It has been more than a year and a half into a pandemic that has killed over 4. 5 million people and returned all of our lives upside down. The world scientists are still hunting for answers. This startsed in wuhan at th market. The first hypothesis is it came from a bat. With 75 of all emerging diseases caused by a jump from animals into humans, there were warning signs. Every few years there is a new Spillover Event with a new disease that humans have no im t immunity to. Its a probability this originated from animals as well but the possibility also remains that the virus leaked from a lab. The wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. The disease is the same name as the lab. Its a laboratory at the Heart Of The City where the outbreak occurred thats undertaking some risky work. Laboratory accidents happen much more often than we know. The biological window to learn what happened Thanks Window might be closing. , Happe Window might be closing. Twindo closing. Hwindow might be closing
We were wrong. The family of a young man who is a Person Of Interest in his missing girlfriend is missing himself. All i want is for her to come home Safe And Sound and for this to be a big misunderstanding. Im Pamela Brown in washington on this saturday. You are in the cnn newsroom. Its great to have you along with us on this busy saturday. We want to begin with Breaking News from outer space. The worlds first allcivilian Space Flight is making its way home right now, as we speak, splashdown for the Inspiration 4 mission is about an hour away. These are not the kinds of resumes you would normally see for a space crew. A Community College teacher, physicians assistant, Aerospace Employee who won his seat in a raffle, and a Billionaire Ceo who put up his own money to make all of this happen with the help of spacex. All of them are or biorbiting T Earth after blasting off Wednesday Night without a professional astronaut on board. Lets go straight to Cnns Kristin Fisher at cape canaveral,
Encouraging it and the stunning silence of the republican leaders as this is all happening, treating it as if it is a walk in the park. It is very painful to see. Not just silence but outright Defense And Dismissal of the threat. Whitney wild is outside of the fencing, surrounding it. Law enforcement making sure it is more prepared this time around. So what steps are they taking and what are they expecting . Reporter well what theyre expecting is potentially hundreds of beam to descend into washington as the Event Organizer for the nonviolent people who are charged in the January 6 insurrection. It is a little bit noisy out here because theyre doing Lastminute Tweaking that surrounds the u. S. Capitol grounds, somewhat of a familiar site here in washington following this January 6 insurrection. They are prepared for potential Violence Today as well as tomorrow and the concern, jim, is that people might be potentially promoting violence in furtherance of this stolen Election Lie and fur
Welcome to the lead, everyone, im jake tapper. We begin with our World Lead. President biden bracing for the possibility of another Terrorist Attack after 13 u. S. Service members and more than 170 afghans were killed by a Suicide Bomber outside Kabuls Airport yesterday. 11 marines, one sailor, and one soldier were among the Service Members killed. The military is beginning to pack up whats called the Retrograde Process where not just Service Members but their equipment are shipping out. Still, the Evacuation Mission is continuing. In the past 24 hours, nearly 13,000 people were evacuated by the u. S. And allies. More than 300 of them, American Citizens. In the past 13 days, the u. S. Has evacuated a total of 105,000 people. Today, the pentagon said nearly 7,000 afghan refugees have arrived in the u. S. , and are undergoing processing. This afternoon, the White House reiterated its commitment to evacuating every american by President Bidens deadline of August 31st. But sources involved
Ingrained in the minds of millions of the afghans left behind. Cleaning to u. S. Military aircraft, desperately trying to flee the taliban. I am very upset today. I didnt expect it overnight. They took off my flag. This is my flag and they put their flag. Shannon live images out of afghanistan this morning, Tuesday Morning there is the world watches and waits to see what will happen next. We have got the latest on where the situation stands right now plus accusations that President Biden is playing the Blame Game instead of trying to solve the current crisis. Our panel Foreign Policy Experts is standing by live to weigh in. Plus the debate raging over Vaccine Mandates and passports. The question many americans whove recovered from covid are asking if they already have natural immunity, then why should they comply with the mandate in order to do things like go to a restaurant or the gym . We will talk with One Immunologist who earned a medical exemption for his son on these very grounds