To leave kabul, the question is will the U Stits have to extend its deadline to withdraw troops. Plus t New York Times says that the fda is looking to approve the vaccine. And tropical Storm Henri makes landfall triggering Flash Flooding and knocking out power for thousands of americans. The question is what is the full scope of the damage . Its way Too Early for this. Good morning. Its way Too Early. We start with the news. President biden says the u. S. Military is executing a plan to increase access to kabuls main airport. Amid mounting criticism, the president defended the u. S. Troop withdrawal, telling Reporters Yesterday that the exit from afghanistan was always going to be difficult. Let me be clear. The evacuation of thousands of people from kabul is going to be hard and painful No Matter when it started or how it began. Theres no way to justify it. Its just a fact. My Heart Aches for those people you see. Our first priority In Kabul is getting american citizens out of the cou
Dont have one. Your child will wait for another child to die. A message like that coming at the same time as the republican governors in texas, florida and other states try to force schools not to mandate masks for their students. Well have more on that ahead. We start with that Breaking News in the caribbean where officials say at least 29 people have died in haiti after a magnitude 7. 2 earthquake. New video shows homes and churches reduced to rubble. It happened in the Western Peninsula just before 8 30 eastern this morning. Multiple aftershocks have also rocked the region. The quake, which was felt in the capital of portauprince some 100 miles to the east, triggered a Tsunami Threat in the caribbean that was eventually called off. Joining us is nbcs ed ogostin. Ed, i want to start with you. What reporting are you getting right now from Inside Haiti as the government and global organizations begin to search for those missing or impacted . Reporter well, the 2010 earthquake was massi
Petition by Governor Greg Abbott And House Speaker Dave falan overturned an earlier ruling. That ruling had determined that the two officials, both republicans, did not have the authority to order the arrest of their fellow lawmakers. Ted cruz, texas democrats And all democrats across the country say they so desperately need. Senate Majority Leader Chuck schumer promising action next month but without any movement on the filibuster, there is essentially no path for federal voting Rights Legislation. Let me be clear. Republicans refusing to support anything on Voting Rights is not an excuse for democrats to do nothing. Voting rights, Voting Rights will be the first matter of legislative business when the senate returns to session in september. Our democracy demAnds no less. In a tweet texas democrats summed up the situation like this. In the dead of the night, Ted Cruz blocked critical federal voting Rights Legislation in the senate. This morning, texas republicans are hunting down our
According to the paper, is set to announce any minute, i dont think we have that live stream up just yet but well bring it up in a second as it gets going set to announce Vaccine Requirement indoors in the nations biggest city. I believe this would be the first of its kind mandate in this country, similar mandates have been put in place at areas overseas. I wondered just initially hearing this, dr. Ashby, what your take on this is, and what the impact could be. Thats a loaded, loaded question. So let me start with the fact that break it down then. Pick apart where you want to go with that, doc. Lets establish the fact vaccines do work, theyre safe and effective and compared to getting the virus, you want to get the vaccine, and second part of that is that at this point, everyones going to get the coronavirus. Its not going anywhere. Its going to be here for the rest of our lives and we need to learn how to live with this virus and vaccines are a fundamental tool in that mitigation stra
Were not rounding that newspaper. It is 99. 99 . These numbers even as the highly contagious Covid19 Delta Variant spreads across the country, a new wave in the pandemic is to be clear being fueled by those who remain unvaccinated. New eyeopening data from the cdc making that clear. If you dont get your vaccine, the chances of being severely sick and hospitalized are high. Those red areas concentrated in states with low Vaccination Rates to this point. Joining me now is elizabeth cohen. So again, we always try to do this particularly when we are together on the air. You have some good indicators here for those who are vaccinated, and very trouble some ones for not just people who remain unvaccinated but areas with low Vaccination Rates. Tell us what the data shows. I think that people were not talking so much and we need to talk about more, the most unfortunate people here are the immunocompromised people in the high transmission states. You did get vaccinated. They did what they were