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. I m pamela brown in washington on this saturday. You are in the cnn newsroom. It s great to have you along with us on this busy saturday. We want to begin with breaking news from outer space. The world s 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, physician s 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. Let s go straight to cnn s kristin fisher at cape cana
Defiant defense of the operation denying it could have been handled better, insisting, and i m quoting him now, i don t think it was a failure. This as the taliban is now using gunfire and whips to block potential evacuees from reaching the kabul airport. The pentagon is acknowledging security has rapidly degraded, but america s top general insists nothing indicated the country would collapse in only 11 days. Our correspondents are standing by in afghanistan, here in the united states. First, let s go to chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny over at the white house. First of all, tell us about this new biden interview. What is the president saying? president biden is saying for the first time that he is going to be slightly flexible on that august 31st selfimposed deadline. If all americans are not evacuated from afghanistan. But he was less clear what the time frame would be for the afghan nationals. All of the afghanistan citizens who helped the u. S. Forces over the last
3,000 will be in place. Deaths and devastation after a 7. 2 magnitude earthquake hits haiti. We see new harrowing images, new accounts of dead being pulled from rubble, people being treated in the open air. Haiti s prime minister declaring a state of emergency as the u. S. Geological survey warns of rising casualties and widespread destruction. Hospitals overwhelmed by seriously ill patients as the delta variant tears across the country. The situation is dire, and we are simply out of time. We have zero icu beds left for children. I m pamela brown in washington. You are in the cnn newsroom on this busy saturday. The u. S. Withdrawal from afghanistan is taking a major turn right now. President biden a short time ago announcing he is sending a total of 5,000 troops to afghanistan. That is double the number of u. S. Forces that were there when the president announced the u. S. Exit four months ago. The additional troops are deploying to help get americans out as the country unravels at a
About covid19. In a new cdc internal document researchers describe it this way, that the war has changed because of the delta variant. The document makes clear that the delta variant is proving to be more of a severe threat, more dangerous than most people really have grasped until now. And it said that the delta strain is now as contagious as the chicken pox and likely caused more severe illness than any of the previous covid19 variants. And with more than 612,000 people in the united states dead from this virus now, that is a terrifying statement that it could be worse and more deadly. And more severe. This new cdc information also makes clear that this variant could even be easily passed along from a vaccinated person, which was previously not known. But make no mistake, the surge of new cases a danger posed by the delta variant is driven by people who are still not vaccinated in this country. And you could see where those states are. The country is averaging almost 67,000 new cases
Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world, you are watching cnn newsroom and i m rosemary church. Just ahead, a subway overpass collapses on to a busy street. Cnn is live on the scene in mexico city. India s pandemic plight, even state of the art hospitals in new delhi are desperate for oxygen, unable to keep some patients breathing, but there are signs the u. S. Is winning its war on covid19 as president biden hopes life will be back to some kind of normal within months. The death toll from the mexico city subway disaster has risen to 20 and authorities say some of the victims are children. Nearly 50 people are hospitalized and there s no word yet on what caused this tragedy. Surveillance video shows the moment part of the overpass collapsed on to traffic below. It s only eight seconds long and you can see the train cars come crashing down with bursts of fire and then a huge cloud of dust and debris. This accident happened on the ci