Many miss. Vice president Kamala Harris is on a Dip Matic Offensive in Southeast Asia in an effort to deepen ties with allies and counter chinas influence. Good to have you with us. Amid scenes of cay chose at Kabuls Airport, Joe Biden said the deadline to pull all u. S. Troops from afghanistan may be postponed and it depends on Progress Evaluating Americans and afghans who helped the war effort. The airport remains the epicenter of a desperate attempt by thousands to flee the taliban. On sunday, mr. Biden said a number of changes have been made to ease evacuations. Theres little sign that the number of people waiting to get out is decreasing. Increase the ability to get them out. We have changed the gate operations and the whole range of things. Thats why weve been able to significantly increase the number of people were getting out. Has the taliban agreed to weve discussed a lot with the taliban. Theyve been cooperative in extending some of the perimeter. It remains to be seen whethe
About 20,000 people remain at the chaotic kabul airport. More people keep coming. The evacuations of thousands of people from kabul is going to be hard and painful No Matter when it started, when we began. Theres no way to evacuate this many people without Pain And Loss and heartbreaking images you see on television. Its just a fact. U. S. Defense officials tell cnn the military is establishing alternative groups to kabul because of the threat posed by a selfproclaimed Isis Affiliate called isisk. The threat is real. Its acute. ItS Persistence. Its something that we are focussed on with every tool in our arsenal. Were working hard with our Intention Community to try to isolate and determine where an attack might come from. Were placing Pair Month Priority on stopping or disrupting and well do everything we can for as long as were on the ground to keep that from happening. But were taking it absolutely deadly seriously. Our international Security Editor Nick Paton Walsh joining us live
Tennis Phenom Cocoa Goff now out of the games after Testing Positive for covid19. Two athletes in tokyos olympic Village Testing positive now. In all, at least 58 cases of coronavirus have been found among athletes, officials, and contractors there. The number of olympic participants falls, the number of cases in japan is climbing fast. A big spike shows no signs of slowing ahead of fridays opening ceremony. Cnns Blake Essig is live in tokyo, japan. What are officials saying this morning . Reporter well, you know, laura and julia, with a few days to go before the start of the olympics, its fair to say things are not exactly going smoothly. As you mentioned, so far 58 people involved with the games have tested positive for covid19 after arriving in japan. Theres also a growing list of athletes and olympicrelated personnel who have been forced into isolation after being considered close contacts with people who tested positive. Despite that, olympic officials maintain they will be able t
Olympics. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is early start. Im wendy in for christine romains. Great to have you in person. Im laura jarret. We have reports this morning from istanbul, washington, portland, tokyo, sydney, and the middle of the atlantic ocean. We start this morning in Surf Side, florida with troubling new information suggesting residents of that condo that collapsed last week in florida were told their building was, quote, in very good shape. Npr obtained the minutes with the 2018 meeting where assurances were made by the Surf Side town inspector. Cnn learned two days earlier, the same official received an Engineering Report Warning of, quote, major Structure Damage to the tower. This morning the senicommunis trying to keep hope alive for the families of at least 152 people still missing in draft Condo Collapse. Nine people are new confirmed dead. The cause of the collapse is unknown. The difficult task of searching through the rubbl
Government calls the first free election. Good to have you with us. The biden administration is pushing the president s goal of at least partially vaccinating 70 percent of the adult population by july 4th. So far only 16 states and the District Of Columbia have made that objective. While the u. S. Will likely miss that goal, former Fda Commissioner Dr. Scott gottlieb said it wont have a major impact. Instead the u. S. Should start thinking about the next phase of the vaccination effort. Now we need to think about trying to push out the vaccine into Community Sites where people can get it delivered to them through a trusted intermediary. Doctors offices, schools, places of employment. We need to think about the different Vaccine Strategy to get the people reluctant or face challenges getting to the access sites. As people contemplate going to work and school in the fall, they will be seeking out the vaccines. We need to think about the 2. 0 strategy. Lets take moment to compare Chinas