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thank you. sylvie? i have two questions. i would like to go back to the incident. can you be a little bit more specific and tell us if you can rule out that the attackers were taliban? first. and i would like also to go back to the deadline, the french foreign minister said today that it s, quote, necessary to continue the evacuations beyond august 31st. cannot rule out who the hostile actor was in this shooting incident last night. i think, as you saw, central command statement referred to it as a hostile actor. we don t know more than that. and this just happened, so i don t know when we ll have more forensics on this. again, our focus was on making sure that we could maintain security at the airport. it was maintained. sadly it resulted in the life of one afghan soldier and wounded several others. so, i mean, obviously that s our focus right now. on the deadline, i can t speak for other nation states. i can only speak for the department of defense, and you he ....
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. good monday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. good news this morning, breaking news, the fda has granted full approval to the pfizer covid-19 vaccine. this is a key step in getting more americans vaccinated. it comes more than nine months after the first dose of the pfizer vaccine was administered in this country. the decision could motivate millions of americans who still have not received a vaccine to finally get the shot. the data is behind it. it saves lives. it keeps people out of the hospital. according to the surgeon general, this could also open the door for businesses, universities, other institutions to impose or enforce vaccine requirements. this breaking news about the pfizer vaccine comes as vaccination rates are slowly starting to tick up. again, three days in a row of more than a million vaccines in a day. let s start with cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen as well as dr. paul sax, clinical direct ....
some areas expecting up to a foot of rain. tonight s full moon could increase the flood threat, as well, for areas along the coast. we ll explain that. new day starts right now . good morning and welcome to your new day. it s sunday, august 22nd. thank you for waking up with us. good morning to you. good morning, boris. we re all watching henri. this category one hurricane is closing in on the northeast. the first hurricane to directly hit new england in 30 years, which is part of what is so significant here. this is an area that typically gets these kind of storms and several states have issued states of emergency ahead of the storm, which is expected to make landfall soon in southern new england. about 50 million people are under hurricane or tropical storm warnings and mandatory evacuations are already under way in some coastal areas and officials say the time to leave before conditions get worse is right now. you know, a lot of people don t like to leave ....
surge as henri is set to become in fact it is the first hurricane to hit new england in 30 years. plus chaos in kabul. a dire situation continues to unfold at afghanistan s main important. and imminent approval. cnn has learned the pfizer vaccine could get full fda approval as soon as monday. what this could mean for the fight over vaccine mandates. hello again, everyone. thank you for joining me, i m fredricka whitfield. we begin with this breaking news this hour as hurricane henri gathers strength and takes aim at the northeast. more than 40 million people could be impacted, henri became a hurricane just last hour and could be as strong by the time it makes landfall which is expected on long island, new york. cities are preparing for massive storm surge, flash flooding and strong winds into next week. alisyn chinchar is tracking this storm for us. what more do we know about the potential impact? there s a lot of impacts to go around. let s begin with the basic ....
help folks escape and the oklahoma mother of 11 helped the group of afghan girls did just that and what our allies are really thinking despite the president s best efforts to say no one is criticizing. we begin at the pentagon where we await that briefing. reporter: 30 minutes from that briefing to get the latest on afghanistan and what the us embassy in kabul was warning when it instructed americans not to go to the airport, quote, because of potential security threats outside the gates of the couple airports we advise citizens to avoid traveling to the afforded of what airport gates at this time as you are receiving individual instructions from us government representative to do so. yesterday president biden said the evacuation is going well and americans were having a problem. no indication that they haven t gotten through the airport. we need an agreement with them, allowed them to go through so we know of no circumstance where american citizens are caring ameri ....