Tropical Storm Henri hits the east coast, bringing rain to already water logged areas. Plus, deadly flooding in central tennessee. It hit hard, it hit fast. I stepped into maybe two feet of water. The fda is poised to give full approval to pfizers vaccine this week. Do you expect this decision is going to make more americans willing to get vaccinated . This may tip them over toward getting vaccinated. Im Pamela Brown in washington. You are live in the cnn newsroom. We are following Breaking News this hour out of middle, tennessee. As the Flood Waters recede, the Death Toll climbs, 21 dead, 49 missing after catastrophic flash floods. People in Humphries County West of nashville say the Flood Waters struck almost without warning. Some compared it to a Tidal Wave that swallowed its victims and swept them away. Twin toddlers are reported among the dead and at least five children are among the minneapmissing. Search and rescue efforts grind on as do the grim duties of recovering the dead. N
Plan, but they werent. A few weeks ago they called for 11,000 special visas to help people that helped us. 11,000. Now the number appears to be 100,000 or maybe more. They had not begun identifying those people and getting them out when, in fact, in just a few days they were supposed to have completed it. So dont you want to help all of those vulnerable afghans and afghan allies and partners who were helping the u. S. Over the last 20 years. Dont you want to help them and get them all out . Im currently doing everything i can to help the people that have been identified get out of the country. But the reality is theres 37 Million afghans, half of them women, that are now going to have a very different future than they would have had if we had kept a stable government, enforce the agreement so the taliban couldnt come in by force and take over. Look, this is no different than vietnam. The government was i hate to keep interrupting. Im sorry. The afghan government was cut out of the Peac
Welcome from Msnbc World headquarters here in new york. Welcome to Alex Witt reports. We have Breaking News on tropical Storm Henri. We just learned The Storm Made Landfall last hour. About 45 minutes ago or so, 12 15 p. M. Right along the coast of Rhode Island, Henri Maximum sustained winds reached 60 miles an hour at landfall. The state is bracing for heavy impact over next few hours including widespread Power Outages with Tens Of Thousands of people already in the dark. Last hour the mayor of newport told me she is worried about Storm Surge and flooding. We have a concern about the surge and the High Tides. We already pass one High Tide and all the dots, the water was right up on it. If we have rain all day and we have another High Tide with the Full Moon tonight, chances are were going to have some flooding throughout new port. Youre looking right now at an Earth Cam shot. The storm is causing Threat Ping conditions outdoors. Bringing dangerous Storm Surge and rainfall. At any mome
Hospitals where beds were scarce. Thankfully, thankfully, Courage And Professionalism were not. It is not marked down anywhere officially. The fight back against the virus began the first time a nurse turned her mask inside out. We remember that. For protection, she wore a Garbage Bag over her scrubs. At the time, guys, they didnt have ppe because if you didnt know, nothing, and i do mean nothing, comes between a nurse and their duties. Grocery store employees, thank you. Health care professionals, thank you. The police, nypd here in full force, i was so glad to see them tonight. Thank you, thank you, thank you, nypd. Other Essential Workers took their stations on the Front Lines. Next and slowly, New Yorkers began to do what we do. We find a way. You know we were once the epicenter of the virus. Now we moved to being epicenter of the recovery. So it brings us to this humid, sticky august night. A storm is on the way, but were good we gather for a common purpose to say welcome back, ne
Republicans, returning to the lone Star State this week after a monthlong selfexile to protest the suppression that is now the law of their land. Meanwhile, the White House continues to weather the political fallout caused by the chaos in afghanistan. And with the utility of our nations longest war still in question, ill ask one advocate what americas black veterans are feeling as they watch the country remade in the talibans image again. We begin tonight with the vote. As always, the perfect guest. Joining me now, Alabama Congresswoman Terri sewell, a democrat, and cochair of the congressional Voting Rights caucus. Congresswoman sewell, thank you, first of all, for joining us tonight. As i just said, we couldnt ask for a better guest to lead us off. Earlier this week in front of the edmund Pettus Bridge in selma, you introduced h. R. 4, John Lewis Advancement act in the house. The idea here being that because the Lewis Act focuses on reauthorizing key aspects of the voting Rights Act,