Poppy harlow. On this new day, Breaking News from afghanistan. U. S. Forces pulling out of Bagram Airbase, as americas longest war nears its end. Donald trumps Namesake Business facing a sweeping indictment on tax crimes. Are more charges coming . A new report showing muchneeded repairs were stalled at the surfside condo, just months before it collapsed. And as the nation celebrates the Fourth Of July weekend, will the Rapidlyspreading Coronavirus Variant derail your plans . All right. Welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. It is friday, july 2nd. And breaking overnight, a giant step toward ending americas longest war. The last u. S. Troops at Bagram Airbase in afghanistan have now departed. Handing control of the sprawling compound, which was really once the epicenter of u. S. Power there, to afghan security forces. This comes, as the full withdrawal from the country is nearly complete. And a major concern, of course, is what is the united states leaving
Alleged tax crimes. Sources tell cnn that charges are expected to be unsealed just in a few hours from now and weisselberg is set to be arraigned later today at a Lower Manhattan courthouse. A attorney for President Trump said he is not expected to be charged. Lets go to Kara Scannell outside of the White House. What do we know and what happened today . Reporter good morning, poppy and jim. Allen weisselberg did surrender to the Manhattan District attorneys office. Later this afternoon he and the Trump Organization will be arraigned on the charges. That is when we expect the indictment will be unsealed and well know the details and the breadth of the charges and how much money the company and Allen Weisselberg is alleged to have apparently not paid taxes on. But were waiting for those details. Now we just got a statement in from Allen Weisselbergs attorneys saying mr. Weisselberg intends to pleads not guilty and will fight these charges in court. We also got a statement from the Trump
Stand by as we wait for updates. We have boris sanchez. And perhaps we could put up the video that you obtained that of water pouring into the garage moments before the collapse of the building. Tell us as were watching this now, boris, how soon before the collapse did this take place . Just minutes, jim. Minutes before the collapse took place. So this video comes from a pair of tourists that were visiting and they were staying at a hotel next door to the Champlain Towers south. And the wife, ariana, said she heard a loud sound and alerted her husband when they were outside on the Pool Deck and ran into The Street and captured this video. And you see in the garage, there is running water, pouring into the garage. There is debris there as well. They say that moments later they watched lights up and down the Building Turn on as residents were clearly woken up by the loud sound that adrianna heard and many ran to their balconies and tried to wave them down. She told her husband that she t
Shot in broad daylight in Times Square. How men hunt under way for that suspect as police are flooding the area with more cops but Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasiocortez says reports of rising crime are being exaggerated. We see these headlines about percentage increases and i want to say any amount of harm is unacceptable and too much, but i want to make sure that this hysteria, this doesnt drive hysteria and that you look at these numbers in context so that we can make responsible decisions. When we were in congress last year trying to pass a Rescue Plan not the Rescue Plan, but an Emergency Relief Plan for cities that were cashstrapped and laying off police and firefighters, it has republicans that objected to it. So republicans are very good at staying on talking points of who says defund the police come up with truth is, they defunded the police. Dana greg, Alexandria Ocasiocortez says doesnt want this to become a big problem. To make one thing i like about her issues as predictabl
Down. Also on The Hill, honoring this hearing from Merick Garland, youre about to see it. His first time testifying as Attorney General. We are juggling a couple things this morning. Chris jansing in philadelphia, tell me what youre hearing from officials about what we can expect today . First, i think it is notable that were continuing to see the president give weekly dresses on the state of the u. S. Fight. There is a value in giving the updates to the value. Were seeing cities and towns put more open signs, so many families are looking at the closes, the White House is acknowledging theyre at a different moment now, they need to do more hands on work. They need to meet people where they are in order to keep the Vaccination Rates where they are. It is heard immunity. The fda potentially set to greenlight Pfizers Bid to give the vaccinations to children in adolescents. A lot of talk about getting students back into classrooms. Some are looking at requiring vaccines for that to happen.