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the biden administration has taken as they affect more than 100 million americans. of course in that 100 million many of those workers have likely already been vaccinated. but the response from the right erases any doubt at all the gop is in this thing together with the rest of us. the health and safety of residents of gop-led states a matter of personal choice, it would appear, in their view. texas governor greg abbott calling the mandates, quote, an assault on private businesses. said the state is, quote, already working to halt this. gordon said he asked his state s ag, quote to stand prepared to take all actions to oppose this administration s unconstitutional overreach of executive power, end quote. south carolina governor henry mcmaster promised to battle biden to the gates of hell. president biden today equally forceful response. have at it. look, i am so disappointed that particularly some republican governors have been so cavalier with the health of these kid ....
it s like an inspiring and, like, all-encompassing rallying cry. it stands for our team. like let s [ bleep ] go. let s do it. and the lfg, you can put out in the world and not upset mom. lfg. lfg. let s [ bleep ] go. let s [ bleep ] go. let s get it. let s get weird. it took true blood, sweat and tears to obviously get to where i am today. there were times i wanted to give up. i mean, here i am, three-time pro champion, two-time ncaa champion. i have achieved my dream. i wanted to make usa team, and i did. but even though all these athletes sound absolutely incredible, we don t get paid very much. i mean, i was scraping pennies for the past seven years in my career just trying to get by literally living paycheck-to-paycheck. i had friends who were waitresses who were making three times as much as me in a year. and me being a professional athlete, still to this day i still think it s unacceptable. and then it was like, oh, my gosh, holy crap. megan ....
army veteran. this team of special ops veterans saw this team through a harrowing ordeal. at one point that mom had a taliban gun, probably an american gun, held to her head. they said do not ever come back to this airport. corey mills will join us live in just a moments. first, david spunt with the back story. hi, david. hi, martha. the state department estimates there s about 100 americans left in afghanistan. some want to stay, some want to leave as soon as possible. they just want to get out and get to safety. this includes miriam and her three children. this is a heart-breaking story. they re lucky to be out with the help of corey mills that you see in the picture. those behind this private-run veteran group helped the family. they said the state department was not particularly involved. other americans spent hours on airplanes at the airport in northern afghanistan. they have yet to take off. republican congressman michael mccall said they re being held hostage. ....
rescue a couple and their 2-year-old child from a flooded basement in new york. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m jim acosta. and this is a situation room special report. the u.s. is marking a second labor day marred by the coronavirus pandemic. and tonight the country is much worse off than it was a year ago with the seven-day average of new covid-19 cases up 300% from labor day 2020, despite a surplus of vaccines. it s hard to believe this. we are still hitting just new highs it seems almost every day in this covid pandemic. where do we stand right now? how bad is it? jim, where we stand right now is that things are really much even worse than they were a year ago. let s take a look at this graph. on the far right you ll see labor day. that s where we are right now. that s the level that we re at right now. then look all the way to the left. that s labor day where we were a year ago. we have three time ....
they claim they have taken the last afghan province with troops actively fighting against their rule. resistance leaders deny cedeing any new ground. joining us now is raf sanchez, molly hunter in pakistan, ken delainian. and while thousands of afghans wait in doha and the ramstein air base to find out where their new homes will be there are millions, even a few hundred americans left, trying to navigate life around this new taliban rule. a senior state official telling our colleagues that four americans made it out of afghanistan today by land. those americans are in good condition and they are on their way out now. the state department is being very circumspect in terms of what they say about the land roots the americans are taking out of afghanistan and that is because those routes are complicated and dangerous. in the north of the country there is a number of flights ready to go, ready to leave. some of them preparing to carry out groups of teenage afghan girls. a ....