Asner is the third “Mary Tyler Moore” alum to die in recent months. Cloris Leachman died in January and Gavin MacLeod died in May.

A Taliban spokesman says a U.S. military airstrike has targeted a suicide bomber in a vehicle who wanted to target the Kabul international airport amid the American evacuation there.

The Category 4 storm with winds of 150 mph hit on the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier.

Regardless of its exact landfall, the region is teeming with tens of thousands of tourists.

There were no major reports of abuses or fighting, but many residents stayed home and remained fearful after the insurgents’ takeover saw prisons emptied and armories looted.

Heavily armed Taliban fighters fanned out across the capital, and several entered Kabul’s abandoned presidential palace.