President biden will address the Country this afternoon about the end of americas longest war. This photo shows the last american Service Member to leave afghanistan. In all, 123,000 people were taken out of the Country. 123,000 in about two and a half weeks. An unprecedented evacuation mission. He said the u. S. Would stay to get them out. The u. S. Did not stay. There are thousands of afghan allies in the Country still as well. This morning, the taliban is celebrating the u. S. Withdrawal. We have this new video which shows taliban fighters exploring a hangar. Some Military Equipment was removed from afghanistan. Other items disabled. In the meantime, more than A Billion homes and businesses in the southeast, A Million homes and businesses in the southeast are without power this morning after Hurricane Ida, and that could last for weeks. On top of the catastrophic damage, severe flooding and the lack of electricity comes with scorching heat. Temperatures in Louisiana And Mississippi
They will resonate for years. Will the president s next words . Were covering this remarkable moment from every angle with our team of reporters and experts standing by. I want to start with the white house. Jeff zeleny is there. How did the president spend his morning preparing and any insight into what he might say . Reporter we know the President And Vice president spent at least part of the morning with their advisers getting the final briefing on the final day of americas longest War In Afghanistan, getting operational briefings and hearing about the final flights that took off Yesterday Afternoon here in washington time. At midnight in afghanistan. We know the president is going to lay out a series of what led him to this decision. We know this is a decision that President Biden has long wanted to make. It goes back to a trip he took six days before he became Vice President in january of 2009. As a senator as Vice President elect he went to afghanistan on a Fact Finding Mission f
Days. It is not as high as it was in february, but we are clearly seeing a rise. What we are seeing is a rise in hospitalizations, right. We see this is the change in new coronavirus. Hospitalizations, sevenday average. We had been dropping most of the year, now all of a sudden were seeing the rise. That is far more worse. We talk about cases, and thats one thing. Thats symptomatic, asymptomatic. This is people getting sick. More people are get bting sick,o sick they have to be hospitalized. The rate is increasing pretty quickly at this point. What do we know about the age of people getting sick, harry . Right. Look, these are the cases. This is a percentage of all coronavirus cases. This is the big take away, right. Those under 50, they did makeup the clear majority of New Cases back in December Of 2020 at 65 . But now we see them rising to 72 in june of 2021. The idea that its basically this old Person Disease really does not bear itself out in the numbers. Its, in fact, the vast maj
attempting to figure out, to explain, how this might have happened. in the meantime, family members are holding onto hope, and they are desperately waiting for answers. my nephew was here with a wife and three four children. i m just asking god. my mom is an absolutely amazing person. she s a fighter, and she fights for every single one of us. and we won t stop, until we won t stop fighting, until we find her. i want to get, now, to sanjay and cnn correspondent, rosa flores also there at the scene of the building collapse. rosa and sanjay, this is you know, this is heartbreaking to hear from these families. and there are, still, so many questions about what happened here. no doubt, brianna. and rosa s been here since yesterday morning. it is tough, i just have to say, listening to those family members. i can t even imagine if your if you don t know, at this point. and that is the case for 99 people, they re still unaccounted for. i i wonder, do we have any m
new milestone. overseas, no sign of a breakthrough, as american and russian diplomats try to ease tensions along the border between russia and ukraine. here at home, it could be a make-or-break week for voting rights, as president biden is set to lay out the stakes of inaction in new york city. the death toll could rise even further after the city s deadliest fire in decades. 19 dead, including nine children. funeral services will be held for a teenager accidentally shot and killed my a los angeles police officer while shopping with her mother just days before christmas. and the world s number one men s tennis player wins an appeal against australia s decision not to grant him a visa to play in the australian open, but his fight may be far from over. over and we begin with the latest on the pandemic. covid cases in the u.s. have now surpassed 60 million, according to nbc news data. across the country, cities are taking major steps to fight the virus as hospitalizations an