especially because it s your birthday. happy birthday. you missed your kid s concert for you is my present. so we re grateful to have you go home, talk to your kids. have a great day. thanks to all of you for joining us. i m kasie hunt. don t go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now. this morning, the dam hasn t broken, but there are more and more cracks. now. 17 congressional democrats are joining the chorus, calling for president biden to drop out of the race after the president s high stakes news conference aimed at quelling fears about his candidacy. and we now have new exclusive reporting on what president obama and nancy pelosi are now saying about biden s reelection. there s also breaking news this morning of a massive data breach at at&t. text messages and call records for nearly all of their customers may have been leaked in what they re calling an illegal download. we have new details and nearly a million people in texas still do not have power now d
and celebrations in guinea after the military takes over in an apparent coup. good to have you with us. the taliban are now claiming to have taken complete control of the last holdout province in northern afghanistan. the panchia province has been the scene of first fighting but the taliban s claim is being denied by the national resistance front. a spokesman told cnn resistance forces are still in strategic positions across the valley and are continuing to fight. meantime, a vital lifeline for afghanistan has reopened. the kabul airport is now seeing more domestic flights resume, and on sunday aid planes brought in more than 50 tons of medical supplies and food. so let s head straight now to kabul where journalist ben farmer is standing by. he joins us now. so ben, we are getting these mixed reports on where things stand in northern afghanistan. what are you learning about who has control in that region after some fierce fighting there? reporter: just in the last few min
and celebrations take over in an apparent coup in guinea. thanks for joining us. the death toll in louisiana is st still climbing a week after hurricane aid. the latest victim is a 74-year-old man who died from the heat without offering any other details. that brings the tally of storm-related debtaths in louisiana to 13. nearly 600,000 customers are still without power and facing another day of scorching temperatures. here is governor john bel edwards stern warning. heat is a major factor right now. that is especially true in areas without power because you can t go in and cool off with air conditioning, you typically can t get a cold drink of water and that sort of thing. so please take advantage of cooling shelters if you can. run your generators if you have them but do it safely. and make sure that you continue to check on your neighbors especially those who are elderly or have special needs. louisiana residents are also navigating a mine field of other challenges in
guidance about parents wearing masks around their children. good evening. i m erin burnett. tonight the breaking news, resign. president biden telling andrew cuomo of new york a long time friend and ally to step down after an investigation by the state attorney general found cuomo engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment against 11 women violating state and federal law. back in march you said if the investigation confirmed the allegations against governor cuomo he should resign so will you call on him to resign given the investigators said the 11 women were credible? i stand by that statement. are you now calling on him to resign? yes. and if he doesn t resign, do you believe he should be impeached and removed from office? let s take one thing at a time here. i think he should resign. making it clear, i think he should resign says president biden. his call adding major pressure on cuomo tonight. cuomo facing pressure growing calls today from his fellow democrat
maricopa county. trump earned 261 fewer votes. republicans hope that the audit would back up trump s false claims of fraud in the state. but biden was declared the winner in november and taxpayers are still on the hook for $425,000 states that trump actually won, florida and texas. natasha chen joins us from phoenix. the group that ran this, cyber ninjas from florida, expected to detail in a presentation to the senate this afternoon, what should we expect? that s about to happen in a couple hours. they will detail their hand recount shows booids had a larger lead than maricopa canvas, results that trump supporters may not like to hear. and also sewing doubt in this room behind me. you see people lined up prepared to go in. we see a lot of people gathered across the street and in the plaza, signs that say trump won, stop the steal. this is a group that has their heart set on somehow insisting still that trump won, even though the draft report we got last night with a handp