Cnn that if if the administration wants u. S. Troops to stay longer, it must make that decision by tomorrow. Were also following a huge first in the pandemic. The fda now giving full and final approval to pfizers covid19 vaccine. President biden is now urging holdouts who were waiting for this milestone to get their shots and get their shots immediately. Standing by as we cover these major stories first. Lets go to our pentagon correspondent. I know there are lines on the line in afghanistan right now and the clock is clearly ticking. Wolf, tomorrow is not just one week until The End of the month, the selfimposed deadline to get out of afghanistan, it is also decision day. The discussions happening about the u. S. Troop presence in afghanistan. 5,800 troops right now assisting in the afghanistan evacuation. If they want those out by The End of the month, the decision will have to be made by tomorrow. At kabul international airport, The End of the month is coming too quickly. The u. S. Is trying to hit its selfimposed August 31st deadline. In the days remaining, we believe we have the wherewithal to get out the american citizens who want to leave kabul. Reporter the taliban warning there could be consequences if it takes longer. Tense Security Situation as the u. S. Tries to maximize the number of people it can fly out. The military flew more than 10,000 people out of kabul in 24 hours and another 5,000 on charters and other flights. A new record and a pace that must continue. We are pushing the elements to do everything we can to get every single evacwee out of kabul. Reporter in order to speed up, activating the civil reserve air fleet. Using 18 aircrafts from united and american to move evacuees from the Middle East on ward. For now, the u. S. Prioritizing getting american citizens out. The senior State Department Official says there are still several thousand more. The pentagon acknowledging helicopters have left the airport not once but twice to pick up evacuees. The Pentagons Press Secretary hinting at more. On occasion where there is a need and there is a capability to meet that need, our commanders on the ground are doing what they feel they need to do to help americans reach the airport. Reporter for now the u. S. Embassy Is In Kabul is telling Afghan Special Visa applicants and evacuees not to come to the airport until they are told. With more than a week left, fear of a totalitarian Taliban Regime is growing. The brother of an interpret ter received these letters. A court date. And then a notification of his death sentence. These Court Decisions are final, and you will not have the right to object, the third and final letter reads. You chose this path for yourself, and your death is immeant, god willing. There are still 13,000 people at the airport and more trying to get through every day. But a new Terror Threat from isisk, forcing the u. S. To develop alternate routes to the airport for safety when there is so little time left to evacuate. Five flights have landed at dulles outside of d. C. Wolf, those evacuees will be housed at bases temporarily in new jersey, virginia, wisconsin and texas. Thank you. Lets go live to the Afghan Capital right now. Our senior international correspondent is there. Sam, what are you seeing on the ground where you are over at the Kabul Airport . Reporter well, wolf, we spent the day here on the Flight Line effectively for the Kabul Airport and watching as these afghan refugees and indeed fof foreigners are being processed. They had a terrible log jam. The numbers are down to about 10,000. But the gates, the access points to this entire facility, have been closed now for more than 48 hours. The only Entry Point is through a british camp, which is off the facility and moving people from there on to the main airport and then processing them is going to be extremely fraught. Of course, now that there has been this new edict coming from the United States that people with the special immigration visas, the people who help the United States and its allies over the last 20 years will not be given access to the airport for the foreseeable future. That is going to be a crushing blow to the large numbers of people already pushing up against the walls, pushing up against the fences, trying to get into the airport, desperate to flee taliban rule. The taliban, meanwhile, wolf, have been issuing statements saying we dont understand why everybody is running away. We want everybody to stay in their jobs. We want the people who run this country to stay here to help us run it. Theyre talking already to the neighboring pakistans about helping to run this airport when the United States and its allies leave. But the situation here is improving. There is a constant sound of Aircraft Landing and taking off. The critical issue, though, is how to get people from the city safely into the airport. And as part of that process, of course the United States has been using helicopters and secret missions, frankly, to go out and grab people in what they call in packets, small groups here and there using Special Forces effectively. Wolf . The u. S. Military, sam, was clearly forced to establish some new routes through the Airport Due to the threat from isis. How great is the risk right now to u. S. Forces and to afghans trying simply trying to get to the airport to evacuate . Reporter well, my assessments, my personal assessment having spent 20 years here on and off is the gravest threat is to these large concentrations of the population trying to get into the airport because the socalled islamic State Group as its officially called here, are mortal enemies of the taliban and the United States. That is something that both the United States and the taliban can agree on. And isis would love to humiliate and embarrass them by causing chaos during this chaotic period of the american withdrawal. For that reason, the taliban has been bringing in what they call their elite forces to help create with agreement indeed, at the request of the United States, a wider Security Zone around the airport. Whether or not thats going to be effective, we dont know. Inside the airport, it is harder for isis to attack because they simply dont yet have the sort of weaponry that could reach it. Sam, be careful over there. Well stay in close touch. Lets go to the White House right now and the pressure on President Biden as the afghanistan mess is clearly playing out. Phil mattingly is joining us right now. Phil, we heard from multiple biden Officials Today as they keep working to contain the fallout. Whats the latest . Reporter despite the chaos they have seen on the ground, the chaos they have been trying to overcome, there has been progress that has been made, including over a 12hour period today, more than 6,660 evacuees left the country on u. S. Flights. 15 u. S. Flights in total. You have seen over the course of the last several days the numbers ramp up tremendously. But those officials also underscoring there are very real challenges ahead, not the least of which is their time line. A massive military, diplomatic security, humanitarian undertaking. Reporter tonight with Approval Ratings dropping and chaos on the ground showing no signs of abetting, President Biden pressing forward on an urgent effort to extract thousands from afghanistan. His focus is in making the decisions in the interest of the american people. Reporter a critical moment in a foreign Policy Crisis that has tested the metal of bidens team. While officials make clear officials support bidens decision. Certainly we understand that people are seeing chaotic photos, but he continues to believe that this was the decision that only the commander in leaf is able to make and one he had to make for longterminational security interests. Reporter the views of what has transpired are far less kind with only 25 of those surveyed approvaling his handling of afghanistan, according to an Nbc Poll and 44 saying the actual withdrawal has gone very badly. Yet, each day has brought significant new progress in scaling up the tumultuous evacuation. This is an enormous logistical diplomatic undertaking. There is no other country in the world who could pull something like this off, bar none. Reporter still the White House now pressed about why efforts werent launched earlier. Supporters of the afghan government, including many of the people who want to come out now, said that doing so would trigger a complete crisis of confidence in the government. As it turns out, not taking out the that didnt exactly save the afghan government. We acknowledge that. Reporter and whether the u. S. Will need to extend its August 31st Withdrawal Deadline even amid taliban threats of repercussions. He is taking this Day By day. Ultimately, it will be the president s decision how this proceeds, no one else. Reporter all as sources say leaders from americas closest allies plan to press biden to do just that and go further in a G7 Meeting scheduled for tuesday morning. All i will say is that the president continues to consult with the Prime Minister and our other allies on how this evacuation should proceed from here and hell ultimately make the determination. Reporter administration officials made sure they are in constant consultation with taliban officials on the ground, making clear they think this will ease this process. But officials here are keenly aware the window for that August 31st deadline is closing and closing fast. Wolf. It certainly is. Phil mattingly over at the White House. Thank you very much. Lets dig deeper right now. Cnn Fareed Zakaria is joining us. Hes the host of Fareed Zakaria gps. If President Biden wants to meet his August 31st Withdrawal Deadline, the u. S. Military needs to know by tomorrow to get that process in motion. How does the President Approach this decision when the taliban says that the deadline is a Red Line that all u. S. Troops must be out, they say, by August 31st . There is no way for President Biden to achieve the goals he has stated, which is to get all the americans out who want to get out, to get out the afghans who helped the United States over 20 years and keep to that deadline. So he has got to find a way to negotiate with the taliban. Look, we have been negotiating with the taliban for two years. The taliban needs a lot that the United States has. The country is going to need enormous amounts of money, training, no how. The u. S. Has a lot of diplomatic cards it can play. It can play them with pakistan, with qatar, even with russia and china. This is, by the way, a good reason to have good negotiating relations with all these countries. Iran was very helpful when the United States over threw the taliban the first time around. It might be possible to try that route. Whatever route is necessary, the deadline has to be extended because otherwise it is really not possible for biden to achieve his goals. Things have been moving in a better direction. Theyre evacuating many more people, but they simply cannot do what they need to in the next six days. Yeah. They need to extend that deadline. Lets see if they can achieve that. How problematic, fareed, is it that the biden administration is still struggling to give specific answers about this crisis . They still, for example, cant seem to say how many americans are still awaiting evacuation. Well, its all part of this strange lack of preparation. If you are going to do this, surely you knew that one of the things that would happen is americans would want to leave. You would want to start having lists. You want to have some protocols and procedures, information given to people. To be fair to them, america is a free country. When we travel abroad, we are not required even in places like afghanistan and iraq to register with the consulate or the embassy. Even if there is a requirement, nobody does it. So there is a genuine issue here. But, again, the most startling bewildering part about this is how could this not have been anticipated that if you were going to withdraw forces, americans would want to leave. And if americans were going to leave, you want to get them out. How much pressure do you think the president will be under tomorrow when he faces these G7 Leaders in this virtual meeting . Because many of them, including publically have expressed their disappointment, not necessarily that the u. S. And the nato allies are completely leaving afghanistan, but the way in which the evacuation has unfolded. I think there will be a substantial amount of criticism. Look, you have already heard the british politicians, german politicians speak very, very roughly about the United States. Part of it is many of these countries went in and stayed in, and this was domestically unpopular to stay in. So i think they expected more in terms of consultation. Part of it for people like the brits or countries like the brits is they have people there themselves and theyre trying to figure out how to get everyone out. Again, i want to point out, there is a lot of progress thats been made, and we should all be rooting for more progress. This should not be a partisan issue. Everyone should want to get those afghans out who have helped the coalition for 20 years. Things have proved in the right direction. They need to ramp up and the deadline needs to be extended. Farthank you very much. Just ahead, we will talk to a u. S. Lawmakers just out of an Intelligence Briefing on the crisis in afghanistan. Congressman jim hiems is standing by. We will discuss when we come back. Great. The storm alert. Dad. And the subtle but effective ding. Thats why we created low Cash Mode. The financial watch out that gives you the options and time needed to help you avoid overdraft fees. Its one way were making a difference. 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Up on Capitol Hill, the House Intelligence Committee has just been briefed on the crisis in afghanistan as the u. S. Is, quote, now pushing limits to evacuate americans and their afghan allies. Democratic congressman Jim Himes of connecticut is joining us. Hes a key member of the House Intelligence Committee. Congressman, thank you so much for joining us. I know you have just come from this briefing by the Intelligence Community. I know you cant get into classified information. But what can you tell us about what you learned . Well, wolf, it is a real obligation that the congress as a whole has to figure out what went wrong. And let me be clear about this. Like president trump, like President Biden, i supported a withdrawal from afghanistan. It is the right thing to do. I think President Biden gets credit for finally doing something that should have been done a long time ago. But were far from Out Of The Woods yet. It is still a dicey situation. Naturally a narrative develops. Was it a Military Failure . Was it a white House Failure . Was it an Intelligence Community failure . I will tell you this, which is that i have been watching this intelligence for a very long time and our Intelligence Committee has been appropriately pessimistic about what was going on in afghanistan. I probably cant go further than that, but they were pessimistic enough for me to say, hey, we got to talk about this because this could be ugly. What we dont know is they sounded the alarm loudly enough. Were they constantly on the phone to the White House saying this could go to our worst Case Scenario and were they just not listened to or did they not sound the alarm . This is something at the core of oversight, but we have an outcome here that nobody would have preferred. Though i like the white House Message theyre doing what no other countries could be doing right now, i wish that would drop that point because were not done yet. Yes, the withdrawal since the early moments of Total Chaos has been going relatively well. Right now rather than jest pounding about how the United States is the only country that can pull this off, we need to make sure this gets done so that every american citizen and every afghan at risk from the taliban is brought to safety. Only then do we pat ourselves on the pback. Youre right. What is impressive is the nearly 40,000 people that have been evacuated. Several thousand u. S. Citizens but a lot more afghans, including so many of the afghan allies, a lot of third country individuals, people have been getting out. But there are still thousands and thousands of americans and others including afghan allies who desperately need to get out. And the u. S. Military, as you know, congressman, needs to make a decision and the president has to make a decision by tomorrow if he wants to meet the August 31st Withdrawal Deadline. Should the u. S. Stay longer to make sure no one is left behind in this evacuation, even if it means risking taliban reprisal . Wolf, i can only speak for this congressman. And i will tell you that i subscribe to the military ethic of we leave no one behind. And i think it is essential that we leave no one behind. This wont be the last time the United States is involved in operations abroad, and we cannot have the legacy be that if you stand with us, if you put your life at risk, we dont do everything possible to make sure that you are brought to safety. So i dont want to hear about august 31. Look, this is not about getting into a fight about the taliban. This is not an option. People dont realize how dangerous the situation is on the ground. This is happening in the most dangerous spot on the planet right now. So if we need more time, we need to make it very clear to the taliban that that is the case. It is also in the Talibans Interest not to get into a Shooting War with the United States. We would respond in force. You know, they have had one hell of a win these last couple of weeks. I dont think they want to damage that. If it requires negotiations, if it requires an understanding that we are there until every last person who worked for us is lifted to safety, thats what we need to do. Do you think any of the president s advisers, whether military intelligence, political, White House officials, others, should resign over some of these blunders that occurred . Wolf, im not prepared to say that now because i have only begun to think about what went wrong. And frankly, again, everybody in this building is pretty focussed on making sure not necessarily that we figure out tomorrow what went wrong but making sure tomorrow is another ten or Twenty Thousand people lifted to safety. So the time will come for accountability. I have been to afghanistan a bunch of times. This is not a mistake made in the last two weeks. There were mistakes made four weeks ago when it was clear that the taliban was On The Run throughout afghanistan. Every time i went to afghanistan, i was told by people with lots of stars on their shoulders that we were just about to turn the corner. Things are going well. Keep it up, keep it up. And we discovered of course in the last two weeks that that was a mirage, that there was nothing there and so, you know, again, there will be a moment for retrospection and accountability. And thats going to be a critical moment because the temptation to try to do something, it will come up again. Youre absolutely right. There will be time for that down the road. Right now the time is urgently needed to get these people out of there as quickly as possible. Congressman, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you, wolf. Coming up, the Pfizer Covid Vaccine is now fully approved by the fda. Will that prompt more americans to go get their shot . 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If you are a business leader, a nonprofit leader, state or local leader who has been waiting for full Fda Approval to require vaccinations, i call on you now to do that, require it. Do what i did last month, prior your employees to get vaccinated. Reporter this morning in miami, defying the antimask governor. Schools reopened in floridas largest district with a mask mandate. If there is a consequence put it on me. If there is a price to be paid, put it on me. Reporter the feds also ready to fight antimask local legislatures. We are prepared to launch investigation with our office for civil rights to ensure that all students have access to this fundamental right of education. Reporter there are schools in the south that opened and closed again or put kids in quarantine due to covid cases. I think this is a harbinger of challenges we face. The schools could become focal points of community transmission. Reporter the u. S. Is averaging 150,000 cases a Day And Averaging over 1,000 covidrelated deaths a day. That toll is up over 50 in just a week. Vaccines, there were just three days in a row with more than A Million shots in arms. We havent seen that since midjune. Because especially with the delta variant, getting that protection is more important than ever. Reporter mississippi has among the lowest Vaccination Rates in the country. Officials there say more and more people are taking a livestock antiparasitic instead. There is an online lie that it fights covid19. The fda tweeted, you are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, yall, stop it. Now, with that full approval, pfizer can now market advertise its vaccine, and a Company Spokesperson told us that with that they hope to increase confidence in the vaccine. Wolf . All right. Thanks very much. I hope they do. Nick watt, appreciate it. Lets discuss with the former cdc director. Doctor, thank you so much for joining us. How significant is this full Fda Approval of the pfizer, Coronavirus Vaccine . Its an important step, wolf, because it makes mandates easier, and it will address concerns of some of the people who have been on the fence about getting vaccinated. If you were worried that this was an emergency approval, well, now it is a full approval, and that should give even more confidence. The fact is these vaccines are remarkably effective and remarkably safe. And thats why this full approval makes perfect sense. Should we expect the Moderna And Johnson johnson vaccines to be approved by the fda in the very near future as well . Where do those efforts stand . I hope that the Moderna Vaccine will be fully approved in the coming weeks or months. Remember, it was approved a little later for Emergency Use, so there is a little less experience with it. And it takes six months of Accruing Experience and then the company needs to get the paperwork done to get that to happen. In terms of Johnson Johnson because fewer people have gotten vaccinated, that could take longer. Its been a very small proportion of all the u. S. Cases, so there is less data to look at there. Yesterday, there were more than 147,000 new covid cases reported in the United States. It is back to the level we were seeing in january. There were 12,000 new cases a day. Whats behind this very concerning trend that were seeing unfold . Well, wolf, im sorry to see my prediction come true. I predicted we would hit as many as 200,000 cases a Day By early september. It looks like we may be on case to see that. This is driven by delta and were seeing this in countries like israel and the united kingdom where you have much higher Vaccination Rates than we have here. So we know that delta is deadly for the unvaccinated and its no picnic for the vaccinated. Get yourself vaccinated if you are among the 82 Million eligible americans who have not gotten vaccinated, the time to do it is long overdue. 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Is trying to make up for the sudden loss of vital intelligence. Brian, this is a significant new development. Very worrisome. Thats right. You have the convergence of two developments on that front. The u. S. Lost a lot of Intelligence Capability in afghanistan with this withdrawal at the same time that Alqaeda And Isis is gaining strength there. New Information Tonight on the threat that all poses to the u. S. Homeland. Tonight u. S. Intelligence and Law Enforcement is expressing concerns about a long term Terror Threat to the homeland. An Isis Affiliate already posing a threat to u. S. Personnel on the ground. What is present in afghanistan right now to our forces at the airport is a serious threat from isisk which were trying to deal with. And of course there is the possibility that alqaeda could reconstitute an external plotting capability in afghanistan. Reporter there is particular concern that americas intelligence capabilities have been dramatically cut back in recent weeks as u. S. Military units withdrew. What we have now with the closure of the u. S. Embassy and really with the evolution of the afghan Intelligence Service is that key Human Piece really dissolving. Thats something that will really be hard to replace. U. S. Officials briefed on the matter tell cnn, it prompted u. S. Intelligence agencies to move resources from the agency to elsewhere. In the longer term, there is concern that afghanistan could spiral back to what it was before 9 11, a Safe Haven for terrorists to set up Training Camps again and to recruit. It is just a matter of time before alqaeda rises again in afghanistan and the threat to the homeland has gone through the roof. Reporter as we approach 9 11, officials and analysts say the Talibans Victory doesnt mean an attack is imminent. But with groups like Alqaeda Reene reenergized. Another Security Concern Tonight regarding the Talibans Victory, the threat from domestic extremists inside the u. S. A u. S. Law Enforcement Official telling cnn they have been surprised by The Show of support for the taliban in White Supremacists and antigovernment forums online. An example of how once they have free territory can inspire attacks anywhere. This will be tremendously energizing for any jihaddy minded american around the world. Some will go there to join the holy warriors. Reporter former afghanistan Base Chief says another recent development that hes really concerned about is the Talibans Release of inmates from prisons all around afghanistan. Many of them are already hardened terrorists, some of americas worst enemies, he says, who have only gotten more radical in prison. Brian todd reporting. Lets dig deeper with phil mudd. Thanks for joining us. The withdrawal of u. S. Troops mean the u. S. Will have less intelligence on potential Terrorist Activity in that region. How much danger does that Intelligence Vacuum . Boy, thats two sides of that coin. The first side is the negative side. If you want to collect intelligence, you have to talk to the afghan Intelligence Service. I talked to the afghan intelligence chief years ago. He was incredibly impressive. Theyre not there anymore. You got to talk to war lords, that people who control the regions of afghanistan, that will be really difficult to do. And then think about if you collect the right intelligence, how do you respond . We used to be able to respond with air strikes, with drones, we dont have that access in afgha afghanistan. It is not coming from iran. If you want it to come from central asia, you have to deal with putin. So you are going out from an aircraft carrier. That is really tough. So the Collection And Response to intelligence really challenging. Let me close quickly to say i still wouldnt want to be alqaeda. Our focus on the target, our willingness to take lethal action, our cooperation with allies in places like Saudi Arabia is much greater. So it will be tough. But if im in alqaedas seat, i will not take this for granted. It will be tough for them, too. Based on your experience with the cia, how much of a boost would you expect the Talibans Victory in afghanistan to give other Extremist Groups . That is a tough question. Id say significant in terms of ideology. If you look at america as the head of the stake, which is how alqaeda was characterize it, they just beat the head of the snake, the same thing they would have said at 9 11. That said, they have some challenges. We could use lethal force. We would not have done that in 2000. Also, think about the isis phen phenomenon. If you are a kid in europe or the United States, you could go to turkey and get to syria to join or train with isis. Think about a kid in the United States trying to get to afghanistan, much more difficult. People will try to go to afghanistan to join the movement. But this is a twosided coin. I think alqaeda would have challenges building the kind of network they had 21 years ago. Yeah. It worries me that thousands and thousands of prisoners that have been freed in recent days. Yes, yes. Who knows what the hell they will be doing next. Phil mudd, thank you very much. Thank you. Coming up, how a democratic divide is putting President Bidens huge Spending Plan in jeopardy now. Were learning what Nancy Pelosi just told her caucus. Its where safe and daring seamlessly intersect. Its understated, yet overdelivers. It is truly the mercedesbenz of sports sedans. Visit your local Mercedesbenz Dealer Today for exceptional Lease And Financing offers. vo unconventional thinking means we see things differently, so you can focus on what matters most. Thats how weve become the leader in 5g. 1 in customer satisfaction. And a partner who includes 5g in every plan, so you get it all. 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Representatives can vote as soon as tomorrow on President Bidens plan. Their are jeopardizing the passage. Lets go to Ryan Nobles working the story for us. Ryan, what are you picking up . Reporter wolf, there is no doubt this attempt by the biden administration to push through two major spending packages, bipartisan infrastructure and a 3. 5 trillion human Infrastructure Package are facing serious problems here on Capitol Hill because a group of nine and now ten moderate democrats have said that theyre not going to vote to push that budget resolution, the 3. 5 trillion package forward if there isnt a vote on the Infrastructure Plan first. The house speak er Nancy Pelosi and house democrats said you cant do one without the other that led to a she down tonight on Capitol Hill between the moderates and Rank And File democrats. Were not sure how this will turn out but if Pelosi Cant get a vote on that budget, everything could be stalled and it could mean both packages are in serious trouble. Wolf . It would be very embarrassing for the speaker, indeed. Sources are telling cnn the house select committee investigating the January 6th Capitol Riot is planning to seek Phone Records including those of at least some members of congress whose Phone Records, whose Phone Records are they after . Reporter yeah, wolf. This say pretty significant development that tells us that select committee investigating what happened on January 6th is starting to begin work in earnest. Theyre posed to ask Telecommunication Companies for Phone Records from as many as 100 or more people including members of congress to find out who they were communicating with on January 6th and the time leading up to that day. Listen to what Benny Thompson told us earlier today. We have quite an exhaustive list of people. I wont tell you who they are but its several hundred people that make up the list of individuals we plan to contact. Reporter and this could begin the process for them to begin an investigation which could then lead to subpoenas that and witness testimony. Some of that testimony could be in front of an open public hearing and there is a long list of republican members of congress that could be targeted by this committee including the House Minority Leader kevin mccarthy. Wolf . Very dramatic, indeed. Ryan nobles, thank you. Lets go to tennessee where catastrophic Flash Flooding has left at least 21 people dead including twin babies. Cnn national correspondent Nadya Romero is on the scene. Reporter in this intense Cell Phone Video she shot from her roof, the moment she had been waiting for. They were picking up neighbors and Family Risk their own life and seeing that moment of my Mom Surfacing because i didnt know if she was alive is something i will never forget. Reporter naples on her roof looking and screaming for her mother who she thought was swept away in Flood Waters. Amanda maples Mother Clinging on to a Kitchen Island worrying about her daughter, amachnda across The Street. The guy came in and hollered anybody in here . I said yes, me. And he came back there and said you okay . I said yes. I said what about amanda across The Street . He said shes okay. Shes on the roof. And as a parent to see your child on the roof it is Heart Wrenching but its like oh, yeah. Save my child. I was saying save my mom. Reporter recordbreaking rain sent Flood Waters surging through rural tennessee saturday devastating several communities within humphries county. At least 21 people have been killed, hundreds of homes now completely uninhabitable. John thornton lost everything. You wouldnt think this would happen but its total devastation. Reporter a massive search is underway for the missing in communities where the water rose the fastest. Our people need help. Well be overwhelmed for the next probably 30 days at least, overwhelmed. Reporter of those reported dead, two were 7 month old twins. A Family Member says the rushing water swept e babies out of their fathers arms. This has been a huge impact for this small Community Town will wear these scars for decades. Reporter as the search continues, families tackle the question how or if they should rebuild. Not much to salvage in maples home. Thats when i called 911. Reporter John Thornton losing his house and rental property wondering what to do next. I dont know, man. I dont know what were going to do. Reporter so curfew begins at 8 00 because local Law Enforcement says its too dark to see the debris on the grand a ground and trying to prevent looters from going into homes and stealing valuables. My heart goes out to them. Thank you very, very much. Well have more News Right after this. Like a planters cashew. 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