kristen welker still away.ncluding afghanistan unraveling. u.s. troops arriving in kabul. they started to arrive overnight with the taliban seizing control of more cities and looking to the afghan capital. kelly cobiella is in kabul. good morning. >> reporter: peter, good morning. more fighting 20 miles from the capital. the taliban threatening to take more territory today. overnight, the first of 3,000 u.s. forces landing at kabul airport for what the pent son says is a limited mission to get embassy workers out. >> i expect by the end of the weekend, the bulk of the 3,000 that we talked about yesterday, will be in place. >> reporter: the u.s. embassy is orders its staff to destroy sensitive documents and computers according to the memo obtain bid npr. the afghan president addressing the country in days saying i know you are worried about your future. i, as your president, are focusing on preventing violence. in one propaganda video, taliban claims to be in control of kabul. in another, militants claim they am

good to see you, she's in for kristen welker who is away on maternity leave. we are upstairs while we get a face lift. >> good to be with you. bay area connection. >> no doubt. we have a lot of news to get to. we started hurricane warnings posted on the northeast coast and parts of new england. henri is expected sometime tomorrow with millions in the storm's path. we begin with kathy park in rhode island, they're preparing for the brunt of henri. good morning. >> reporter: peter, good morning to you. henri is showing no signs of weakening, could be the strongest storm to strike the new england area in more than 30 years. right now, we're not feeling the impacts of the storm just yet. folks here are enjoying the morning. this time tomorrow, conditions could be deteriorating quickly. this morning, tropical storm henri intensifying on its path toward new england, threatening coastal communities from new jersey to massachusetts, with damaging winds, heavy rain, and dangerous storm surge. the slow moving storm could lead to serious flooding. the governor of massach

. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with peter alexander, kristen welker, and dylan dreyer. >>> welcome to "today." thanks for joining us on this saturday morning. we are happy to have morgan radford back this morning while kristen enjoys a little time off. we gave you temperatures chasing 90 degrees again. >> you gave me a muggy d.c. but i am so happy to be in the nation's capital with you. >>> we start with our top story, that is the u.s. launching a drone strike against an isis-k target overnight in retaliation for that deadly terror attack at the kabul airport that killed 13 u.s. service members and nearly 170 afghans. we are covering the tense situation from all angles this morning but we want to begin with matt bradley who's in germanly near the military hospital where some of the wounded service members are being cared for. matt, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, guys. you know that overnight drone strike could be called retaliation but also prevention. u.s. intelligence officials say that that isis-k operative they killed had been planning another attack on k