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our top story now, more than 40 million people across the northeastern united states are under hurricane or tropical storm warnings right now. hurricane henri has been building strength over the atlantic and landfall is expected in the coming hours on either long island or southern new england. we ve got live pictures to show you. this is from columbus circle near central park in new york. mayor bill de blasio declaring a state of emergency ahead of this storm saying in a news conference that heavy wind, rain, and storm surges are expected in the hours ahead. it certainly looks wet there in columbus circle. the mayor is urging everyone to stay indoors if they can. flash flood warnings are in effect for much of the new york city area, including newark and atlantic beach. have a look at what happened a few hours ago in central park. a massive crowd attending the we love new york city concert told to leave, go home. they d been enjoying the show until severe weather move ....
pandemonium outside the airport. there is, but no one s being killed right now. no one s being killed right now. we get 1200 out yesterday, a couple thousand today, in its increasing. we re going to get those people out. we ve seen the pictures, we ve seen the hundred people packed into a c-17. that was four days ago, five days ago. what did you think when you first saw those pictures? i felt we have to gain control of this. we have to move this more quickly. we have to move in a way in which we can take control of that airport. and we did. here s the reality on the ground. new video shows people running for their lives after the taliban opened fire. there is panic in chaos outside the country single evacuation point at the kabul airport. mothers are handing they re children over to soldiers to ge them out. president biden says what is happening was inevitable. it sounds like you think we should have gotten out a long time ago. we should have. and acce ....
situation? reporter: as you mentioned, the haitian prime minister has confirmed that there are deaths, and we re expecting those deaths to be significant and casualties also to be significant. i spoke to people in port-au-prince earlier this morning and the person i spoke to did not report any damage from this earthquake, that he could see, whereas back in 2010, the damage in port-au-prince, the capital of haiti, was catastrophic. this earthquake hit further to the south. so there s at least hope that the human cost will not be as cataclysmic as it was back in 2010. this earthquake comes at a difficult time for haiti. last month the prime minister sorry, the president, the head of state, jovenel moise, was assassinated. foreign powers have selected the acting head of state, the prime minister, a core group led by the united states selected that prime minister. and joe biden has just been informed of the earthquake and he has authorized a humanitarian response to be ....
of 9/11. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m jim acosta, and you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. and we re following breaking news. u.s. troops right now heading to afghanistan as the pent gone expresses deep concern over the taliban s rapid takeover of more territory in key cities. in moments i ll speak to pentagon spokesman john kirby. but first cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward is on the ground in kabul for us tonight. what is the latest intelligence in how quickly kabul may fall? it is very worrying right now. reporter: the situation is definitely highly distressing for people who are living here. it is still calm in the capital of kabul. but the prognosis is not good. nobody expects necessarily for the taliban to imminently enter the city. but the real fear at the moment, jim, is that they could quite easily surround the city. they could isolate the city. we ....
ground. the biden administration scored a victory when a judge denied a motion by a group of lapped landlords to block the cdc s he vision moratorium. a advisory panel advised that people with weakened immune systems ab loud to get a third vaccine dose hours after the fda amended the emergency use authorizations for the pfizer and moderna vaccines to allow that. democrats are putting more pressure on nancy on house speaker nancy pelosi to call a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill instead of waiting to vote on the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill is ready. we ll talk about it with judy gomez. and census data shows that america is becoming more diverse and less white. we ll take a closer look at what that means for the country and for our politics. but we start this hour in afghanistan. a full taliban takeover now seems almost inevitable. two major capitals have fallen to kandahar. you can see the taliban is circling in on kabul, the capital from all sides. t ....