Good morning to our viewers in the United States and all around the world, im John Berman with brianna keilar. It is friday, august 13th. And overnight, a major announcement from the fda that will have a direct impact on millions of americans. Authorization of a third dose of the Coronavirus Vaccine. So, its not for everyone yet. Just the immunocompromised for now. The ruling comes as hospitals grow increasingly overwhelmed. Nearly 80,000 americans are hospitalized with covid this morning, thats the highest number in six months. Half of all covid patients are in these eight states, even though they account for only a quarter of the Nations population. One of those states, mississippi, is seeing its highest hospitalsization numbers ever. Republican governor is extending a State Of Emergency but says there will be no lockdowns or Mask Mandates. Florida governor Ron Desantis is deploying a rapid Response Team to fight but is still banning Mask Mandates and cracking down on cities and Scho
Deputy Law Enforcement officers deputize House Democrats. Governor Greg Abbott says time for them to get to the capitol and do the job they were elected to do. Anderson hit right. Back at the wall the White Sox win it. [cheers and applause] climbing the mountain just to prove i can if i was the man they wanted me to be. En. Brian White Sox dramatic victory after the yankees came all the way back to tie it and it was the Walkoff Homer thats why they are in first. The bigger story where they were played and the setting it took place. Ainsley look at that whats he saying . Brian i guess its over. 8,000 there pretty exciting. Steve it was so much fun if you were watching the field of Dreams Game Last Night on fox. The coverage started at 6 30 or 6 00. We were watching everything. And, as Darkness Falls it looks like a regular stadium until you zoom in and there is the corn. But the way it started in the beginning just like the movie where Kevin Costner comes out of the corn. Brian do we ha
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And look at where we are. Is this magical or what . Welcome to The Field of dreams. Hey, is this heaven . No. Its iowa. How exciting. It is amazing. The New York yankees, the Chicago White sox. They surrounded by Hollywood Movie stars. Just a move set, field of dreams, they got to do that yesterday. And, of course, my Boston Red sox were playing out The End of the season yesterday. There were three Grounds Crew keepers there. The street preacher. An old Hound Dog. And that was it as we lost another game in miserable fashion. This game Last Night, this was special. I still remember back in 76 watching Mark Fuddridge Pitch on Monday Night baseball. It was one of those moments in the middle of a long Baseball Season where everybody stopped and watched what was going on. It was a magical night. Last night, even though it didnt end up exactly how yankees fans would like it to end up, another magical night for major League Baseball. It was. I was thinking the same thing watching it. There ar
Far better military capabilities than they expected. That means the Capital City of kabul could fall in a matter of weeks. Some fear, believe it or not, even days. This map shows the territory controlled by the taliban in april. Today you can see nearly two thirds of that man is now red. Talking about a stunning advance leading the u. S. To have to deploy an additional 3,000 troops back to kabul temporarily not to assist in any Military Offensive to keep the taliban out of kabul, but simply to help secure the safe withdrawal of the remaining staff from the u. S. Embassy. Our first responsibility has always been protecting the safety and the security of our citizens serving in afghanistan and around the world. As we said all along the increased tempo of the Taliban Military Engagement and the results increase in Violence And Instability across afghanistan is of grave concern. We believe this is the prudent thing to do. Given the rapidly deteriorating situation. We expect another update