After a stunning series of attacks today against targets in new york and in washington d. C. The world trade center and the pentagon. The terrorist used hijacks a billion airliners and their passengers as guided missiles in their attacks. The most serious attack on this country since pearl harbor. Tonight, the dead still are being counted, an unknown number still of missing. At this hour, in this war, another development, there are reports out of kabul, the capital of afghanistan, of explosions, with the pentagon and the cia are flatly denying that the united states had anything to do with those explosions. This has been one of the darkest days in america, and it is not yet over. Here at home now a quick look at the locations where the airliners hit, the twin towers of the world trade center, 20 minutes apart. Then, within an hour this morning, the pentagon. And then, the final crash just minutes later about 80 miles southeast of pittsburgh, 266 people on the four airplanes alone all p
Ago and highest since early march. The delta variant still spreading among and killing the unvaccinated. Health officials plans to roll out booster shots has hit a hitch. Pfizer has passed its study information to the fda but moderna hasn t yet. What you might see is rather than the simultaneous rolling out of the booster program of both dose products, you may be sequential by about a week or two. I don t think that that is a major issue there, but we would have liked to have seen it happen all together simultaneously. The completely avoidable resurgence of covid compounded by fallout from chaotic u. S. Withdraw from afghanistan, new concerns over job growth and latest complications facing the president s sweeping infrastructure and social programs. Jasmine wright is live in washington. Jasmine, a tough summer for the president and the country ending on a tough note. Reporter: yeah, certainly not the summer that the president and the white house wanted. And this back and forth with boo
So let s begin with cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. Of everything i ve laid out, which is president biden s top priority? reporter: i think coronavirus is probably top of mind for the white house right now. We know president biden is going to give a major speech on that this week. Also, alisyn, as you noted he has several things on his plate when he comes back to washington tonight following this holiday weekend. And tomorrow you will see the president go to new york and new jersey. Both the states he has declared states of emergency and disaster declarations under way there right now in an effort to help with what we ve been seeing on the ground. And a lot of this he is going to tie to what he did in louisiana touring the damage there which is, of course, climate change. And his domestic agenda, something that we know will be at the forefront when lawmakers are back here in washington. But, alisyn, it s not just that. He is still dealing with afghanistan, even tho
Live from cnn world h headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching in the united states, canada and around the world. I m brynn kim brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. Fresh fighting was reported saturday in afghanistan s panjshir value i why, the only territory the taliban haven t captured. Panjshir is home to the national resistant front which has been opposing the taliban for decades. The fighting intensifies. In the capital the company s fragile economy got a small boost saturday when the largest currency exchange market opened for the first time in three weeks. Ordinary afghans have been starved for cash because banks are limiting withdrawals. Journalist ben farmer is in kabul and joins us by phone with the latest from there. Let s start with the fighting in the panjshir. What is the latest on the conflict there? it looks as though we may have lost ben. We might try and reach him again later on. Now earlier, i spoke with ben and so we re going to play a little tape of that
Democratic heavy hitters turning out to help california governor gavin newsom as he tries to keep his job. The message they are hoping breaks through to voters in the final days before the recall election. Welcome to your sunday, september 5th. We are so grateful to have your company, as always. Good morning. Hope you are enjoying this sunday. Good morning, christi. Good morning to you, too, boris. For the second time in less than a week president biden is visiting an area of the country that has been ravaged by hurricane ida. Tuesday he travels to new jersey and to queens, new york, to survey the damage, and this is following his visit, of course, to louisiana last week. Yeah, there have been at least 50 stormrelated deaths across six states in the northeast. The remnants of hurricane ida brought unprecedented rainfall that led to catastrophic flooding along the gulf coast, meantime, gas is in short supply. People have been waiting in line for hours to fill their cars and gas cans, to