Be up for months on end again, but it is going up as of tonight because of a saturday event, an event planned for this weekend in which trump supporters are saying theyre going to converge on the Capitol Led by a former Trump Campaign Official and their convergence on the capitol this weekend is explicitly organized around them celebrating the January 6th attack and denouncing the arrests and prosecution of the people who participated in it. So as of right now we are watching these images as the fence gets moved into place and put back up around the capitol. If you know the geography of the capitol, the fenced in area will be between Independence And Constitution avenues and first street in the west and first street in the east. The u. S. Capitol police are saying this new round of fencing will come down, hopefully, very quickly after any threat poised by saturdays events has passed. Lets hope so. Well see. Nbc news reports that online discussion among trump supporters about this Weeke
Good morning to viewers here in the u. S. And around the world. It is monday, august 16th. We are beginning with our special live coverage of the fall of afghanistan, nearly two decades after 9/11. Moments ago the u. S. Temporarily suspended all air operations at the airport in kabul. We re seeing can haotic scenes e this. This is part of the reason for the suspension, desperate afghans chasing down u. S. Planes that are leaving the tarmac, some clinging to the fuselage as the airplane taxied. The taliban is now in charge as it seized control of the capital without hardly a shot fired yesterday. Insurgents overran key provincial capitals in the span of the last week. Embassy officials have warned americans still in the city not to travel to the airport because it is unsafe. But as of now, it is the only way out. We heard from a white house official, there s no way to get those folks to the airport. The pentagon is rushing 1,000 more combat troops to secure the perimeter to get american
requirements. also, more restrictions on mail-in voting. it also limits who can pick up and return a ballot. and remember, this is all in response to a lie, the idea that the presidential election was stolen from republicans, thousands of illegal votes cast, some massive fraud. a conspiracy theory that s been widely debunked for months. cnn s sara murray is in washington with details. sara, the florida bill, which is now law, already facing legal challenges. what can you tell us? reporter: that s right, it is already facing at least two legal challenges, and they target a number of the provisions that you just laid out there. i mean, one of the legal challenges goes up against these limits on voter drop boxes. another one goes up against this provision that actually prohibits organizations and volunteers from returning ballots on a person s behalf. and there s another lawsuit that says essentially this is voter suppression and this is designed to target black voters, lati
hear from one young woman who agrees it s toxic. and we begin in the united states with a search for the missing fiancee of gabby petito has expanded in a nature reserve in florida. it s been nine days since brian laundrie s family says they last saw him. according to his parents, laundrie said he was headed to a swampy 25,000 acre reserve in the town of venice. police have brought in specialized divers trained to recover evidence in low visibility bodies of water. meanwhile, a vigil was held for gabby petito in salt lake city on wednesday. petito s remains were discovered in wyoming over the weekend. a coroner has ruled her death a homicide. petito had been on a cross-country road trip with laundrie when she disappeared. cnn s randi kaye follows the route they may have taken on their way to a remote camping area in wyoming. reporter: so, this may have been how gabby petito and her fiancee brian laundrie drove their van to enter the spread creek dispersed camping area.
dozens of miles in the middle of winter. i want to bring in first kristin powers, a reporter with wjla in washington. you have been kind of in the middle of this as you re getting reports of people being stranded. what s happening right now? yeah, kate, i was stuck in it since about 2:00 a.m. at this point though, there s some people who have been stuck on i-95 for 21 hours and counting. so right now, i actually was just able to i call it escape, vdot was saying they re letting people off the nearest exit closest to them and that was true. i got off of woodbridge. i ll turn the camera around and you can see. i see people who got off, including a lot of truck drivers, they re now lining those side roads, you know, trying to find a different route. but i also saw a truck getting gas. i saw a lot of gas canisters on the side of trucks there. so that s what s happening here, but back on i-95, i just checked in with a colleague who is closer to stafford. stafford is the area w