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announcer: this is cnn breaking news. good monday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. good news this morning, breaking news, the fda has granted full approval to the pfizer covid-19 vaccine. this is a key step in getting more americans vaccinated. it comes more than nine months after the first dose of the pfizer vaccine was administered in this country. the decision could motivate millions of americans who still have not received a vaccine to finally get the shot. the data is behind it. it saves lives. it keeps people out of the hospital. according to the surgeon general, this could also open the door for businesses, universities, other institutions to impose or enforce vaccine requirements. this breaking news about the pfizer vaccine comes as vaccination rates are slowly starting to tick up. again, three days in a row of more than a million vaccines in a day. let s start with cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen as well as dr. paul sax, clinical direct ....
some lost their lives. people hearing gunshots around the airport as well. cnn has just confirmed u.s. troops on the ground in kabul shot and killed two armed men at the airport after they fired on u.s. forces and a defense moofl said they believe this is a isolated since debit. they are temporarily suspending the airport after the afghans flooded it. the u.s. has dispatched also an additional 1,000 combat troops now bringing the total up to 6,000 new troops in the country to secure the airport perimeter and help get american diplomatic personnel and others out safely. let s begin with nick paton walsh with kabul with the situation at the airport. what we just saw was complete chaos. anything but an orderly draw down. reporter: yeah, i have to tell you, hamid karzai international airport is the symbol of the american presence, how to ferry in and out u.s. diplomats over this 20 year presence and to see people clamoring desperate to jump on to cargo aircraft, startli ....
at that airport after they fired on american troops. the u.s. believes it was an isolated incident. the situation in afghanistan spiraling so quickly that president biden deployed an additional 1,000 troops to help evacuate americans and others. the total number is about 6,000 troops and we just got word that president biden will speak this afternoon. the white house this morning defending the exit strategy from america s longest war. we went to afghanistan for one reason, which is to get the people who attacked us on 9/11. a decade ago we got osama bin laden. we degraded al qaeda. we stop terrorists attacked against the united states from afghanistan for 20 years. but what the president not prepared to do was enter a third decade of conflict with thousand more troops which was his only other choice to fight in the middle of a civil war that the afghan army wouldn t fight for itself. that is the president s national security adviser this morning and cnn has learned ....
infrastructure bill: the president s legislation clears a major hurdle with bipartisan support. where will the money go? severe weather: tornadoes in illinois, and a dangerous storm forming in the caribbean. border crossings: number of apprehensions, including tens of thousands of unaccompanied children this year. a star s diagnosis. christina applegate opens up about a serious illness that also impacts nearly one million americans. and from america with love. a 12-year-old hopes an entire village will walk in her shoes. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. garrett: good evening to our viewers in the west. thank you for joining us. norah is off. i m major garrett. the sudden resignation of three- term new york governor andrew cuomo today came as a shock to many because for days, if not weeks, cuomo had vowed to fight allegations of sexual harassment by 11 women. moments before he announced his exit in fact, cuomo an ....
new day with john berman and brianna keilar. good morning here in the united states and around the world, it is tuesday, august 10th and this morning american children are caught in the middle of a dangerous standoff, hitting public health against politics, all while schools are starting to reopen. so much is at stake here. more than 200 children under the age of 17 are now hospitalized in florida, which is a number that has never been higher, but the state s governor ron desantis is threatening to withhold paychecks from superintendents and school board members who choose to follow cdc guidance and require masks in schools. four school districts in the state are putting safety first and defying his order, including the state s second largest school district in broward county. for all the talk about liberty and local control, the florida governor is trying to restrict the freedom of local school boards to make their own health decisions. in texas it s a similar st ....