prepares to speak at the u.n., and say to the world we re all in this mess, together. good to have you with us. though, the taliban are showing increasing signs of repressive governing, some women are not backing down. a group of activists protested outside what used to be the women s ministry on sunday. the taliban closed it, and replaced it with their ministry for promotion of virtue and prevention of vice. the protests come after concerns were raised about girls being allowed to attend secondary school. translator: you cannot suppress the voice of afghan women by keeping girls at home and restricting them as well as by not allowing them to go to school. you cannot suppress the voice of afghanistan s women. a private preschool opened sunday in kabul with both boys and girls attending. the taliban insists public-secondary school for girls will be allowed, but they say they have to set up safe transportation, first. cnn s anna coren has reported from inside afghanistan.
he s expected to land at jfk airport at any moment. the president will tour the damage from last week s historic flooding in the northeast that killed at least 52 people in six states. biden s visit coming just days after he travelled to louisiana to see destruction there from hurricane ida. the president first plans to go to central new jersey today which w which was inundated with torrential rain last week and then he heads to queens where a dozen people died most of them trapped in flooded basements. meantime new york city officials plan on going door-to-door to make sure that residents apply for federal relief. president biden approving new major disaster declarations for parts of new york and new jersey to help with the recovery. let s go to john harwood now live at the white house with a preview of the president s visit. john, as we anticipate president biden will land at any moment. he s also expected to deliver remarks later in the day from queens. what are we expect
encouraged to get an additional dose far beyond those who are recommended now, those are people with compromised immune systems. but there are immediate questions and concerns. the world health organization telling cnn this morning it is critical that everyone around the world get their first and second doses before booster shots are recommended for the fully vaccinated. and that s key. also this. after a day of chaos and desperation across afghanistan, pentagon press secretary john kirby tells cnn this morning the united states will do everything it can in the coming weeks to help afghans who worked with the u.s. to safely leave the country. listen. after we ve done the force flow in, all the troops are in, and then we can just keep running military aircraft in and out, just on the military craft alone, we believe we can get between 5 and 9,000 people out per day. we ll have much more on that, of course, in a moment. but let s begin this hour on that news on covid and
announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. thanks so much for joining me this hour. there are certainly new fears the taliban could make moves against afghanistan s capital in just a matter of days. so far the militant group s advances are being met with little resistance. the taliban now control half the country s provincial capitals as you can see from this map, all taken, all taken within the past week. now the country s second largest city kandahar is among the latest to be captured. many observers see that as the beginning of the end for the country s u.s.-backed government. the u.s. embassy in kabul isn t taking any chances, staff are being told to destroy sensitive material while several thousand u.s. troops will be arriving to provide security and possibly evacuate personnel. the pentagon spokesman says afghan forces need to step up their response. take a listen. certainly deeply concerning the speed with which the taliban has bee
here. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredericka whitfield. breaking news. haitian officials say at least 29 people are dead after a major earthquake hit the island this morning. the epicenter was far enough from the capital city of port-au-prince that the country may avoid the kind of devastation that we saw from an earthquake that hit the area in 2010, but the nation still feeling aftershocks now and the damage is significant. this is new video. just into cnn that shows the extent of some of the damage. you can see part of the building there, reduced to rubble. haiti s prime minister declaring a month long state of emergency. this disaster coming as two named storms are baring down in the area. patrick oppmann is with us now from havana. are we learning anything more about the damage and lives impacted? reporter: absolutely. it will probably take hours if not days to really get a better idea of the scope, the magnitude of this disaster. area