| | | | | | | Presented By Amazon | | | | Axios AM | | By Mike Allen ·Aug 29, 2021 | | Hello, Sunday. Smart Brevity™ count: 1,168 words ... 4½ minutes. Edited by Fadel Allassan. | | | | | | 1 big thing: America on edge | | President Biden arrives at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building yesterday for an Ida briefing. Photo: Joshua Roberts/Getty Images America wakes up to warnings of possible twin catastrophes today: - A historic threat is unfolding off New Orleans: Hurricane Ida strengthened into a life-threatening Category 4 storm, and is still intensifying as it nears Louisiana — on the 16th anniversary of Katrina's landfall.
- President Biden said in a statement yesterday at 2:43 p.m. ET that the terrorist threat to Kabul's airport remains high: "Our commanders informed me that an attack is highly likely in the next 24-36 hours." Get the latest.
Satellite image: CIRA/RAMMB Ida is likely to make landfall on the Southeastern Louisiana coast, near Grand Isle, between noon and 3 p.m. ET. - The storm is packing maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, with higher gusts.
- Surge barriers should hold in New Orleans, Axios' Andrew Freedman tells me: It's not the same city as 16 years ago, and Katrina moved more water with a larger wind field.
Get the latest. Photo: Max Becherer/ NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP Above: Dawn breaks yesterday over the Hurricane Katrina Memorial at Shell Beach in St. Bernard, La. |     | | | | | | 2. Young patriot lost: "I love my job" | | Photo: Defense Department via AP This photo shows Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee, 23, at Kabul airport six days before she was among 13 U.S. service members lost to a suicide bomber — 10 of them from Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base near San Diego. A week before she was killed, Sergeant Gee posted a photo on Instagram of her cradling a baby at Kabul airport, and wrote: "I love my job." - Gee, from Sacramento, was a maintenance technician with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit from Camp Lejeune, N.C., AP reports.
Sgt. Mallory Harrison, who lived with Gee for three years, wrote on Facebook about how hard the death hit her: - "I can't quite describe the feeling I get when I force myself to come back to reality & think about how ... her last breath was taken doing what she loved — helping people."
Sgt. Nicole Gee in Kabul. Photo: II Marine Expeditionary Force via AP Gee's Instagram page shows another photo of her in fatigues, holding a rifle next to a line of people walking into the belly of a large transport plane. She wrote: "escorting evacuees onto the bird." - Photos show her on a camel in Saudi Arabia, in a bikini on a Greek isle and holding a beer in Spain. One from this month in Kuwait shows her beaming with her meritorious promotion to sergeant.
Sergeant Harrison said her generation of Marines hears war stories from veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, but they seem distant until "the peaceful float you were on turns into … your friends never coming home." - Gee's car was still parked in a lot at Camp Lejeune, and Harrison mused about all the Marines who walked past it while she was overseas.
Read more profiles of troops lost in the bombing. | | | | | | | | 3. 🇺🇸 13 great Americans | Photo composite: N.Y. PostThe Pentagon released the names of the 13 service members who were killed while supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel. - The Washington Post's headline: "Children of 9/11, now fallen in the war it spawned ... 9/11 babies who never knew a nation at peace."
For the Marine Corps, the deceased are: - Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, 31, of Salt Lake City.
- Sgt. Johanny Rosariopichardo, 25, of Lawrence, Mass.
- Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, 23, of Sacramento.
- Cpl. Hunter Lopez, 22, of Indio, Calif.
- Cpl. Daegan W. Page, 23, of Omaha.
- Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez, 22, of Logansport, Ind.
- Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza, 20, of Rio Bravo, Texas.
- Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz, 20, of St. Charles, Mo.
- Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum, 20, of Jackson, Wyo.
- Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, 20, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
- Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui, 20, of Norco, Calif.
For the Navy, the deceased is: - Hospitalman Maxton W. Soviak, 22, of Berlin Heights, Ohio.
For the Army, the deceased is: - Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss, 23, of Corryton, Tenn.
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See 7 more photos. | | | | | | | | 5. 🔮 COVID 3-month forecast |  Data: The New York Times. Chart: Kavya Beheraj/Axios The U.S. is projected to suffer nearly 100,000 more COVID deaths between now and Dec. 1, AP writes from the influential model by the University of Washington. - The forecast sees 98,000 more Americans dying in the next three months, for an overall U.S. death toll of nearly 730,000.
Health experts say that toll could be cut in half if nearly everyone wore a mask in public spaces. | | | | | | | | 6. Tim Cook's payday | | Tim Cook listens to President Biden during a cybersecurity summit in the East Room on Wednesday. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook sold more than $750 million worth of Apple shares last week, "after receiving the final tranche of a stock award that he was granted a decade ago when he took over from Steve Jobs," the Financial Times reports (subscription). - "Apple's stock has risen more than tenfold since Cook became chief executive in 2011, a record that entitled him to the maximum possible payout under the award."
| | | | | | | | 7. Time capsule: Deserted workplaces | | Photo: Kathy Ryan/The New York Times. Used by kind permission Maureen DOWD narrates a collection of noir photos by Kathy Ryan, the director of photography for The New York Times Magazine, about "our ghost ship" the nearly vacant newsroom at 620 Eighth Avenue: My favorite image is the pile of clocks, stopped at different times when the clocks were taken off the walls. It is an image of time's defeat, of nature's power over society, of the disorienting interregnum in our lives, of the hope for the resurrection of those timepieces for the high purpose of being useful to a community of people who work together, side by side. Here's hoping! | | | | | | | | 8. 😷 1 smile to go: Happy Masks frenzy | Screenshot from Happy MasksHappy Masks — made by a couple in West L.A. — are so popular they now have "drops" like sneakers or songs, the L.A. Times reports: Nikki Hart ... logged onto the company's website and prepared for the 6 p.m. release of a new batch of Happy Masks. With the return to school looming, Hart ... knew of several other moms who were hoping to score them too. "It felt like I was trying to get tickets to the Rolling Stones," she said. Hart added three masks — of the Pro Series variety at $24 apiece — to her cart. ... "I hit submit to purchase and the next screen says, 'I'm sorry, these are sold out,'" she said. "It is still 6 o'clock. It isn't even 6:01!" What's happening: "Launched at the start of the pandemic by Melinda Hwang and her husband, Ed Fu, Happy Masks has gone from a homespun project ... to a viral e-commerce hit propelled by the anxiety of tens of thousands of parents," the L.A. Times writes. - Wirecutter, the product-review website, made Happy Masks an "Our pick" selection for "Best Cloth and Disposable Masks for Kids," but warns the brand "has implemented a ... waitlist. Currently, you must pre-register on the waitlist in order to purchase masks."
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