To get his own party on board with his economic agenda. The capitol hill battle growing more heated by the hour. A big step in the fight against coronavirus as the fda fully approves the pfizer vaccine. A stunning new time line by dr. Anthony fauci of when this pandemic will be over, with americans asking this morning, that long, really? and breaking overnight, new york has a new governor, but andrew cuomo has one last message for critics about his record as a governor and as a dog owner. A very good morning to viewers in the united states and around the world. It is tuesday, august 24th, and overnight, the u. S. Reporting major progress in the evacuation efforts in afghanistan. An estimated 4,500 people are now waiting for flights inside of the kabul airport zone which is more than 15,000 less people than when we went on the air yesterday. A source telling cnn the majority of those who are waiting for flights are afghans. Cnn has also learned that special immigrant visa applicants, th
prosecution but disappointment and there was relief for the defense. kyle rit enshtenhouse is a f man. acquitted on all fuf counts. is there anyone that does not agree with the verdict? defense attorney saying the wait for a verdict had been torture torture but clintent is relieve. he wants to get on with his life. he has a hunl ge sense of relie for what the jury did for him today. he wish this never would have happened. but as he said when he received, he did not start this. the prosecutor responding while we re disappointed with the verdict, it must be respected. the family of one of the victims anthony hubert, saying we are heart broken and angry. we love you, hannah. his girlfriend spoke outside the court. we know that this is stum is a failure. yep. i think the question that most of us are feeling right now is what can we do next? the governor has called for calm as a small crowd in ken oecha ckenosha continues to react to the news: a spokesman for
our own catie beck is live in houston, texas, and zack despart, a reporter with the houston chronicle, covering this story from the beginning. zach, astro world, a huge concert, supposedly had a plan for mass casualty events. what broke down? that s a great question, stephanie. at this time, we re not sure about that, because none of the organizers want to talk with us about what went wrong. yesterday, we secured from them the actual operations and safety plans that they had put together. the entire purpose of that is to keep patrons safe. the plan is quite details. 56 pages long. lists what to do in all types of emergencies, including mass casualty events. talks about how to communicate with the public, about emergencies, about evacuations, about what to do if something goes wrong. it s clear they didn t follow some parts of it. it s not clear if they followed any key parts of it at this time. okay, but that s the thing. there s a big difference between a plan and ac
this is cnn breaking news. it s the top of the hour. i m alisyn camerota. thank you so much for joining me. president biden is expected on capitol hill within the hour to try to save his economic agenda. on thursday, the democrats failed to bring that $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal to a vote despite a flurry of negotiations. house speaker nancy pelosi had promised there would be a vote yesterday, but then add midnight, she announced there was a new deadline, which is today. pelosi just held a meeting with her party. some democrats have now been floating a new number on the social safety net package of $2.1 trillion as a counter offer to senator joe manchin s $1.5 trillion top line offer. the leader of the house progressive caucus said she has yet to receive any official proposal and she does not expect resolutions soon. despite that, the head of the house democratic caucus just said this. we re going to vote today. i expect to vote today, and i expect that t
shoo shootings. near a shelter for migrants sunday, and the day before, eight people were killed in a mass shooting at an outlet mall on the other side of the state. investigators are looking at whether the gunman was motivated by far-right extremism. an image of the shooter s body shows him wearing all black tactical gear and he had a patch on his clothing with the letters, rwds, which police believe stands for right wing death squad. he also apparently had a lot of neo-nazi and white supremacist social media posts. we re now hearing from a survivor who hid inside a bathroom closet with 12 other people. the gunshots, just, it sounded like a war zone. if it was horrifying and it felt like you were in a dream. like, just shock, but we were in a bathroom closet. and we were just in the closet trying not to be heard, crying, praying, people were trying to call 911. we couldn t dial out. i just remembered thinking, oh, god, he s coming in here next. and when i was crouching d