reporters, now. welcome to inside politics sunday i m kaitlan collins in today for abby. we start with breaking news out of afghanistan. taliban representatives are inside the presidential palace in kabul negotiating a peaceful surrender of the capital according to the taliban spokesman. the group s fighters are on stand by on the edge of the city. meanwhile, 5,000 u.s. troops are in or on the way to kabul to assist in a complete evacuation of the u.s. embassy. cnn s chief international correspondent is in kabul. what is going on given the conflicting reports we re hearing? is the afghan government still standing? reporter: well, define still standing, kaitlan. technically speaking i guess they are but the fact that you now have eight or nine according to our source taliban representatives from the doha contingency in the presidential palace hammering out a deal to come up with a sort of interim government if you will, some kind of peaceful power sharing agreement, tells
in america s justice system. this is american voices. we begin this hour with the rise of the delta variant across america as students head back to school. resistance continues across the u.s. against the the two known weapons we have against covid, masks and vaccines. the biden administration just reported a positive milestone, nearly 1 million new vaccinations today alone. after nearly 1 million shots went into arms on friday. that is the biggest two-day total we have seen in a month. but despite that progress, doctors in texas fear this new surge will linger. hospitals there report record number of covid patients, and hospitals are struggling with a shortage of nurses. florida health care workers are also stretched thin. new reporting from the tampa bay times says florida hospitals are, quote, filled with more coronavirus cases than at any point during the pandemic. after 17 most of his fighting the ravages of covid-19, the end is no longer in sight for doctors and n
the u.s. against the the two known weapons we have against covid, masks and vaccines. the biden administration just reported a positive milestone, nearly 1 million new vaccinations today alone. after nearly 1 million shots went into arms on friday. that is the biggest two-day total we have seen in a month. but despite that progress, doctors in texas fear this new surge will linger. hospitals there report number of covid patients and the state is struggling with a shortage of nurses. florida health care workers are also stretched thin. new reporting from the tampa bay times says florida hospitals are, quote, filled with more coronavirus cases than at any point during the pandemic. after 17 most of his fighting the ravages of covid-19, the end is no longer in sight for doctors and nurses who say they re risking their mental health and burnout dealing with this fourth pandemic wave. despite doctors and nurses working tirelessly to save lives, republican leaders across the sout
point we don t 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 hardest-hit 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 there s 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 hardest-hit areas of the peninsula southwest of port-au-prince, he is calling on the government to put all of the haitian government resources into treating the wounded and recovering th
for the love of community. for the love of progress. citi. good evening again. chris is off in this hour of the delta variant sending kids to the hospital. we ll talk about the facts tonight as well as the political voices trying to shout over the evidence. there s breaking news as well. israel tomorrow lowering the age for a third dose of a covid-19 vaccine to 50. a possible vote tomorrow on third doses for millions of immunocompromised americans. earlier tonight i spoke to dr. anthony fauci and asked him what would prompt you as authorities to do what israel just did. we in this country are collecting data from multicohorts, both domestic and international. the domestic cohorts are being followed on a daily and weekly basis by the cdc. we re going to have to give boosters, so what we re doing, right now the decision is we don t need to do it right now. it s not imminent. but we re preparing as if it will be imminent. so we re going to be ready to do it whenever the da