Im kim blrunhuber. Were following Breaking News out of afghanistan where taliban fighters have claimed two of their biggest prizes yet, the countrys second largest City Kandahar and the capital of Helmand Province Lashkar gah. Cnn cant confirm this and you had then discity, but taliban fighters claim that they seized hundreds of weapons, vehicles and ammunition. Afghan forces appear to either surrender or flee. So the taliban now control 14 provincial capitals, harat, the third largest city fell on thursday. Meanwhile the u. S. Is deploying 3,000 additional troops to kabul to help evacuate american citizens. Lets bring in Nick Paton Walsh who is live in london. Nick, it is stunning since you and i spoke yesterday by my calculation four more provincial capitals have fallen, but the latest two Lashkar Gah, two huge prizes for the taliban. Speak to the significance of the lot of these cities. Reporter yeah, Kandahar Birth Place of the taliban under intense pressure over a matter of weeks
Todd Vice President Kamala Harris wanting over Texas Democrats, now being compared to Freedom Fighters. Their tactics are costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Lauren blanchard joining us live with more. The Vice President of Planning Experts comparing them to civil rights leaders like frederick douglass, the Selma Marchers and suffragettes but republicans say a cushy Trip Dc Isnt exactly the same as what Freedom Fighters have gone through. They took bold, courageous action in line with everybody from frederick douglass. Last i checked the heroic civil rights protesters were not in a private charter jet, didnt have a case of Miller Light next to them. Reporter the group of Texas Democrats will meet with moderate senator Joe Manchin to push him unending the filibuster the democrats can pass bills with Littleton A republican support like sweeping Election Reform, the 50 plus democrat lawmakers, to stop of Voting Bill that they call voter suppression. Nothing was going to happen so wh
Cuba. Also Chuck Grassley, Jesse Waters is here, and retired fourstar general. Democratic lawmakers escalating their fight against Gop Voting laws with President Biden coming under fire for his claims that the laws are 21st century Jim Crow assault. This is america reports, happy wednesday. Im Sandra Smith in New York and i will raise your with a butter pecan. President biden meanwhile saying yesterday republican Led Voting Reforms in places like Texas Aim to make it harder for americans to vote. He also urged congress to take action on federal legislation to combat those efforts. This as texas democrats receive a warm welcome in the nations capital. The democrats fleeing their state in an effort to block a gop that backed Voting Law and now a texas republicans are tHreatening to put the defecting democrats in handcuffs. We start off the day with our senior correspondent Casey Siegel who is life for us in the capital of austin. Good to see you. For the second day in a row, about an hou
on them. that is what this running battle within the party to pass two big spending bills is really about. senator bernie sanders is going to join me in just a moment to talk about those priorities, as well as if and how democrats will be able to cut through the legislative and procedural weeds that they, themselves, cultivated in order to deliver on them. house progressives progressives, as you know, won t vote for a bipartisan roads and bridges bill, until they get an idea of what senate moderates want in a social-spending bill. moderates won t say what they want. apparently, until after a vote on the roads and bridges bill. tonight s breaking news, following house speaker pelosi and senate majority leader schumer s visit with the president this afternoon only adds to the pressure. speaker pelosi saying tomorrow s vote on the roads and bridges bill is still on. is there any chance the bill tomorrow? the plan is to bring the bill to the floor. are you worried tha
health advisory tonight for pregnant women, after they say 22 pregnant women died of covid last month. and covid vaccine mandates now kicking in. workers now losing jobs. united airlines firing more than 500 employees kwr not getting vaccinated, saying it s for the safety of their passengers and the company moving forward. the explosion and partial building collapse in dallas. several firefighters injured. three in critical condition. and neighbors now say they smelled gas last night. america s top generaling grilled in the house and what the chairman of the joint chiefs general mark milley warned today about the terror threat inside afghanistan, saying a possible resurgence of al qaeda or isis could happen as early as six months from now. martha raddatz standing by. overseas tonight and new images of that lava floe on the canary islands now reaching the ocean. and now the new concern, the mix of super-heated lava and ocean water. authorities tonight releasing disturb