Taliban. President biden now rushing some 3,000 troops to the capital to help evacuate u. S. Embassy personnel, and all of this coming just weeks before the u. S. Was set to complete its withdrawal from the country. Targeted to coincide, of course, with the 20th Anniversary of 9 11. We will have much more on that in a moment. We are following the developments on the ground. First, though, this other News Breaking overnight. The fda authorizing a third Covid19 Shot for people with compromised Immune Systems. The cdcs advisory committee will meet in just a few hours to discuss those additional shots. This as Hospital Systems across the country are being pushed to their limits again. More than 2,500 Covid Patients admitted every single day for the past week. In tennessee, one doctor saying simply, quote, no beds. There are no beds. We want to begin this morning with cnns chief medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay gupta. Sanjay, as were looking at this, lets start with the news from the fda au
The taliban is defeating Afghan Security Forces at an alarming rate. Taking control of large swaths of the country. So far 17 provincial capitals, including kandahar with strategic and symbolic importance now fallen to the taliban. The pentagon is sending 3,000 u. S. Troops to help evacuate and as fears grow the taliban could soon seize the afghanistan capital. It is unraveling faster than President Biden and many of his national security advisers anticipated. In fact, this is just over a month ago. Listen to the president. The jury is still out. But the likelihood there is going to be the taliban over running everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. We have every angle of this Breaking Story covered. Lets begin with Nick Paton Walsh on the the latest in afghanistan. Nick, as the united states prepares to leave that country, thousands of american troops are headed back in. Theyre going to help with a really complicated and poten potentially dangerous process of evacu
Be the superintendents and the School Boards. The real constitutional question here is does the governor have the authority to withhold their salaries and essentially tell them what to do, or as the local Home Rule in the state of florida, 67 counties the governor has been hammering over and over again that if children are going to be masked that decision will only be made by the parents. It will not be made by the government. This is what the governor here, Republican Ron Desantis had to say yet again on this issue. Its a parents decision. If you believe in the masking during the school, youre free to do it. No one is saying you cant do it. But if youre somebody that is concerned about that, that thinks that may not be the right thing for your child, then i think you should have the right to make that ultimate decision. I dont think government should override that. I was in naples yesterday. Thats Collier County. First day of school, the kids are all excited showing up to school and i
As the middle of this month. Right. Please keep fingers crossed. The New York times says that the fda is aiming for the beginning of september. An Fda Official tells cnn theyre moving as fast as they can. Really the differences here are just a matter of weeks. The difference that full approval could make is it could make some unvaccinated people say, oh, i may be antsy about getting a vaccine with only emergency authorization, i want it to have full approval. It could make other employers and businesses say now i feel comfortable requiring people to have the vaccine. Lets take a listen to dr. Fauci. I think there are a certain proportion of people who are just waiting for that full approval, even though the data are overwhelming right now that these vaccines are highly effective and are safe. The other thing, its going to allow independent local enterprises, universities, colleges, businesses, who will feel much more comfortable when they say im going to mandate that, if you want to co
He worries about the coming School Year, specifically in state with lower vaccinate rates. Here is what he said to us just last hour. In the northeast, we have all the adults and adolescents vaccinated. The kids will probably do well this School Year. Down here in the south, in houston, the School Year will begin in a few weeks. We start early. What that means is weve got so few addlesadd he addless sent a young adults vaccinated, what makes people think this will go well. Well have an enormous amount of transmission. Well see a lot of young people and even adolescents and kids get sick. Theres his prediction. Nick watt joins us now. The Delta Variant is infiectiou its impacting some people fully vaccinated. Reporter the headline sounds scary. More than 800 people, 20 were fully vaccinated people. They are breakthrough infections. The majority of them though were asymptommatic or very mild symptoms. Very few were admitted to the hospital. Very, very few deaths among this group. The hea