we must all band together for the sake of humanity itself. today many of the concerns cannot be solved or even addressed through the force of arms. bombs and bullets cannot defend against covid-19 or its future variants. to fight this pandemic we need a collective act of science and political will. ending this pandemic, addressing the climate crisis, managing the shifts in global power dynamics, shaping the roles of the world on vital issues like trade, cyber, and emerging technologies, and facing the threat of terrorism as it stands today. where we apply and strengthen the core tenets of the international system, including the charter and declaration of human rights as we seek to shape the emergence of new technologies and deter new threats. or will we allow those universal principles to be trampled and twisted in the pursuit of naked political power? simply put, we stand in inflection point in history. an inflection point and also a threatening point in the u.s., with s
hospitals where beds were scarce. thankfully, thankfully, courage and professionalism were not. it is not marked down anywhere officially. the fight back against the virus began the first time a nurse turned her mask inside out. we remember that. for protection, she wore a garbage bag over her scrubs. at the time, guys, they didn t have ppe because if you didn t know, nothing, and i do mean nothing, comes between a nurse and their duties. grocery store employees, thank you. health care professionals, thank you. the police, nypd here in full force, i was so glad to see them tonight. thank you, thank you, thank you, nypd. other essential workers took their stations on the front lines. next and slowly, new yorkers began to do what we do. we find a way. you know we were once the epicenter of the virus. now we moved to being epicenter of the recovery. so it brings us to this humid, sticky august night. a storm is on the way, but we re good! we gather for a common purpose to say we
over barbed wire, over the wall of the kabul airport to u.s. forces. this morning we re learning details about a classified cable u.s. diplomat sent to the state department last month warning about the catastrophe that is unfolding right now in afghanistan. we do expect to hear from president biden a few hours from now when he addresses the nation about what is happening in afghanistan. we re covering all of this from all angles from the white house to the pentagon to the state department. let s begin with the pentagon with barbara starr. what is the latest you could share with us on the evacuations, the pace of them and any further commitments from the united states in terms of how long it will stay. reporter: well, we are expecting an update here at the pentagon later this afternoon. after president biden talks. all of those questions are going to be asked, whether there are answers is a completely different proposition. right now the pentagon is holding fast to the pre
california governor ordering regular testing for all teachers and other personnel statewide. in texas, counties defied orders from their governor and imposed mask mandates. dallas county the latest today. governor abbott and some people in there political party following president trump has politicized this masking, public health and vaccination when there is no politics. the virus doesn t care what your politics are. what your political party is, how you feel about any issue. that is dallas county judge clay jenkins. he ll be joining us shortly. first breaking vaccine news first, chief medical correspond dr. sanjay gupta and the distributor of minnesota center for disease and research and policy. sanjay, the news that the fda is expected to give authorization. for a third dose. can you explain what that means and who you think would be eligible? yeah. i think we re talking nine to ten million people here, three to four percent of the population. whose immune systems ar
mitch mcconnell stumped all over it. i ve taken a look at all of these new state laws. none of them are designed to suppress the vote. there is no rational basis for the federal government trying to take over all of american elections. okay. so manchin for some crazy reason hoped that his compromise will get some support from republicans by requiring voter i.d. let s keep it 100. why stop there? these habitual line crossers have tried to overturn elections that they lost. once stacey abrams lent her support to manchin s ideas, republicans were not about to miss the opportunity, their same old trick, to make a black woman the face of all of their fears. a revised version produced by one of the democrats yesterday, which has been endorsed by stacey abrams in what is an extraordinarily dubious constitutionality at this will remove redistricting and have it over to computers. equally unacceptable. totally inappropriate. all republicans i think will oppose that as well. i