The united states is back up over 1 Million vaccine doses administered per day. Weve been below A Million doses per day for the last seven weeks or so, but now apparently the message is sinking in enough that the pace of vaccination is picking back up. Americans are deciding to get the shot. Over A Million doses administered in the past 24 hours. Thats true for the first time in nearly seven weeks. I think in general the Covid News is dire enough to change minds in many southern states in particular right now. Were going to be talking about new covid developments throughout the country, but in particular an Alarm Bell that was just rung by the University Of Alabama. Im not sure how that State Or Anybody is supposed to respond to it. Weve got that story ahead tonight. Well also be talking about the utterly bizarre but also totally predictable story out of Washington Today in which a man in a Pickup Truck pulled up onto the sidewalk in front of the Library Of Congress, thus startinges an
Good Morning And Welcome to Way Too Early, the show thats really hoping we dont have to pull out our umbrella this weekend. Im Alicia Menendez on this friday, august 20th. Well start with the news. Facing intense criticism over the exit from afghanistan, President Biden will deliver remarks on the Evacuation Efforts. As of Yesterday Afternoon the u. S. Had evacuated thousands of americans since saturday when the government began to collapse. Nbc News Correspondent Kelly Odonnell has the latest. Reporter u. S. Officials say another 6,000 people made it safely to the Kabul Airport awaiting evacuation. Pressed repeatedly, officials at the departments of State And Defense could not say how many americans still need to be rescued. I dont know with that level of detail. Were just not in a position to give a number right now. Reporter in an interview with abc, the president defended the Evacuation Mission despite chaos near the airport. Well, There S but, look. No ones being killed right now.
Point we dont know the exact death toll. This video just into cnn shows some of the damage on the island there, buildings collapsed into rubble, streets covered in debris. The Prime Minister is headed to some of the hardesthit areas now. This could be a massive test for the new leader that took office after the shocking assassination of the president last month. Joining us, patrick ottman, an and allison chinchar. What are you hearing about the impact of the outbreak . Reporter as each hour passes by, we see new harrowing images, new accounts of dead pulled from rubble, seeing images of people being treated in the open air because theres still aftershocks and many buildings collapsed in the earthquake. The Prime Minister said not only is he going to be traveling to the effected zone, the hardesthit areas of the Peninsula Southwest of portauprince, he is calling on the government to put all of the haitian government resources into treating the wounded and recovering the dead. Haiti is g
Republicans like liz cheney, Adam Kinzinger and do come out and talk about it. Unfortunately he said theyre attacked when they do. Brian todd, cnn, washington. Hello again, everyone. Thank you So much for joining me, i am fredricka whitfield. Following Breaking News out of haiti where authorities are responding to a major earthquake this morning. Officials say there could be significant casualties, serious damage. The haitian Prime Minister sending condolences to those that lost Loved Ones in the 7. 2 Magnitude Quake. At this point, we dont know how many people may have been killed. This video showing the extent of the damage in Some areas, buildings reduced to rubble. The Disaster Couldnt come at a worse time. They had the assassination of the president last month and storms in the region. Patrick oppmann and alliSon chinchar. Patrick, what are you hearing about the impact . Reporter any numbers we get at this moment are preliminary. Officials havent been able to go into effected area
And it would be, at this point not in our best interest to talk about it. About four months ago, we talked about this, you said essentially it is up to the victim to come forward before we take action of any sort. Is there any indication why this is the timing now, now that four or five months after the initial report she decides to take action . I really Cant Answer that. What i can say it is obvious that the Attorney General released her report. I think maybe at that point she became aware of how brave the other victims are to come forward and it may have empowered her as well. Do you have any estimate of now how long the investigation like this will be in weeks . You know what, i would be guessing. You know, this is obviously a high profile investigation. Theres a lot of information out there. We have a lot of factfinding to do, a lot of interviews to do, and you know what, im not going to rush it because of who he is and not going to delay it because of who he is. Were going to con