Rule on Emergency Challenges to the law, meaning it went into effect just hours ago. Cnns senior legal Analyst Laura coats explains how this law is different from others around the country. If you are talking about up ending the trimester framework not only of roe v. Wade but of subsequent decisions that talk about a womans right to choose prior to the viability of a fetus, meaning it can actually exist and survive out of a womb. What they are doing is so sneaky, it needs to be explained even more. What they have done in texas is essentially said any person can sue anyone in a very vague term who aids and abets an abortion, meaning somebody who encourages it, who drives you to, somebody who may have donated money to an abortionrelated cause, that person could then have to pay a penalty of about 10,000. The idea of a plaintiff who might have to have something that they cannot reverse in the form of having a risk of imminent harm by a law, they cant now go to the courts to redress their
Around The world. We have reporTs This morning from louisiana, pakisTan, california, and The WhiTe House as only early sTarT can. And we begin wiTh The big Breaking News overnighT, millions of women across The sTaTe of Texas will wake up This morning To a near ToTal ban on aborTion. As of This very momenT, as soon as your docTor find as feTal hearTbeaT, you cannoT geT an aborTion in Texas. There is no excepTion for rape or incesT. And if your docTor goes ahead wiTh iT anyway, he or she risks geTTing sued in courT for up To 10,000, noT by The governmenT, buT by anyone who simply doesnT like iT. And iT is noT jusT The docTor who is on The hook in courT. IT is The clinic sTaff, even The LyfT Driver who Takes you To The clinic. He or she could be sued. This is all happening because The u. S. Supreme courT failed To rule on an Emergency RequesT To block The law before iT wenT inTo effecT laTe lasT nighT. The jusTices may sTill puT iT on hold, buT for now, aborTion even as early as six weeks
Veteran who has serious doubts about negotiating with the taliban. Hes dealt with them himself. He says its a waste of time and a dangerous thought in our head. Yesterday our top defense officials were talking about the possibility we could do that. From the Defense Secretary to the chief of the joint chief of staff. The argument goes something like this. Better to talk to them because the alternative to them in afghanistan is isisk. Is it really that simple . We have Jennifer Griffin at the Pentagon And Jacqui heinrich monitoring these developments as well as the White House. Jennifer, first you at the pentagon. The idea of entering into discussions with the taliban might have seemed unthinkable 20 years ago. Given everything thats transpired not so much now. What are you hearing on this. Its really important to point out that the taliban were legitimized in March 2020 when the Trump Administration signed a Peace Agreement, socalled Peace Agreement with the taliban, which had certain
Vaccinated with limited exceptions. Notices havent been made yet but that is a process john going and we understand it being resolved and completed. Thanks, jen. Its been a couple days since troops left afghanistan. You continue to say the mission will continue and bring people home through diplomatic and other ways. Yesterday the White House didnt have an answer on whether any americans or refugees made it out. Is there an Answer Today . Again, this is an operation over seen by our State Department. They have a briefing today. If theres updates, theyll provide them. Were working through and what we knew would necessarily be operational after the departure are a couple of steps. One is how we get the airport operational again. Were working with the qataris and the turks and others, the civilian side of the airport had a lot of destruction to it and we need to make repairs and partnerships with them to get airplanes up and running. That will have a huge impact. The other piece is over l
thank you for sticking with us here on bbc news. it s time for our world. news archive: a word of more warnings that have just been issued. flash flood emergency for all five boroughs of new york city. water was coming in from my drain in the back, from my drains in the side of the house, water was gushing through that thing and made the water rise all the way up to about 9 feet. it is manhattan, the bronx, westchester, until 9:30, they re telling you, take shelter right now. i m picking everything up, unplugging everything because we did not want to be electrocuted. we activated our flash flood i plan and we had our agencies begin to prepare - for a flooding event. obviously, we weren t preparing for what we ended up getting. . 2021, and here i am having exposure to sewage water in my own home. i screamed out to him and i said, justin, iam drowning, i m gonna drown. sirens wail very good morning, it is wednesday, september 1. my name is yvette meier and i live in woodsid