To answer them live. Plus, a standoff with police. A suspect outside the u. S. CapiTol Today claiming To have a bomb. What led him To it . What is his motivation in the breaking details ahead. Welcome To the lead. Im jake tapper, and were going To start with our World Lead. The rush To evacuate americans and afghan allies out of kabul. This afternoon the u. S. State department announced 6,000 people are inside the Kabul Airport right now. All were Told, all of them are fully cleared and will soon fly out of the country. 20 flights are expected To leave Cat Bull Airport Tonight, but there are still massive issues for Too many others. Sources telling cnn the State Department advised thousands of local employees To head To the Airport Yesterday but many simply could not get there, caught in the crowd of thousands waiting outside the gates, they were beat, sTopped at checkpoints. President biden has pledged that u. S. Forces will remain in afghanistan until all americans are evacuated, eve
Good evening. A lot happening tonight including a look ahead at President Bidens planned Announcement Tomorrow on covid Booster Shots for most vaccinated americans. We begin, though, with afghanistan. We learned late today the president spoke with british prime Minister Boris Johnson about the situation there including the safe evacuation of westerners and afghan nationals. To that end another 1,000 troops have landed In Kabul since we left you last night with another 2,000 or so on the way. According to the White House 700 to 800 americans, afghans and other foreign nationals managed to leave the country today. That said, the goal is more like 5,000 today. However, just getting to the airport may be difficult or impossible for many. These next photos explain why, but we have to warn you first theyre very tough to see. If you have children in the room you might want to have them turn away now. These photos were taken by a Los Los Angeles times photographer and Foreign Correspondent nam
Health officials expect that a booster will also be needed for The One Shot Johnson Johnson vaccine. This is a major expansion, and it comes just a week after boosters were first recommended for people with weakened immune systems. An official announcement on the expansion could come this week, and it comes as the Delta Variant spreads new cases across the country leading to a crush of patients in hospitals, primarily among the unvaccinated. Cnns Jeff Zeleny is live at the White House this morning where this News Emanated from, jeff. Whats going on . Reporter john, good morning. The biden administration is coalescing around the argument and the idea that most americans will need Booster Shots. This is not going to come anytime soon in the coming days, so dont rush to your local pharmacy to get one, but they are reaching the idea that they believe that eight months after you received that first shot, most americans should receive a booster shot. Once it is fully authorized by the fda. T
Gupta. Good morning to you. That there is going to be a lot of people, myself included, fully vaccinated and questioning why do we need a third booster shot. You could explain it to everyone . Well i think youre asking a very fair question. Especially given that just a couple of weeks ago the message seemed to be youre not going to need Booster Shots this will probably just be for people with weakened Immune Systems that couldnt generate the proper immune response initially. It is a very fair question. And i will preface this by saying the mass majority of severe disease is still occurring among half of the country that is not vaccinated. So people that are vaccinated, they have really good protection. Let me show you what is driving this data that were seeing here. This was basically looking at Vaccine Effectiveness against any kind of infection. Breakthrough infections and just getting surveillance screening, they did see waning of the vic effectiveness overall. But that is not refle
Flooding the airport. Some dying in the process. Bill the pentagon will brief in 60 minutes and well oh he carry that live. It will work to fly out as many as possible over the coming weeks. That is going to be a proper cities. Process. The taliban formed a barrier around the airport, not letting anybody inside a certain area of the perimeter. Dana look at this photo here. More than 600 People crammed into an american airplane headed for qatar. They were told the Flight Crew let them remain on board. Bill the Biden Administration arguing it was inevitable. Republicans calling that argument absurd. It goes to show how full of crap the administration really are. They are trying to play it both ways. Theyre trying to say we knew they werent going to be able to protect things and thats why we were getting out. Didnt matter if we stayed a month or year. They didnt care and we see the consequences. We didnt blame them we dealt with them and confronted them and took them on. President biden i