🇺🇸🌪 More than 504,000 Louisiana residents are without power on Sunday after Hurricane Ida made landfall. The Mississippi River in New Orleans has partially reversed its flow, according to data from the US Geological Survey (USGS).

Video credit: Paul Goodloe from the Weather Channel

A detailed timeline of the events unfolding in Afghanistan on that day showed that officials in the White House did not expect dramatic changes as “the dominant view was that the Taliban wasn’t likely to pose a serious threat to Kabul until late fall”

🇺🇸 🇦🇫 The United States has 🛫evacuated all local Afghan staffers at its embassy in Kabul, as well as their families, ABC News reports citing an internal report. US diplomatic staff are in the process of departing.

US President Joe Biden has warned that Hurricane Ida will be a major life-threatening storm and has promised all the necessary federal assistance to the states that will be affected.

"Its devastation is likely to be immense, we shouldn't kid ourselves … Everyone should listen to the instructions from local and state officials, just how dangerous this is, and take it seriously," Biden emphasized, adding that the states of Louisiana, Alabama and Michigan will get the "full resources of the federal government"

#URGENT | 100% power outage reported in New Orleans due to Hurricane Ida

The number of power outages continues to rapidly increase across SE LA

😰 OMG

WOW! The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has published a video footage that caught the eye of the Ida hurricane!

📹 Footage, provided by a Russian national who managed to flee Afghanistan last week, shows a huge crowd near the Kabul Airport.

US servicemen's shooting can be heard in the background – they are trying to drive away Afghans who want to leave the country.

#BREAKING: Daesh claims responsibility for Monday's rocket attack on Kabul Airport

Washington is refusing to discuss an exchange of Russian businessman Viktor Bout and pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko for US prisoners, Russian diplomat Grigory Lukyantsev said in an interview with Sputnik.

The US, he thinks, doesn't want to "set a negative precedent".

Check out the interview for more: https://sptnkne.ws/Hgvx

#BREAKING: Pentagon says threat to Kabul airport remains 'real' and 'specific' as evacuations wrap up

The Pentagon has stated that the threat of attacks on Kabul International Airport remains "real and specific".

🗣 "We're in a particularly dangerous time right now. The threat stream is still real, it's still active, and in many cases it's still specific", Pentagon's representative John Kirby said.

🤔 Apparently suicide bombers and anti-vaxxers are similar?

Well, at least that’s what Arne Duncan, an ex-Obama education secretary, has said to his followers on Twitter.

“Have you noticed how strikingly similar both the mindsets and actions are between the suicide bombers at Kabul’s airport, and the anti-mask and anti-vax people here?” Duncan asked, before adding the cherry on top: “They both blow themselves up”.

The bizarre comparison was made just as the bodies of the 13 American service members who were killed in the Kabul blast last week arrived in the US

📃 Adam Smith, head of the US House Armed Services Committee, released a summary of his proposed 2022 defence bill.

According to Smith, $275 million would be provided as security aid to Ukraine. Another $175 million would be provided to ensure “Baltic security”.

🇺🇸🌪 The US Coast Guard assesses the damage left in the wake of Hurricane Ida in an overflight of New Orleans.

Ida has weakened to a tropical storm after wreaking havoc on the Louisiana coast communities, leaving at least one person dead and over half a million without power.

US soldiers were shooting Afghan civilians in the chaotic aftermath of the suicide bombings near the Kabul airport, eyewitnesses tell RT.

"We saw that they were shooting people in the stomach and in the head from all sides, not just into the air," a witness said, adding that "mostly Americans were shooting" in fear that there were more suicide bombers in the crowd.

❗️ US ending 20 Year presence in Afghanistan as final plane reportedly takes off