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announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with robyn curnow. exactly 21 years ago, no one could believe that commercial airliners could become weapons of war but that s exactly what happened in the horrific attacks of 9/11, changed the course of history. in the coming hours, americans and indeed people around the world will pause to remember the enormous loss that day and reflect on what happened since. in new york, the epicenter of the attacks, the missing twin towers are now replaced in the manhattan skyline by beams of white light. this year s anniversary also coincides with the u.s. ending its 20-year war in afghanistan that followed those attacks. earlier, president biden reminded americans of the resolve that emerged in the aftermath. we also saw something all too rare, a true sense of national unity. unity and resilience, the capacity to recover and repair, in the face of trauma, unity in service, the 9/11 generation stepping up to serve and ....
and amanda carpenter. good to see you, john. president biden announcing new vaccine mandates that could affect 100 million americans. what are you hearing from the white house? reporter: in terms of why they didn t go further is the biggest proposal i ve heard from people like our colleague jonathan rainer who you have on your show a lot, the doctor has said he should have mandated air travelers be vaccinated. the white house says they didn t do that because they think it would jam up airports and impede the economic recovery without doing all that much to improve vaccinations because a high proportion of air travelers are already vaccinated and all that much much covid is not spread because of good air filtration systems on plaeps. in terms of how it works is what joe biden is counting on here is the threat of fines on businesses applied through occupational safety and health administration to impose vaccine mandates on large businesses affecting tens of millions of ....
people six years ago. anti taliban forces have asked the international community to not recognise the all male government announced by the taliban. the home secretary will hold discussions with her french counterpart about the surge in the number of people crossing the english channel to the uk. over 1,000 migrants have made the journey so far this week. britney spears father has filed court documents seeking to end an arrangement that gave him control over her finances. britain s emma raducanu is in quarter final action today at the us open in new york. good morning. mps will vote later today on the prime minister s plans for a national insurance rise, to pay for the nhs and social care. yesterday borisjohnson announced what he called the biggest catch up programme in the history of the nhs. £36 billion, raised over three years, to deal with the backlog caused by the pandemic. more than £5 billion of that will go towards changes to social care in england. scotland, ....
uprising. and later, california s majestic sequoias have thrived for centuries. now fires and climate change threaten their very existence. good to have you with us. later today, u.s. president joe biden will tour the devastation left by the remnants of hurricane ida in new york and new jersey. he has already approved federal aid for people severely affected by the storm in both states. meantime, flooding still poses a danger for areas of the gulf coast devastated by the hurricane. more rain and storms are in the forecast for a region that s also under a heat advisory. nearly 500,000 utility customers face another day of scorching temperatures without electricity. cnn s martin savidge is following the recovery efforts in new orleans, including a gruesome discovery made by the city s health department. reporter: this is a pod, point of distribution. jefferson parish around near the airport, just outside the city of new orleans. as you can see what happens here is ....
scene in extreme detail. there s no forced entry, is no tool marks. who could ve done. this they say usually it s someone close. an investigation focusing on friends and family, brought up his association with a motorcycle gang. kim office kind of a tough guy. he threatened to take out my whole entire family to get custody of our kids. a chilling story, a danger of duplicity. we are trying to figure out who did this. he knew the whole time. this is the ultimate betrayal. it was 9:00 in the morning on the 25th of june, 2015. omaha, nebraska. missy s normal ritual was interrupted by a phone call, it was the bank where her daughter jessica worked, she was an hour late. i was like, what would he mean she s not. there they were like, she s not here, we ve been coloring. her she s not answering. the thing was just caught was never late. missy tried calling or. no answer panic now she ran to her car, was jessica homesick, i was calling her on the way over ....