. governor ron desantis and his disdain for masking mandates, a state court overruled this threat to withhold state funding from schools that enforce mask mandates. kate brown is alarmed and getting tough. this weekend she reinstated mask mandates indoors and outdoors, regardless ocine status. [yelling] >> reporter: more schools across america will reopen this week. educators have reason to be edgy. more than 180,000 children beeen august 12th and august 19th. some of those cases have dire outcomes. the delta variant can kill kids, including a boy in houston. >> this was a previously totally healthy child who contracted covid and died. >> reporter: without better masking and vaccination rates a leadly forecasting model has a grim prediction: another

100,000 covid deaths in america by early december. the good news: vaccines are sharply up. almost a million more shots every day. ed? >> o'keefe: we go now to former f.d.a. commissioner dr. scott gottlieb, who is also a member of the pfizer board, and theau author of a new bootrk:pread: covid crushed us and how we can defeat the next variant." my understanding is you have a little more information on the future of the vaccine for children? >> doctor: well dr. fauci was on tv this morning talking about the potential for an authorization this fall. pfizer is going to be in a position -- i'm on the board, as you mentioned -- will be in a position to file data with the f.d.a. at some point in september, and file an application as early as october. that will put us on a timeframe where the vaccine could be available late fall, more likely late winter.

historically, they've taken four to six weeks to review these authorizatiauthorizations. if they require a longer term median followup, it could take longer to get to an authorization. the agency will be in a position to make an authorization sometime in late fall or early winter. they will probably base their decision on what the circumstances is around the country. the urgency to get a vaccine to kids. >> o'keefe: there is a possibility around the holidays, at the end of the year, beginning of next year, children down to age five could be getting shots? >> doctor: i think that is right. if pfizer files the application in october, it could be available and authorized sometime in late november, maybe early december. it puts you on a timeframe you could start rllg out these vaccines before the end of the year. the data on kids two to

five will be available in november. >> o'keefe: they could have it by erl n early next year. that's good news. parents are about to send kids to school, some about to send kids to school, and there is concern abo coike.ec r atice do he for anx they prepare to send their kids back? >> doctor: what we're seeing in the south is very concerning. the epidemic is now coursing its way through children. there are 300 kids a day being hospitalized around the country for covid. if you look at some of the school districts in the south, tampa has 10,000 kids that have already diagnosed with covid. i think as we head back to school here in the northeast, schools need to look at what is happening in the south and take adequate precautions. i don't think we should be going into the school year lifting the mitigation that may have worked and probably did work last year to control outbreaks

in the school setting. i think we have to throw everything we can at this challenge of trying to keep the infection from becoming epidemic in the school setting. ntagious.y it spreads easily in that environment. the two best things schools can be doing right now is frequent testing, twice a week testing, and there are a lot of resources made available, and also keeping students in geographical pods, keeping them in defined pods, probably by their classroom. those two elements alone, according to the literature, are probably two of the most affective steps. and then using masks and improving ventilation will be very important. and finally, getting kids vaccinated. about 50% of kids eligible for being vaccinated have been vaccinated. there is still more work we can do to try to encourage parents to streavaccinate teir children. >> o'keefe: we always appreciate you joining us

on sunday morning. dr. gottlieb, as always, thanks for joining us. >> doctor: thank you. >> o'keefe: and we'll be right back with an update itusurricane ida with the

>> o'keefe: we want to go back to tracking hurricane ida, which is about to make landfall in louisiana. jeff berardelli is tracking the storm. jeff, an update just came out a few moments ago. what can you tell us? >> the storm still has winds of 150, and may eventually right 155 before landfall, literally just shy of a cat 5. this is really the strongest storm to impact this area in terms of wind intensity in modern history. this is the strongest storm you'll ever experience in terms of wind, although the surge won't be as strong as katrina, the wind will be more catastrophic. and it has that momentum and in esh inertia to power through and create plenty of damage. the eye wall is literally about 10 miles away from the coast right now. the eye wall will come on shore in about 45 minutes or so. how does this compare with

katrina? let's talk about that. this storm has winds of 150 mile-an-hour. katrina had winds of 125. katrina was a weakening system. the winds with this system are much more intense than katrina, and it will cause a lot more catastrophic wind damage. however, because katrina was out in the gulf of mexico for two or three days, it was building up a mountain of water and pushed all of that water on shore. this one is about to have 16 feet of storm surge, and katrina had 28feet. 142 mile-an-hour wind guests in grand aisle, and in new orleans, well over 90 mile-an-hour wind gusts. have a mattress ready to put it on top of you and your family in case your structure were to collapse. >> o'keefe: jeff, i appreciate that you put those two storms next to each other. what you're basically telling us is this new storm has a lot more wind,

whereas katrina had a lot more water. >> and this will have a lot of water. >> o'keefe: 16years to day, and getting hit by another one. we go now to the mayor of baton rouge. sharon, thank you for joining us. mayor, give us a sense of how your city is prepared, or is preparing for this, and what concerns you have as the storm nears? >> mayor: thank you. we have prepared on ever level from a city preparedness point of view, and our city partners and residents have received the word for days now, and have started to make preparation in terms of supplies for their families and food, medicine, and fuel. we are asking people right now to take shelter. it is not the time to try to evacuate. we're anticipating the storm will be in our area around 3:00 p.m. today. >> o'keefe: and you have

a -- you've got a lot of things going on in baton rouge. among other things, you have a lot of universities there. are you concerned at all about the student population that may be from out of state and doesn't appreciate the power and importance of getting out of the way of these storms. >> mayor: well, i think our student population has been schooled, if you will, in terms of taking this very seriously, hurricanes. so i'm confident they are part of the fabric of our community, and we've gotten the word out to our universities and our colleges here as well. so we're all working through this together in baton rouge, and i believe that our citizens, all of them, are taking it very seriously. they are remaining vigilant, calm, and strong as we work through this. >> o'keefe: and, you know, you've got this hurricane, and, of course you, like city leaders all over the country, are also dealing with the pandemic. how did you have to adjust either of your responses

to either of those crises in order to deal with this? >> mayor: yes, absolutely. i have said we are in the middle of two emergencies: a pandemic as well as rrican and so our mayor's of homeland security and emergency preparedness plans for this tu type of dual emergency, if you will. right now we're opening up one of our pre-storm selters. and during that pre-storm shelter, we will have isolated areas for those people that test positive for covid-19. >> o'keefe: so you're breaking out an area for them just in case. and that, of course, takes space away from others who may just need a place to go. so it compounds the potential response here to this storm. >> mayor: yes. >> o'keefe: mayor, it's been 16 years since katrina hit. how has louisianans'

response to hurricanes changed in the 16 years? if the storm warnings come and people like you tell them to leave, pack up and get ready, are they doing everything differently or more vigilantly now after that storm so many years ago? >> mayor: i believe they are. not only are we remembering katrina, but we recently, in 2016, had a flood that had a significant impact on our city. and so ever since then people have been very concerned, very guarded, very vi vigilant in terms of how we manage and navigate water here. water management is a way of life here in south louisiana, and we take it very seriously. our city has prepared, using some of our american rescue dollars in advance, six weeks ago, to start cleaning out drains and managing culverts and canals. so in addition to that,

just this week our team has intensified their efforts. so we take water very seriously and weather events like this very seriously. >> o'keefe: mayor sharon broom, we appreciate you taking the time today. we wish you the best of luck. i have a feeling we may be talking to you again later in the week? >> mayor: thank you so much. >> o'keefe: all right. we'll be right back. tired of clean clothes that just don't smell clean? what if your clothes could stay fresh for weeks? now they can! this towel has already been used and it still smells fresh. pour a cap of downy unstopables into your washing machine before each load

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>> that's it for us today. thank you for watching on this busy sunday. for margaret brennan, i'm ed o'keefe. stay with us on our broadcast and digital network has we continue to monitor hurricane ida. we leave you today honoring the 13 americans killed in afghanistan last week.

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york. w >> announcer:hi ernight news." good evening and thanks for joining us. want to get straight to hurricane ida. it made landfall in louisiana today, battering the southeastern gulf coast with an onslaught of water and dangerous winds. it hit exactly the same day as hurricane katrina 16 years ago. ida showed destructive winds up to 150 miles an hour. more than a foot and a half of rain is expected over several sn it's a monster, life-threatening hurricane. millions of people are in its path. today president biden promised

to put the