Good morning and welcome to way too early. The show that speaks french with an australian accent. I m joe. Whether a third dose of the vaccine is safe or even necessary for everyone. Some experts believe there is no need despite a push from pfizer and moderna. Miguel almaguer has the latest. Reporter: just hours before the advisory committee will vote on the boosters voicing support and opposition over a third dose of pfizer s vaccine with a stage set for a controversial decision, pfizer says their data shows booster shots are needed six months after the second dose as protection from infection begins to wane. But its vaccine is hoyly effective in preventing hospitalization and serious illness. Its most critical function. This debate over boosters, is that a road of public confidence in vaccines? it s normal for scientists to not necessarily have consensus around a specific issue. The problem is, we re in a very toxic environment now because of all the aggression coming from antivaccin
Administration under fire fo ignoring questions. The secretary of state walking away from reporters after a briefing on the withdrawal. The hurricane is now a tropical depression of leaving behind a trail of this direction along the gulf coast. More lying down in the new orleans could leave people without power for a few weeks. We are taking a hard look at he report that they offered after securing the airport. We are monitoring tonight layin out the path forward. Good evening and we are goin to learn a lot more tomorrow about survival thinking. Again most americans do not disagree with leaving afghanistan. It s the way it was executed. Especially when leaving behind millions of dollars of equipment. It says nothing of an unknown number of people still desperat to make their way home. Speaking of this i like to offe this a brief reminder he told george when he was asked if us forces would remain as long as it took to get americans out of afghanistan? are you committed to making sure th
Taliban leaders. The most significant meeting between the demonstration in th taliban since it took control o afghanistan nearly two weeks ago. Thousands of afghans at this hour are flooding the kabul airport in a desperate plea to leave the country. The humanitarian crisis, in the chaos unfolding there angry in our u. S. Who met today with biden mutually for a g7 conference. General jack all standing by with first the white house correspondent with a very lates from 1600 pennsylvania. Good afternoon to you, guys. We have learned that president biden will keep the august 31st withdrawal deadline according t u. S. Officials who spoke with our lucas thomason at the pentagon. For that to happen, they say that the military withdrawal will have to begin by this friday in order to meet that deadline just one week from today. Making it pretty unclear who will protect the last americans who are making their way out al the way up until that deadline as well as afghan refugees able to get on pla
this storm heading straight for rhode island, parts of the eyewall already on shore and we re seeing the storm move to shore as we speak. more than 1500 people under tropical weather alerts right now concerned about storm surge in the harbors and the bays of rhode island, new york and massachusetts. concerns about flooding in the coming hours and widespread power outages because we re talking about a part of the united states not used to seeing tropical weather barrelling into shore. storm surge as well. we re going live in a moment to derek van dam who is in newport, rhode island who can give us a sense of what s happening on the coast. but first let s go to allison chinchar for the latest on the track. allison, any updates from the national hurricane center? we ve got several, in fact. we re learning it is moving very, very close to shore. landfall is expected imminently here. what we re also seeing is that little bit of downpush in wind. the winds are at 60 miles an hour