And if you are still at home hanging out with your family, they say now is the worst time to leave. Between 2 00 p. M. Ea and 8 00 tonight. Let me tell you. Nobody is going to find an empty middle seat next to any ea of them on those planes, thats for sure. Hank you, adrian. A historian who accurately predicted nine of the last 10 elections has some thoughts about President Bidens election. What he htis saying whether bid should stay in the race, coming up in just a few minutes. A day to All Of You from Msnbc World news headquarters. Welcome to Alex Witt report. We begin with Breaking News the decision 2024 with President Biden arriving just a short while ago in harrisburg, pennsylvania, for a campaign event. He is in that Battleground State just eight days before the Republican National Convention kicks off in milwaukee. And 43 days before the 43 Democratic National Convention in chicago. President Joe Biden taking the fight to stay in the race to the Battleground State under mounting
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America and our cameras were rolling at Dulles Airport as the evacuees arrived escaping the chaos and the taliban takeover. Everything worked out. Everybody got home safely, that is our primary concern. They are not the only ones out of afghanistan. We have new information just coming in to us within the last five minutes on where president ghani, the now former it appears afghan leader is as we speak. Right now as many as 15,000 americans are still in afghanistan. The pentagon hoping toic. Up the pace of evacuations and multiple sources telling Nbc News the cia warned something like what were seeing now could be the worst Case Scenario. Well have the new reporting you will only see here and reaction from the White House, where President Biden is set to announce new guidance recommending most americans get a covid booster. Top docs standing by how that goes down and what you need to know. Im Hallie Jackson in washington with you along with our Nbc News team. Courtney kube at the pentag
We are prepared, we have the tools. We can do this. Thats the next step. The president also announced requirements of vaccination and urging businesses and employers to step up and require this for employees. Thats that tension between the government not being able to make that call in the united states, you Cant Mandate that as an executive action. He wants more employers to lead the way. The Administration Push reflects how america right now face this Cross Roads with the Covid Delta Variant surging. The year 2020 is something many people do not want to relive in america with lockdowns and covid deaths driving a natural cultural conversation, was just about getting to 2021. 2020 i dont know about anybody else but i think i am kind of done, can we get to 2021 remember that . Can we get to 2021 . That energy of getting past 2020 was a reference of how Tough Covid was at the time of no Cure And Novak seens. Daily Covid Cases were peaking as 2020 turned 2021. You can see there far left o
Recovery mission. There is still work that needs to be done. Theres more than 80 people accounted for, and officials and first responders making it very clear this is a 24 7 operation until each and every one of those individuals can be reunited with their families to provide some sense of closure. I had a chance to speak to captain ignatius carroll, who said every day that went by took a toll on his men. I want you to hear what he had to say. Its been very heavy on everyone thats here. Theres nobody been a dry eye out on the search operations since we started any time we found a person, with he would stop, give a moment of silence. There would be a line created by the searchandrescue personnel as they bring that person off that pile. Reporter now the Death Toll is more than 50 people whose lives were lost in the fall of the Champlain Towers south. We expect that number to rise, because machinery has been able to excavate the process, do deeper inside the pile of rubble. Were just minu