hari sreenivasan is off this weekend.afghanistan, the evacuation of americans and afghan civilians who supported the war effort remains chaotic a week after the taliban took control of the cntry. late this afternoon, president joe biden addresd the ongoing crisis in afghanistan from the white house. >> at my direction, the state department continues to reach out to the remaining americans we have identified by one, e-mail, and other means to ascertain their whereabouts and their plans. we are executing a plan to move groups of these americans to safety and to safely and effectively move them to the airport compound. for security reasons i'm not going to go into the details of what these plans entail, but i will say again today what i have said before: any american who wants to get home will get home. >> hill: thousands of desperate afghans are gathered outside the kabul airport, and the surging crowds turned deadly this weekend. at least seven afghans, including a toddler, were killed in crushing crowds yesterday accordin

hari. >> sreenivasan: i know you've got relatives in that area. the reason that some of those folks decide not to leave when these hurricanes come by? >> you know, they're a proud people. you know, my dad, my sister, my brothers and sisters are all down there. i grew up in lafourche parish, right where this storm is coming up, bia lafourche. and sometimes it's just hard to get them to move. they love their houses. they love their livelihood. if something is going to happen, they want to be there. i will say it's been a long time since we've seen a storm of this magnitude hit this area in southeast louisiana, betsy back in 1965. so, no one has seen a storm quite like this. and i think they may have underestimated it. >> sreenivasan: and this is a city that is in some ways still recovering from the damage that katrina did 16 years ago to the day. >> yeah, so, keep in mind, new orleans is about 50 miles from the coast, but we will get some hurricane force winds. you know, hurricane katrina, this is the 16th anniversary of it, there's a lot of anxiety

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