approval for younger kids can t come soon enough. for elementary school aged kids, pfizer tested a much lower vaccine dose. a third of the amount that s in shots for teens and adults. but doctors say that low dose in kids produced the same strong levels of antibodies with fewer side effects. pfizer says it plans to seek u.s. authorization by the end of the month. and once it does, the data will have to be examined by the fda and the cdc. and the timing appears to be in line with what dr. fauci said, his prediction of shots by late fall or early winter. so the company wanted to find a dose that would be very tolerable in the young kids while still providing adequate efficacy, efficacy on par with what we were seeing in older populations. hopefully this dose strikes that balance. fda will have to make the careful review. assuming that the fda s review takes from four to six weeks, which is what they ve signaled, a vaccine for children could be available as soon as the end of
be peaceful, dhs issuing a stark warning there could in fact be violence. also in washington, ohio republican congressman anthony gonzales, one of ten republicans that voted to impeach trump announcing he will not run for re-election in 2022. a possible sign of the hold that trump has on the party. in south carolina, murder mystery we have been following, alec murdaugh has turned himself in in connection with staging his own suicide with the death of his wife and son being investigated. and the search for missing gabby petito who disappeared after a cross country road trip with a fiance. new body cam footage could offer a clue into her disappearance. we have reporters all over the country covering the big stories of the day. i want to start with a crucial day in the fight against covid-19. the fda is holding a meeting as we speak, critical one, on booster shots as mixed signals are flying all over the place whether people should be getting them. in florida, the state su
now, we don t know who the soldiers are or who is doing the shooting here but we do know this is apparently happening multiple times a day outside the airport. you see children in the area as well. president biden says as many as 65,000 afghan allies and families are still stuck in the country, along with up to 15,000 americans. the big problem, of course, is while the u.s. controls kabul airport, the taliban controls all the roads leading into the area, leading to scenes like this with crowds gathered just beyond the walls. on wednesday, defense secretary lloyd austin said there are no plans to use american soldiers to open a path to the airport. that left many afghans at the mercy of taliban fighters that control the roads, beating and whipping people trying to get in. some cases, people managed to access the airport by climbing walls. you can see american soldiers helping a woman over the top, onto the airport grounds. as for evacuations themselves, the u.s. says it is run
prevented the pilots from being able to take off. just moments ago, we confirmed from three u.s. officials that officials are going to start at the airport on the military side. meanwhile. they are bracing for the group of taliban rule by removing images of women from store fronts like this beauty salon. the white house says we ll hear from them soon. that s where we start this very busy hour. richard engle is on the ground in kabul. mike memoli is near camp david. we re also joined by doug olivant. he is also a retired army lieutenant colenel in afghanistan. good to have all of you here on a very important day. richard we have to start with you on the ground. the situation still very much unfolding. what are you seeing right at this moment? so courtney just confirmed that the flights out of kabul are supposed to resume soon. we are very close to that airport. i have been watching it for the last several days. we have not seen those flights resume at the moment. but the ope
another 1,000 troops on the way bringing the total to 7,000 troops to aid in the nail-biting escape that president biden himself dismissed just a month ago. is the taliban takeover of afghanistan now inevitable? no. it is not. why? because you have the afghan troops that have 300,000 well equipped as well equipped as any army in the world, and an air force against something like 75,000 taliban. it is not inevitable. mr. president, some vietnamese veterans see the echos of their withdrawal in afghanistan and do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in vietnam with some people feeling none whatsoever. zero. you see entire brigades breaking through the gates of the embassy and six if i am not mistaken, and the taliban is not the north vietnamese army, and they are not remotely comparable in terms of capability, and there is no circumstance to see people lift lifted off of the roof of afghanistan and it is not at all comparable. and we ha