With about 30 americans as well as other passengers became the first international flight to take off from kabul since the withdraw from afghanistan was completed ten days ago. Now as the senate arms services committee says, it will hold a hearing on the withdraw process later this month featuring testimony from three of the nation s top military leaders. Elsewhere on capitol hill, several house committees are putting together their portion of the $3. 5 trillion reconciliation bill focusing on other priorities, education, childcare and fighting climate change. We re going to talk about that process and what comes next later this hour with michigan democratic congressman dan kildee. We begin with that imminent announcement from the justice department regarding the texas abortion law. Joining me now, nbc news correspondent julia anzly, also joining me is civil rights attorney. Great to have both of you with us. Julie, excuse me, let me begin with you. What more can you tell us about this
Soar, but put a pin in the headlines for a moment, because right in the same area this weekend, some 27,000 monster truck fans are expected to pack into a raucous arena, and how many are vaccinated and how many will wear masks? we don t know. And with back to school there very close, the florida governor has signed an executive order to pull funding from those schools requiring masks. And this is not meant to single is out florida, but it is the type of the two america s mentality that we are seeing across the country, and especially in the south and the midwest where there are lower vaccination rates. Yes, cases are going to go up before they come back down. This pandemic of the unvaccinated. I know that i have said it constantly and others have as well, the vaccinate of the unvaccinated. Today, 50% of all age groups are fully vaccinate and over 70% of u. S. Adults have at least one dose, and the vaccination rates are higher than a month, but there are 90 million people eligible for t
Hello and welcome to our look at what the papers are bringing us today. With me are david wooding, political editor of sun on sunday and miatta fahnbulleh, chief executive of the new economics foundation and former labour adviser. Today s front pages starting with. The observer has been hearing from bosses within the uk food industry, who say government measures to prevent staff from isolating have been so badly mishandled, they ve made the crisis worse. The sunday people focuses on the transport industry which is also suffering the adverse effects of the pingdemic. It says a shortage of staff at heathrow meant travellers were queueing for hours. According to the mail on sunday, the health secretary, sajid javid, has been accused of frightening borisjohnson into making his decision to move france into the amber plus travel category. The sunday times reports that private schools have been accused of taking advantage of covid disruption to a levels and playing the system by lobbying top
Lifted in england on monday. The people seeking a gentler life in the country after the pandemic, driving up waiting lists for rural homes. And america s colin morikawa heads the leaderboard, on the second day of the open, in kent. And coming up on the bbc news channel. Max verstappen sets the pace in practise on day one of the british grand prix as thousands of fans back are back at silvestone. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. More than 100 people have died across europe in severe flooding, the worst in several decades, and many hundreds are also missing. In germany, emergency crews are searching for dozens who are unaccounted for, with the chancellor, angela merkel, describing the floods as a catastrophe. Torrential rain has also devastated parts of belgium, the netherlands and luxembourg. Swollen rivers, including the rhine, the meuse and the ahr, have swept through towns and villages, destroying homes leaving many stranded. In erftstadt in germany, whole houses have
and another stain on rudy giuliani s legacy. the former-mayor, turned trump lawyer, has his new york law license suspended for pushing election lies. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. all right. you are looking at live pictures coming in from surf side, florida, right now. awful situation that has unfolded. our correspondent, randi kaye, is son thon the scene for us. randi, local officials just a few moments audio, they gave us an update on the condo collapse. what is the latest? update our viewers. some good news and some bad news, wolf. they are telling us now, that 102 people have been accounted for. which is very good news for some families. but they are still saying 99 people remain unaccounted for. so those families, certainly, on edge at this hour. but i should emphasize this is, still, a very active search-and-rescue operation. they are searching