Matt gutman on the virus in this country and rachel scott at the white house. Also tonight, the department of justice now revealing how it plans to sue texas over its new law banning most abortions in the state. Attorney general merrick garland arguing the new law is, quote, clearly unconstitutional and an unprecedented scheme. Terry moran live in washington. Overseas tonight and americans in afghanistan and the new images. The first charter flight out of how many americans onboard?awal the taliban allowing the plane to take off. Several other planes still grounded. Martha raddatz with late reporting. New images tonight of north korean dictator kim jongun and why they re raising questions. Back here at home tonight, police releasing frightening surveillance. Young gunmen firing 150 shots into a house over an alleged high school dispute. Inside that home, a 3yearold boy is killed, his young sister wounded. Tonight, onetime presidential candidate senator amy klobuchar revealing her very
And flooded parts of the northeast. Listen to this reality. Many of those people who died drowned in their own homes, in their own cars. Right now the threat from rising rivers is expected to continue throughout the weekend. In new york, officials rescued more than 500 people from flooded buildings, streets, even subway stations. In pennsylvania, massachusetts and new jersey, at least eight tornadoes destroyed dozens of homes and buildings, while the northeast assesses the damage. More than 800,000 still remain without power in louisiana. Of course, where ida first hit several days ago. Millions are at risk as the sweltering heat stretches into the weekend. Today president biden is headed to louisiana to tour the damage there. Before that, he is expected to speak about the latest jobs report which was a huge disappointment. Frankly, a huge surprise. The economy added just 235,000 jobs. That missed projections by half a million. Let s begin with christine romans. Christine, projection e
Then there s this. In their second deadofnight ruling in just over a week after striking down protections for americans facing eviction last week, the conservative majority on the supreme court declined to overturn the sixweek abortion ban in texas. The abortion law has no exceptions for incest or rape, and deputizes private citizens as bounty hunters searching for anyone who performed or helped a woman get an abortion after that sixweek period before most women even know that they re pregnant. While the decision is shocking, it shouldn t be surprising to anyone. We knew what america was signing up for when donald trump was elected president. Through the 2016 republican primary, some republicans were worried a womanizing reality star with three babies mamas and a taste for adult film stars might not be conservative enough, so trump made a deal. He d appoint judges, including to the supreme court if any openings were to happen, from a list carefully curated by the right wing heritage f
Of opposition led by beto o rourke. Our representatives here need to meet this crisis with the urgency that it demands. Do whatever it takes to save democracy. This is coming just days before president biden is set to give a national address on voting rights. It follows a white house meeting with a group of civil rights leaders. In a moment i will talk to the reverend al sharpton who was in the meeting about what he wants the president to do as well. Meanwhile, the former president set to take the stage this weekend at cpac. The latest effort by donald trump to stay in the limelight, looking for any platform to spread lies about the election, and much, much more. We re going to look at the hold he continues to have on the gop ahead. Plus, signs of a painful past finally on the move. A statue of robert e. Lee removed in charlottesville four years after a deadly farright extremist protest to keep it in place led to deadly violence. We are standing in a park where this city is still refus
Myself, but just watching how people are suffering with their breathing, how hard it is for them to breathe, how poorly they feel. They feel terrible with this. And you can see the regret on their face. They don t necessarily express it all the time. But it s clearly there. The patients who are being hospitalized, unvaccinated. And what else, generally speaking? what s the age range of patients you are seeing now? so it s kind of interesting, because earlier in the pandemic, and certainly before we had vaccinations, we were seeing a much older patient population in the emergency department and getting admitted to the hospital. In recent weeks, we ve been seeing a much younger population. And really even quite a few people who don t have any underlying medical problems. So, the age skew is much younger. We re seeing people in their 30s, 40s, early 50s. We re seeing some teenager and some pediatric patients as well. How sick are the patients you re seeing? honestly, they re quite ill. Th