that's growing to do it for us tonight. i'm particularly grateful when you try to spend some of your time with us at night. we'll be back tomorrow night. "way too early" is up next. now, u.s. military flights have ended and our troops have departed afghanistan. a new chapter of america's engagement with afghanistan has begun. it's one in which we will lead with our diplomacy. the military mission is over. a new diplomatic mission has begun. >> america's longest war finally comes to an end. the united states military has completed evacuation efforts in afghanistan. the question is what about the americans who are still there. plus, in louisiana, the storm is over, but the recovery from hurricane ida has just begun.

the question is do we have a full picture of the damage yet? and the european union takes the united states off its safe travel list amid a surge in covid cases. the question is will we see countries issue new travel restrictions for americans? it is "way too early" for this. ♪♪ what's up, everybody. welcome to "way too early," the show that is coming to you from the great city of los angeles live. i'm jake soboroff on this tuesday. the last american troop boarded a c 17 aircraft shortly before midnight in kabul last night, marking an end to a chaotic entry from the country. more than 122,000 people were evacuated since late july,

including more than 6,000 americans, but despite the massive number airlifted out, officials estimate between 100 and 200 u.s. citizens were left behind. >> look. there's a lot of heartbreak associated with this departure. we did not getter about out that we wanted to get out, but i think if we had stayed another ten days, we would not have gotten everybody out who wanted to get out and there still would have been people disappointed with that. it's a tough situation. but i want to emphasize again that simply because we have left, that doesn't mean the opportunities for both americans that are in afghanistan that want to leave and afghans who want to leave, they will not be denied that opportunity. >> the united states leaves afghanistan in the same position as when the mission first started in 2001 with taliban under control. they stormed back at a speed that surprised even the top american generals. as the last plane took off yesterday, taliban could be seen

shooting fireworks and guns into the sky to celebrate. the u.s. military likely abandoned hundreds of millions of dollars worth of aircraft, armored vehicles, and sophisticated systems based on equipment numbers provided by general frank mckenzie. much of what was left was rendered inoperable. >> we've also demilitarized equipment that we did not bring out of the airport, 27 humvees, tactical vehicle that will never be driven again. addition annaly on the ramp are a total of 73 aircraft. those aircraft will never fly again. they'll never be able to be operated by anyone. most were non-mission-capable to begin with, but certainly they will never be capable to fly again. >> several mine vehicles were also left. they cost approximately $1 million apiece.

joining us now from doha, qatar, nbc news foreign correspondent raf sanchez. good morning to you. the on vest question on people's minds is what is next for americans particularly in the wake of the attack at the abbey gate for those americans left behind in afghanistan. >> reporter: jacob, good morning. you heard secretary blinken say last night, there is no deadline on american efforts to try to get those u.s. citizens out of the country. general frank mckenzie last night gave the number as the very low hundreds. the state department saying somewhere in between 100 and 200 americans still in the country tries to get out, and there's a wide variety of reasons why they may not have been able to. these may be people outside of kabul who were not able to travel through taliban tear tair to get to the airport.

they may be u.s. citizens who they knew they could get on the plane but could not get their family members with them. there's a very long and complicated path ahead. secretary blinken said the effort to get those people out does not finish just because u.s. military troops have left. the u.s. embassy in kabul is relocating here in qatar, and the u.s. and its allies say they will bring every lever of diplomatic and political pressure to bear to make sure that the taliban stands by its commitment to allow americans and afghans to leave the country, to give them safe passage. but, of course, the western allies have lost a lot of their leverage by withdrawing u.s. troops and it's not clear whether they can be held to accounts on that. jacob? >> raf, with the taliban now in control of afghanistan for the

first time in two decades, i know we're starting to get the first reactions about the conditions on the ground in kabul. tell us about that. >> reporter: yeah, a taliban official telling nbc news this morning afghanistan has its independence. as far as they are concerned, they have outfought and outlasted the major superpower. they have thrown off the american occupation and they have reclaimed their country a couple of decades after they feel they did the same thing with the soviet union. we're back as you said to where we were in 2001. the taliban is in complete control of the country. they say they have changed. they say women will be allowed more freedoms than they had previously. they will be allowed to continue to go to university. they will no longer have to wear the full burka face covering. there are things the taliban wants from the international

community, which give some hope that they may stand by those commitments, including international recognition and the unfreezing of afghanistan's monetary funds. jacob? >> nbc's raf sanchez in doha, qatar. thanks for joining us this morning. now to hurricane ida. of course, it caused catastrophic damage throughout louisiana. at least 100 million people are still in the dark. no power nebraska in the city of new orleans, and it could with -- be weeks before it comes back. nbc news correspondent tom llamas reports from new orleans. >> reporter: desperation from louisiana. >> the hurricane came, took everything. >> you don't have anything? >> took everything. >> reporter: entire communities cut off. power down. and for many, no cell signal to call for help. officials in a riis to find terrified families still

trapped. >> i got my baby out though. i wasn't going to stop till i got my baby out. >> reporter: in laplace, people rescued from their homes using high-water vehicles and boats including this woman who is pregnant. >> how high was the water? >> to my stomach. >> so your stomach where you're carrying your baby? what were you thinking? >> as a mother of seven, i have nothing. we need help. >> reporter: others turned to social media. tiffany miller also in laplace begging for help while trapped in the dark. >> the water came in kind of quick. the only thick we could do was climb in the attic. >> reporter: so far 5,000 national guard troops have been activated. 25,000 cleanup crews from 30 states are on the way. warning conditions are still very dangerous including possible alligator-infested

floodwaters and the death toll is expected to rise. >> what i can tell you is the last couple of days have not been good for our state, and for the next several days and weeks, they will not be easy either. >> reporter: the damage to the power grid alone is described as catastrophic. some outages could last for weeks. >> this is a massive electrical tower that collapsed during hurricane ida with several feeder bands throughout new orleans. it's one of the epicenters. >> you're looking at you're not going to have power for weeks, if not months. >> exactly. you're exactly right. >> reporter: all of it beginning sunday as the powerful storm made landfall. hurricane ida is now approaching new orleans, and we're feeling the hurricane gusts somewhere around 85 miles per hour. the sad part is things are only

going to get worse. >> reporter: they did. winds reaching 170 miles on the coast. power lines like these stood no chance. the rain relentless. the levees, thankfully, appeared to have upheld. this woman, a nurse, had to be pulled from her car. with daylight, the damage revealed roofs torn from building after building, trees down everywhere. this boat tossed into the middle of a highway. >> we know hurricane ida had the potential to cause massive, massive damage, and that's exactly what we saw. >> reporter: some communities like grand i'm along the gulf coast completely cut off, and with power off and communications down, it's still impossible to assess the full impact of this monster storm. >> our thanks to nbc's tom llamas for that report. let's bring in meteorologist bill karins. bill, you tracked this thing relenltslessly before, during, an after landfall.

we talked about how it's going to have a long tail. how are things looking today? >> we're still going to see new communities getting flash flooding. i'm hearing reports of a road washed out in mississippi, two fatalities, ten injuries some of we're not done with tall damage yet. we have flash flood warnings down along the coastal areas. a lot of the rain has moved into the rivers and we have major and moderate river flooding. anywhere you see in blue around new orleans, hammitt and elsewhere, we have heavy rain reporting in biloxi and alabama. we're not completely done. when you talk about a million people without power, it's hot in the south. i mean it's humid after that storm moved through. it's going to feel like 100 degrees in the afternoon in the shade in new orleans. it's not going to feel any better as we go into wednesday. the heat index will feel like

101. as you expect, it stays hot and humid through the end of the week. day after day. especially at night, it's difficult to sleep when the temperature is 80 degrees and it's humid in your house or apartment. what's left from the storm? a big rainmaker. watch out for flash flooding in places like nashville. 30-mile-per-hour winds. winds are no longer an issue, but we still have 79 million people under flash flood watches because of the storm. the rain will head into the northeast as we go into wednesday and wednesday night. here's the additional rainfall nast. 100 to 110 degrees in tennessee. look at northern virginia, harrisburg, predictions, up to 6 inches of rain, philadelphia, 4 inches, new york city, 5 inches of rain. that's going to cause significant running wednesday into wednesday night throughout areas of the northeast. we're not done with this storm yet, jacob. obviously the winds have caused extreme damage in louisiana, but

this flash flooding threat is going to move right into new england as we go throughout the next 36 hours. >> we're not done by a long shot. bill cairns, thank you very much. one more weather story for you guys. this one here in california. the lake calder fire is accelerating, evacuating south lake tahoe, a city of 22,000 people. roads were backed up as cars rushed to get out. by last night, the fire crossed two state highways, burning mountain cabins this. comes as the region faces strong winds, extremely low humidity as well. the calendar fire has consumed nearly 200,000 acres and now it's only 15% contained. still ahead here on "way too early," the growing number of cases across america and the impact on already strained hospitals, plus the new recommendation from the european union to ban american travel tourists. those stories and much more when

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welcome back to "way too early." america is facing a growing crisis as covid-19 hospitalization reach their highest levels since the winter. nbc news correspondent kristen dahlgren explains. >> reporter: hospitals being pushed to the brink, averaging 100,000 hospitalized with covid, higher than any point since last winter when the vaccine wasn't available for most. in oregon, the national guard is now on hand as hospitals overflow. in florida where 93% of icu beds are now full, there were over 150,000 new cases last week, a rise of over 1000% since june. >> if we really got the overwhelming majority of those 80 million people vaccinated, you would see a dramatic turnaround in the dynamics of the outbreak. >> reporter: in san diego, some

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. welcome back to "way too early." it's 5:30 on the east coast, 2:30 out west. good morning. i'm jacob soboroff. the final u.s. military plane carrying americans from afghanistan left kabul last night, bringing an end to a hasty evacuation and those efforts that ultimately left behind tens of thousands of afghans desperate to leave the country. nbc news chief correspondent richard engel has the latest. >> reporter: united states ended its 20-year war in afghanistan with the conclusion of the largest non-combat amount airlift in american history. >> i'm here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from afghanistan and the end of

the military mission. >> reporter: is 23,000 people flown out of the now taliban-controlled country. the taliban firing a barrage of fireworks and gunfire. not all americans were able to get out. >> the citizens not able to get out, numbered in the low hundreds. i believe we're going to be able to get those people out. >> reporter: it's been two decades of military deployments, 2,061 americans killed, 1,141 nato allies killed, more than 48,000 afghans killed. 300,000 afghan soldiers trained only to collapse when confronted. about a trillion dollars spent and more to come to care for the wounded. afghanistan handed back to the very same islamic fundamentalists the united states drove from power weeks after 9/11, a generation of

afghans raised with expectations of freedom and fundamental rights under the umbrella of american protection. isis taking parting shots hoping to etch their dark name in history, firing rockets at the airport to no effect. the u.s. firing back, the u.s. says against an isis car bomb. afghans say ten civilians were killed. what was once called operation enduring freedom, neither enduring nor leaving a legacy of freedom. this afternoon president biden will address the nation on his decision not to extend the u.s. presence in afghan stab, despite facing krit came r sichl from both sides of the aisle, white house press secretary jen psaki told reporters the president has no second thoughts. >> the president stands by his decision to bring our men and women home from afghanistan because if he had not, his view and the view of many experts and military out there is we would

have sent tens of thousands potentially or thousands more troops back into harm's way, risking more lives and more people to fight a war the afghans were not willing to fight themselves. nothing has changed in that regard. >> in a statementlast night, president biden thanked the sps members who aided in the evacuation writing part, the past 17 days have seen our troops execute the largest airlift in u.s. history, evacuating over 120,000 u.s. citizens, citizens of our allies and afghan allies of the united states. they have done it with unmatched courage, professionalism, and resolve. now our 20-year military presence in afghanistan has ended. joining us now, white house reporter for the "washington post," ann gearrin. she's an msnbc contributor. ann, good morning to you. what does your reporting tell us about tinically nation and the taliban to allow us to remove the remaining people who still

want to leave? there's this 97-country agreement that's supposed to allow for this to happen, but will it? >> well, jacob, the lightest we have on that came from general mckenzieing and you played that clip a little bit ago. he think the approximately 200 -- they don't know exactly how many u.s. citizens still in the country who want to leave can if they choose to. the main reason they haven't so far is in most cases according to the pentagon have decided not to leave right now. that's due to the fact they have family or they don't have the right a pitcherwork to leave. that's a tough position for them to be in. as for the leverage and what

taliban has to get people out, it's the same leverage the united states and frankly a number of other countries with equities in afghanistan, it's diplomatic. the taliban would like to get a government up and running. to do is that, they're going to need money. they don't have much of. they're broke. they would like to have assets unfroze and loans unfrozen. the united states can play a role in that. they would like the u.n. to help. the united states can play a role in that. you know, that's an arm's length kind of leverage, but it is leverage, and presumably that's what exactly will be applied to whatever government forms there are. there's not a government taliban left to talk to. there are leaders. there will be people the united states talked to and says, look, if you want to be accepted on

the world stage, you need to do a number of things, including letting people leave who want to leave. >> anne, you're talking leverage with the taliban. your paper is asking the west to unfreese the assets of afghanistan. is there a specific plan? what would it look like? and how and when will that move forward with the taliban government beyond securing continued evacuations and dealings over essentially money? >> the plan is still in the works. we've had a couple of these large multi-countries, statements. the first one came a couple of weeks ago that warned the taliban to keep letting people out and not close off the access, and the other came as you referenced a couple of days ago as the end was near, essentially saying to the

taliban, if you want international recognition, you have to adhere to a lot of international norms. that's it so far. we know different countries will approach diplomatic recognition and assets differently. the united states is likely to be near the end of that line. >> the "washington post" anne gearan. thanks for againing up with us so early this morning. good to see you. still ahead, a totally different delivery for a nasa astronaut celebrating her 50th birthday. you don't want to miss this. we'll be right back on "way too early." "way too early.

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sad news now on "way too early," a second death related

to hurricane ida is now confirmed. the louisiana department of health is reporting that an unidentified man drowned after he tried to get his car through heavy ffloodwaters in new orleans. hundreds of people trapped by ida have been saved by rescue boats and helicopters. crews have begun the long work of restoring power to nearly 1 million residents. damage is so severe officials say it could be weeks before things are back up and running. doeses who rode out the storm on barrier islands, particularly grand isle, have roads that are impassable. damage caused by hurricane ida is thought to have played a factor in deaths on a highway. world central kitchen founded by

chef jose andras t organization travels all over the world bringing hot nutritious meals to those who need it most. >> we're reaching as many communities as we can, as quick as we can, especially people who lost everything. that's what we do. that's how we do it. we are not going to stop. joining us now, ceo of world central kitchen, nate. thanks for joining us. i wanted to chat with you. give us an idea how world central kitsch season working with organizations on the ground now in new orleans and along the gulf coast. >> sure. thanks for having me, jacob. we really are in full force right now. we have a kitchen active in new orleans. we started cooking yesterday hours after the storm had passed. we're preparing thousands of hot meals, sandwiches, and fruits,

really trying to get fruit out into the areas that were hit hard. chef jose went down to houma yesterday, an hour and a half west of new orleans, and we're also distributing to a number of residents, first responders, and those still here in the city of new orleans which has no power right now. it's a pretty serious situation. >> i know chef jose, before he was in new orleans was in haiti. before that, i've seen you guys, myself while i've been reporting in mexico, helping migrants along the southern border. for people who want to get involved in world central kitchen, what should they do? how can they help from home? >> the best way is to follow us on social media. you can donate to our work where all of our efforts are powered by individuals, donations. we do have volunteer opportunities. hopefully we're not in your town because if we are, generally

something catastrophic has happened. but there are ways to get involved and volunteer and we're really working with is that support. we have a number of volunteers helping to get meals out to people who need them and them a appreciate all the support that folks give. >> i wonder about what you said, it made me think when you're on the ground somewhere, obviously something catastrophic has happened. you don't necessarily want to see world central kitchen on the ground. what does it say about the ability of local agencies to handle these crises that the work you are doing is so essential to help people in need? >> well, you know, i think one of the biggest challenges, jacob is disasters are getting bigger because of climate change we're seeing storms that are just overwhelming for, you know, local administrations. it's just -- it's too much. so there is that support needed from the outside. and organizations like ours, you know, that are professional at what we do. we have an incredible team of

chefs we have this relief team that can go in and activate and leverage local resources and assets. and we are not sort of also dealing with the situation. you have to remember folks living in new orleans have families, they're also out of power, they're struggling to get through the day. so there is support needed because of the seriousness of the storms. right now you have about 200,000 people without power in new orleans for potentially weeks. we don't know yet. and that means no air conditioning, no food. a lot of places have no running water because the electrical pumps. so we're really at the precipice of a really potentially serious situation here in new orleans. that's hard for local leaders to handle on their own. but they are doing an amazing job, working very hard nonstop and we're here to complement and support those efforts. >> as i said, i have seen the work with my own eyes, you're

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as always before we get to "morning joe," joining us with a look at axios a.m., reporter alayna treene, good morning. what's the axios one big thing this morning? >> good morning, thank you for having me on. our big story today has to do with democrats' new tax increases, so the debate over the tax hikes has lurked behind the scenes for the past several months but they're thrust back into the spotlight in september as democrats really begin finalizing the details of their 3.5 trillion spending package. this is going to be key, really, to get hold out -- or potential hold outs like senator joe manchin or house centrists to get on board with this because

they're worried about the price tag of this bill and it adding even more spending to the national debt. and so sources tell my colleague, hans nichols, that an increase in the estate tax now looks unlikely. and they're really focussing their efforts on potential tax increases on the capital gains tax and on corporations. and so, this is obviously something that president biden has talked about for over a year now and has promised that he wouldn't raise taxes on anyone making under 400,000 a year, so i think we're really going to start to see some of these negotiations shape up in the next months or so. >> you mentioned capital gains and on corporations. i want to reiterate when we're talking about tax increase, i think everybody's ears perks up. what can we expect from the tax increases? who, specifically, will they affect? >> again the wealthy. it's really going to affect the

wealthiest americans. and wealthy corporations. and targeting capital gains tax, the taxes on things like you think of stocks and investments and the hike on corporations is really what the biden administration is looking at doing and the levels that they're discussing are actually lower than some of the things that biden had initially proposed, particularly when you look at capital gains they talked about potentially raising it over 40%. now they're looking at potential increases from 20 to 28% according to our conversations with people in the white house and on capitol hill. but again, the emphasis is not on the middle class or anyone making beneath 400,000 a year, it's going to be on the wealthiest of americans. >> i saw that, on another note, you interviewed congressman peter meijer, on his visit to kabul last week.

what did he say about his time there? >> well, he -- you know, the conversation was obviously very somber. we spoke shortly after the attack last thursday, and he was there exactly a week ago. a week ahead of the withdrawal. and he warned that, really, the next 20 years in the country and in afghanistan are going to be dictated by what happens in the next 20 days. and he said that he thinks the worst case scenario of what can happen in the region is that the country becomes like syria and that the taliban is -- enables itself to be driven by infighting and leads to some sort of civil war that allows isis to takeover. best case scenario he said it becomes like iraq today. a lot of that shapes up in how the u.s. continues its response even after we pulled all of our troops out of the country. >> thanks so much for getting up early with me. really appreciate it.

thanks to all of you at home for getting up way too early as well on this tuesday morning. i'll see you back here from los angeles tomorrow but in the meantime, "morning joe" starts right now. i'm here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from afghanistan and the end of the military mission. the last c-17 lifted off from ha mid karzai international airport on august 30th, this afternoon, at 3:29 p.m. east coast time. >> can you assure the american public that every single u.s. service member is out of afghanistan. >> every single service member is now out of afghanistan, i can say that with 100% certainty. >> general kenneth mckenzie with the historic announcement that america's longest war has officially come to an end. it is tuesday, august 31st, the date circled on the calendar for the american withdrawal. i'll willie geist. after 20 years the mission in