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kabul s international airport, president biden is standing by his decision to withdraw u.s. troops from afghanistan. the question is, how will the administration handle this foreign policy crisis moving forward? plus federal health officials are expected to recommend covid booster shots for most americans eight months after being vaccinated. the question is what about the folks who haven t received the first shot. and we re following two major storms, fred made landfall in florida and grace is bringing rain and winds to the caribbean, including haiti, the question is how much is that storm complicating haiti s earthquake response? it s way too early for this. good morning, and welcome to way too early. the show that remembers when august used to have slow news days i m jonathan lemire on this tuesday, august 17th. we ll start with the news. we begin with the chaotic scenes coming out of kabul s international airport where tens of thousands of afghans surrounde ....
seem to be inspiring more people to get the vaccine. the daily number of first doses has doubled since the start of july. republicans have turned and said to their favorite scapegoats, immigrants. joe biden has taken to himself to try to single out florida over covid. this is a guy who ran for president, saying he was going to, quote, shut down the virus, and what has he done, he s imported more virus from around the world by having a wide-open southern border. as the biden administration is allowing people to come across the southern border, many of whom who have covid, most of whom are not really being checked for covid. those who do have covid, some have been released into our cities. and americans all over this country. ought to be damned angry what s happening to their country. total invasion. people are going to die because of people coming in illegally with covid, with the fentanyl drugs that are crossing the border. joining me now to get into all of that ....
pavlik, jesse watters, and this is the five. president biden moments ago calling on new york governor cuomo and he should resign after state investigators say he broke the law by sexually harassing 11 women and retaliating against a former employee. back in march, the investigation concerns the allegations against governor cuomo, he should resign but will you call on him to resign given the investigators say the 11 women work dome at credible? i stand by that statement. are you calling on him to resign? yes. if he does not resign, do you believe he should be impeached from office? let s take one thing at a time. he think he should resign. dana: cuomo define as ever and said he did nothing wrong. i want you to note directly from me that i never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances. they have prescribed motives i never had. and simply put, they heard things that i just didn t say. dana: trying to defend himself saying tha ....
simone biles have in common? first, it is time to cover covid in the media. it is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. so the news coverage needs to reflect that. for example, the word cases doesn t mean the same thing it did a year ago, because a breakthrough case when vaccinated, when you are infected and vaccivaccinated, i very, very different than a case when unvaccinated. about the word breakthrough, there is really not enough data to know how often it happens. that is a critical problem. but the data is clear that it s causing more deaths. but these squares, 600 million vaccinated adults, there is a tiny, tiny too small box in the corner showing hospitalizations and deaths. that s the whole story right there in that front page. my big takeaway, reading about the providence town outbreak in the news is no one died. but this article prompted the fact that more people were vaccinated, and it said the more sail salient fact that only a few people ended up in the hospit ....
here in the uk, a number of airlines and some airport operators have told the bbc this weekend could be the busiest for international travel since the start of the pandemic. jet2 says it s operating 170 flights to more than a0 destinations, with fully vaccinated travellers to amber list countries no longer having to quarantine on return. simon browning has more. finally, the suitcases are packed. ..the hand luggage sorted. ..sunglasses at the ready. the last 18 months have been tough for the travel industry, but recent government changes mean most amber list countries are open for travel without quarantine on return if you re double jabbed. and people are booking, packing and jetting off. it s just so exciting to get on an aeroplane again. it s wonderful. we re off to ibiza. yeah. friends have got a villa there and we booked it ages ago, weren t sure if we can make it or not, but looks like, you know, we ve jumped through all the hoops, so. i m going to spain to see m ....