our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world and streaming on cnn max, i m michael holmes. appreciate your company coming up here on the program, bracing for beryl, the storm is a hurricane. once again, as it rolls towards the texas this coastline democrats still divided over joe biden will tell you who the latest star to join the call for the u.s. president about out of the 2024 race and the center begins to fold in france. so voters deliver a win for the country s left-wing parties and a stinging rebuke reviewed of cnn newsroom with michael holmes. and we begin this hour with hurricane beryl, which has gained strength in the past few hours from a tropical storm to a category one hurricane. and it is expected to make landfall in southern texas in the hours ahead. in its latest advisory, prediction center issued a tornado so watch related to beryl impacting more than 7 million people residents along the texas coast are being urged not to under
about 20,000 people remain at the chaotic kabul airport. more people keep coming. the evacuations of thousands of people from kabul is going to be hard and painful no matter when it started, when we began. there s no way to evacuate this many people without pain and loss and heartbreaking images you see on television. it s just a fact. u.s. defense officials tell cnn the military is establishing alternative groups to kabul because of the threat posed by a self-proclaimed isis affiliate called isis-k. the threat is real. it s acute. it s persistence. it s something that we are focussed on with every tool in our arsenal. we re working hard with our intention community to try to isolate and determine where an attack might come from. we re placing pair month priority on stopping or disrupting and we ll do everything we can for as long as we re on the ground to keep that from happening. but we re taking it absolutely deadly seriously. our international security editor nick
flying out to third party countries. and also looking for other places to fly some of these evacuees. that is what led to a pause. the white house described it as a brief pause. our clarissa ward and team on the ground in kabul described this as an eight-hour delay. hardly a brief pause. it gives you a sense of how difficult this process is to bring people in, fly them to the countries and process them. that caused a bit of a backup. a significant backup, actually, but the white house is saying that president biden will announce that the flights are resuming. they will resume. the order has been give ton start the flights up again. but the question here is is the state department, is this government bureaucracy working as fast as it needs to here? that s one thing on the minds of officials here at the white house as they ve been meeting with the president and others, trying to get some of this backlog unjammed, if you will. that s been a challenge of the morning. this is just
capital has fallen under tabl control. all of this happening since last friday. and the taliban now appear to be closing in on the capital of kabul. one senior official telling cnn the city could be cut off in 30 to 60 days, dooming the u.s. backed government there. kylie atwood and barbara stair and clarissa ward in kabul with the latest. and what are you hearing from state department this hour? reporter: we are highwaying that there is a growing sense ever urgency among biden administration officials over these taliban games that are happening at an accelerating pace in afghanistan. this is prompted a number of meetings and phone calls to happen this morning. we know that secretary of state tony blinken spoke with his counterpart at pentagon earlier today. we know that he had a phone call at least last night with national security adviser jake sullivan. all about afghanistan. and this comes as we have reported that there have been ongoing discussions within the state depa
next question? next question, cbs. thanks, kevin and thanks for taking my question. a quick followup on sabrina s. what is the latest data about children and long haul symptoms after they recover even from mild cases? and then jeff, for you, now that more entities are requiring vaccines, is administration reconsidering something like a qr code or a passport to help verify people s vaccination status and if not, what are you doing to stop the proliferation of fake vaccine cards? thank you. dr. walensky on the children long covid question. right, thank you for that question. we are examining covid in children and we are seeing long covid symptoms, mostly fatigue and headache. they appear to be happening in rates lower than adults, 2 to 3% but data with delta among covid need to be followed differently and longitudely with alpha. more data to follow on that. on to vaccination verification. there are a number of ways people can demonstrate their vaccination status. co