In New York, the city issued the first ever, first ever Flash Flood emergency. Those are Subway Tunnels youre looking at there Last Night. They saw rainfall in just five hours, enough to fill 50,000 Olympic Size swimming pools, Record Rainfall in Central Park and happening right now in bridgeport, pennsylvania, Water Rescues underway. Weve seen live on our air in the last hour residents being pulled from their homes in those inflatable rescue boats there. Still People In Need and still peoples whose lives are in danger. Lets begin with the storm chaser. Hes ray likener. You were following this during the worst of it overnight. Tell us what you saw then and what youre seeing this morning. Are you there . Hello. Bad connection there. Were going to come back to you, ray, when you Have A better connection so we could hear what youve seen. I do want to go to Evan Mcmorris Santoro in queens, New York, which saw some of the most devastating effects of the storm overnight and sadly where a lot
The news continues. Michael is in for cHris tonight. Michael. About 80,000 are hospitalized and we have vaccines now. Thats what makes it especially tragic to see our hospitals on the brink once again. Five states have fewer than 10 of icu beds available now. Alabama, texas, georgia, florida and mississippi. Florida and texas, alone, account for 40 of new hospitalizations. More covid cases than 30 other states combined. They also have defiant governors who appear to be siding with some notion of freedom rather than the combination of masks and vavaccinations. Were about to talk to a County Judge in dallas challenging Texas Governor Abbots Order banning Mask Mandates and listen to this dire warning he gave to parents. In dallas theres Zero Icu Beds or more likely if they have covid, we dont have one. Your child will wait for another child to die. The Texas Department of health pushing back saying the shortage of Pediatricu Icu beds is rae elated to a shortage of medical staff saying the
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coming up, i m going to ask the white house press secretary whether beyond the announcement they actually have the votes in the senate, not to mention the house. tragedy in florida. the search right now after a deadly building collapse there. a boy one of two people pulled from the rubble alive. one confirmed dead so far. 99 more floridians unaccounted for. plus, a big development on a life-or-death story that we ve been covering for weeks, months, years even on the lead. the white house announcing that afghan translators who helped u.s. troops will be saved, but how many? of the 9,000 who have completed the paperwork, how many are we talking about? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with breaking news on our politics lead. president biden making the official announcement this afternoon, there is a bipartisan deal on infrastructure. we had a really good meeting. in answer to your direct question, we have a deal. none of us got all that we wanted. i cle
Pothole in the bumpy road to passing one of his major agenda items, infrastructure. President biden pulled the plugs on the talks with the lead negotiator. There is a plan b. Right now, a Senate Committee is holding an interesting hearing on a complicated issue. Sure College Athletes be able to profit off their name, image and likeness . I will talk to twotime Nba Champion CHris Bosh, before he became a megastar, he was a top college basketball player. He has a lot to say about this issue. Stick with us for that. First, to our team following President Bidens first foreign trip. Matt bradley and shannon pettypiece. Shannon, start with you. The president emphasizing that his first foreign trip is about rebuilding our relationship with our allies, restoring confidence in the united states as a partner. Explain the stakes and just how does he plan to do that. Reporter the administration is very aware of the concern among americas allies about whether or not the u. S. Can be a trusted negot