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Cuomo Prime Time
• Biden: Not Going To Extend A "Forever War" Or "Forever Exit"; New Polling Shows Opposition To COVID Vaccine Is At Its Lowest Level Ever; North Carolina Widower On His TikTok Video Scolding The Unvaccinated For Filling Up Hospital Beds. Aired 9-10p ET


Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees
• President Joe Biden Delivers Defiant, Forceful Defense Of Afghan Withdrawal, Calls Evacuation An Extraordinary Success; More Than 1M In Louisiana Without Power After Hurricane Ida; House Select Committee Responds To McCarthy Threats To Companies That Comply With 1/6 Committee Doc Requests; Conservative Vaccine Denier Deaths; Legislature Passes Election Bill For Gov. Abbott To Sign After Months- Long, Partisan Fight. Aired 8-9p ET


Amanpour
• Interview with German Green Party Leader Annalena Baerbock; Interview with Michelle Singletary. Aired 1-2p ET


At This Hour
• Biden to Address Nation Today After U.S. Ends War in Afghanistan; 1 Million Plus Without Power for Possibly Weeks in Scorching Heat; Louisiana Hospitals Overwhelmed with Hurricane, COVID Patients. Aired 11-11:30a ET
• Wildfire Forces Tens of Thousands to Evacuate Lake Tahoe; Afghans Wait Anxiously to Cross into Pakistan after U.S. Withdrawal; CDC Panel Recommends Pfizer Vaccine for People 16 and Older. Aired 11:30-12p ET
• State Department: Under 200 Americans Left Behind after Afghan Pullout; 123,000 Plus Evacuated from Afghanistan before U.S. Withdrawal; Joe Biden to Address Nation Today After U.S. Ends War in Afghanistan; 1 Plus Million Without Power for Possibly Weeks Amid Scorching Heat; Louisiana Governor: No Confirmed Deaths After Hurricane. Aired 12-12:30p ET
• LA Governor: Do Not Return Until We're Ready To Receive You; CNN: U.S. Military negotiated Secret Deal With Taliban To Escort Escaping Americans To Kabul Airport Gates; Wildfire Forces Tens Of Thousands To Evacuate Lake Tahoe. Aired 12:30-1p ET


The Lead with Jake Tapper
• Biden: "I Take Responsibility For The Decision" To Withdraw; One-On-One With Biden's National Security Adviser. Ida Aftermath; Interview With U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan; CNN One- On-One With Controversial GOP Front-Runner Larry Elder; Biden: "The War in Afghanistan Is Now Over". Aired 4-5p ET
• CNN: U.S. Negotiated Secret Deal With Taliban To Escort Group Of Americans To Airport Gates; Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) Is Interviewed About U.S. Withdrawal In Afghanistan; At Least Five Killed In Storm, Louisiana Gov Expects Death Toll To Rise; Source: White House Booster Announcement Causing Frustration At FDA; Biden Faces Multiple Crises As Afghanistan Falls, COVID Surges, And Ida Causes Widespread Damage; 50k Under Evacuation At Lake Tahoe As Wildfire Nears Tourist Area. Aired 5-6p ET


Don Lemon Tonight
• President Biden Says No To Extending War; GOP Criticized Biden's Exit Plan From Afghanistan; Louisiana Dealing With Inconveniences At Once; Exit Is Good, Exit Plan Is Not; Louisiana Under Tremendous Heat After Storm; People Fistfight Over Mask Mandate. Aired 10-11p ET
• U.S. President Joe Biden Defends U.S. Withdrawal In Afghanistan; Ida Leaves More Than One Million Without Power Along Gulf Coast; Don Lemon Interviews U.S. Citizen Stuck In Afghanistan; Fate Of Roe v. Wade In The Balance; McCarthy Issues Warning Shot To Companies; GOP Lawmakers Fearmongering Over Afghan Refugees In U.S. Aired 11p-12a ET


CNN Newsroom
• America's Longest War Ends; Biden to Address Nation on War's End; Some Americans Left Behind after Withdrawal; James Clapper is Interviewed about Afghanistan; Power out for Weeks after Hurricane; Craig Fugate is Interviewed about the Hurricane Response. Aired 9- 9:30a ET
• Portable Morgues Needed for COVID Deaths; Education Department Investigating Mask Mandate Bans; 20 U.S. Service Members Wounded in Kabul; Dangerous Heat Looms after Storm; Gas Prices may Go Higher. Aired 9:30-10a ET.
• America's Longest War Ends as Last U.S. Troops Leave Afghanistan; One-Million-Plus Without Power for Possibly Weeks after Hurricane. Aired 10-10:30a ET
• AAP Says, Child COVID-19 Cases Rise Sharply after Early Summer Declines; Afghan YouTube Star Killed Attempting to Escape; Wildfire Prompts States of Emergency in Nevada and California. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• America's Longest War Ends as Last U.S. Troops Leave Afghanistan; 1 Million-Plus Without Power for Possibly Weeks amid Scorching Heat; . Aired 1-1:30p ET
• Fists Fly after Florida School Announces Mask Mandate; Florida Group Buys Portable Morgues to Help with Surge of COVID Deaths; Poll: Vaccine Hesitancy May Be Fading Away; Desparate Afghans Crowd Border Seeking Asylum in Pakistan; McCarthy Rips Biden's Decision to Leave Afghanistan with Americans Still There; Thousands Evacuated Around Lake Tahoe as Caldor Fire Intensifies. Aired 1:30-2p ET
• Afghanistan Withdrawal; Hurricane Ida Relief Efforts. Aired 2- 2:30p ET
• Soon: Biden Addresses Nation on End of Afghanistan War; Hospitals Feel COVID Strain as ICU Beds Dwindle; Caldor Fire Forces Tens of Thousands to Evacuate Lake Tahoe; Child COVID Cases Rise Sharply after Early Summer Declines. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• Hurricane Ida Relief Efforts; President Biden Addresses Nation on Afghanistan Withdrawal. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• Biden Addresses the Nation on End of the Afghanistan War; Biden: We Will Get Remaining Americans Out "If The So Choose"; Biden: Afghanistan War "Should Have Ended Long Ago";. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• ; Storm Carves Path Of Destruction Across Louisiana; Rescue Operations Underway In Flooded Communities; Afghan Interpreter Recounts Family's Harrowing Escape; E.U. Bumps U.S. from Safe Travel List Due to COVID Concerns; Thousands of Evacuees Housed at U.S. Air Base in Germany. Aired 12-1a ET
• U.S. Pledges to Get Americans, Afghans Left Behind; Afghan Interpreter Recounts Family's Harrowing Escape; Kabul-based Photographer on What's Ahead in Afghanistan; Bumped from Safe Travel List. Aired 1-2a ET
• Hurricane Ida Rescues; Taliban Spokesman Fighters Enter Kabul Airport; U.S. Complete Military Withdrawal From Afghanistan. Aired 2- 3a ET
• U.S. Ends Its 20-Year War; Taliban Faces a Gigantic Challenge; U.S. Laying Out Conditions Before Negotiating with Taliban; Afghan Refugees Waiting to be Processed; E.U. Removes U.S. from Tourist Travel List; Hurricane Ida Left Louisiana in the Dark; U.S. Says Taliban Must Honor Their Commitments; ISIS-K Members Posing As Taliban Fighters; Afghan Interpreter Recounts Family's Harrowing Escape; U.S. Air Base Housing Thousands Of Afghan Evacuees; Researchers Studying Variant Detected In South Africa; China Places Time Limit On Video Games; Brazil Bank Robberies. Aired 3-4a ET
• U.S. Military Leave Afghanistan, Ending Longest U.S. War; U.S. Completes Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan; Ida, Now a Depression, Leaves Behind Untold Devastation; Rescue Operations Underway in Flooded Communities; Life-Threatening Flash Floods in Louisiana and Mississippi; EU Bumps U.S. from Safe Travel List Over COVID Concerns. Aired 4-4:30a ET
• Ida, Now a Depression, Leaves Behind Untold Devastation; Storm Carves Path of Destruction Across Louisiana; Interview with Mandie Landry, Louisiana State Representative, New Orleans, Power Outages; Pullout From Afghanistan Ends America's Longest War; China Limits Kids to Three Hours of Video Games Per Week. Aired 4:30-5a ET


Connect the World
• Last U.S. Troops Leave Kabul, Taliban Declare Victory; Desperate Afghans Try to Cross Border to Pakistan; Ida Leaves over 1 Million Louisianans without Power; Formerly Jailed Top Taliban Official Back in Afghanistan. Aired 10-11a ET
• Pakistan FM Expects Taliban to Announce Government in a Few Days; Biden Faces Backlash for Chaotic, Bloody end to War; Taliban now Face a New Reality, Ruling a Troubled Nation; Last U.S. Troops Leave Kabul, Taliban Declare Victory; Leaders & Delegates from Across Region Gather in Baghdad; Afghan YouTuber Killed in Terror Attack on Kabul Airport. Aired 11a-12p ET


Erin Burnett Outfront
• Biden To Terrorists: "We'll Hunt You Down To The Ends Of The Earth"; Biden Defiant Over How Afghanistan War Ended, Dismisses Argument To Keep Presence: "I Was Not Extending A Forever Exit"; Biden: U.S. Will Continue To Support Afghans Through "Diplomacy"; Nearly 14,000 Refugees At Air Bases In Germany Awaiting Travel. 1+ Million Without Power, Water Systems Down, Gas Station Outages; Acting FDA Chief Admits "These Are Difficult Times" After Two Top Vaccine Officials Leave Agency; GOP Front-Runner For California Governor Vows To Appeal COVID Mandates. Aired 7-8p ET


Early Start with John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin
• Did Not Air 4-5a ET
• U.S. Ends 20-Year War with Final Evacuation Flights Out of Kabul; Hundreds Rescued from Floodwaters in Louisiana, 1 Million Plus Without Power; Hurricane Ida May Push Gas Prices Even Higher. Aired 5- 5:30a ET
• Last U.S. Flights Leave Afghanistan As War Ends; At Least Two Killed And One Million Without Power After Ida Slams Louisiana; China Imposes Tight Restrictions On Video Game Playing For Kids. Aired 5:30- 6a ET


First Move with Julia Chatterley
• U.S. Completes Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan; Thousands of Afghan Evacuees Housed at U.S. Air Base; President Joe Biden Set to Speak on Afghanistan. Aired 9-10a ET


Inside Politics
• Did Not Air. 12-1p ET


New Day
• Biden to Address Nation as America's Longest War Ends; 1M+ Without Power for Possibly Weeks After Hurricane; College Students in Afghanistan Stranded; Florida Punishes School Districts Defying DeSantis on Masks. Aired 6-6:30a ET
• Florida Brings in Portable Morgues for COVID Patients; New Poll Numbers on DeSantis and Biden; America's Longest War Ends after 20 Years; Spencer Sullivan and Abdulhaq Sodais are Interviewed about the Withdrawal from Afghanistan. Aired 6:30-7a ET
• Biden to Address Nation Today as America's Longest War Ends; New Details on Biden's Tough Meeting with Grieving Military Families; 1 Million-Plus Without Power for Possibly Weeks after Hurricane; . Aired 7-7:30a ET
• Op-Ed: Biden Had "Political Courage" to End Afghanistan War; Parents on Mask Mandate Bans: Sending Our Kids "Into War"; Parents Fearful as COVID-19 Increases in Texas Schools; How COVID-19 Vaccines Hold Up against Delta Variant; Two Weeks from California Recall, Dems on Edge with Newsom in Danger. Aired 7:30-8a ET
• U.S. Military Completes Withdrawal From Afghanistan Ending America's Longest War; Between 100 And 200 Americans Reportedly Remain In Afghanistan After Departure Of U.S. Military; Interview With Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA); Storms Strains Louisiana Hospitals Already Full Of COVID Patients. Aired 8-8:30a ET
• Anti-Vaccine Conservatives Dying of COVID; Lies and Conspiracies Spread about Biden; Russian and China Use Social Media to Divide the U.S.; Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) is Interviewed about Vaccine Timeline for Kids. Aired 8:30-9a ET


Quest Means Business
• Taliban Declare Victory After Hasty U.S. Withdrawal; Looming Humanitarian And Economic Crises As U.S. Troops Depart Afghanistan; Chinese Tech Shares Rocked by Video Game Ban; Biden Addresses The Nation On End Of The Afghanistan War. Aired 3-3:55p ET


The Situation Room
• Biden Defends U.S. Withdrawals, The War In Afghanistan Is Now Over; At Least Five Storm-Related Deaths Confirmed After Hurricane Ida; Al Qaeda Praises Taliban For Taking Control Of Kabul. Pediatric Doctors: About 204,000 COVID Cases Among Children Last Week, Five Times Higher Than a Month Earlier. Aired 6-7p ET


Hala Gorani Tonight
• Taliban Celebrate As U.S. Forces Leave Afghanistan; Some Americans Left Behind After Afghanistan Withdrawal; Rainfall Around Hurricane Ida Stretches Nearly 1,000 Kilometers; Ida Leaves Over One Million Louisianans Without Power; Desperate Afghans Try To Cross Border To Pakistan; U.S. Air Base In Germany Shelters Thousands Of Evacuees; Blind Afghanistan War Veteran Makes History As Paralympian. Aired 2-3p ET