and of course the goal is to get as many back in the classroom while keeping the covid cases town. delta variant is still dominating and we know that there are vastly different rules governing school districts. so that is why health experts health experts to exceed the goal stick to the science. what re seeing is a mixed bag of mask adherence, some requiring masks, others not, others making laws against, and others only making it mandatory for the unvacci unvaccinated. one thing is for sure this fall, the school year will be anything but normal for students yet again, which gets me to the next thing we ll be looking for the in the coming months when kids under 12 will be able to get the vaccine. it s obviously taking longer than parents sending their young children back to school feel good about as we see the delta variant is finding the unvaccinated. trial data is still being gathered. once that s done, it will be submitted to the fda. pfizer thinks it will be able to hand i
to get his own party on board with his economic agenda. the capitol hill battle growing more heated by the hour. a big step in the fight against coronavirus as the fda fully approves the pfizer vaccine. a stunning new time line by dr. anthony fauci of when this pandemic will be over, with americans asking this morning, that long, really? and breaking overnight, new york has a new governor, but andrew cuomo has one last message for critics about his record as a governor and as a dog owner. a very good morning to viewers in the united states and around the world. it is tuesday, august 24th, and overnight, the u.s. reporting major progress in the evacuation efforts in afghanistan. an estimated 4,500 people are now waiting for flights inside of the kabul airport zone which is more than 15,000 less people than when we went on the air yesterday. a source telling cnn the majority of those who are waiting for flights are afghans. cnn has also learned that special immigrant visa
evacuations in the last 24 hours. officials say 21,000 people were air lifted from the kabul airport via u.s. military and coalition flights. 21,000. that s the highest evacuation numbers in a 24-hour period to date, all without a single u.s. casualty. and an estimated 4,500 people are waiting inside the airport for evacuation flights at this time another 9,000 are believed to be at the gates surrounding the airport. a source tells cnn, afghans with special immigrant visas are now being allowed on to the airport grounds. we re still a week out from the august 31st deadline. today is decision day for president biden on whether to extend the evacuation mission at the kabul airport beyond that day, beyond next tuesday, and the pentagon says it needs enough time to start withdrawing 6,000 u.s. troops almost, along with all of their equipment. extending the deadline will no doubt be at the top of the agenda, when the president meets virtually this morning with g7 leaders who are
is t this is a huge expansion of that. the timing is worthy of note, the news coming out in the midst of the days on in afghanistan. nevertheless health care workers and nursing home residents are expected to be the first to receive their booster shots followed by seniors who were at the front of the line when vaccinations first became available. there is newly release the data from israel and it shows a drop in protection over time as the u.s. fights at this point here its own surge of the delta variant of the administration s plan could be announced this week. it would depend on the fda and cdc authorizing those additional shots. still some steps to go here. let s get the latest from dr. kris parnell, a public health physician. we were expecting this. we thought it would come in september. we thought it would come next month. what do you make of this announcement? i think the administration is trying to get ahead of public perception and to influence human behavior in t
after she pulled out of all the other individual events from the olympics, suffering from what is known as the twisties, losing herself in the air during these performances. now, the greatest female gymnast in history turning in this solid performance in tokyo to wrap up a gut wrenching games on a high note. coy wire is standing by live in tokyo with the details. i watched it, coy, no sign of the twisties there. no, you know, here she was, she s even said that she felt like, brianna, she had the weight of the world on her shoulders at times. i was there in the venue behind me, and you could see there was a camera in her face everywhere she went, magnifying the moment. the crowd, and i will say crowd because there were more media at this event than any other that i had been to here in tokyo, including other gymnastics events. there were cheers from media from all around the world, wanting to support simone biles in this. her other team usa athletes were there as well, hold