And a scramble to find survivors after the earthquake in haiti. A live report ahead. We do begin with Breaking News on two big stories, the pandemic and the response to the crisis in afghanistan. Lets start with coronavirus. Top Health Officials in the biden administration are expected to recommend that most americans get a Coronavirus Booster shot eight months after being fully vaccinated. For those who got The One Dose Johnson Johnson Vaccine Experts are still gathering data but it is expected that you will also need a booster. An official announcement could come this week and boosters could be started next month. Health care and elderly are first in line. This is coming as new cases and hospitalizations and deaths are surging in the united states because of the delta variant. Especially among the unvaccinated. Lets get to this news and get some context around it. Joining me now cnn chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta. How should people be thinking about these boosters. They are
have been on it may have affected a presidential election. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. it was weeks before the 2020 presidential election. 51 intelligence officials signed that letter. the letter called the laptop by hunter biden russian disinformation. in an exclusive interview, the then campaign advisor says he had nothing to do with it. with regard to that letter, i didn t wasn t my idea, didn t ask for it or solicit it and i think the testimony that the former deputy director of the c.i.a. mike morrell put forward confirms that? do you except it is not russian disinformation? i am not engaging in politics. i have a lot of my agenda. things we just talked about. harris: mike morrell testified blinken was the impetus for the statement. house republicans demanding information on the original letter. who crafted it in total? the deadline for blinken and others thursday for that information. blinken s denial says more ties between him and
harris: fox news alert. we have confirmed the biden administration will send 1,500 active duty u.s. military men and women to the southern border just ahead of title 42 ending next thursday. as you know, title 42 put in place public health restrictions to stem the tide of people coming across during the covid pandemic. president biden now says title 42 isn t needed any longer, the pandemic is over even though he said many months ago the pandemic was already over. politics, you know. border patrol chief ortiz shared staggering numbers from last week. hundreds of pounds of drugs being seized. tens of thousands of illegal aliens apprehended and many who got away. congressman chip roy with this very program yesterday. we have border patrol overwhelmed, ice overwhelmed. cartels empowered.
afghanistan. they won t say whether it s the type that contains highly classified information. security experts say if it is that drone, the u.s. military has lost a lot. the important point to take away here is that the iranians now have a very sensitive piece of american military technology in their hands. i hope that there s a self-destruct button attached to it. after months of bloody crack jouns against protesters, syria now says it will let observers into the country to monitor what is going on but only if the arab league agrees to drop sanctions against syria. the u.n. says more than 4,000 people have died in sirrian protests this year. once again, southern california is bracing for powerful, dangerous santa ana winds. we re talking gusts hitting 60 miles an hour in the mountains. that s happening today. 50 miles an hour in los angeles, ventura counties. what has it been like to deal with santa ana over the past week? cold, number one. scary and going to bed re
that will not be my endorsement. all right. let s bring in our paul steinhauser. so cain won t be supporting obama s re-election campaign. no surprise there. what a surprise. exactly. where do you think he ll throw his support? you know, there s a lot of speculation that maybe he throws his support to newt gingrich, the former house speaker. they are both from georgia. it was interesting on saturday. soon after cain suspended his campaign, gingrich at an event in new york city said some very, very nice things about herman cain. a lot of the candidates would like that support. here is the drama. late last night, gingrich adds a news conference today in new york city at 1:45. there s speculation, will cain be there or not? cain aides and gingrich aides saying no to that one. gingrich s people tell us at 1:45, gingrich will outline his 50-state strategy. a lot of the candidates would like cain s backing. no doubt about that we saw michele bachmann and ron paul yesterda