Am fully responsible for this strike and this outcome. The u. S. Admitting that it killed 10 civilians in a Drone Strike in kabul last month. How the deadly mistake that happened and the over the horizon strikes. Plus, a tragic saga. The strange case of a prominent attorney that allegedly hired a Hit Man to murder him all for insurance money. Why that case is raising guess links for that family and other mysterious deaths. Were so glad that youre waking up with us this saturday, september 18th. How are you . Ive got my apple juice. 6 a. M. On a sunday morning. We already have makeup on. Hey, what the heck. We start this morning with some news out of southern california. Theyve got a bit of a scare last night. A 4. 4 Magnitude Earthquake striking the area according to the u. Smpt gs. Geological area. Zpl some people were reporting Feeling A jolt ranging from a moment to as much as 10 seconds. So far no immediate injuries are being reported there. The Los Angeles Fire department said they are ready. Advisers to the fda voted yesterday to recommend Covid19 Booster doses of the Pfizer Vaccine specifically for anyone 65 years and older and for those at high risk of severe illness. Notably, the panel overwhelmingly rejected Pfizers Application to give boosters to everyonesixteenth and older. The decision is at odds with the biden administrations initial plan to start administering boosters to the general public, a plan that was supposed to roll out just days from now. Officials later clarified that any action would depend on a signoff from the fda and cdc. The vote comes as hospitals across the southeast are on short supply of Staff And Icu beds. Alabama, for instance, seeing coronavirus deaths on the rise. Were still more than maxed out. We still have more patients requiring Critical Care than we have icu beds. We have double Digit Numbers of deaths which counts forsome of the decline in hospital numbers. Its important to remember, so much of this is preventible. Case in point, only 41 of alabama residents have received both doses of the vaccine. Cnns Nadia Ramira has more. We know that there may be a differing Opinion Reporter after a long day of sometimes contentious debate, they rejected Pfizers Request of a Booster Dose to everyonesixteenth and over. Dr. Lee, yes. Dr. Mckenna, yes. Reporter instead voting for Emergency Authorization Use to 65 and older and those with significant need. 2,000 people dying a day currently. Still about 100,000 people hospitalized. So the focus should be on 67 Million people who have not been vaccinated. Theyre the ones driving this pandemic, not those who have already been vaccinated. The biden administration doubling down on the mandate for large businesses and federal workers. That means more americans getting back to work. It means safer schools and healthier families. Covid in the classrooms now putting our nations families at risk as they face the outbreak. One Metro School in georgia mandated all students and teachers to get vaccinated. Brian kemp is trying to limit masking and mandates, some speculate the district could face laws. No reason to sue them. Its to protect yourself. Look for something else, you wont find another job, youve got to get vaccinated. What are you going to do . In texas, theyre hoping they get a new sense of normalcy. Now big techs and the fair back this year. I was outraged at the devaluation of the lives of the elderly and lives of color. The toll of the pandemic is front and center at an Art Installation In Washington, d. C. , Commemorating The Americans who died due to covid19. Sometimes our Loved Ones leave us quickly like a thief in the night. Nadia ramiro, cnn, atlanta. Thanks to nadia for that report. Lets bring in dr. Chris purr fell in, a fellow at the american college of medicine. Dr. Purnell, always a pleasure to have you on. Appreciate your expertise. I want to get your immediate reaction to the fda making this decision to approve the Booster Shots to people 65 and older but not for everyone as the biden administration had initially planned. Good morning, boris. The fda advisory committee, i think got it right. They were accountable to the science. We should only approve what the science is very conclusive about or authorize what the science only shows that there is a greater benefit than there is risk. So i believe Fda Panel got it right at this time. And i couldnt double down or emphasize or impress more the greatest priority is getting those who are Unvac Senated vaccinated. We can do both, but we have to right size our priorities. Lets talk about that. We actually have a graphic that shows the disparate. Vast majority of Covid Hospitalizations happen among the unvaccinated, not the vaccinated. Dr. Pernell, i feel like weve had this conversation so many times. What more needs to be done to get shots in the arms of those that are still hesitant . Persistence. Thats what needs to be done. We cannot let up. We are in this for the long haul. Not until we can round a significant corner, which i dont think were at yet. Look, as long as we have this significant of an amount of population thats unvaccinated, this pandemic will rage. As long as this pandemic will rage, you will see Health Systems under threat, Health Systems vulnerable and underwhelmed. People who need to use the hospital, especially those who need Critical Care, they will be vulnerable and at risk. There may not be resources to treat them. We have to emphasize that the access issues have been handled and we have to have those conversations and have the conversations with the credible messengers that community is willing to listen to. You saw it there, people that are unvaccinated 17 times more likely to wind up hospitalized than people who are vaccinated. Im curious from your perspective. Ive heard it said from some doctors that theres hesitation to treat the unvaccinated considering that now people who are suffering from routine medical ailments are struggling to get care because icus and hospitals are overwhelmed. Whats your perspective on that, on perhaps limiting the amount of unvaccinated care to help others who may need it . Look, im very concerned about those who delay or those who avoid care or those who cant get care because of the surgeon hospitals treating those with coronavirus but never can we allow the decision not to get vaccinated to become a barrier to receiving treatment. Im very, very concerned that if that becomes the standard, then those who are going to be disproportionately impacted are persons of color. Historically excluded and stigma niezed community. Low income communities. While our systems are taxed, this cannot become a Survival Of The Fittest because no one wins when this is a Survival Of The Fittest. Our situations get worse. Make sure people have access to the Vaccine And Access to the right information to get them, you know, where they need to be. We appreciate you sharing the right information with us this morning, dr. Chris pernell. Thank you as always for the time. A quick Programming Note to share with you. You can join dr. Sanjay gupta when he talks about the origins of covid19. Did it start in a wet market or occur naturally as a lab leak. Tomorrow night at 8 p. M. Right now there are Security Preparations going on In Washington for a far right rally. The rally is today supporting the rioters from January 6th. Well tell you what officials are doing. Plus, a deadly mistake. The u. S. Military says a Drone Strike in kabul killed 10 civilians including 7 children. Well break how do you this operation could have gone so horribly wrong. 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It is Capitol Police responsible for protecting the building. It is d. C. Police responsible for protecting the streets and the surrounding neighborhoods here. The national guard has been put on standby in case of emergency. 100 unarmed members would come in here. Capitol Police Chief Tom minang says they have been planning for this. They are taking any threats and any intelligence very seriously this time around. We would be foolish not to take seriously the intelligence that we have at our disposal. How credible it is . How likely it is . People make those judgments. The fact of the matter is we are hearing some chatter that i think would be responsible for us to plan the way weve been planning and put the precautions in place. Capitol Police Chief says they will protect everybodys free speech. There are three Counter Protest groups that plan to be here. The biggest risk is violent clashes between two groups on different sides. Now the question is will this socalled justice for January 6th rally be wellattended. 700 people on the permit. 500 according to members registered online. Well see if it was a dud or if all of this planning is overkill. You know what, a dud would not be a bad thing by any means. Pete muntean, thank you very much. We appreciate the report. Coming up, the pent gone is apologizing after a Drone Strike in kabul meant to target Isis K fighters instead kills 10 civilians including children. How it went wrong and what military officials are saying about it now. His future became my focus. Lavender baths calmed him. So we made a plan to turn bath time into a business. Find a Northwestern Mutual advisor at nm. Com people everywhere living with Type 2 Diabetes are waking up to whats possible with rybelsus®. You are my sunshine my only sunshine. Rybelsus® works differently than any other Diabetes Pill to lower Blood Sugar in all 3 of these ways. Increases insulin when you need it. 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General Kenneth Mckenzie says they struck what they thought was an Isis K target but it was actually an Aide Worker and his family. This strike was taken in the earnest belief that it would prevent an imminent threat to our forces and evacuees at the air airport, but it was a mistake. I am sincerely responsible. While the team constructed the strike they did so in the honest belief that they were preventing an imminent attack. We understand that to be incorrect. Cnn correspondent Anna Koran is live with us. Anna, listen, you and your team we know have investigated this strike prior to the u. S. Admitting that it was a mistake. What have you learned about what happened here . Reporter yeah, christi, boris, we know that the u. S. Military was on heightened alert. Obviously after that Airport Attack where a Suicide Bombing killed those u. S. Service members, 13 of them, and more than 117 afghans. This Drone Strike was based on wrong intelliens, the wrong car, the wrong target. They got this Operation Wrong from the getgo. The military has told us that they were listening to intelligence on an isis safe house, what they believed was an isis safe house. It just so happened that 43yearold Aide Worker and father of 7 amadi drove his white Toyota Corolla to pick up a laptop. He had a colleague in the car and they picked up the laptop and from that moment they started watching this car. They watched it for the next eight hours as amadi went along his day picking up more colleagues, stopping at a cafe. They went to the office. We have seen the Cc Tv Footage of what transpired that day but it was when the car left the compound of this u. S. Based ngo where he worked at where they were filling up water containers. He had no Running Water at his home. He had been doing this for months. So what the u. S. Military was seeing from the sky was men lifting heavy packages to the car. They thought they were explosives, but they were water containers. He drives into the Family Compound and a u. S. Official with knowledge of the operation told us that they watched the compound for four to five minutes before they decided that this was the place to strike. They believed that he posed an imminent threat and that this was a safe place to do so. By firing that Hell Fire Missile on the cart, not only did they kill the Aide Worker and two other in the compound, they killed 7 children, three of whom were toddlers. You have to imagine really you cant imagine what american allies in afghanistan, you cant imagine what they feel like right now especially having put their lives at risk to advance the american cause there. Anna coren, thank you so much for bringing us that news. Anna, thank you. In a speech last Month President biden haled the Drone Strike as a success. Yeah. White House Reporter Jasmine wright joins us live. The strike as anna pointed out was meant as retaliation that killed more than a dozen Service Members. How is the White House responding to this failure . Reporter yeah, boris and christi. This is no news that any White House wants to get, that the u. S. Military when trying to combat terror abroad makes a fatal error that involves the death of several innocent children. Now while since the news broke yesterday the White House has been particularly silent on this issue allowing the u. S. Military to do the talking but lets make no mistake about this, this is going to be consequential for the president for two reasons. First, this is the last known missile fired from the u. S. During the afghanistan withdrawal really adding just another stain to the chaotic exit from the country, from that 20year war. Secondly, it calls into question the Militarys Ability to really do those over the horizon attacks, something that those unmanned Drone Strikes that the u. S. Does when they no longer have a presence on the ground. And its something that President Biden himself touted repeatedly during his defense of the withdrawal from afghanistan saying that were able to withdraw because of these capabilities to combat terror remotely. Even after this exact strike that is now in question, as you said, boris, President Biden touted the success. Take a listen. Weve shown that capacity just the last week. We struck Isis K remotely days after they murdered 13 of our Service Members and dozens of innocent afghans. Reporter so now we know this was not an attack on Isis K but instead it killed an innocent Aide Worker and his family and we know that President Biden was briefed on the findings of this Military Investigation before the findings became public yesterday but we are still waiting to hear a response from the White House. Boris . Christi . We know youll keep us posted once it comes down. Jasmine wright from the White House. Lets discuss this with colonel cedric leighton. Hes with us this morning. Thank you, Colonel Leighton for joining us. We appreciate having you. What stands out to me about this incident is the number of statements that have come, for example, from the joint Chiefs Chairman Mark milley as a righteous strike. The pentagon saying the threat emanating from the location of the strike was, quote, very real, very specific, and very imminent. Those that were killed did not appear to be linked to isis at all. Most of them were children. How could this go so wrong . Well, boris, good morning. There are a lot of ways these things can go wrong. Were kind of seeing this unravel in real time, you know, as the more information comes out and reports like anna corens become part of the record of what actually happened. And obviously the military is, you know, doing its own assessment of what went wrong. I think that the big issue here is that intelligence, you know, we have to realize that intelligence is not a perfect art. It is not a perfect science. It is a blending of those and there are a lot of things that we often dont know about a particular target. For example when we went after Osama Bin Laden which was a successful operation, that was a 50 certainty that we would be able to get him. That was a 50 chance that we had the right target even with a lot of intelligence on that target. When it comes to this really tragic case involving the Amadi Family in kabul, it really is one of those cases where there is just so much information that cannot be distilled in a real coherent fashion in such a short period of time. Yesterday general mckenzie mentioned they had been following the car for eight hours and thats really not enough time to develop a pattern of Life And Understanding of who these people are and, you know, what theyre really doing and thats, i think, a real issue here. Theres a limitation to what we can do with these over the Horizon Cape zblilts and given the limitations that youre describing, how confident are you going forward that as President Biden had previously pointed out, that the u. S. Does have strong over the horizon capabilities in targeting terrorists . Well, it depends on the specific target set. In some places we have some really good intelligence and we know who the bad actors are that were going after, but in many places we dont have that ironclad intelligence. Thats the real problem here. You look at a city like kabul, very crowded in certain areas, you know, with safe houses of Isis K sympathizers and Isis K operatives interspersed with innocent civilians. My Confidence Level is actually fairly low that we can get this right because it depends on the quality of the intelligence we collect and how we analyze it. If we dont analyze it correctly, then we risk making mistakes like this. Its a very, very dangerous, very Slippery Slope to be on. Colonel, what would you say to those allies in afghanistan or the united states who have risked so much in advancing americas interests in that country and also to allies in the region where being friendly with the united states is often really putting yourself at risk . Yeah, thats this is one of the big vulnerabilities that we have. We have to treat these allies exceedingly well. They have risked everything. Theyre continuing to risk everything because of their service to the united states. There are many of them that are still waiting to get out of afghanistan and trying to find ways to do that and theres no discernible help from the u. S. Government in many cases to make that happen and that needs to change. We need to help these people. We need to get them out of there. When it comes to this specific incident, you know, first of all we need to make sure that they understand that they know we made a mistake, that we are truly sorry for what happened and that we dont want anything like this to happen again. We depend on people like our allies to make sure that these mistakes dont happen, or at least to help us in that regard and, you know, if you dont have them, if you Cant Access them, then it becomes far more likely that we make these mistakes. So we have to realize that were dependent on them and we have to treat them with the respect that they deserve. And psimultaneously incident like this will become fodder for Isis K and other Terrorist Groups to go after the united states with propaganda. Coming up, its like something out of a crime novel. Mystery killings, stolen money, drug addiction. Next, how a prominent south Carolina Attorney is at the center of what appears to be a soap opera. Stay with us. Il severe for you. 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Reporter prominent south Carolina Attorney Alex Mourdock in a Tan Jump Suit appeared before a judge thursday before being released on a 20,000 personal Recognizance Bond to check back into an out of state detox facility. He has fallen from grace. It has been a tremendous fall. But before any of that falling happened his Wife And Son were brutally murdered and that has had an extraordinary effect on him. Reporter becoming emotional at times as his lawyer argued he be released on bond. He cooperated to the extent you can cooperate given his current mental condition. Reporter hes charged with Insurance Fraud. His attorneys say the shooting was a scheme to leave behind 10 Million in a Life Insurance Policy for his only surviving Son But Mourdock survived. Instead, attorneys say it left mourdock with a fractured Skull And Brain bleed. The man accused of Shooting Mourdock in head curtis Edward Smith appeared in court. Smith posting his 55,000 bond for several charges including assisted suicide, conspiracy to commit Insurance Fraud. This was seemingly a desperate move including financial troubles. One day before the September 4th Shooting Mourdock resigned from his Law Firm after being accused of miss Appropriating Funds which his lawyers say were used to fuel a drug addiction. Are they breathing . Nom. No, maam. Their murders are still unsolved. He has had a tremendous Opioid Addiction. The death of his Wife And Son have put him Over The Edge in terms of that addiction and that is why one of the major reasons he was considering having himself killed. State investigators are investigating two other investigations. One regarding a mysterious 2015 unsolved death of a teen whose body was found on a Hampton County Road and a new Criminal Investigation into the 2018 death of the Mourdock Family House cleaner. Its due to information gathered in the course of our other ongoing investigations involving Alex Mourdock. Satterfield died from a Trip And Fall accident but an autopsy was never done. They noted on the Death Certificate the manner of death was ruled natural which is inconsistent with the injuries sustained in a Trip And Fall accident. Certainly there were questions by my clients because after she fell she was air lifted to the hospital and she had a traumatic brain injury. She was never able to communicate with them for the next three weeks until she died. Diane gallagher, cnn, hampton county, South Carolina. Joey jackson with us now. Joey, oh, my gosh. So much to unpack on this one. Now attorneys for Murdaugh Say The Scheme was, quote, an attempt on his part to do something to protect his child. He was afraid of something. Talk to us about that and what youre reading into all of this. Sure. Christi, good morning to you. The first thing is, its just so unusual for your attorney really to go on tv and admit to all of the material elements of the offense. Remember, this attorney whose Defense Attorney admitted to the fact that he engaged in this conspiracy. What does that mean . An agreement with one other, mr. Smith, to take his life. He agreed that the motivation that underlied that undertaking, right, was because of this 10 Million that was to go to his elder son. He agreed essentially that it was a ruse. He said on September 4th he had no clue what that Roadside Shooting was all about. Later he said, never mind, i do know what its about. Its about me engaging in this Insurance Fraud scheme. So all of that makes little sense. I want to make clear, christi, while an Opioid Addiction which his attorney is out there indicating, all of this goes to mitigation. What does that mean . It means that if youre proven guilty, you could tell that to the court, attempt not to justify what you did but to explain, to make it more sympathetic when the attorney talks about in june his wife and his son were gunned down, when the attorney talks about the Opioid Addiction. Just a very strange set of circumstances which indicates to me that theres really not a defense here and thats why its surprising. That is surprising. Lets talk about these three separate investigations now. How does all of this connect and what does it mean for Alex Murdaugh . As we look at the investigation, of the longtime house deeper who apparently in 2018 took a Trip And Fall, very mysterious. She dies. We know about the son and his wife in june this past year, 90 days or so ago theyre shot and killed under brutal circumstances. He indicates he has nothing to do with it. Doesnt know what, when, how, who, why. Everything is about credibility and what makes sense at the end of the day, whats reasonable. We have someone here who apparently has this addiction and has so many other things going on in his life he fabricated the September 4th instance where he was to be shot in the head and die for the Insurance Policy initially saying i have no clue and then saying, well, i really do and this is what happened so the police then, right, christi, would say, if you were lying about that, could you be lying also as it relates to the circumstances surrounding your Wife And Son . We dont know the connection in answer to your question, but it sure seems strange as it does with the housekeeper. A lot of dots to connect here. They have not been connected. Sled, the South Carolina Law Enforcement division is working hard to do that. When all of this comes into play, when you talk about mitigating factors, how would this speak to a jury, what this man has been through up to this point . Yeah, great question, christi, on that issue, and that is that i dont anticipate that it would go to trial only because his attorney is admitting to everything. If it did though, you know, weve seen stranger things happen, the jury i think would essentially say, listen, this apparently did happen but maybe theres execucuses for it. Theres not a defense for what you did, it explains your Rationale And Motivation for why you did it. Thats the bigger issue here. May not influence a jury or it may. Jurors can do whatever they like as you and i both know, christi, but it could influence a judge with respect to sentencing on a conviction. Joey jackson, we count on you for all of that. Thank you so much, sir. Always. Thanks, christi. Thank you. Theres still much more ahead on New Day but first heres this weeks cnn hero. After surviving prison you come home thinking youre able to start over. 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