We have brand new video just in that shows gunfire at the Kabul Airport. Were monitoring the situation and keep you updated throughout the morning. These dramatic videos appearing to show afghans desperate to flee the Country Jamming the tarmac, hoping to fill any seats on remaining planes out of the country. Cnn cannot independently verify these images, but the u. S. Embassy is warning americans this morning do not travel to Kabuls Airport due to the security situation. This as stunning video shows heavily armed Taliban Fighters in the abandoned president ial palace hours after former Afghanistans President fled the country, Panic Setting in. U. S. Military helicopters scrambling to evacuate diplomats an personnel from the american embassy in kabul, Embassy Staff Racing to destroy sensitive documents. The american flag no longer flying overhead. French embassy officials as well leaving their posts, forced to relocate. At home here, President Biden was briefed at Camp David over the we
How does that make sense . We were just told get vaccinated, lose the mask. We were just told businesses to rehire their staff and get back to work. And they did. And we went to their workplace. Enough to that vaccines are open to everywhere and Information Expertise are everywhere, why does it matter how many covid cases we have in this country now that we have a choice in how to handle our personal health including vaccines, distances, mask, why do we need the President Of The United States and facebook to shut us down and shut down our lives once again . And for those of you who think its just a california problem, you are wrong. Its now a Las Vegas problem and soon every liberal city will soon follow suit. We have seen this movie. Lets get this straight. 97 of Covid Hospitalizations are unvaccinated People Who, by the way, made their own choice not to be vaccinated. And if you need a reason to get vaccinated, i guess you just got one. But, since when do we count on the President Of
Peace and a Peace Agreement that will end this senseless violence. I will not send another generation of americans to War In Afghanistan with no reasonable expectation. Laterer, the president will sit down with civil rights leaders at the White House. Well talk with a member of the meeting. And two weeks after a Highrise Condo collapsed in florida, the Death Toll stands at 60. The Search And Rescue effort has now become a recovery mission. Were going to talk with the Towns Mayor about what comes next for his community. And haitis national Police Chief says four people us is suspected of killing the president have been killed and six others arrested amid more fears of chaos. Were going to talk to the former haitian Prime Minister. We begin this hour at the president s speech at the White House. The president making the case as to why the united states is withdrawing from afghanistan. And joining us now, Nbc News white House Correspondent Monica Alba And Nbc news chief foreign correspond
Get their covid19 shots, practically begging as the dangerous Delta Variant sweeps the nation. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. Im Wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. All of that coming in, but lets begin with the Breaking News. The new forecast just out, just out from the national Hurricane Center for elsa. Our meteorologist, Tom Sater is tracking The Storm for us. Tom, elsa is on the verge, i understand, of reaching, what, Hurricane Strength . Thats correct, Wolf. 5 00 p. M. Advisory from the national Hurricane Center gives a sustained winds at 70 miles per hour. Category 1 hurricane is at 74. Even though we know the environment is not conducive to rapid development, its not going to take much. Were mostly likely going to have elsa as a hurricane this evening. To give you an idea of how rare it is in the month of july to have a Hurricane Make Landfall on the Gulf Coast of florida, The Last One w
Not giving up. They are still trying to find survivors at this hour. We expect another update at the bottom of the hour. We will go there live when it happens. President biden says he will visit the site thursday with the first lady. Correspondent Steve Harrigan starts us off live tonight with the latest from surfside, florida. Good evening, steve. Good evening, bret. We have just gotten in some new pictures of Rescue Workers on that Rubble Pile where No One has been pulled out alive since last thursday. The initial shock of a disaster is captured on Scanner Traffic of the first first responders to arrive who compare the scene to 9 11. I see many people on the balcony. The building is gone. There is nothing. It almost resembles the trade center. 200 plus rescue Workers Search in shifts around the clock as frustration grows with the taste of recovery and the lack of an explanation for why the building fell. There is a possibility for secondary collapsing which puts a lot of restrictions