officials into action with the announcement of a third dose for moderna and pfizer vaccine recipients subject to an independent review from the fda. it is now our clinical judgment that the time to lay out a plan for covid-19 boosters is now. we planned to start this program the week of september 20, 2021. i want to emphasize that this decision was not made lightly. it was made with careful consideration by the top medical and public health experts and it was made by data, thoughtful analysis and collective years of experience addressing illness and epidemics. the 900,000 new u.s. covid cases in the last week include texas governor greg abbot, a fierce opponent of mask mandates who were fully vaccinated and there are bombarding icus with children filling the beds. please get vaccinated. the best action you can do to protect yourself and others is to get vaccinated in the first place. we begin this hour with the situation in afghanistan, and nbc national security and m
without showing viewers at home a few of those who cling to the wing drop from several thousand feet above the airport in kabul. monday, good morning. moment of history together. dana: i m dana perino this is america s newsroom. for the afghans clinging to the plane i think two things. the pilot knew what was happening and had to get out anyway and the second thing is that they were willing to face a certain death because the alternative to them staying was worse than trying to leave. bill: so many times the images that you remember for years to come may very well be this one we re showing you right now. i think if you watch the video overnight in the darkness of the airport and here on the tarmac again. when people run like this it shows the inner fear they have that they are trying to get away from. that s the reality now in afghanistan. here we go. next two hours we ll see what we get. dana: that s a image today. images in days to come could be even worse. america
ugliness too, because it means that people believe that they must possess it absolutely. the palestinian/israeli conflict that we are experiencing today, you ve seen it experienced in jerusalem for thousands of years. for the jews, jerusalem is where solomon built the holy temple. for christians, this is the place where jesus was crucified. for muslims, jerusalem is where the prophet muhammed made the night journey. people who are said to have conquered the world have swept through this city. no other individual changed the landscape in the way herod the great did. saladin was determined to take on the christians and throw them out of jerusalem. at a time of ottoman/islamic rule, the british badly wanted to control the holy land. the main case of the arabs is against the british government policy in palestine. we are the only people in the world homeless and stateless. for israelis, the creation of the state of israel is seen as a miracle. and of course
i m kim blrunhuber. we re following breaking news out of afghanistan where taliban fighters have claimed two of their biggest prizes yet, the country s second largest city kandahar and the capital of helmand province lashkar gah. cnn can t confirm this and you had then discity, but taliban fighters claim that they seized hundreds of weapons, vehicles and ammunition. afghan forces appear to either surrender or flee. so the taliban now control 14 provincial capitals, harat, the third largest city fell on thursday. meanwhile the u.s. is deploying 3,000 additional troops to kabul to help evacuate american citizens. let s bring in nick paton walsh who is live in london. nick, it is stunning since you and i spoke yesterday by my calculation four more provincial capitals have fallen, but the latest two lashkar gah, two huge prizes for the taliban. speak to the significance of the lot of these cities. reporter: yeah, kandahar birth place of the taliban under intense pressure over
you are leading to a vulnerability that we might get a worse variant and then, that will impact not only the unvaccinated, that will impact the vaccinated because that variant could invade the protection of the vaccine. in the meantime the delta variant s toll on the unvaccinated is pushing healthcare systems in hard-hit states like louisiana and florida to the brink. look at the spike in hospitalizations, both states, shattering records. the situation so dire in florida, last week the state seeing its highest new cases since the beginning of the pandemic. there s a lot to get to this morning let s begin with elizabeth cohen, taking a look at this morning that we are hearing from dr. fauci about the new variants . dr. fauci and others warning if you think delta is bad, if you think delta has set us back, there could be even worse ones coming at us and here s why. nearly a third of americans have refused to get a shot, even though they are eligible, that gives the virus a