Homecoming outside washington, washington, d. C. Americans arriving back on red, white and blue u. S. Soil and their families crying tears of relief. Good news story. Im Bill Hemmer live on friday. I look to you, what is going on . Dana so good. Great to bridng you this story. Big two hours. Years of 10se negotiations leading to this moment. It was part of Prisoner Exchange involving seven countries and two dozen people. Biden administration securing release of three americans. Bill President Biden welcomed more thanes back home, here he is with Paul Whelan. He had been in jail for six years in russia. Dana here is the moment, you cant get enough of these videos. Evan Gershkovich Reknow united with his Family And Evan vowed to fight for other political prisoners. How are you feeling . Im all right. What about the show of support . Its [cheering] thinking about evan i think we know shouldnt forget about them, is one thing i would like To Say. I think it would be good to see potentially
Hearing, justice against response of terrorism act, my Member Families want to know, will terrorists be testifying at the trial to link the Saudi Arabia Government to this . Bill upstate new york, enjoy your time there while you got it. 10 00 in new york. In red, from algeria,s k khelif. Dana and victory tainted by controversy and growing out rage for letting two boxers compete in the Womens Division after questions about gender. Im dana perino. Good morning. Bill good morning, im bill hemmer. Here we go. This is a brutal moment, weve watched many times. Boxer who failed a Gender Test a year ago lands huge punch in paris forcing her opponent to fall to her knees and quit. Dana the fight has been called below the belt. I sparred against a Man But Fightingsing for the olympics is bigger than that, so much on the line. To go in with the opposite gender, women fight women and men fight men. Bill she was on the program yesterday, terrific. I ioc could have more on their hands. Former Boxer
The largest number so far of people evacuated from the airport in kabul in a 24hour period. Its a really big number. 10,400 people. 10,400 air lifted out of kabul on sunday by u. S. Military aircraft. Now that again is a big number. It will have to continue to meet the clear need that is there. And it has been complicated by a whole slue of other developments. The airport, the scene of a deadly firefight overnight, involving u. S. , german and afghan forces. Afghan guard helping secure the base was killed by some kind of fire. Unclear whether it was Opponent Fire or friendly fire. No americans were injured in that attack. After president biden said he is considering extending the afghan Withdrawal Deadline now, new this morning, a taliban spokesman tells cnn that all u. S. Forces must leave afghanistan by The End of the month. They dont want to see any extension. Thats raising questions about whether afghan allyies, people who helped u. S. Troops over the course of the war, are going t
Transmission rates. Here is the director. In rare occasions, some vaccinated people infected with the Delta Variant after vaccination may be contagious and spread the virus to others. In areas with substantial and high transmission, the cdc recommends fully vaccinated people wear masks in public indoor settings to help prevent the spread of the Delta Variant and protect others. This includes schools. Dana that includes schools, the White House responding to the new guidance saying its another stop on our journey to defeating this virus. I hope all americans who live in the areas covered by the Cdc Guidance will follow it, i certainly well when i travel to these areas. Lot comes as the debate over vaccine mandates is heating up, the first federal agency to require its employees to be vaccinated in california says State Employees and Health Care workers must show proof of that Demand Vaccination or get tested regularly and jesse, right before we came out, im the Vice President has plain,
johnson &johnson has delayed the rollout of its covid vaccine in europe after regulators in the united states called for a pause because of safety concerns. six people who d had the vaccine in the us have developed rare and severe blood clots. it s so far been given to almost seven million americans. our medical editor fergus walsh reports. an abundance of caution was cited by us health officials as the reason why they paused the use of the single shotjohnson &johnson covid jab. the vaccine, which in europe is branded as janssen, was approved in the us in late february. since then, there have been six incidents of very rare clots in the brain, out of 6.8 million doses. so less than one case per million people immunised. all were women under 50, one of them died and one is critically ill. i think this is an unusual occurrence of a serious adverse event that you want to make sure before you go forward, you investigate it thoroughly. and that s exactly what they re doing. they r