President biden singing collapses unlikely. John: there s been no new information from the state department on american stranded in afghanistan. As far as we know, the taliban still refusing to allow planes ready to evacuate americans from taking off. Jacqui: florida congressman standing by. You will have a chance to question blinken. First, to congressional correspondent aishah hasnie. Hi, jacqui. Good afternoon. We could expect some fireworks today during the hearing. Ranking member michael mccaul told me he is ready to hold blinken s feet to the fire that he will be bringing up prior previous testimony to this hearing. Secretary of state is set to appear virtually in front of the house foreign affairs committee at 2:00 this afternoon. You would expect some sharp questioning from republicans and democrats over the role the state department played in this chaotic withdrawal including questions about the about the state department email fox obtained showing the department denying appro
Kabul witnessing changes from the taliban. New threat. We are tracking another tropical storm on track to hit the south. An explosion destroying an apartment building in an atlanta suburb. Investigators are on the scene. 48 hours until the california recall election. President biden now hitting the campaign trail. Football sunday is back and so are the crowds. Our inside look at how one stadium is making sure every single spectator is vaccinated. And history at the u. S. Open. The british teen who took new york. What the queen said today. This is nbc nightly news with kate snow. Good evening. Let s start off this sunday with some good news for a change. New figures from the cdc show covid infects in the u. S. Have dropped a bit, offering some new hope as we head into the fall, but that said, the u. S. Surgeon general today said americans still need to work collectively to get to a place where cases stay low. It s yet president announced a number of vaccine mandates for companies and fe
Yeah, this is difficult. Hello, my name is michael mcmullin, and i m speaking to you on january 17th inside of a plywood box here to relate my rec elections of 9/11. Um, i mean, obviously, it s very unresolved for me. I could see the damage being done to people, when they couldn t tell their own story in their own words. It was just planes, planes, planes, building down, building down. There was absolutely no space for more complicated stories about what people actually felt. So this is it. Well, go check to see. I just clicked it. See if it went off. So we wanted to bust open space forte that. As you can see, we re in action. Once people went inside the booths, they controlled the recording. They controlled their own story hey. It became absolutely clear that this really was a very shattered experience with a lot of feeling and emotion behind it. I m just not and our purpose was to capture exactly that. To tell the personal truth of what 9/11 was. Okay. This is not working. What the h
However, in contrast to the current administration s emphasis on unity, the most recent ex president sewed more division. He was absent from any 9/11 memorial services this week end, the failed former president visited a police precinct and neighboring fire house. Rather than honor first responders who lost their lives helping others 20 years ago, he continued to spread lies about the 2020 election. That same rhetoric is what helped drive a violent mob of his supporters to storm the capitol in a lastditch attempt to prevent biden from taking office months ago. While the 9/11 terrorists and january 6th insurrections may have been threatened by what our democracy represents, both attacks remind us our freedom is wort fighting for. In fact, former president push emphasized that exact point this weekend. There is little cultural over lap between violent extremists abroad and at home. But there is destainful plural ris m and disregard for human life. In their determination to file national
Innocence lost. Join me in a moment of silence. He kept saying a terrorist attack, a terrorist attack. 20 years later. So you think that day affected your life, who you are today? not many people would have thought i would have become a cop. I ve had my stumbles, you know, i ve been to prison twice. It s always going to be a part of our lives. There was only 16 of us with him. We get to be the people that tell the story. Tonight, their stories in a cnn special report. Front row to history, the 9/11 classroom. Hello, i m victor blackwell. Most of us remember where we were on september 11th, 2001. I was in college, and i remember clearly walking into class and seeing my professor fixated on a tv. His hand was over his mouth, and i looked at the tv, and i saw smoke billowing from a skyscraper. At that moment, that was all i knew. I also remember seeing the president surrounded by young school kids that morning. We later learned that president george w. Bush got word of the first plane tha