Patients 16 and up. To borrow a phrase from the development effort, that happened at warp speed, the process taking only 40 of the usual time. Well, this and other vaccines have met the fdas rigorous scientific standards for Emergency Use Authorization as the first fda approved covid vaccine, the public can be confident that this meets the Fda Gold standards for safety, Effectiveness And Manufacturing quality that we require for an approved product. Words that could not come a day too soon. That is because as of this weekend the country is back to averaging 1,000 plus deaths a day from covid. That grim Figure Hasnt been this high since march. In florida over the weekend, hospitalizations set a new record for the entire pandemic with more than 17,000 men, women and children in covid units, icus and ers across the state. Nationally new cases are averaging close to 150,000 a day. Thats nearly ten times what they were in june. Experts on this program have predicted theyll hit 200,000 a day
21 people including 7 month old twins swept away by Catastrophic Flash Floods in tennessee. Ill talk to a mother who along with her 4 month old barely made it out of her flooded home alive. Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone. Im Kate Bolduan in for erin burnett. We have breaking news. President Biden Being urged by several advisors against Keeping Troops in afghanistan past the August 31st deadline. The reason, the deteriorating Security Situation on the ground. Meanwhile, the pentagon needs the president to decide by tomorrow whether to extend the deadline in order to honor his promise of evacuating all americans and afghan allies. Also at this hour, top intel officials just wrapped up a briefing for the House Intelligence Committee on afghanistan and this briefing coming as warnings grow louder and louder over the Terror Threat from afghanistan. Jake Sullivan Today addressed a possible Isis Attack on the Kabul Airport after calling the threat real, acute and pers persistent. Ou
The clock to try to help facilitate these extractions. i spoke to one u.s. soldier earlier today who said that he had desperately trying to get 30 people in. but you just can t get them through these gates. because the situation is so kinetic, as you just heard sam say there, and because there are non-state actors who are now involved in further complicating an already very complex, dangerous situation, it becomes next to impossible to try to find people in the crowd, find an entrance for them to come to where there isn t a sort of crush already of other people waiting, and bring them in and then safely evacuate them. so i think we have to be realistic at what we re looking at now, which is a best case scenario, the u.s. succeeds in evacuating all the americans who want to be evacuated, but at the same time you re looking at tens of thousands of people who have fought with americans, who have died with americans or had
Crowd was breaking through a barricaded doorway, the entrance to the speaker s lobby that day. the office of professional responsibility has determined the officer s conduct was lawful and within department policy regarding use of force. he has not and will not be publicly identified because he and his family have received credible threats, according to the department. thanks for joining us this morning. ac 360 starts now. good evening. today has been a day of truly good news in the fight against covid but it is tempered by what one of the leading figures in it just said about the timeline. today dr. anthony fauci told national public radio we could start to really get some good control of this as we get back into the fall of 2022. not this fall, next fall. it all depends, he said, on how successful the vaccination effort is. he joins us in a few moments. we begin with a milestone in that vital effort. the fda granting full approval to pfizer s covid vaccine for