i'll see you next saturday. my friend, yasmin vossoughian continues our coverage. here we go, everybody. we have a lot to coffee. good afternoon, by the way. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we have two major stories we're covering. tropical storm henri battering the northeast. we're going to take you will have to the hardest-hit areas. in about an hour from now, president biden will talk about the national response to henri, but also a developing situation in afghanistan. this happens as the president puts in place a new plans --

first, we're tracking tropical storm henri. this is new satellite video from noaa capturing the moment when tropical storm henri made landfall. it packed high winds that knocked out power to more than 80,000 customers in rhode island. close to 4,000 people in massachusetts and 2,000 on long island without power. we'll have the latest on the path of the storm which, in fact, is slowing. one bit of good news, though. the storm surge warning has canceled for all areas. a lot of folks breathing a sigh of relief. we got kathy park, who is

standing by for you in narragansett, and tracking this whole thing is bill karins. i want to start first with kathy. this storm making landfall just east of you, so talk us us through what you've been experiencing and what you're experiencing now. >> our understanding is henri made landfall about 30 minutes west of es, but nothing like what we saw in the 12:00 hour when we were barely hanging on. you can still see the waves crashing behind me. earlier today, it was so bad it was spilling over the sea wall, but you see some folks walking around. a lot of folks are residents, locals. they were kind of describing the

storm damage to me. they said there were a lot of trees down, power lines down. it depends on who you ask whether they have power or not. we know tens of thousands in rhode island are without power, and later on today, in the 4:00 hour, the governor, as well as other state official will be briefing us as far as the damage assessment goes. we know that members of the national guard are ready in case they are needed to help, but as far as the damage where we are on the beach, i flooding was supposed to be a big concern. the conditions have definitely taken a turn for the better. it's windy out here. i haven't felt a raindrop for several hours. we're not officially in the year yet. i know officials are telling folks, just take it easy, try to stay off the roadways, because you have those trees down.

obviously the ground has been really saturated because of prior storms in the past couple days, yasmin. >> interestingly, this storm was supposed to make landfall over the east end of long island. that in fact did not happen. it kind of skirted arrange and made landfall just west of you, as you mentioned. how are folks preparing? were there evacuation orders in place? were people heeding those warnings. >> reporter: here in particular, we spoke with a manager in town. they said there were no evacuation orders in place. obviously the beach was closed ahead of the storm. yesterday we were kind of talking to folks getting ready for henri. there wasn't a mad dash to the store. we were told it was busy. a lot of people were stocking up. you know, they have survived

sandy. i know that is something that a lot of people bring up in this community. they said it was, obviously very bad with sandy in 2012, but they were watching the models closely. they weren't sure how big of an impact it would be. obviously they were heeding the warnings. a lot of people hunkered down in place and rode out the storm. fortunately, it looks like they kind of lucked out, especially in this community. >> i think you're right. i think there were a lot of people with ptsd from sandy. kathy, stand by for us. i want to move a little south of you to montauk. it seems like, ron, they're out of the woods. montauk was supposed to be it worse than it has, so far. what have you been seeing?

>> reporter: in the days leading up to this somewhere along long island was thought to be the bull's-eye. we're starting literally at the point where the atlantic and long island sound come together, the further easterly point in new york. we kind of watched the storm go by. it was out there a few miles past us, figuratively, and it did, it skirted around montauk and spared this community, which of course, was a great relief. there were some evacuations in the low-lying areas, places like fire island, some of the communities along the hamptons, and people heeded those warnings. that was all good. but now, hours later, it's amazing how the weather has changed. the forecasters said this was a fast-moving storm, and that's what happened here. now completely different conditions. still cloud cover, still feeling a bit of a mist of rain, but the

winds have died down significantly. they were raging, i guess as much as 40, 50 miles an hour in this area. hours ago it was different to stand here and do anything. we didn't. we went in for cover. so a sigh of relief. we have nod heard reports of widespread power outages. there's still tropical storm warnings in place, and the concern is that the ground is so saturated, and the storm seems like a rain event in many areas. there's more concern about flooding, more trees coming down, because the ground is so wet. that's why officials are saying, let's just wait a while and see how this all plays out into the evening. the storm has moved north, but it's slowed down and spread out, as i understand it. so it's sort of is iing over massachusetts and parts of connecticut. again, that's part of what is making it rain up there so much,

and that may continue for some time. it's not until, i guess, maybe tuesday, as i read the forecast, that henri is tropical depression and moves off the coast, by that time reaches as far as vermont and new hampshire. 9 bottom line is, yes, they dodged a bullet. people have seeing what tropical storms can do, like sandy, which is a much more massive event, but still a big sigh of relief here on eastern long island. >> i bet. i want to bring bill karins into the conversation. we were e-mailing yesterday, because i was on the ground covering sandy and saw the devastation. a lot of folks were worried this was going to do what in fact sandy did. so far, so good, it seems like, but combining of what we heard from ron and kathy, we're not yet out of the woods yet. it seems as though at this point it slowed down. so where are we?

>> a sigh of relief. we predict what storms will be like, but this storm is an underperforming one. three to five had the foot surge was the potential. i didn't see anything over a foot, i didn't see in surge damages. power outages, we now have 125,000 people without power, much less than predicted. it's horrible for the people who have lost power, mostly areas of rhode island and western connecticut. and the last wild card, will it overperform or underperform with the flooding? we think there's potential for significant flooding through tonight. so you already see where the center of the storm is.

there's no rain on the east side of the storm. all of it is on the west side. it's over new york, the berkshires, and when you have a slowing down of a storm, that's when we start to have problem. these winds are only in the 20 and 30-mile-per-hour range. heartd for had a gust of 43. most healthy trees are just fine in that. so i don't know if we'll end up with a quarter of a million people without power, which is fantastic in a densely pop lated area. winds are down to 50. it's all about the rain. the track of it goes into western massachusetts, and then it will be a slow drift through southern portion of massachusetts, new hampshire or vermont as we go through the next 24 hours. rainfall is the issue, flash

flood warnings for bergen county, through orange county there, also a good chunk of central connecticut with a flooding area. this is what our computers think. they think this heavy rain will shift and then stall over northern new jersey, the hudson valley and possibly the berkshires. our final map shows a future radar as we go throughout this evening, by 9:00 p.m., that bright red is very heavy rain there. that will be the concern, yasmin. hopefully we don't get the flash flooding that is possible. it would be great to have a storm that, like, not overperforming. so many hurricanes are just getting worsened worse and worse. >> right. this one went the other way. you want to bring in ken graham, and i want to give you the opportunity to ask the pressing

questions you have. take it away, bill, and give ken, you know, your best question, what you want to hear. >> hi, ken. first oaf, thanks to all the hard work for you and everyone at the hurricane center. it's such valuable information. we're so much better with it. my question to you, is with the heavy rain threat, some of the computer models stall it off near the catskills, others take the storm northward. what is your thinking with where the tropical depression will eventually go. >> and i want to do thank you, too. thanks for getting the word out. but we have this down to miles an hour, so looking at this, we think about the core area of the

rains, but i'm worried about this boundary. if you draw a line across this area, going across long island, you know, pretty close to the city, back over the catskills, that hasn't moved. that whole area, that boundary, that's a focus on northern new jersey. so you latest forecast we have, it has to slow down to make the turn. when it does, some of those boundaries don't go anywhere as well. so into tonight, tomorrow, until this accelerates to the east, we still have a danger of some flooding. >> ken, i wanted to ask you about the stalling out of those boundaries, to build on what bill was just talking about. if you're in the hudson valley, you've got a lot of rivers, areas that can overflow into some small towns and cause major problems. how long are we looking at a stall in that area?

>> the center will continue to move and then slow down as it turns, but it leaves they boundaries back behind. that's what we see. so it will take some time, through tonight into tomorrow until you get the whole system out of there, you can see some heavy rainfall, but we always know you can cause that flash flooding, but that water has to go somewhere, so you can have some lasting issues on some of the rivers and streams that take time to drain. >> just a final question. what can northern new england expect out of this storm at this point when it finally reaches there? >> i think, let's watch this rain. i think the whole entire threat is that inland rain turn around, don't drown. >> ken graham, thanks so much for talking to us. bill karins, i'm going to be talking to you again.

they're batters portion of connecticut as well. i want to bring in the public safety communication spokesperson. >> thank you. >> connecticut was worried about what would happen, obviously making landfall in westerly, rhode island. how are folks dealing? >> right now the state is working hard to make sure our residents know we are here for them at the state eoc, here with resources needed before, during, even after the storm. >> have you heard of any damages lately? >> currently about 30,000 outages around the state, but

not to worry they are there. ready to go. >> damages not so much, some trees down. pretty much the power outages, and 9 heavy rainfall is what we're dealing with so far. >> chevy, thanks so much for joining us. appreciate it, good luck. we're continues to take a look. henri made landfall just hours ago. twist for updates as they happen. the president is scheduled to make remarks on henri, and the

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developing situation in afghanistan you want to bring in josh lederman. talk us through it. we got word it was happening late last night that the president would be speaking today at 4:00 p.m. what are the expectations? what are we hear the president will talk about? >> reporter: we expect to hear the president that, despite the terrible images, they have managed to create in just a matter of days this massive airlift operation with numbers that are climbing, that actually show they're getting more and more people out of kabul day after day. according to the latest numbers of the white house, in about a 24-hour period they got about 7800 people out of afghanistan on a combination of 23 u.s. mel tear flights as well as flights, charters, other arrangements made by allied countries,

facilitated by the u.s. which is basically running the show at the airport. we also expect to hear from the president about how they're taking on the growing challenges, including some bottlenext being having u.s. commercial airlines ordered to supply airlines and crews to ferry back to other location. >> and we'll pay attention whether the president talks about sending in more troops, given the fact we know there is an active isis threat to the airport, to americans there. jake sullivan, the national security adviser was on "meet the press" this morning, he said the threat is persistent and genuine. he also left the door open to possibly adding more troops. take a listen. >> at the moment we believe we have sufficient forces on the ground, but every single day the

president asked his military commanders whether they need additional resources, additional troops. so far the answer has been no, but he will ask again todayen. >> reporter: that ask would have come today at the meeting he held today. biden, when he speaks in about 45 minutes here at the white house, also expected to address the situation with the extreme weather, after having declared an emergency in both new york and in connecticut, yasmin. >> i'm just looking at the new reporting we're getting in from abby williams, talking about the authorized folks trying travel out, and the unauthorized, the fact that 150 or so people every time they open up the gates, are rushing through those gates, completely unauthorized to do

so. folks presents passports at the embassy there that don't even belong to them. are where he expecting the president to address that situation and figure out who gets through? >> the president has avoided talking about the specifics and anecdotal cases. that cable that you mentioned was the daily up date from diplomats, talking about how the situation how gotten better, we're still having problems with folks rushing in trying to corral and put back out so they can be properly screened. there's tens of thousands of afghans trying to get out of the country. some of them are eligible to do so through the special immigrant visa to try to get people out,

and that's why you have this chaotic situation on the ground josh lederman, i know you'll stick with us officer the next couple hours with the president speaking around 4:00 p.m., we hope. we're tracking henri. . stay with us. .

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welcome back, everybody. it is expected to continue the past northward into massachusetts. kristen dahlgren has more. >> reporter: hey there. still feeling some effects here in new bedford, massachusetts,

but thing have been getting better as we've got through the afternoon here. if you look out in the distance, by the lighthouse there's an opening for the harb ore. earlier today, they had that closed. the harbor was closed. it has since you opened. while the ferries that go from here to nantucket still aren't running, there's a possibility they may -- we're still seeing the chop, some rain come down in advance here. the biggest concern is probably -- the numbers are climbing over 10,000, possibly into the tens of thousands. think about it, you've got really saturated gowned from a

rainy, rainy summer. also tree branches down. we want to bring in a former fema administrator, thanks for joining us on this. let's talk through your experience here you full well know and prepared for sandy.

i think probably because this stayed a tropical system. where i don't think we'll see the lost of life like we did from saechbd, but power outages and flooding will be the big need to be responded to. ed ared stoshlt still impacting.

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welcome back, everybody. reverend jackson and his wife are in the hospital battling covid. white represent activities for the coming did not say specifically wile they were hospitalized, they did say doctors at northwestern are monitoring the conditions of jackson, a civil rights icon. . the total number of americans with at least one dose has been carried to more than --

in alabama, however, the state only has a 36% vaccination rate this also places a new strange on the healthcare system and overwhelmed healthcare systems. gary drumbach, i'm going to start with you. give us the latest. >> hey there, it's a feeling of compassion and fear here. they're tired of wearing masks and political figures telling them to get vaccinated. they're physically exhausted, and they have trends that it may get worse. right now there's more people in need of icu care than icu beds

available. it means that beds are being taken from other parts of the hospital to make sure they do get care, so people like cancer patients or people in accidents, may have to way longer to get those bets because of the mostly unvaccinated covid patients here. there's also the issue of staffs. staff are exhausted. i want to read from you . >> i cannot and will not force anyone to take the vaccine, but i also cannot continue to watch my patients continue from an eminently preventable disease.

>> you don't want to force anyone, but i can't stand by, so what is the solution? i'm firmly in the camp, you know this, requirements especially given the heightened infectionness of delta, but i think that individual, that physician is probably like most healthcare professionals, they very reluctant to force people to do anything, but, by the way, i do hope approval actually goes a long way to help people like that. it's no different. i do think -- >> i want to talk quickly about the president's numbers. they have fallen significantly and some of the reasons were seeing is because americans feel as if the worst is still yet to come. where are you on this, dr. patel?

>> we talked about this. we thought maybe the fall, delta playoff myself wrong and many others. i understand the president's approval ratings are taking a hit, but he's doing the right thing. i don't think these are dark days. in the last three days, a million new vaccinations each day. those won't make the difference in today's numbers or what gary has seen in alabama, but they are going to make a difference in getting us out of this and hopefully having a quite essant fall. we're going to need more people vaccinated than we needed even three months ago, can we get there to avoid even darker days? my hope is that we can. mandates will be part of it.

>> i'm hearing that pfizer is getting very close to at least a data readout that is significant that looks like it will let them apply for the emergency use authorizations in the 5 to 12 -- 5 to 11-year-old category end of september, early october, soed fda could get three weeks, four weeks tosh -- puts us in time for the holidays, couldn't come soon enough, but that leaves many inclusion my own, under the age of 5, that probably wouldn't sigh emergency use for many months. we've seen some evacuations happening across the new england area, specifically in the state of connecticut, talking to the governor coming up next. from nursing homes, you think about that, with the combination

of immunocompromised folks, and covid, and this pandemic and the delta variant. how do you protect them? >> honestly, this is a population that probably should, i would argue, bet boosted earlier. you just covered reverend jesse jackson the i know many whoever suffering breakthrough infections. that compelled the cdc to recommend that booster. i would argue this is a situation, and we have positions to interpret that. they need it, and then i really do think this is where vaccines requirements have to be implemented as soon as possible. you and i have talked about how low that vaccinate rate is. after hurricanes, we see other infectious diseases crop up, after katrina, after sandy, we have seen other illnesses

manifest. >> gary, dr. patel, thank you both. i want to bring in the connecticut governor, governor ned lamont. it's been a very thank you for joining us. talk us through what you're hearing so far. yes, we got hit pretty hard. we thought it was going to hit new haven, then it started moving -- ended up hitting a westerly, rhode island. a hurricane picks up speed until it hits ground, so where it hits is very important. poor rhode island ended up, as an hour or two ago, with 75,000 outages. we had about, you know, 30 at this point. so we haven't escaped the worst

of it yet, but where that hurricane hit made a big difference, or tropical storm. some of the worst could feasibly be a huge amount of rain. it seems ago if your state has been, quote/unquote, lucky how are you preparing for a worst-case scenario at this point? >> right now we have 30,000 -- let's start with the nursing homes. we had three nursing homes right in the eye of the storm. we had to move those people to a secure facility. we had a lot of utilities folks coming in, but some of them are

coming from highly infected parts of the country. >> can you spend a bit on the nursing homes? these are, you know, immunocompromised folks, older folks as well. maybe some of them are not necessarily vaccinated. how are you making sure they're staying in a safe and secure environment in evacuating them? >> first of all we have mandated, every nurse tess nursing homes have to be vaccinated. and to be very careful as regards to the troop coal storm, to maybe sure these people are safe. >> governor lamont, stay safe.

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welcome back, everybody. we are just minutes away from the top of the the hour, when the president is expected to address the country. as we wait, weapons to get up to the mind on the latest information with what's happening inside kabul. it's been exactly a week since the taliban took control. we learned that some refugees will be temporarily housed at the dulles expo center as they wait to be transported to. there's a report of seven people being killed that were trying to enter the airport. we have a lot to sift through. ali, good to see you.

first bring us up to date as to what's been happening on the ground the last couple hours. >> reporter: well, some semblance of order seems to be taking shape this evening, but there are still panicked and desperate people pouring into the perimeter. in fact the crowds are so big, you can see them in satellite photos. because of mayhem and taliban fighters beating people outside the airport, fires shots, people have become frightened and agitated. that's triggered a stampede, which according to the british army cost the lives of seven afghans crushed to death, showing the danger still posed to those trying to escape the taliban. the biden administration says commercial planes from the u.s. will be used to the movement of evacuation. 18 air scraps from companies, including united, american and delta, but they won't be flying directly into kabul.

they will be transport people who have been taken out of afghanistan and then taken to a third country. so evacuation is picking up pace, it's it's still extremely chaotic in and around the airport. >> we're talking about bases, right? where these afghan refugees will be headed to. there are currently some in ramstein, some will be headed to texas and wisconsin, bus first head to go dulles. do we have any understanding of whether they have the capacity to house these people for an uncertainly amount of time? >> it's a massive logistical operation. ramstein air bass is one of the biggest outside of america, and it's filling up fast. the military is hoping to get

5,000 to 9,000 people out of the afghanistan a day. they want to land them in various locations around the world, as you mentioned. the capacity of ramstein is for 5,000 people, 5,000 evacuees have already arrived there to date. so far 17 flights have toughed down there. another 14 are expected today. they've been forced to make a makeshift tent city there to feed the people, giving them medical attention if they need it, but the folks at ramstein are only meant to be think between 48 to 72 hours, so they can be properly processed, identified, some that wasn't practical in kabul, and then they'll be moved on to other locations or home if america is their home. it's a massive logistical operation. it takes a lot of people to organize it, a lot of food and

goods, but it is carrying on as we speak. >> hence the reason why so many folks are asking is that august 31st deadline even feasible? we wonder if they'll address that at the top of the hour. ali, thanks for your coverage. we are just minutes away from the president addressing afc. we'll have that live, next. snoor

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. welcome, everybody. top of the hour. i'm yasmin vossoughian. if you're still with us, thank you. if you're just joining us, welcome. at any moment we're expecting the president at the white house expected to address the two big stories we're following today. tropical storm henri battering the eastern seaboard. we'll have full coverage of that. the president will also talk about the situation in afghanistan, as his administration continues to come under intention criticism. we expect the president to go into more detail about those. as we wait, i want to bring? josh lederman, at the white house. also joining me is alicia menendez, host of "american voices" right here on msnbc.