All happening at the same time, the fallout from afghanistan which gets rougher by the day it seems and the fallout from all the flooding and damage that now has claimed close to 60 lives. Questions about how it happened and how we could have known better. First to the fallout half a world away because it continues and growing continues and so what if anything can the united states do about it? let s go to david spunt with the president in wilmington, delaware, david. David, hi, neil it s been almost a week that people want today get out as safely as they can. It s been almost a week since u. S. Forces completely withdraw. There are still many people including americans that are in afghanistan that want to get out. The united states said to be in contact with members of the taliban to exit at some point. Secretary of state antony blinken says that not getting into specifics about some of those discussions with taliban leaders. We do know that president biden is getting updates while he
If i was going to have to sleep in my car with my friend. Like, it was really insane. Yeah. Really sad because so many people, like, you know, everything s destroyed now. Yeah. Listen, we want you to be safe and we thank you um very much for joining us. S she is at a hotel in clifton, new jersey. Her home is bloomfield. She cannot get home. But man, oh man, it s going to be a while. And they will probably be stuck there. It is the top of the hour. It is just past midnight here in the northeast. And that s where several state of emergencies have been declared. The governor of new jersey declaring state of emergency. The mayor of yo new york city declaring a state of emergency. And towns and cities all over the northeast, states of emergency. We just had the governor of new york on the phone, kathy hochul, just moments ago saying they are looking at a possible statement of emergency here, in the state of new york. Um, but they have to meet certain parameters so we will see if she declare
Soar, but put a pin in the headlines for a moment, because right in the same area this weekend, some 27,000 monster truck fans are expected to pack into a raucous arena, and how many are vaccinated and how many will wear masks? we don t know. And with back to school there very close, the florida governor has signed an executive order to pull funding from those schools requiring masks. And this is not meant to single is out florida, but it is the type of the two america s mentality that we are seeing across the country, and especially in the south and the midwest where there are lower vaccination rates. Yes, cases are going to go up before they come back down. This pandemic of the unvaccinated. I know that i have said it constantly and others have as well, the vaccinate of the unvaccinated. Today, 50% of all age groups are fully vaccinate and over 70% of u. S. Adults have at least one dose, and the vaccination rates are higher than a month, but there are 90 million people eligible for t
I m kim brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. We begin with a short flight to space but a big leap for tycoons who want to turn the great beyond into a tourist destination. In less than four hours, billionaire richard branson is set to take off in a space plane built by his company virgin galactic. Well, if he succeeds, he will be the first businessman to do so in a spacecraft, whose development he funded. A short time ago, he tweeted this mission statement for his upcoming flight. My mission statement is to turn the dream of space travel into a reality. For my grandchildren, for your grandchildren, for everyone. So, how does branson feel before potentially making history? well, he opened up to cnn s rachel crane. Reporter: the countdown is on, and in just hours, entrepreneur richard branson hopes to become the first person to ride a selffunded rocket into suborbital space. Astronaut 001, richard branson. Reporter: a launch nearlytwo decades in the making. Tell me, how do you feel? um, well
Bunch of places all over the country. And at first, we did not know, if this was a second act, for the 9/11 attack. To the offices of nbc news, and abc news, and cbs news, in the office of the new york post, someone in explicitly, to the offices of the national enquirer tabloid in florida, somebody mailed anthrax. It was not just a white powder that they called and racks. In a terrorizing no in order to scare people, it was actual anthrax. Potent and threats. And it was mailed to those news organizations. It was also mailed to the offices of two different united states senators, it was real anthrax. It was potent and more than 20 people were infected by the anthrax. Sent through those mailings. Five people were killed by it. It was a mysterious attack, both then and now. But it did start right after the 9/11 attacks, when the country was absolutely reeling, and we didn t know if it was a second act to the attacks from the morning of tuesday september 11th. It added this bioweapon s ter