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we must all band together for the sake of humanity itself. today many of the concerns cannot be solved or even addressed through the force of arms. bombs and bullets cannot defend against covid-19 or its future variants. to fight this pandemic we need a collective act of science and political will. ending this pandemic, addressing the climate crisis, managing the shifts in global power dynamics, shaping the roles of the world on vital issues like trade, cyber, and emerging technologies, and facing the threat of terrorism as it stands today. where we apply and strengthen the core tenets of the international system, including the charter and declaration of human rights as we seek to shape the emergence of new technologies and deter new threats. or will we allow those universal principles to be trampled and twisted in the pursuit of naked political power? simply put, we stand in inflection point in history. an inflection point and also a threatening point in the u.s., ....
the destructive storm crashing on shore as a category four. one of the strongest hurricanes to make landfall in the state of louisiana. on the same day as the 16th anniversary of hurricane katrina. the storm so powerful, it reversed flow of the mississippi river. hears what we know. one person is dead. louisiana state health says a 60-year-old man died outside baton rouge after a tree fell on his home. more than a million homes and businesses are still without power across the state and that includes all of the city of new orleans. we are hearing reports of catastrophic damage. 911 experiencing technical difficulties in certain areas, reports of people still trapped. president biden foegsly approving emergency declarations for louisiana and mississippi. we have a team of expert reporters safely across the region now. i want to start with jay gray in new orleans. what is the scene like there this morning? reporter: finally a little bit of sunshine after what has been t ....
helicopters have rescued 169 americans from a hotel outside the airport in kabul. this comes hours after president biden claimed americans were not having issues getting through the taliban blockade. we have no indication that they haven t been able to get in kabul through the airport. we have made an agreement with the taliban thus far. shannon: other parts of the biden administration have conceded that does not line up with the reality for some on the ground, as the white house admits it is unsure how many americans are in need of evacuation from afghanistan, and the pentagon corrects the commander in chief on his claims that al qaeda is gone, and the u.s. will be able to monitor the terror threat to americans from afar. look, let s put this thing in perspective here. what interest do we have in afghanistan at this point, with al qaeda gone? al qaeda is a presence, as well as isis, in afghanistan. and we have talked about that for quite some time. we do not ....
we should not be looking at that right now given the kristol juanita tolliver fact that we have hardly acts knee. highly effective vaccines that are. safe tonight, florida s republican governor was asked about the case surge in his state. some politicians say, i am going to eliminate the virus, doctor ebony jade hill doctor i will defeat could be the it. patel unfortunately, government coveted patel cannot just ended. ebony jade so we knew this is hilton something that doctor anthony jade you re going hilton to have to live kavita patel with. something something you ve enough to live. with there was some progress reported today by the white house, the nation has passed an important new milestone, 50% of all americans have fully vaccinated and another major corporation has joined those issuing vaccine mandates. american airlines are requiring their employees to be vaccinated by this fall. it s the first major airline to take this step. amazon says all workers in ....
is investigating voting in irregularities. so un georgia should call special session, nick wink wink, nudge nudge, and send all of your electors to washington. so since george is run by republicans, they would be trump electors. that would be a violation of georgia state law, that would be a violation of the will of the, people trump lost the election, it would put the election process into chaos. thankfully, rosen, refused to sign. at the letter was never sent. not for lack of trying though. because the new york times reported that jeffrey clark cooked up a plot with donald trump. madam in person, for trump to fire rosen so that jeffrey park could take his role and send a letter. and it was just won the senior justice of we learned something after the show last night, they weren t as targeting georgia. it turns out that this guy jeff, was writing or drafting these types of letters with all the six states that ended up going for joe biden, and i think that, you know ....