lived through january 6th and will be on duty again this weekend, an undercurrent of fear remains. quote, am i scared? absolutely, an officer told the post. this saturday rally forces a traumatized police force to once again protect the capitol from protesters who openly sympathize with the people who attacked them the first time. take a listen to what the officers told the january 6 select committee back in july. on january 6th for the first time i was more afraid to work at the capitol in my entire deployment to iraq. i witnessed the rioters using all kinds of weapons against officers including flagpoles, metal bike racks that they had torn apart, and various kind of projectiles. officers were being bloodied in the fighting. many were screaming and many were blinded and coughing from chemical irritants being sprayed in their faces. as my physical injuries gradually subsided and the adrenaline that had stayed with me for weeks waned, i ve been left with the psycholog
time someone told me this package is dead, i would be a rich person. it was dead back in may. it was dea in june. it was dead in july again. all i ve heard is how it s dead and yet amazingly, it continues to advance. new polling from the washington post and abc news shows vaccine hesitancy has gone down in the wake of the delta surge with the percent of americans likely or less likely to get a covid shot now. just about half of what it was in january. it also comes as president biden s approval rating has dropped. that s down about 10 points since june. senior adviser to the president reacting this morning. we re not worried about poll number numbers. we re worried about the people in louisiana and new york and nj nmg. this has never been a president who worried about himself. he really worries about the country. let s go to heidi at the white house for us. heidi, welcome to you. is the white house concerned that when extended unemployment benefits end, it will hurt the
notion the taliban are somehow figures for some americans to admire. what is the department of homeland security saying about this? anderson, this was a call done with law enforcement from the state and local governments. and john cohen who s the top intelligence official at the homeland security department raised the concern that there was these domestic groups, white extremist, white supremacists and domestic extremist groups that are anti-government obviously who take some inspiration from what they believe the taliban was able to accomplish. a small group or much smaller group, less armed is able to defeat essentially a much better armed military in this case the united states. and so they believe that this is something that perhaps u.s. extremists could do here in this country. they could use the same model the taliban was able to use there here in this country to defeat the u.s. government. so what level of danger are law enforcement agencies actually expecting? i m
emergency. that s a subway tunnel there. subway service is coming back this morning after it was suspended in a scene like that last night. imagine, hundreds are still stranded in stations across the city, and new york city saw rainfall worse. 50,000 olympic-size swimming pools in the course of just five hours. this is not normal, folks. these are live pictures from new jersey. that is flooding. communities up to their doors and windows, and that is a live rescue underway. first responders in an inflatable there going door to door, seeing if people need rescue at this hour. a tornado ripped through parts of gloucester county, new jersey. newark had its wettest day on record. records are being set virtually every day, folks. again, this is not normal. nearly all transit rail service has been suspended in new jersey. this morning united airlines says it is suspending operations from its hub in newark. that has tremendous repercussions for travelers across the country. all of th
allowing strangers to sue anyone suspected of helping a woman get an abortion. the new york times describes the court s decision like this. quote, the majority opinion was unsigned and consisted of a single long paragraph. it said the abortion providers who had challenged the law in an emergency application to the court had not made their case in novel and procedural question. the majority stressed it was not ruling on the constitutionality of the texas law. it did not need to limit proper challenges to it. justice sonia sotomayor wrote a scathing dissent. the court s order stunning, a flagrantly unconstitutional law designed to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny? a majority of justices opted to bury their heads in the sand. sotomayor also describes the texas law like this. quote, in effect the texas legislature has deputized the state s citizens as bounty hunters. offering them cash prizes for civilly prosecuting their ne