Allcivilian crew splashing down to crew. The details on their return after three days in orbit. Welcome to sunday, september 19th. We are always so grateful to have your company. Good morning, boris. Good morning, christi. Always grateful to be with you. We begin this morning with a battle against covid and the continuing debate over booster shots. An fda panel recommended boosters for the pfizer vaccine for 65 and older and those at high risk of severe illness but not for everyone who originally got the pfizer vaccine as the white house had initially planned. The most pressing concern is the wave of unvaccinated people filling up hospitals right now. That s leading to tough decisions about rationing care. Cnn s nadya lamero looks at the latest numbers of covid cases in key hot spots and what they tell us about what s happening right now. Reporter: florida, alabama, a bigtime college football showdown in the heart of sec country but bigtime covid19 country. Florida reported fewer than
At a local hospital after ejecting from the plane before the crash, and at least three other people on the ground suffered injuries and retreated at the scene. We heard from officials who said miraculously that no of the residents of the three homes that were impacted were actually injured. Images from the scene of the crash showing parts of the military jet and some of the damage to the structures. Our office, our communications center received a call at 10:53 this morning in reference to a downed military aircraft between the 4,000 block of tejas and damage at all. Our police units responded and initial units report that had one pilot had ejected and was caught in some power lines and another pilot had ejected and was found in the neighborhood nearby. Cnn s camila burnal is covering this for us. What more do we know? reporter: hey, fred, so let s sort of recap. We know that this was a military training mission. It s unclear exactly what this mission was, but it ended up in a crash, b
Threatening to hang mike pence as lawmakers and the vice president ran to safety. Capitol police outnumbered and targeted. Now the scene quite different. Barriers and fencing around the capitol and hundreds of officers in position should demonstrations grow violent. We have a team of correspondents covering every angle of this. Let s begin with shimon prokupecz and security on the ground. Reporter: fred, i wanted to come inside the rally area and show you what s going on here. These are the people gathered. I would say there s more media here at this point than some of the rally goers and then i want to show you other situations. What s going on, a lot of people are gathering, going towards cameras and spouting whatever it is that they re saying. Then you have the security. That s the big thing here, right, the security. The police behind us here, something may be going on, i see police moving. What s happening is some of the protesters, rally goers are out here, and there are counter
But it was too late. That missile killed ten innocent people. The pentagon initially said an isisk suspect was in the car and carrying explosives but yesterday defense officials admitted there was no terrorist threat and the strike actually killed an afghan aide worker bringing water home for his family. Also killed two other adults and seven children. Let s get to cnn senior national correspondent alex marquardt with me here in washington. What do we know about the cia warning and the sequence of events here? this story just gets worse and worse. This was already a story about how the intelligence had failed by tracking this person who they thought was an isis member, and clearly isn t. Now, this is a story also about bad communication. The cia knew that there were civilians in the area. Children in the area near this car. And gave this warning. But it was too late. This coming seconds before that heldfire missile was dropped from that drone, and tore through ahmadi s car, killing him
Knew the military intended to pull the trilgger. It raises all sorts of questions about how an order like this is carried out. But what it really does highlight the fact the u. S. Was frantically trying to rout out isis attackers who they believed were going to carry out an imminent attack. The pentagon emphasized all of this is against the backdrop of a dynamic situation in which they were frantically trying to find isis members who wanted to carry out an attack. Remember this was a few days after that attack that left 170 afghans and service members dead. One of the 60 pieces of intelligence that general mckenzie said yesterday at the pentagon they had was that a white toyota corolla would be involved in the next attack. Mr. Ahmadi, an aid worker, that s the car he drove, and he drove it from an area that they believed was associated with isis past his office where they loaded what intelligence officials believed were explosives into the car. Turned out to be water. And then he went