This was an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions. I never thought in my lifetime i would see an unconditional surrender to the taliban. This is betrayal. I do not believe a word you re saying on this. I do not wish to hear from you. What you said is dead wrong. I don t wish to hear your lie. It is so unfortunate the consequences. You need to resign. That would be leadership. Dana: senator mike rounds will question secretary blinken this morning on the senate side. Peter doocy with the latest from the white house. Let s go to capitol hill where aishah hosni is standing by for day two. If it was anything like yesterday it is sure to draw the ire of republicans. Blinken yesterday defenlded the withdrawal of the troops from afghanistan at one point hitting his message home saying we inherited a deadline. We did not inherit a plan. He also revealed there are still several thousand u. S. Green card holder on top of the some 100 citizens still stuck in afghanistan. There were several heat
President biden singing collapses unlikely. John: there s been no new information from the state department on american stranded in afghanistan. As far as we know, the taliban still refusing to allow planes ready to evacuate americans from taking off. Jacqui: florida congressman standing by. You will have a chance to question blinken. First, to congressional correspondent aishah hasnie. Hi, jacqui. Good afternoon. We could expect some fireworks today during the hearing. Ranking member michael mccaul told me he is ready to hold blinken s feet to the fire that he will be bringing up prior previous testimony to this hearing. Secretary of state is set to appear virtually in front of the house foreign affairs committee at 2:00 this afternoon. You would expect some sharp questioning from republicans and democrats over the role the state department played in this chaotic withdrawal including questions about the about the state department email fox obtained showing the department denying appro
Is lives to make you can see the scene here is fluid first the first responders that roped off the road that leads to the apartment or of the apartment complex as they try to start work that you can imagine that will be a their own investigation we just got an update who tells us they had cleared 100 percent of the apartment complex in emergency crews are working to stabilize the building and as a 15 minutes ago could make their way into three apartments that were just about leveled around 1:30 p. M. At least two people are unaccounted for but it s not clear right now if they were home at the time or lived in those apartments that the crews are most worried about. For have been taken to the hospital that have been described as minor injuries. We spoke to one resident who said he heard and felt the force of the explosion and considers himself lucky to not have been caught in it. We just heard the loud sound. These were the most badly damaged. The atlanta gases on the scene work looking
Now account for more than one in four of all weekly new coronavirus infections, with over 250,000 new infections in the last week alone. Child hospitalizations, they re also at an alltime high. But to be clear, less than 2% of all pediatric covid19 cases result in hospitalization, far below with older people. Dr. Anthony fauci says the uptick in cases is still avoidable. If we do things right, we hope that we don t see much increase at all. If we want to protect the children, particularly those who are not yet eligible for vaccination, you want to surround the children with people who are vaccinated. Teachers, school personnel, everyone else. Some schools in the south have been particularly hit hard since reopening. One district in central georgia has temporarily moved to virtual learning after three transportation staff died in recent weeks. In florida 13 employees in miami dade public schools died since mid august. We should note, all of them unvaccinated. That statistic remains cons
Sixpronged strategy, says the white house, which will include announcemention both on mandates but also testing. This as nearly 1,500 americans are dying every day from covid. We should note this has been consistent, the vast majority are unvaccinated. Among children there s a record number of not just infections, but also hospitalizations in the u. S. , more than 2,400 right now. We should note, however, it s still less than 2% of all pediatric covid19 cases that end up in the hospital. Severe disease does remain rare among children. Let s begin this morning at the white house with cnn white house correspondent john harwood. John, listen, the biden administration knows they have to get a handle on this and this is central to, frankly, the president s success. Six points. What s the sixpoint plan? reporter: it s central, jim, to everything the president wants to accomplish politically, economically and in terms of public health. We don t know a lot of details on this sixpoint plan. We