Fashion. Elder s campaign website now features a link to this site here that urges residents to sign a petition, quote, demanding a special session of the california legislature to investigate the twisted results of the recall the problem, there are no results yet, and there are no problems as of yet for sure. Trump treading familiar territory releasing a statement pushing baseless claims about a rigged election that, yes, hasn t even happened. Familiar or not, you can t brush it off. 59% of republicans they support for the lies about the last election are important to being republican. It s the price of admission. You can t brush it off because this saturday here in washington there s a rally planned at the capitol in support of the rioters who stormed the capitol on january 6th. A source tells cnn law enforcement is preparing for forces to be armed, new security fencing set to go up. Police arrested a man who had a bayonet, and machete, had a swastika and other symbols painted on it.
We re so grateful to have you with us on this sunday. It is august 29. Thank you for keeping us company here. Hi, phil. Hey, christi. Alrighty. So let s talk about hurricane hunters right now. They are doing hourly updates at this point as hurricane ida zeros in on communities on the gulf coast. Ida is already a powerful category 4 storm and it s still gaining strength. Now, it will make landfall today bringing as much as 20 inches of rain to some areas with the potential for destructive storm surge and strong winds. Now, yesterday bumper tobumpe traffic stretched for miles as people left their homes for safety. Now, a strike today would fall exactly 16 years after hurrican katrina ripped through the arena. It s a coincidence not lost on many who decided to leave their homes. Katrina, hey, i had to stand in the water and slept on a bridge for two days. Fema trucks and generators are in the area as well. Take a look there. The national guard has also been deployed. Earlier this morning
Pledging blanket amnesty for all in afghanistan while vowing that no death will be caused to anyone outside of afghanistan by the taliban and that there will be no violence against women. Already we re seeing some violations of that. In turn, the taliban is calling on the international community to respect its core values. Of course, that is a tough sell considering the scenes what we have been seeing outside of the kabul airport. We do want to warn you, this these are disturbing images, but this is what is going on. A photo journal ist for the los angeles times capturing wounded pictures of wounded afghans after taliban fighters used lethal weapons for crowd control. Photographer marcus llam telling cnn s anderson cooper that this violence was indiscriminate and one taliban fighter fired his weapon into the crowd while smiling at another taliban fighter as if it were a game. Let s go live to kabul and to cnn s chief international correspondent clarissa ward. I think what we re startin
Vaccinated against covid19 have not had a breakthrough case resulting in hospitalization or death. If you give the virus a chance to continue to change, you re leading to a vulnerability that we might get a worse variant and then that will impact not only the unvaccinated, that will impact the vaccinated because that variant could evade the protection of the vaccine. The daily u. S. Case count is now the highest it has been in six months. Hospitalizations are doubled what they were two weeks ago and vaccination rates are not keeping up with the spread of this virus. All of this as schools across the nation reopen and are prepared to welcome back our kids and that is raising a lot of fears and questions as well. Are they safe? in florida, one in five kids tested is infected. Natasha is in orlando. You ve been seeing some really long lines for people trying to get tested today. Right, ana. And it can be for many reasons we re told from the health staff that some employers might be asking
And if there s one place that needs extra attention right now, it s florida. Over the last week, more than 134,000 people there tested positive for covid. To put this into perspective, the u. S. Was seeing sevenday averages close to this in late may and early june, so a single state is now seeing as many cases per week as the entire country was just two short months ago, and yet florida governor ron desantis is facing a countrysized case count, he is playing politics despite the fact florida leads the country in the number of children hospitalized for covid19. He is banning mask mandates is schools and refusing to put in place mitigation measures really anywhere in the state. Let s go to orlando, florida, and natasha chen. Natasha, give us the latest here on florida s covid situation. It is just going downhill quickly. Reporter: yeah, jim. The health officials are doing everything they can. We re at the mexican consulate in downtown orlando where they vaccinated about 20 people today.