Out, i do think that her messaging, how she carries herself, everything about biles is the consummate olympian. And i just am so grateful that we have this moment kari champion youre last name says it all. Thank you so much. Different for watching Anderson Cooper 360 is next tonight on 360, then there were three or is it now to new reporting as Kamala Harris narrows down her vp . The choices. Also tonight after markets tumble on, recession fears, will the Closing Bell Toll for shade . The latest on the political impact . And later we are tracking seeing the deadly conditions in the south were tropical Storm Debby could dump twoandahalf feet. Thats right. Feet of rain and caused major flooding before its all over good evening, everyone. John berman here in for anderson and there is news happening or about to happen on many fronts tonight. Lets start with this posted late today on Social Media. Im harris Campaign Spokesperson Kevin munoz, quote we understand the Excitement And Interest h
Happening inside afghanistan. The Taliban Takeover has reached the Oneweek Mark and multitudes of people are trying to flee their country. More than 20,000 are now at the airport in kabul waiting in the brutal sun, hoping they get that golden ticket out. Secretary blinken says 8,000 people were evacuated yesterday alone. All countries combined have now evacuated some 26,500 people. The pentagon announced this morning it had invoked something called the civil Reserve Air Fleet which compels u. S. Commercial airlines to assist with the evacuation. Meanwhile President Biden is expected to talk to the american public again this afternoon about those efforts in afghanistan. Tune in to cnn at 4 00 p. M. Eastern time to see exactly what he has to say. Lets begin with my first two guests, Sami Mahdi just got out of kabul, and Rina Amiri has helped her country from abroad. She was assigned to Winston Holbrook when he was representative in afghanistan and pakistan. Good morning to both of you. I
this storm heading straight for rhode island, parts of the eyewall already on shore and we re seeing the storm move to shore as we speak. more than 1500 people under tropical weather alerts right now concerned about storm surge in the harbors and the bays of rhode island, new york and massachusetts. concerns about flooding in the coming hours and widespread power outages because we re talking about a part of the united states not used to seeing tropical weather barrelling into shore. storm surge as well. we re going live in a moment to derek van dam who is in newport, rhode island who can give us a sense of what s happening on the coast. but first let s go to allison chinchar for the latest on the track. allison, any updates from the national hurricane center? we ve got several, in fact. we re learning it is moving very, very close to shore. landfall is expected imminently here. what we re also seeing is that little bit of downpush in wind. the winds are at 60 miles an hour
cannot be included. president biden calls that decision disappointing, but it may just get the measure through the senate. president biden heads to texas hours from now to tour the damage from last week s winter storm. also developing this morning, the biden administration carrying out its first military strike. a bombing run, targeting iranian-backed militias and weapons in eastern advisory. the move is widely seen as retaliation for recent attacks on u.s. personnel in the region. and we have new information from the pentagon in just a moment. first, though, cnn s lauren fox live on capitol hill where this morning, lauren, an increase in the minimum wage, which would have increased salaries for millions of americans, effectively dead this morning. reporter: well, that s exactly right. it is out of the senate bill at the very least. and i think, john, this is significant, because this was something that progressives have been pushing for, for not weeks or months, but real
it is just shy of that now. we won t get ahead of the news on this. we are expecting an official storm update at any moment. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. hurricane ian is now carrying sustained kinds of 155 miles per hour. if they gain to 157 it s a category 5. the biggest threats facing floridians are massive storm surge, raging winds, inland flooding, tornadoes, experts already using words like catastrophic to describe hurricane ian s potential. 21/2 million people are under evacuation orders. for those people in the storm s path directly, that swath that i just told you to the south, cape coral and to the north sarasota. it s too late to evacuate if you re still there according to the governor. governor desantis also saying it is time just to hunker down for you. he spoke last hour. this amount of storm surge. it will have very ferocious winds and it will be life threatening. people are taking a risk with their health, safety and lives by bein