we ll get into that tomorrow night. it is the top of the hour and it s good to be with you tonight. the taliban have seized control of at least three provincial capitals in one day. president biden is deploying thousands of troops to afghanistan to evacuate embassy staff. but what comes next? the u.s. just saw its strongest back-to-back vaccination days in over a month. could this be the result of the new vaccine mandates? our saturday night panel is here to discuss. the 2020 census data is finally here. we will break down the numbers and see how america is becoming more diverse than ever. later, batman s sidekick is dc s newest openly queer superhero. are comics reflecting our culture or leading the way? from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. the u.s. is reporting a rate of new covid cases that we have not seen since last november. the current seven-day average is 140,000 cases per day. right now, basically everyone i
it added that there is so much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, that the warming will last at least several decades. but there is a silver lining. aggressive emissions cuts around the globe could limit the warming beyond the year 2050. the stakes are high, and many people are asking what we can do about the climate crisis. we ll get into that tomorrow night. well, it is top of the hour, and it s good to be with you tonight. the taliban have seized control of at least three provinial capitals in one day. president biden is deploying thousands of troops to afghanistan to evacuate embassy staff. but what comes next?gh the u.s. just saw its strongest back-to-back vaccination days in over a month. could this be a result of the new vaccine mandates? our saturday night panelva is he totu discuss it. also, the 2020 census data is finally here. we will break down the new numbers and see how america is becoming more diverse than ever. and later, batman
government. as if it couldn t get more perfect, now we have another fall of saigon. you are watching television in april of 1975, he will remember it well. the single most humiliating day in the history of the united states abroad. american officials fleeing in terror as an army swept through the capital city. desperate civilians clinging to helicopters as they took off from the roof of the u.s. embassy. it was a complete disaster, total defeat. we spent more than a decade in vietnam and an end, we lost so no matter how you felt about that, it was painful to see it happen and nobody wants to see it again. last month, joe biden promised we never will see it again. watch. some vietnamese veterans see echoes of their experience in this withdrawal of afghanistan, do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in vietnam? none whatsoever, zero. what you have is breaking through the gates of our embassy, six if i m not mistaken. the taliban is not the north
from people there in little haiti? reporter: yeah, there is a population that immigrated here and stayed here in the united states following the 2010 earthquake. there s a population gain of about 100,000 haitian immigrants here over the last ten years. we are in the little haiti district of miami, and i want to let you hear from regine batiste, one of the individuals that was in the heart of port-au-prince back in 2010 in the earthquake that took the lives of anywhere from 200,000 to 300,000. as we see this new video today roll in, it is individuals like her that are now just watching from afar. what i saw left me jaw drop. i said, what in the world can happen again to haiti. then i just found out that haiti was hit again by a mega earthquake, and it melts my heart because i m a survivor from the 2010 earthquake. i know how it feels. i know how it is. reporter: now, joe, we are distinctly talking about a different part of the island that s been impacted here today from
the taliban putting kabul at risk of being next. and inside covid icus, what the youngest victims of the pandemic are saying about their battle with the virus. health officials in the u.s. are racing to expand vaccine protection as a surge in covid cases driven by the delta variant has patients overwhelming hospitals. a source says within 48 hours the food and drug administration is set to approve a third dose. and then they will discuss and vote on the need for additional vaccines. the push is being felt across the country. california s governor says all teachers and school staff must be vaccinated or face weekly testing. the u.s. surgeon general says it is possible a covid vaccine could be available for kids under 12 before the end of the year. listen to this. trials are still under way right now for kids under 12. and my hope is that they will come to a conclusion soon. and that we will get that mix fro applications from the companies to the fda because i can tell you