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can this is a reasonable question to ask. i wonder how you defend that point. sure, this was raised by a group of doctors in texas, one of the states that is seeing very heavy use of their i.c.u. beds, about the role of the vaccination should play. it shouldn t be ever the only factor, but it should be one factor because we know that if you re unvaccinated, the chance of severe infection and death is higher, that that is one of the ingredients in making triage decisions. but even when they published this idea of maybe considering vaccination status as one of the factors, there was a lot of blowback, including from other doctors and care givers about what it would do to the doctor/patient relationship if you started having asking patients as they come to the hospital to give them your status as a reason to treat them or not. fair enough. i mean, listen, the data is clear. vaccination saves lives, keeps you out of those hospital beds. but the fact is in health car ....
tapper. we start today with our national lead. at any moment president biden is expected to speak after touring storm damage in new york and new jersey. the remnants of hurricane ida killed at least 50 people in the northeast. you see him here earlier today in new jersey. this afternoon president biden pointing to the recent string of extreme weather as a sign that climate change is already here. and also using that opportunity to pitch his massive infrastructure plan as necessary to combat climate change. but as cnn s jeff zeleny reports, a battle is raging inside his own party on how to get it done. reporter: president biden offering hugs and compassion, surveying storm damage today. thank god you re safe. reporter: a week after hurricane ida s deadly wrath struck new jersey and new york. a first-hand look at neighborhoods devastated by floodwaters where residents are still sorting through what s left of their ravaged homes. the losses that we witnessed today ....
shots, that is the focus right now. the white house chief of staff says at this point he doesn t know when americans will get covid-19 booster shots despite an initial announcement last month that a third dose would be available to everyone on september 20th. that would be just two weeks from today. now that is not clear at all. this after top health officials warned that more time is needed to review all of the data. dr. fauci says he s confident that pfizer is still on track for a september 20th booster rollout, but the moderna s may be delayed beyond that. grim picture in the united states as children are returning to the classroom, the cdc says that childrens hospitals across the country are filling with covid cases. community transmission is dangerously high and another troubling development, the seven-day average of new cases of covid per 100,000 people is 300% higher than it was on labor day of last year. we have a lot to get to on this. we ll get there in a m ....
september 1st, bree that that is off. great to have you back. i can t believe i m allowed back. we have breaking news once again this morning. abortions banned in texas. the texas law, which again is in effect as of now, tries up to end roe versus wade in years of supreme court precedent protecting the right to choose and forbidding states from outlawing abortions before fetal liability. the new law bans most abortions after as early as six weeks of pregnancy, which is before most women even know that they re pregnant. yeah, that s why there s such a big concern. this law went into effect after midnight. it allows private citizens to bring civil suits against anyone who assists a pregnant person seeking an abortion in violation of the ban. cnn s laura jarrett joins us now. this is such a huge moment. can you tell what you say this means and what you believe is going to be the future of this and whether or not it s going to get blocked? yeah, this could be the de ....
the big unknown tonight. all right. peter, thank you the taliban quickly declared victory after the last american troops left, celebrating as they took over the kabul airport. here s richard engel reporter: today was victory day for the taliban entering the airport. their fighters inspecting the spoils the u.s. left behind at what was the last american toe-hold in afghanistan. the taliban spokesman saying today the group wants new relations with the west and are even open to foreign investment they looked over the aircraft and weapons u.s. troops abandoned and decommissioned so they can t be used but american forces did not damage the airport itself the united states is relying on the airport to reopen quickly to evacuate american citizens and translators who never made it out in the air lift some of them now in hiding from the taliban and who one day, once they have documents, will have to pass through here to leave the taliban insisting they ll let them go. the ....