sandra: president biden s campaign and full-blown crisis mode as more lawmakers in the democrat party call on him to exit the 2024 race. we expect to hear it directly from the white house when the white house press briefing begins. it is expected at any moment now. already pushed back by a half-hour but we are at the new time now. hello and welcome, i m sandra smith in new york and john great to have you back. john: good to be back. could be fireworks there. i am john roberts in washington and this is america reports. president biden is trying to rally his party behind him as he enters a critical week for his campaign. this morning he sent a letter to house democrats declining to step aside and minutes later he appeared on msnbc with that same firm message. listen here. i have a neurological test every single day. try sitting behind this desk and making these decisions. you know it and they know it. i am not bad at what i do. it doesn t mean i never make a mistake. i
it doesn t require that at all because, obviously it provides at least six weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion. that s not even the part of abbott s comments yesterday that capturing headlines today, but we ll stop right here. failure number one to grasp the basic concept about pregnancy. banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy doesn t give women six weeks to think about what she s going to do as abbott seems to suggest there. for the vast majority of all women based on the way pregnancy is calculated, a pregnancy test may not even turn positive until what would be considered the fourth week of pregnancy. abbott s six weeks to think about it in a six-week abortion ban gives women really a couple days not the month and a half he seems to be suggesting there. we ll continue because there s much more on abbott s answer to the critical condition why should a rape or incest victim be forced to carry a pregnancy to term? that said, however, let s make somet
bill. good evening, joshua. we are getting in the new 8:00 p.m. advisory from the national hurricane center. we are also now for the first seem seeing the center of the storm on radar. that s the green you see here beginning to show up. that is about 275, 285 miles from new orleans at the current time. so the white is the clouds. the green is the rain bands. and those will be moving on shore as we go throughout the overnight hours. this is the satellite imagery and we color it to kind of see the brighter reds. kind of lets meteorologists know where the stronger portions of storm are. this is the new advisory. 105 miles per hour so the winds did not increase. that s great. we want to keep this as weak as possible. we don t think it is going to get weaker before a landfall but we do expect it to get stronger. hurricane center still thinks it could become a category 3 hurricane overnight. it may be right before landfall, possibly getting up to a category 4. so we should expect
good evening, joshua, we re getting the 8:00 p.m. advisory from the national hurricane center that we re seeing the center of the storm on radar. that s the green you see here beginning to show up. that s about 275, 280 miles from new orleans at the current time. so the white is the clouds, the green is the rain bands and those will be moving on shore as we go throughout the morning hours. this is the satellite imagery, and we color it to see the brighter reds or top of the thunderstorms, lets meteorologists know where the stronger portions of the storm are. the winds did not increase. that s great. we re 18 hours or so from landfall, we want to keep this as weak as possible. we don t think it s going to get weak before a landfall, we think it s going to become stronger, category 3 overnight, and right before landfall possibly getting up to a category 4. we should expect a major hurricane landfall in southeastern louisiana tomorrow afternoon, direct impacts, grand isle, hom
we still believe there are credible threats. in fact, i d say specific, credible threats. and we want to make sure we re prepared for those. reporter: the pentagon warning that these could be rockets or vehicle bombs. in kabul, families collect the bodies of their loved ones and survivors come to terms with what has happened. this man says that he was an interpreter for the british, and was among the hundreds of afghan wounded. i fell into the stream, and thought i was the only one still alive. i saw all the other people were dead. more than 5,000 evacuees are waiting for flights at kabul s airport and allies like italy and spain have already ended their missions in afghanistan. we have the ability to include evacuees on u.s. military air airlift out of afghanistan until the very end. reporter: the walls at kabul s airport are now stained with blood as afghanistan counts down the final days of america s longest war. now, jake, in the final days of the reign of the