Our kids in school, to keep our economy up and running. Have you given up on persuasion, now its youve got to do it . I am all in on any way that we can get people the information they need to get vaccinated. Secretary of state blinken could face criticism of the afghanistan withdrawal this afternoon when he affairs before the house foreign affairs committee. Todays appearance comes as North Korea conducted its first test of new longrange Cruise Missile, a new provocation putting pressure on the White House. And President Biden is heading west at this hour for the first time since he took office, ending his day in california to campaign for Governor Gavin Newsom, ahead of tomorrows big recall election. The governor is hoping voters reject the recall outright. If not, the leading candidate among those on the ballot to replace him is Trump Follower republican Talk Radio Show host Larry Elder. We begin with the Coronavirus And Rehema ellis is in new York City. Theres a lot of excitement a
Vaccine Booster Shots are not needed at this time for the general public. Public, it comes an Fda Group is meeting on data surrounding the wide use of Booster Shots. Well dig into that in a minute. Well start with the pandemic. Rehema ellis is at the largest School System in the country, Shaquille Brewster made his way to Idaho In Rural idaho and i want to bring in dr. Natalie aczar. Dr. Natalie is a Rheumatologist And Msnbc medical contributor. Dr. Natalie, the scientific review in the lancet just out in the last hour of so, scientists are arguing that evidence does not appear to show that there is a need for boosters in the general population adding the wide distribution of boosters is quote not appropriate at this time in this stage in the pandemic. Your thoughts and their argument and the reality of where we are right now. Yeah, you know, there is a lot to parse out. If there is one take home message, it might be this. If you are an otherwise healthy individual under the age of 65,
Is this the only option that you will use. Did they stop that ball. I will ask The General to provide context. But used the Word Dynamic a lot. Dynamic, moving, fluz, quick, that is how Isis K operates. When you have what we believe to be an imminent threat, we took the action that we believe is the most necessary At The best opportunity to thwart that attack. Commanders always minimize collateral damage. In this case like mr. Kirby said, this strike so as we looked At The information that we had At The time of the strike, we took all of those measures in place, and we decided to thwart that. So the u. S. Protection measures engaged those rockets and apparently it hit one of them or you didnt engage the other ones. One did land in an area that was not effective. You didnt intercept . Yeah, we intercepted one and it was effective. I just want to clarify the numbers you stated earlier. About 122,000, is 5400 part of that number or is that a separate number . 122,000 plus evacuated over t
I know everybody misses home, but it is no time to come back right now. In afghanistan, the Withdrawal Deadline is imminent as the final evacuation of americans and afghans winds down. Isisk claiming responsibility for a Rocket Attack on the kabul airport. This, after the u. S. Conducted a Drone Strike against an Isisk Target on sunday. A vehicle that posed an imminent threat to the airport. Up to ten civilians were reportedly killed as a result of the strike. At Dover Airport Sunday President biden and the First Lady attending the dignified transfer for the fallen suicide members killed in the Suicide Bomb on thursday. Well start with the latest on tropical Storm Ida with todays Show Cohost Al Roker in New Orleans, and correspondent Sam Brock in louisiana. Al, first to you. New orleans is in the dark. A rare sight. How are things looking . Al roker, i think we have a Problem Reporter thank you very much. Thank you. Reporter yeah, andrea, we are here. This is South Rampart and the dama
Specific and tell us if you can rule out the attackers and i would like to go back to the deadline, the french authorities said today that it is necessary to continue the evacuations beyond this. We cannot rule out who the hostile actor was in this Shooting Incident last night. I think as you saw central command referred to it as a hostile actor, and it just happened. So i dont know when well have more forensics on this. Again our focus was on making sure that we could maintain security at the airport. It was maintained. Sadly it resulted in a loss of a life of one afghan soldier and wounded several others. That is our focus right now. The goal is to get as many people out as fast as possible. While were glad to see the numbers we got yesterday, were not going to rest. The focus is on trying to do this the best we can by The End of the month. F we need to have an additional conversation with the Commander And Chief about that timeline, he will do that, but were not at that point right