Good morning, everyone. Welcome to cnn. This morning, i literally just checking my phone to make sure it really is august 3rd. August 3, saturday morning. Im amara walker. Good To Be With You and im Danny Freeman in for victor blackwell. Heres what were working on for you this morning. President Ial Debate drama overnight, former President Trump says Hell Debate Vice president Kamala Harris in september, but only if its very specific terms are met, his debate demands Coming Up and hes going to be Vice President harris is in the final stages of choosing her Running Mate. Were going to break down the leading candidates plus florida on alert this morning. Tropical Storm Watches and warnings are expanding for floridas West Coast as whats expected to be tropical Storm Debby closes in, Meteorologist Allison Chinchar is here to track it all and it may be the largest movement of us forces to the Middle East since the early days of the gaza war, the growing fears of iran because italian retalia
Our teams still add in pieces, still have the draft with free agency. Think, hold on. Lets have a conversation. And here its unlike anywhere else. Docs all season with the new York Giants streaming exclusively on max this is cnn Breaking News good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington we begin this hour with Breaking News on several major stories. While you were sleeping, a massive cyber outage swept around the world. Airports in the u. S. Europe and asia are shut down for hours along with major banks, media and even some Stock Exchanges right now, only some are slowly coming back online in russia. Jailed american Journalist Evan Gershkovich is sentenced to 16 years in prison. The us government has denied the Espionage Charges against the Wall Street Journal reporter and called the case a sham and just in the last hour, or the president s campaign, top manager, their officials insisting biden is in the race and well beat Donald Trump, who wrapped up his
War is officially over. The War In Afghanistan is officially over. As skwrep from said the last american airplanes of u. S. Troops have left and Tal Boone in control of the airport. There are americans still there and the State Department will work to get remaining americans out. We take this around our table, first. Poet, have served. This must be filled with a lot of different emotions. Yes, its almost surreal to see that banner at the Bottom Right will. America ends war on n. Afghanistan. Setting aside all of the criticisms i and all others have im very glad every one of our boys at this point is off of that airfield. Off of that Kill Zone and that x. You can talk about what was miss Man Amed and the future. We will talk about that. People Left Behind, the legitimate Terror State that is this. Ultimately i tip my hat to the pentagon using a he will ppt of surprise, moving earlier than many thepg they would and getting all of our boys back. Its not been a smooth process. We have lost
I will moderate the questions as we have done before. I will call on you. Please you ask your question, identify yourselves and your your let so The General has an idea who hes talking to. We have a hard stop at 3 30. General mackenzie, over to you. John, thanks. This is a hard day today. As you know, two Suicide Bombers detonated in the vicinity of the Abbey Gate at hamed karzai airport. The attack on the gate was followed by a number of Isis Gunman that opened fire on civilian forces. We know 12 u. S. Service members have been killed in the attack and 15 more Service Members have been injured. A number of afghan civilians were killed and injured in the attack. Were treating some of them aboard hkia. Many others have been taken to hospitals in town. Were working to calculate the total losses. We dont know what that is right now. Their loss weighs heavily on us all. Ill talk about that as i go through my prepared remarks. We continue to focus on the protection of our forces and the eva
This is Bbc News. We will have the headlines and all of the main News Stories of the top of the hour. This week, another chance to see our race to space, where we hit the road, built a house and, shh. Whispers . Locked up some astronauts. Jump on in. Thank you. So youre not using the Steering Wheel at all . Youre using a. Oh, wow laughter. Which way are we going . Which way are we going im at nasa in houston where lucienjunkin is taking me for a spin. Using both a Steering Wheel and a joystick, you can point this vehicle in One Direction and drive it in another. You feel the forces in your tailbone. Oh, i can feel the forces in my tailbone laughter. And if that seems really confusing, well, it is. But this is drive by wire technology, which means the onboard computer works out which way you want to go, and then calculates what to do with the wheels. All right, so, well just go this way. This is just one of many experiments into how we might live, work and drive on the moon or mars. Alt