will take to the streets of kabul in protest. cnn takes you live to the afghan capital and to islamabad for the latest. plus, president joe biden get a firsthand look at the damage from hurricane ida as controversy erupts over the death of elderly nursing home residents. and a possible snag in the white house plan to roll out booster shots. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world. this is "cnn newsroom." afghanistan's new rulers have yet to unveil a formal

government, and that has presented a small window for afghan women to publicly demand their rights be protected. [ chants ] the women are demanding the right to work and to have a continued voice in the country's affairs, especially on education and health. but as you can see here, even this small demonstration was enough to provoke the taliban to try to break it up. meanwhile, anti-taliban forces in the rugged panjshir valley are battling an incursion by taliban fighters. the panjshir has long been controlled by the national resistance front and has never been under taliban control journalist ben farmer is in kabul where it's 1:30 in the afternoon. he joins us by phone. thanks for being with us. let's start with the protests we saw from those women there in kabul a day after a similar one in harot. tell us more about their pledge to the taliban and to the outside world. >> reporter: well, these are -- they're not huge protests, a few

dozen women. they are significant. the women are very brave for doing this. the taliban have been very dismissive and very hostile toward women's rights activists in the past. the women have been saying in these protests that they demand a say in government, and they demand a say in their lives. and they've also asked for representation when the taliban do actually form their government. the the -- the taliban who have been at the scene of these protests have looked on as if unsure what to do at first. then they have moved in, and they've used some violence and some force to move these women on. they are taking a great risk. i think their message is both to the taliban but also as much to the wider world hoping that these protests get picked up, and they're hoping the world does not forget there are still women inside afghanistan

campaigning for their rights. >> yeah. absolutely. in the meantime, people are trying to adjust to the new normal there. i know access to cash has been hard. there have been food price hikes and shortages. i saw, though, a key money exchange market just reopened today. so what's the situation now there for most afghans? >> reporter: people are finding if difficult. i've been driving road the city and there are look queues at banks. there are strict rules on how much you can withdraw from banks. it's $200 per week at the moment. and a lot of people are struggling. a lot of people are on the government payroll, whether they're in the security forces or education or health. and these people, the government employees have not been paid for two months. it's not just the taliban that didn't pay them, but in the last stages of the former afghan government they weren't being paid either. so a lot of people are struggling. >> other aspects of life already

seem to be changing under the taliban. i saw for instance that they took a popular soap opera off the air. tell us how afghans are getting their news, their entertainment, how that has changed and will likely change further in the weeks to come. >> reporter: it's changing subtly, but there's definitely a change in the cultural landscape. the news channels often see as some of the great achievement of the past -- still broadcasting, but the radio channels and a lot of the tv networks, they're starting to cut back on the amount of music they play and the different sorts of different programs that they show. much less entertainment, and what they're showing is more modest. we're also seeing things lightning murals being painted. efforts being painted over -- sorry, advertisement being painted over. i'm sitting outside a beauty

parlor at the moment. and all the signs which showed women in their dresses have been whitewashed over. >> wow. that's a dramatic symbol of the changes that are arriving there in kabul. listen, thanks so much for talking to us, ben farmer in kabul, appreciate it. and now i want to turn to cnn international diplomatic editor nick rat robertson live islamabad. the resistance in the panjshir valley, the taliban say they control it, the resistance says it's still in their hands. what's the latest on the resistance movement there? >> reporter: the fighting continues. the resistance movement is making clear that they're not going to budge. the taliban have released videos that show that they've taken some of the strategic heights around the valley. this is a valley that the soviets couldn't conquer. this is a valley that the -- when they were in the country in the 1980s that the taliban back

in the '90s, they couldn't conquer it. it was able to hold out because it had very hardened fighters who knew the terrain, who were good at sort of testing ambushes to sort of lure people into the steep-sided valley and then hit them from the sides and the back. these are the sorts of tactics that are being employed at the moment. but it does appear, and the taliban are maintaining a narrative that they are making gains, the resistance in there say that the phones have been cut, that the power's been cut off, the fuel supplies can't get into the valley. these are the typical siege tactics that the taliban have used elsewhere in the country. the former vice president who is in the valley released a short video in the past few days saying that, yes, things were tough, but there were casualties on both sides, both the taliban and the resistance. he said but despite that we're going to continue to fight. this is the heart of the resistance. and you know, the problem for

the taliban is they have to find an end to it. if they don't, have valley holds out again, this will affect the warlords who will come back and join a nascent resistance to spread to other areas of afghanistan. this is very important for the taliban to negotiate or win the battle. >> well, since you're in pakistan right now, let's turn there now. the head of pakistan's intelligence agency is in kabul, according to our reporting. many in the west are hoping that pakistan can play the role of mediator. i saw the uk foreign secretary was just in pakistan talking about that. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, general hamid has gone to kabul. he's the most senior ranking pakistani official to visit since the taliban took control, has taken with him a number of

other pakistani officials. i think it was significant that yesterday pakistani official had meetings with taliban and n qatar, sort of a lower level meeting that seems to have opened the door to what wye are witnessing today. historically, pakistan has had, you know, at times good, at times frosty, at times opaque relationships with the taliban. but of all the sort of bordering nations here, pakistan perhaps has the greatest understanding of the taliban and potentially i think leverage is too strong a word, but would like to -- would like to influence them. and one of the messages that undoubtedly will will come from pakistan is concern that a government hasn't been formed yet, and they would relay that concern very likely in the terms of its pakistan that's going to get -- bear the brunt of the fallout if the taliban doesn't

announce the government, doesn't reconcile its differences with the international community, doesn't develop, you know, a better economic situation in the country because refugees will flood out to pakistan. and this is really pakistan's big concern at the moment. so you know, in the sporting analogy, you know, pakistan has a lot of skin in the game here. they have a lot to dlose. their economy here and social disruption and the potential for terrorism, violence. they're really keen to kind of understand what's going on in kabul and influence it as much as they can. how much they can influence it, i think that's really unclear. >> yeah. it's an important part of the story. we'll keep following. thank you so much for the also in, nic robertson in islamabad. and ahead this hour, a closer look at the women protesting afghanistan and what might happen to the country's struggling economy under taliban rule. u.s. president joe biden says federal help is on the way to louisiana after hurricane i do pummelled the region.

biden so the extent firsthand on friday while touring areas ravaged by the storm. he emphasized the need to fund climate-resilient infrastructure and promised hard-hit communities that he has their backs. >> there's much to be done. we're working around the clock with the governor and the elected officials there until we can meet every need you all have. >> louisiana now faces a monumental recovery effort with some areas still under water. more than 700,000 homes and businesses are still in the dark days after the storm, and fuel remains in short supply. louisiana state representative mandy landry joins me on the phone from new orleans. thank you so much for making the time for us here. president biden toured the state to see the storm damage, he made plenty of promises. are you convinced you'll get what you need? >> i absolutely think we will. i trust in president biden. he knows what we need.

he knows people. we also -- louisiana has a secret weapon in the white house with our former representative cedric richmond who is one of the president's right-hand men. and so i really do believe given all our state has been through in the last couple of decades that we're going to get what we need this time. >> you and i spoke in the hours before ida hit. you said everyone was concerned whether the levees would hold. well, they did, but the electric system didn't. is that the birth -- the bigges problem for most folks right now? >> yes, absolutely. nip who's been to the south, particularly in louisiana, you know how hot it get this time of year. indescribably hot and humid. for people especially elderly and people with health problems, it's really difficult and often deadly for them to be in this kind of weather without any fans or acs or anything. so that's kind of what we're doing.

the lack of electricity, it prevent our basic businesses from running, it requires a lot of our grocery stores and hospitals to be on generators, and it really makes you realize that climate change is here, and we need to deal with it because it is just difficult to live in this type of heat. >> yeah. another huge problem has been gas shortages. people waiting in hours -- hours in line for gas. one man was shot and killed in a gas station line yesterday. frustration is mounting. are you getting the federal help there that you need to get more gas into the system? >> it's been slow for sure. i saw that evening, what you said about the shooting in line. and look, i mean, while it's never acceptable, like it -- it wasn't so much surprising to anyone who lives here when you know how hot it is. and if you've been waiting for five hours for a couple of gallons of gas just to get yourself out of town hopefully, you know that temperaturers

flare. for -- temperatus flare. people are running out of patience. in terms of federal help, our state provides access to about 90% -- i say this slightly off -- but about 90% of the oil and gas that flows through the country goes through my state somehow, whether it's through an oil service company or otherwise. and to have that down is harmful for everyone. but for us to be here in this state and not have access to our own natural resources is especially -- it angers people a lot, given like how much that we give up to the rest of the country for that. >> hopefully you and everybody out there will get the help that they need. really appreciate you talking to us. thank you so much. in the northeast, at least 50 people are now confirmed dead after the remnant of ida

unleashed catastrophic flooding across the region. miguel marquez with a look at the devastation from pennsylvania to new york. >> reporter: in passaic, new jersey, dive crews have suspended the search for two missing people. officials say a man and woman were in a car near a drainage ditch when they got out or were forced out by the floodwaters. they were then swept away by ida's deluge. >> there were seven feet water at the time. the water was so high, and they might be somewhere in the rivers. >> reporter: the drain empties into the passaic river which remains above flood stage this hour. tonight in philadelphia, floodwaters haven't fully receded along many street and parking lots that remain under water. >> at the same time, we're moving into a recovery mode and a cleanup mode. the recovery process for in is going to take months. >> reporter: damage from a tornado just outside

philadelphia. no one prepared for a tornado here. >> it's unimaginable. >> reporter: the twister, winds up to 130 miles per hour, ripped through ft. washington, damaging homes, businesses, and bringing down power lines. >> the landscape. our community is completely different. >> reporter: power poles strewn across streets, huge trees uprooted in neighborhoods and even roads and overpasses invest disarray. at one apartment complex in philadelphia, the national guard rescued almost a dozen people and their pets. one of several in the area. >> we really appreciate it. you know, we were waiting for quite some time. and you don't really expect these types of things to happen when, you know, you're in a big building like this. >> reporter: today new jersey governor murphy getting a firsthand look at the devastation in his state. that's where at least six people remain missing and more than two dozen reported deaths. >> it's quite clear our state and nation does not have the infrastructure to meet this

moment and to meet the future as it relates to these storms. >> reporter: in mullica hill, families are trying to recover after a tornado ripped through their homes. >> our house is good news is. what do you mean -- he said, the tornado. >> we were huddled. he was over me. everything was falling on our backs. and luckily, our house has a walkup basement or we would have never gotten out. >> reporter: new york saw some of the worst flash flooding in the region. at least 16 people died across the state with nearly a dodd victims in queens alone. >> there is only sadness, and it's overwhelming. >> reporter: at least eight of the victims in new york city died in basements. >> those who lost a loved one, someone swept away in a car, people trapped not able to escape, those are the images that haunt me in the aftermath of this storm. >> that was cnn's miguel marquez

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welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." in afghanistan, the taliban are pressing their military offensive into the mountainous panjshir valley north of kabul. heavy fighting was reported friday between the taliban and the national resistance front, a coalition of afghan fighters long opposed to the taliban. panjshir has been a stronghold for decades. it's the only piece of the country the taliban have never controlled. selcelebratory gunfire broke ou after they seemed to gain panjshir but the resistance denieses it's been defeated.

the white house is dealing what was said between the president and the afghan president during the last phone call before the taliban takeover. listen to this -- >> president biden was telling ghani three things -- work with my team to mail down the -- nail down the doeletails of letting military commanders implement the strategy, three, rally the political leaders behind that strategy to reinforce the confidence of the afghan public and the international community behind that strategy. >> the white house added, unfortunately ghani, quote, couldn't or wouldn't heed that ad advice. it comes after "reuters" reported it reviewed a transcript of that phone call and much of the conversation was focused on what president biden called the afghan government's perception problem. the absence of a formal taliban government has provided a small window for afghan women to demand their rights be protected. but friday's public

demonstration in full view of armed militants was a risky gamble. cnn explains. [ chants ] >> reporter: a small but brave band of women chant the right to work and go to school. -- school in taliban-run afghanistan. >> translator: they must make sure women participate in their government. women form a majority of the population of afghanistan. if they are not prepared in areas like education, health, and politics, and do not have a role in these areas in our society so the world will not recognize us, they will not hear our voice. >> reporter: there's a brief confrontation between a talib and the women. 20 years ago when the taliban last run afghanistan, a protest like this would have been unthinkable. the women would have been beaten, tortured, or even executed. the taliban insists they will respect women's rights within the framework of sharia law. that includes giving women

access to education and the workplace. still to be seen whether women will be forced to wear burqas and not allowed to leave their homes without a close male relative. the public messaging is often different from reality at street level. recently a spokesman for the group urged women to stay home for their safety because taliban fighters had not been trained to respect them. the warning has left many afghan women afraid and uncertain of what's next. street vendors in kabul say the sale of burqas have increased. in some instances, militants have forced women out of the workplaces, though some women continue to work. the female staff of one hospital in kabul staying at home for a day when the taliban first took over and will their managers told them that it was okay to come back. in. >> in the beginning when the situation occurred it was very difficult for us. we were worried what would happen. we want to make progress.

we don't want to go backwards. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: a female anchor appeared on a television morning show early this week and conducted an interview with a male guest on a health topi topic:another female journalist fled the country after interviewing a member of the taliban on live tv. reporters without borders say there are less than 100 female journalists still working in kabul, and some have been attacked and harassed. the conductor of the country's all-female orchestra says she has escaped to the united states. she says many of her fellow musicians are in hiding. taliban banned most music during its earlier rule. >> the taliban -- >> translator: when the taliban neared the city, everyone stayed home. they didn't go out, especially female musicians. i'm sure that every one of them felt the same way as i did -- that we will not be able to play again. >> reporter: as the taliban consol tidate power, many afgha

women, especially professionals, feel stifled and silenced. cnn. afghanistan's already shattered economy is now in even more chaos because of the taliban takeover. cnn look at the new leadership's struggle to finance a country that relies heavily on foreign aid. >> reporter: banks are open again in afghanistan, but it takes hours, even a whole day to reach the front of the line. and then withdrawals are limited to $around $200 which has to lat a week. a journalist in kabul working with cnn has seen prices for necessities skyrocket. in just two weeks, petrol prices are 140% higher, cooking oil up 63%. basic items like rice, flour, and sugar are all significantly more expensive. it's adding pressure on people after weeks of upheaval.

>> translator: i've been unemployed and sitting at home for 17 or 18 days. this isn't easy because we have rent and other expenses. >> translator: i do not feel well. everyone fled, and there are no work opportunities in afghanistan at all. >> reporter: afghanistan was already one of the poorest countries in the world. facing rampant corruption and dependent on foreign aid. around 75% of the previous government's budget came from overseas grants according to the world bank. now the u.s. has blocked the taliban from accessing afghanistan's foreign reserves, and the imf, eu and world bank have suspended payments. >> now the taliban has only access to roughly $100 million in cash inside the country. >> reporter: only $100 million. but afghanistan's reserves are a

little under $10 billion. is all that overseas? >> correct. and majority of them are in the u.s. and less than half in europe. >> reporter: should the international community unblock the reserves? should they give financial aid to the taliban to help the people? >> no. if they have access to afghanistan's reserves, they will not spend that for the benefit of the population. they will transfer some of those money to the international terrorist colleagues in the country to the terrorist groups. we saw that, examples of that in the past. >> reporter: aid organizations are already warning of a health care system facing collapse and food shortages. without recognition from the international community, it seems the taliban could struggle to govern a country they fought so long to control. anna stewart, cnn, london.

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opponents of a controversial texas anti-abortion law won a small victory friday. a texas district judge granted a temporary restraining order that bars the group texans -- texas rutd right to life from suing planned parenthood in the state. it bans abortions only after six weeks and is the most restrictive in the nation. it also allows private citizens to sue anyone who helps a pregnant person seeking the procedure. >> what texas has done is to offload its responsibilities to protect the constitution and

empower individuals to be bounty hunters. the $10,000 is a minimum, the court could impose more fees and also attorney fees on people who are sued. this isn't limited to the court to hold it up, it means any constitutional right tcould be n the chopping block. it could deny the right to vote and say we're going to empower private zids to do this or the -- individuals to do this or the right of kids getting education. a host of rights. >> planned parenthood said it is, quote, relieved that the court acted quickly to grant the restraining order. and u.s. president joe biden calls the texas law almost un-american and it came during a week that he probably would like to forget. from the heartbreaking scenes as troops withdrew from afghanistan to disappointing august jobs numbers because of the delta variant. the president could use a weekend holiday break. cnn's phil mattingly explains. >> reporter: president biden

landed in louisiana on friday just days after the state, really the whole gulf coast region, was ravaged by a category-four hurricane. he made clear the federal government, his administration, were absolutely there to help. take a listen. >> my message today is i think what we're all see, and i'm getting the same response from my republican friends, republican friends here that are in the congress, there's nothing political about this. it's simply about saving lives and getting people back up and running. we're in this together. so we're not going to leave any community behind, rural, city, coastal, inland, and i promise we'll have your backs until it gets done. >> reporter: a critical moment for the administration, particularly an administration led by a president who campaigned on and since he's been in office has consistently reiterated the idea that competency, showing that government can work, is critical in this moment in time in the country. and yet if you look past over

the course of the last several weeks, those pledges, that kind of guarantee that he said he would bring to office have very much been called into question. you've had the surge of the delta variant that has really sunk the country back into a pandemic crisis that most officials didn't believe they would ever get back to after vaccinations kicked up into such a high gear and even mask requirements were removed for those who were vaccinated just a few months ago. obviously afghanistan, a bloody, chaotic crisis that the administration dealt with and often was behind the ball on its back foot in over the course of a 17-day period after kabul fell and a timeline that nobody inside the administration expected. and then you have the economy. it has been one of the bull works of the biden administration, consistently hundreds of thousands of jobs added every single month. in july, more than a million jobs added. not so in august. the august jobs report showing 235,000 jobs added, that was well below estimates. and obviously well below the month prior.

now the effect of that to some degree is the delta variant. you look across the jobs numbers, whether it's retail, whether it's hospitality, much of the front-facing covid most affected industries were the ones where there were no job increases or very limited job increases. the types of industries that have been driving the economy over the last several months. it plays into the reality as the president's approval numbers have been dropping over the course of the last several weeks. the administration has had a tough month. its competency argument has taken a number of hits. thins aren't going to get easier going forward. obviously the delta variant surging throughout the country. the president's legislative agenda still with a number of major hurdles in the weeks ahead as congress, democrats primarily, enter a critical stage in trying to enact two proposals totaling more than $4 trillion that sit at the core of biden's first year in office, perhaps even first term in office. the white house has a lot of work to do. the white house officials openly acknowledge that. they believe they can get control of what's happened over

the course of the last several weeks. however, there are still americans on the ground in afghanistan, that is something the white house needs to continue to work on. there's obviously still a surge in the naechpandemic. that something you'll hear the president talk about in the coming days, to restore a sense of confidence in the u.s. approach to that. and then there's the economy which is quite intertwined with that pandemic and how it ends up. again, no shortage of issues for the white house to deal with. a number of issues that run head long into what the president pledged he would bring to office. white house officials confident they can get the country back to where they thought they were a few months ago and perhaps much further than they thought they could be depending on the legislative agenda. a lot of work ahead, and certainly officials acknowledge they are happy to get the month of august behind them. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. coming up on "cnn newsroom," a message to her peers. a florida teen who almost died battling covid uses her experience to motivate others to

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back home after being hospitalized for covid-19. the virus sent both jacqueline jackson and her husband to hospitals last month. she was released friday, but the reverend remains hospitalized at a facility that focuses on parkinson's disease. he was diagnosed with the neurological disorder in 2017. if you're a young person or have a young child to, pay attention to this story. a florida teen is using her experience to sound the alarm to the dangers of covid in young people. her message -- get vaccinated or risk winding up on a ventilator like she did or worse. cnn's randi kaye has her terrifying story. >> reporter: how are you feeling? >> much better. i'm able to walk, finally able to move around, do stuff by myself. still need a little help, but i'm improving every single day. >> reporter: just weeks ago, an interview with 15-year-old paulina velasquez seemed

unthinkable. the unvaccinated florida teenager had tested positive for covid-19 and was fighting for her life in ha florida hospital. do you remember how you felt by the time you got to the ie.r.? >> the last thing i remember i was walking into the e.r. i was drugging my feet. it was hot out, and i couldn't breathe normally. >> reporter: was it scary? >> veriment. >> reporter: paulina tested positive on july 11th as she was making plans to be vaccinated. first it was a runny nose, burr then came the headaches, lost of taste and memorial is, and the struggle to -- and smell, and the struggle to breathe. before she got sick he was a healthy, energetic high school sophomore. that quickly turned into this -- less than a week after testing positive, paulina's oxygen levels dropped to below 70. on july 17th when she went to the hospital, doctors immediately put her on a

ventilator. >> there was the scariest moment when they told me because i didn't know what to expect. i started asking questions. at first i said no, no, please, no. and they said, well, we don't have any other alternatives. we've to do that, otherwise something worse can happen. and i said, okay, well, i get you guys know better. so just do what you can do to save my daughter's life. >> reporter: paulina's mother, agnes, had also tested positive for covid around the same time. e even though she'd been fully vaccinated in april. she insisted on staying in her daughter's hospital room. >> they said, okay, that's fine. they told me if i go into the room, i cannot go out. so that's why i was every single minute with her. >> reporter: did you pray for her? >> of course i did. i did pray every single day. there was no day or moment that i would not pray.

>> reporter: paulina had pneumonia, too, and doctors put her into a medically induced coma. they kept her on the ventilator for 11 days. do you remember anything about being in the hospital when you were so sick? >> i don't remember much since i was in the medically induced coma bides when i woke up from the coma and seen my mom by my side. >> reporter: after a month hooked up to lifesaving machines, paulina was finally able to go home august 13th. and now she has a message -- a lot of teenagers think that they don't have to get vaccinated, they're so young, nothing's going to happen to them. do you believe that given what you went through? >> no. it is a very serious virus. this virus does not pick and choose who to infect. and it could hit you as hard as it hit me. and i don't want anybody to go through what i went through. my message technically is just if you're eligible to get the vaccine, please do. i plan on getting vaccinated as

soon as my doctor lets us know when i can. >> reporter: randi kaye, cnn, palm beach county, florida. defending champion naomi osaka is out of the u.s. open tennis tournament suffering a loss that left her near tears. the japanese star was frustrated in the third round by her canadian opponent falling in three sets. osaka also lost her cool repeatedly, banging and slamming her racket to the ground, even hitting a ball into the crowd. she later apologized and spoke about her future. >> i feel like for me recently like when i win i don't feel happy. i feel more like a relief. then when i lose i feel very sad. and i don't -- i don't think that's normal. and i didn't really want to cry,

but basically i feel like -- >> gentlemen, i'm done, okay? thank you. >> no, i kind of want to finish this, i'm sorry. >> up to you. >> yeah. so basically i feel like -- okay. so -- this is very hard to articulate. basically i feel like i'm kind of at this point where i'm trying to figure out what i want to do. and honestly don't know when i'm going to play my next tennis match. sorry.

but -- sorry. >> thank you, everyone. >> okay. yeah. i think i'm going to take a break from playing for a while. >> osaka, the world number three, abruptly pulled out of the french open over anxiety and depr depression. the dramatic move raised the profile of mental health issues in sports. and this just in to cnn -- a short time ago larry became a major hurricane. that's considered a category three or higher, strengthening to about 115 miles per hour. right now it's in the middle of the atlantic ocean. this is the third major hurricane to have formed in the atlantic basin in hurricane season. now larry won't be threat to land for at least the next four days, tracking to the north and west over the open water of the

atlantic. i'm kim brunhuber at cnn center in atlanta. thank you so much for joining me. for viewers in north america, "new day" is next. for everyonet else it's "market africa."

good morning and welcome to your "new day." i'm boris sanchez. >> and i'm christi paul. people from the gulf coast to the northeast, they are cleaning up this morning following the destruction that's left by hurricane ida. in louisiana specifically there are millions who don't have power or running water this morning, and that heat index is soaring into triple digits. plus, booster confusion. just one day after dr. fauci suggests that three shots may be the norm in fighting covid, top health officials are saying not so fast.