More from texas, in a moment. But first, what s being called an historic weather event. More than 16 million people now under a flashflood watch in the northeast as the remnants of hurricane ida bring recordbreaking rainfall to new york city and newark. Tonight, warnings were issued for neighborhoods in the bronx and across new york state and new jersey and pennsylvania. More than 240,000 homes are without electricity. The governor of new york is declaring a state of emergency, amid reports of widespread flash flooding. And new york city is now under its firstever flashflood emergency. The rising waters have effectively shut down the city s subway. Here s new york s mayor, bill de blasio. I m very, very worried about what s happening out on the roads. I want to urge everyone, get in quickly. Do not stay out on the roads. It s dangerous. We re seeing a kind of rainfall we almost never see. This kind of speed with which the rain has come. Everyone s got to get to safety. Do not be out on
Disaster, poverty and political uncertainty. I am pamela brown in washington. You are live in the cnn newsroom on this sunday evening. President biden is under growing pressure regarding the chaotic situation at kabul s airport. Right now it s the middle of the night but we saw another tense day earlier. An estimated 18,500 people packed into the waiting areas today. Yesterday similar crowds led to the death of at least seven afghan citizens crushed in the surge of people trying to escape. President biden continued to stress safety is his administration s number one priority, and there are talks about troops sticking around possibly past august 31st. We are working diligently to make sure we have increased the ability to get them out. We changed the gate operations and a whole range of things and that s why we have been able to significantly increase the number of people we re getting out. Will the taliban increase their we discussed a lot with the taliban. They have been cooperative i
president biden. it could add, this is very good news, millions more vaccines to the market just at a time when new worries are surfacing about covid variants and the risks that they could push the number of new cases back up again. we cannot be resigned to 70,000 cases a day. 2,000 daily deaths. please hear me clearly, at this level of cases with variants spreading we stand to completely lose the hard earned ground we have gained. let s get right to it and bring in dr. michael osterholm. doctor, what is your reaction to this news? have you ever seen two major competitors merck and j&j join forces for one mission? well, i haven t seen anything quite like this, stephanie, and it s very good news. i congratulate the companies and the administration for helping make it happen. we also have to realize it will still be months before these vaccine doses will be rolling off the assembly line from merck but it s very good news. what could that mean for vaccine supply? well,
reception. live to new york as andrew cuomo faces an impeachment effort over the alleged covid cover up in nursing homes. hello and welcome to fox news at night, i m mike emanuel in for shannon bream. breaking news for us tonight, good evening, kevin. folks of a certain age will probably remember the connick u.s. army commercial that use the tagline we do more before 9:00 a.m. than most people do in a day. despite the ongoing crisis unfolding in texas. while the biden white house said everything was complete today at 8:00 this morning, and texas the sound of progress as the weather emergency finally gave way to more power and hope. we have artie begun the process to make sure that events like this never again happen in texas. all of the lone star state s power plants are back online, more than 280,000 households still don t have power. actually, down from 2.7 million on wednesday. the biden administration says it sent to 60 generators, thousands of blankets, and o
silvia s restaurant. this week s interview will bring it a full circle. so stay tuned. next saturday, 5:00 p.m. eastern, on politics nation, right here on msnbc. and now, to tonight s lead. the new normal. one third of president biden s first 100 days have already gone by, and to his credit, the president has met the albeit, not without brewing fights within his own party over the scale and scope of his proposed solutions. has the nation mourns the breaking news that more than half a million americans have died from covid, as of today, the president is ramping up his ambitious vaccination efforts and paying attention to the growing racial disparities in the vaccine s distribution. ane bit, i ll talk to chicago mayor lori lightfoot about how her city is getting the vaccine to black and brown residents who need it most. but back to politics first. because as president biden pushes forward on covid, he s already pulled back from more ambitious offerings on raising the minimum