polls for snap elections. a tight race with justin trudeau hoping his handling of the pandemic will keep him in power. although the taliban are showing increasing signs of repressive government, some women are not backing down. a group of brave activists protesting outside what used to be the ministry on sunday. the taliban closed it and replaced it with their feared ministry for promotion of virtue and prevention of vice. the protests come after concerns were raised about girls being allowed to attend secondary school. translator: you cannot suppress the voice of afghan women by keeping girls at home and restricting them as well as by not allowing them to go to school. you cannot suppress the voice of afghanistan s women. now, a private preschool opened on sunday in kabul with both boys and girls attending. that s a rare sight. the taliban insist that public secondary school for girls will be allowed, but they say they have to set up what they call safe transportation
sincere and heart felt condolences to gabby s family. we ask that you all respect the privacy as they mourn the loss of her daughter. earlier today, human remains were discovered consistent with the description of gabrielle gabby petino. investigators made the grim discovery while searching grand teton national park yesterday. the teton county coroner s office will conduct an autopsy on tuesday to determine cause of death. and officially identify the body. gabby s father posting that beautiful tribute on twitter writing #gabby petino she touched the world. the petino schmidt family attorney also rescue for bringing gabby home. the news about gabby petino is heart breaking. the laundrie family pray for gabby and her family. but, back here in florida, brian laundrie is still a person of interest. and police are still looking for him. bad weather forced authorities to stop their search yesterday evening. police say it is a possibility that he had hurt himself or even committed
correspondent and cnn international diplomatic editor. alex, you first. these documents are heavily redacted. but they do tell us something. what? they do. we should note this was released late saturday night after the events commemorating the anniversary of 9/11. and as you mentioned, this is the first part of what we expect to be a series of documents to be declassified following the president s order. this was a 16-page heavily redacted report from the fbi, and what it is is a summary of an interview that the fbi did with a saudi citizen in 2015. this report coming out in 2016, and classified until now. what it does is summarizes this interview with a saudi who worked at the saudi consulate in los angeles. he is not named in this report. he was applying for u.s. citizenship, and he had contact, the fbi says, with people who they themselves had contact with two of the 9/11 hijackers. you can see on your screen the name. he was ostensibly a student in los angeles. he was b
uprising. and later, california s majestic sequoias have thrived for centuries. now fires and climate change threaten their very existence. good to have you with us. later today, u.s. president joe biden will tour the devastation left by the remnants of hurricane ida in new york and new jersey. he has already approved federal aid for people severely affected by the storm in both states. meantime, flooding still poses a danger for areas of the gulf coast devastated by the hurricane. more rain and storms are in the forecast for a region that s also under a heat advisory. nearly 500,000 utility customers face another day of scorching temperatures without electricity. cnn s martin savidge is following the recovery efforts in new orleans, including a gruesome discovery made by the city s health department. reporter: this is a pod, point of distribution. jefferson parish around near the airport, just outside the city of new orleans. as you can see what happens here is the n
sequoias sustain climate change, drought, and wildfires? welcome to a special edition of the lead. i m erica hill in for jake tapper. we start today with our health lead. new concerns on this labor day that the long holiday weekend could worsen the coronavirus surge in the u.s. despite travel warnings from the cdc, millions hit the roads, rails, and skies for a getaway. college football is back with tens of thousands of mostly maskless fans packed into stadiums and some of the last districts to return to school are back tomorrow for in-person learning, including many in the northeast. top health officials worry this can put even more strain on hospitals which are already running out of icu beds in parts of the country. reporter: summer is over. this week in the northeast, many schools start back, but ominous signs from the south. kentucky schools opened already, and already one in five districts have closed at some point due to case counts, quarantines, or just lack o