We closed in on a go time. On saturday. A Veteran Reporter from the Los Angeles time was there at the scene. To witness the Peoples Streaming in. To witness the huge crowds converging. Ready to make themselves heard. That reporter, Doug Melbourne from the l. A. Times, was able to capture the scenes. As we closed into that noon hour. He captured the scene this way, at 11 33 am anne yes that was. It. And this isnt just a shot that was taken in the wrong direction. Or a shot that was taken of the sidelines. If you look where were reporting out there, thats the big screen. That is the stage. Thats the center of the main event. Less than a half hour before the whole thing was supposed to kick off. Worries everybody . Now, to be fair, this was 11 33 am. Things did fill out a little bit by the time noon actually rolled around. But, not by that much. This was as biggest the whole thing ever got on saturday. This was around 1 pm. About an hour into it. When there is a big march, a rally, in was
Witness the huge crowds converging, ready to make themselves heard. That reporter from the l. A. Times was able to capture the scene as we closed in on that noon witching hour. He captured the scene this way at 11 33 a. M. Yeah. That was it. And this isnt just like a shot that was taken in the wrong direction or a shot taken of the sidelines. See what were pointing out there . Thats the big screen, and thats the stage. Thats the center of the main event less than a half hour before the whole thing was supposed to kick off. Where is everybody . Now, to be fair, this was 11 33 a. M. Things did fill out a little bit by the time noon actually rolled around. But not by that much. This was as big as the whole thing ever got on saturday. This was around 1 00 p. M. About an hour into it. When there is a big March Or Rally in washington, a big gathering, sometimes News Outlets will use like, you know, Crowd Size experts or aerial views of the crowd or do a bunch of complicated math to try to ap
Even if theyre bad. Ive prayed daily for something. Researchers say Booster Shots of the Covid Vaccine may be needed, after a study suggests waning protection we have a Special Report from the Seaside Town of rhyl, where Poverty Levels are among the worst in wales. And Dame Sarah Storey wins the first british gold at the paralympics in tokyo, the 15th gold of her career. And Coming Up In Sportsday later in the hour on the Bbc News channel, its been a brilliant day for englands cricketers, Bowling India out forjust 78 runs in the third test at headingley. Good evening. The government has promised to use every hour left to help as many people as possible escape from afghanistan before american troops withdraw at The End of the month, with nearly 90,000 people now having left the country in total. Latest figures released by the Ministry Of Defence show that more than 10,000 people have been airlifted out of kabul by Uk Forces since august the 13th. Of that number, more than 6,300 are afgh
So i was trying to think if Theres Anything perhaps worse then our pullout from afghanistan. At first, saigon pops into your head. But compared to this that now looks like a rockets dress rehearsal. I did in fact find something worse than the afghanistan cut and run. Its the president s defense of it. Still a lot of pandemonium outside the airport. But look, nobody is going to be killed right now. Correct me if im wrong about that, but nobody is being killed right now. A couple thousand a day, its increasing. We are going to get those people out. But weve all seen the pictures, weve seen the hundreds of people packed into a c17. Weve seen afghans falling that was four days ago, five days ago. Greg what does that even mean . It was two days prior, not four. Of course, i blame that racist math. Who doesnt lose track of time when you are in hiding . And as for No One is being killed right now, if joe sets the bar any lower i will be able to drink it. So its time once again for. Great job
Well. Cnn cnns Dianne Gallagher is there for us right now. First, whats the latest on this flight and both meanings of the word to d. C. And what texas lawmakers hope to accomplish . Well, anderson, the first of those two private planes thats carrying the democrats, who are breaking quorum by leaving the state just landed about two minutes ago. And the second one should be landing, before i finish talking to you, tonight. They are on those flights because they feel the only way that they can prevent legislation that, they think, will restrict Voting Rights and be harmful to their citizens is to break quorum because they told me that they simply dont think that the republicans are playing fair. There are two, separate bills that were introduced in the special session. Thats h. B. 3 and s. B. 1 and both do contain a whole slew of restrictions to the voting processes. And and different kinds of criminal penalties added to the voting process. Specifically, for election officials. Now, the