Theory may have a big impact on what is talk to your kids. Alicia: a truck and a sand trap gets a golfer s attention before it gets him shot. Even more disturbing? what cops found that truck carrying. And a senate seat as a protrump republican different from trump unfit to lead. The new york times got punched and the papers take on the red, white, and blue. That s all i had to. Alicia: we begin with families in surfside florida where the chances of finding loved ones alive is growing dimmer enter there. Speed to the mayor says that families know that there is a slimmer chance after the demolition of the remaining tower. Rescue crews were back to searching after the demolition last night. At least 27 people have died and 180 more are unaccounted for. Surfside mayor does that rescue teams have been able to move much faster. Alicia: search and rescue efforts will continue 24 hours a day until april every person out of the rubble. This all comes as florida is bracing for tropical storm els
Raising fears of a civil war. H here s president biden hours ago. I met with the afghanistan government in the white house. I think they have the capacity to be able to sustain the government. We know as many as 1,000 u. S. Troops will stay in kabul to protect the embassy. And since 2001, more than 2000 u. S. Service members have died in afghanistan. More than 20,000 wounded in action. Cnn ease anna corn is live in kabul for us. What is the latest reaction there to this threat of potential civil war and president biden s confidence that the afghan government is prepared to handle it? anna, unfortunately the people of afghanistan do not necessarily share his optimism. They do not believe that the government and the armed forces can protect them which is why we are seeing this mass exodus of afghans from this war ravaged country. They know what s coming. At least they fear what is coming which as you mentioned yshlg potential civil war, if not outright taliban rule. And we re seeing the
Just about afghanistan, is the going to be gone in the next few days? no. No? no. We re on track exactly as to where we expect it to be. I wanted to make sure there was enough, quote, running room that we could get wouldn t be able to do it all until september. There will still be some forces left but it is a rational draw down with our allies and it is making so there is nothing unusual about it. Are you worried that the afghan government might fall. We re hearing that the taliban is taking more and more districts? look, we re in that war for 20 years. 20 years. And i think i met with the afghan government here in the white house in the oval. I think they have the capacity to be able to sustain the government. They re going to have to be down the road more negotiations, i suspect, but i am i am concerned that the deal with the internal issues that they have to be able to generate the kind of support they need nationwide to maintain the government. On afghanistan if there is evidence t
the president doesn t resolve the voting rights battle first. in the middle of all this comes another big push from the president. minutes from now he will speak on a new gun crime prevention and public safety plan. but will politics get in the way of this too? cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju is live on capitol hill for us. an infrastructure meeting is about to kick off with white house officials 30 minutes from now. where do those talks stand? reporter: the white house meeting is with the bipartisan group of senators. they re trying to figure out exactly whether they can reach an agreement on how to finance this package. the democrats who were involved in these talks told me today that they believe it is essential today to try to figure out a way to get an agreement on how to pay for a $1.2 trillion package over eight years. there are still disagreements about how to do that. at the same time there is pressure from the left, particularly from progressives l
Bombarding gaza. The military says they targeted homes of highranking members of hamas in gaza and nine miles of tunnels. On the other side of the conflict, israelis in ber sheeba, ashkelon and ashdod ran for shelter 56 dozens of rockets were fired from gaza. Senior international correspondent ben wedeman joins us now from jerusalem. Ben, the pressure to get a ceasefire is mounting. What is holding the israelis and hamas back from getting to that point? it appears at least from the israeli side they have certain objectives they want to achieve and they haven t achieved them yet. Over the last 24 hours or so, they ve been focusing on what they claim are network of tunnels, they call it, metro under zgaza that they say hamas is using to move troops and material and rockets around. Hamas, for its part, continues to fire rockets into israel. Both sides are speaking with the egyptians, with the americans and others to try to perhaps work something out. In the past essentially the fighting s