This is load off from the Secretary Of Defense been a resounding success. Of course if you subtract the 13 dead americans, the two dozen trapped school children, the afghans falling off airplanes, or the fact that we armed the taliban with 90 Billion worth of automatic weapons and helicopters, its been great. They are saying this so often, however, that it may not be propaganda. It is starting to seem like everyone in the biden administration actually believes they just won. That might explain why they are promoting Jennifer Rubin columns from the Washington Post and walking away from reporters without taking any questions. They dont have to explain themselves. Its obvious this is a victory. Watching all of that should worry you. There are only two explanations for it. Either every senior Government Official in washington has been chugging i waltzed out and departed from reality on the early train, and thats possible. Or on some deeper level, may be they are actually telling the truth
Can come avoid any unnecessary travel. Flash Flood Warning for the area has been extended to 3 00 a. M. Eastern. Of the flooding also stranding air travel, with water rising in New York international airport. Earlier, tornadoes touched down in New Jersey, dozens of homes destroyed. Joining us now for more on the situation is new York City councilman, in Staten Island, one of the hardest hit areas. Joe, can you hear me . I can, thank you very much. What does it look like where you are right now . Its more widespread in terms of damage that hurricane sandy. With that storm, it was the Storm Surge and some of the low lying areas. We have the coast affected come almost predictably. With this, just the sheer volume of water is something i have never seen in all my years living in Staten Island, and it just overwhelms the Sewer System and has backed up so many basements with Sewage Water and flooded garages and flooded houses, and i have to say, ive never seen damage this widespread before,
Live from cnn headquarters, live for those watching here in canada, united states and around the world, im Kim Brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. We begin with an encouraging sign of progress in the u. S. Vaccination campaign against the coronavirus. Half of all americans are now fully vaccinated, according to data released friday, despite that, the number of new cases keeps growing. Now topping 100,000 per day. And in florida, the Delta Variant is spreading at unprecedented speed. Were talking about 20,000 new cases per day on average. Florida had more than 134,000 new cases total over the past week. The highest number since the pandemic began. But the White House is making it clear, the Nation Isnt headed for another lockdown. Nick valencia has the latest on Vaccination Efforts across the country. Reporter a major milestone for the country, with half the total u. S. Population fully vaccinated. But the grim count of covid deaths is rising fast. A 52 increase over last weeks sevenday av
is trying to make a comeback. but is it a bluff because he just trying to get attention will ask one of his former closest aides who will be here this hour plus a friday. feel good from my hometown philly. see how the power of popcorn is giving one group but sense of pride and independence and leading this hour, president biden on the road taking his state of the union address on tour for stop bat around pennsylvania and we re standing by for him to speak any moment now, after last night s supercharged rather political speech, let s get right to cnn s mj lee who s in wallingford, pennsylvania, one in 08 six as i recall, we re president biden is about to speak and mj president biden s speech is to set to kick off a month-long tour, continuing his state of the union message, what exactly is the white house planning? yeah, jake, we should be seeing president biden take the stage behind me any minute now, here in the suburbs of philadelphia to really kick off his post state of