skecurity is on high alert s u.s. capitol goes back up before a pro trump rally. students fight back against a book ban. and spacex launches its first all-tourist crew into orbit. welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom."

we begin in washington where fences are going up around the u.s. capitol ahead of this saturday's right wing rally. dubbed the justice for j-6, organizers say their goal is to show support for the hundreds arrested in the january 6 insurrection. and now capitol police want to make sure there isn't a repeat of those riots. cnn's ryan nobles filed this report before the fences went up. >> reporter: it is very clear that capitol police and the security forces responsible for protecting this area are preparing for the very worst on saturday ahead of that rally in support of the people that were arrested for taking part in the january 6 insurrection. right now this area behind me at the capitol is all open to the public, but in just a matter of hours, security personnel will begin constructing a large fence that will wrap around this entire area. and you can already see some of

the security precautions that are in place, these are cameras that have been put at strategic places around the capitol square so that law enforcement can keep an eye on the protestors and any potential problems that could arise throughout the course of saturday. now, one of the other things that law enforcement has done, they have requested that the national guard be on backup just in case they need them. of course the response of the national guard on january 6 is a big point of contention, the fact that it took so long to mobilize them, to help, is something that many of these different committees up on capi investigating. and they are concerned about participants bringing weapons to this event. that is something that the law enforcement is tracking. while the organizer said that that is something that he does not think will be a problem. >> we have a largely peaceful

crowd. we've had two events so far at the department of justice and the prison and there have been no incidents so far. nobody will be bringing a weapon who is a part of our crowd. >> reporter: while all these precautions are being put into place, to be clear, what is happening on saturday is markedly different than what we saw on january 6. of course the house and senate, they won't even be in session on most lawmakers won't be here. and of course none of the high profile republicans that took place in the event on january 6 are even scheduled to speak. in fact not one republican house member has confirmed their attendance to participate in this rally. so while there is always that potential for violence, it is clear that law enforcement right now are just preparing for what they are describing as a worst case scenario. ryan nobles, cnn, capitol hill. the biden administration is defending america's top military official after claims that general mark milley overstepped his authority during the last

days of the trump administration. cnn's brian todd has the details. >> reporter: president biden backing joint chiefs chairman army general mark milley. >> i have confidence in general milley. >> reporter: following new revolutions in the new book "peril." former president trump and some republicans in congress calling for milley to be tossed out even court martialed over the courting in the book that general milley was so fearful that president trump would start a war with china that he secretly called his chinese counterpart twice to reassure him that the united states would not strike china. >> that is treason. i've had so many calls today saying that is treason. >> reporter: general milley's office defends his calls saying they were part of a series of calls with mirkamerica's alleys adversaries. a defense official says that the calls were not done in secret and followed the same protocols used by other chir air men of t

joint chiefs. and the book also says milley called a secret meeting at the pentagon to review the process for military action including launching nuclear weapons that milley instructed top officials not to take orders from anyone including then president trump unless milley was involved. the writers write milley was certain that trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election with trump all but manic screaming at officials and constructing his own alternate reality about endless election conspiracies. that doesn't cut it with marco rubio. >> it is the essence a military c coup. at a minimum he should be fired if this is true. >> it is completely appropriate for the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff as the senior military adviser to both the secretary and the president to want to see those protocols

reviewed on whatever frequent basis that he wants to do that. >> reporter: woodward and costa also write that after the protests in june 2020, trump accused then defense secretary mark esper of trying to take away his authority. and screamed at others in the room, quote, you are all fed up, everyone one of you is fed up. former president trump in addition to calling milley's reported actions treason has issued a statement calling the joint chiefs chairman a dumb ass and would fox news says con kobl docked a fake news story. trump says he never thought about attacking china, a possibility alluded to in the book. and that the people who told that story are, quote, sick and demented and those who 3rprinte it just as bad. brian todd, cnn, washington.

under a new try i-lateral security pact, the u.s. will share technology with australia q . the chinese embassy in washington slammed the new partnership for its, quote, cold war mentality. more from jeff zeleny at the white house. >> reporter: major announcement from the united states, the united kingdom and australia with leaders of all three nations coming together on wednesday to issue new strategic tri-lateral partnership causing it aukus. it is these three democracies really coming together to deploy nuclear powered submarines for australia to patrol the south china sea, of course keeping an eye on china is the central role of all three nations here. in a joint virtual address, president biden joined by british prime minister boris johnson and australian prime

minister scott morrison made this announcement wednesday evening in the u.s., late wednesday evening in the uk and early thursday morning in australia. president biden said it is key for these countries to once again work together. >> today we're taking another historic step, to deepen and formalize cooperation among all three of our nations because we all recognize the imperative of ensuring peace and stability in the endo pacific over the long term. we need to be able to address both the current strategic environment in the region and how it may evolve. because the future of each of our nations and indeed the world depends on a free and open endo pacific. >> reporter: china was not mentioned by either of the three leaders during the announcement, but that sub text was very clear. of course china's rise has been a central focus of the biden administration. president biden leading that conversation as he meets with world leaders.

he will be doing that again next week at the united nations. but clearly australia for the first time will have this nuclear powered submarine system to keep an eye more on the south china sea and the aggressive steps china has been making there. so a unique partnership by a group of allies certainly, but by these three leaders coming together to do a joint announcement of this group called aukus, they are making the case to try to stop or slow or certainly keep an eye on china's rise. jeff zeleny, cnn, the white house. and kristie lu stout is joining us. china is not too thrilled by this development. >> reporter: and chaina's ministry of foreign affairs have reacted angrily to this new pact

with the ministry of foreign affairs issuing a statement condemning the pact saying that it, quote, seriously undermines regional peace and security. earlier we heard from a spokesperson from the chinese embassy calling on the three countries to sheikh off their cold war mentality. of course it was wednesday when these three nations announced the security pact for the endo pacific region with the aim of working together on cybersecurity issues, advanced technologies like ai, and to help australia gain access and acquire a nuclear powered submarine. the u.s. president biden has made a point that this is not a nuclear-armed submarine, it is a nuclear powered submarine, but it will have conventional weapons. he said the aim is to ensure peace and stability in the indo pacific region for some time to company, but china sees it as a very provocative move. let's bring up the statement,

saying, quote, the nuclear submarine cooperation between the u.s., uk and australia seriously undermines regional peace and stability, specifies the arms race and undermines international nuclear efforts. this once again proves that they use nuclear exports as a tool for geopolitical gaming and they adopt double standards on nuclear nonproliferation, highly unresponsible. and earlier we also heard from washington embassy spokesman who said that the countries should not build exclusionary blocs. and in particular they should shake off the cold war mentality. so quite an angry response to this new tri-lateral pact from china. back to you, kim. >> thanks so much, kristie lu stout. the world's first all-civilian space flight crew is now orbiting the earth.

>> five, four, three, two, one! >> ignition. and liftoff. >> the spacex rocket taking off wednesday with no professional astronaut on board. it led by jared isaacman who funded the mission. spacex hopes that this will be the first of many similar tourist missions paving the way for a new era of space travel. christian fisher has a closer look at the mission from the kennedy space center. >> reporter: it was a spectacular and successful nighttime launch from the kennedy space center. and what makes this inspiration 4 mission so extraordinary is just how ordinary the crew is. none are professional astronauts and yet they will be orbiting the earth the next three days

before splashing down in the atlantic ocean. on board, a 29-year-old pediatric cancer survivor and physician's assistant at st. jude's. and there is also dr. proctor who applied to be an astronaut back in 2009, came this close, didn't quite make the cut. she was devastated. and now she gets to achieve her life long dream. and also chris sembroski who entered the sweepstakes and his friend got the golden ticket but gave it to him. and finally the commander jared isaacman, entrepreneur, a pilot, and he is really the brainchild for this mission. he went to spacex back in october about something totally different, mentioned in a passing comment hey, if you ever want to send me in sparks i'd be game. and now here he is in orbit less than a year later. >> i wouldn't say pressure because pressure would mean like i'm nervous about the outcome here. i think responsibility is really

the word in that this is a big responsibility and we have to execute well and get it right so that the door can stay open for all the other missions to follow. >> reporter: jared isaacman talks a lot about opening up space travel to everyone. and that is really center to spacex's founding mission which is to make humanity multiplanet taker, to colonize mars. so you have to prove that your everyday person is capable of dealing with the riggers of orbital space flight and that is what the crew will spend the next several days doing. kristin fisher, cnn. some experts push for approval of covid booster shots in the u.s., others say not so fast. it will be up to the food and drug administration to make sense of all the data. we'll have what to expect ahead of a key meeting. and ahead, one of the innovative new methods to try to rid the world of carbon pollution. stay with us.

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scientists quite angry, they say the president of the united states should not be talking about something until fda and cdc scientists have been able to look at the data and weigh in on their thoughts. so let's take a look at what some of this data is. at issue is whether two shots are enough to protect people. u.s. and qatari studies suggest that two shots are sufficient but there are israeli studies that suggest that two shots are not sufficient to protect against severe covid-19. and from the new england journal of medicine, an israeli study shows that boosters do protect against severe illness. that is based on their booster program that started on august 1. they have already given booster shots to millions of people. now, there is another layer to this. we've already talked about shots protecting against severe illness, but would a booster shot protect against infection. we know that sometimes people get two shots of a covid-19

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gymnasts are calling out the system that so badly failed them. the group of star athletes testified on capitol hill wednesday over the fbi's botched investigation into sexual abuse allegations against dr. larry nassar. a scathing justice department inspector general report found agents failed to properly document complaints by the accusers and then lied about it. g jean casarez reports. >> they had legal legitimate evidence of child abuse and did nothing. i felt pressure to consent to nassar's plea deal. >> i blame larry nassar. and i also blame an entire system. >> why? why would the fbi agents lie to oig investigators? >> reporter: mckayla maroney, alleyy raisman, simone biles, ee members of the united states gymnastics team ripping the fbi for failing to protect them from

their sexual abuser. >> i was so shocked by their disregard for my trauma. >> their well-being was placed in the jeopardy of these individuals who chose not to do their jobs. >> it was like serving innocent children up to a pedophile on a silver platter. >> reporter: one by one, the decorated gymnasts told their stories, recounting the years of abuse by larry nassar, former usa gymnastics team doctor. >> i sit before you today to raise my voice so that no little girl must endure what i, the athletes at this table and the countless others who needlessly suffered under nassar's guise of medical treatment. which we continue to endure today. >> that evening i was naked, completely alone, with him on top of me molesting me for hours. i told them i thought i was going to die that night because there was no way that he would let me go.

>> he turned out to be more of a pedophile than he was a doctor. >> reporter: nassar is currently serving a 40 to 175 year state prison sentence after 150 women and girls came afford to expose that he abused them over the course of 20 years. but today's congressional hearing, a result of the scathing report from the justice department's inspector general's office revealing fbi officials investigating the allegations against nassar made false statements and failed to properly document complaints by the accusers at the time. >> not only did the fbi not report my abuse, but when they eventually documented my report, 17 months later, they made entirely false claims about what i said. >> reporter: one fbi agent already fired, michael langman. correspond to the "washington post," interviewed maroney in 2015 about her allegations of sexual abuse by nassar and is

accused of failing to launch a proper investigation. >> the fbi's handling of the nassar case is a stain on the bureau. >> reporter: fbi director christopher wray who did not lead the bureau at the time also being grilled today. >> this man is on the loose molesting children and it appears that it is being lost in the paperwork of the agency. >> i share your bewilderment, i share your outrage. and i don't have a good explanation for you. >> reporter: wray apologizing to the victims and vowing to do more. >> it is my commitment to you that i and my entire senior leadership team are going to make damn sure everybody at the fbi remembers what happened here in heartbreaking detail. >> reporter: the department of justice was invited to testify at today's hearing. they declined. senator richard blumenthal said by them just not showing up, it appeared as though they don't care about the abuse of little girls. cnn though has now learned that

attorney general merrick garland does plan on coming before the senate judiciary committee in october, but at this point, they have still declined any prosecution in this matter. gene jean came jean casarez, cnn, capitol hill. derek chauvin will be back in front of a judge to be arraigned in the federal case. he is accused of killing george floyd. chauvin faces unreasonable use of force and other charges. federal judge has scheduled an october 1 hearing on a u.s. justice department request to freeze the new texas abortion ban. the doj wanted an immediate ruling, but the judge could issue a preliminary injunction allowing some clinics to resume abortions. the u.s. supreme court let the

law stand earlier this month in a separate legal challenge. it bans abortions after a fee h fetal heartbeat is detected. students in york, pennsylvania are fighting back against the school district's ban of certain books dealing with race and history. the students say the school board isn't addressing the concerns of a multicultural student body and as evan mcmorris-santoro tells us, there is something else the books have in common. >> reporter: do you think the adults have read these books? >> absolutely not. i don't think that moral compass could let you ban books that say love each other. >> reporter: these teens are standing up to the latest example of controversy surrounding history and race that is affecting a growing number of america's public schools. >> they cannot silence our voices. >> reporter: last fall the all white school board of the central york school district

banned a list of books. >> it has a lot of bad ideas and books that i would not want in our district. >> i do not feel it is balanced. >> reporter: and that list includes a children's book about rosa, parks. sesame street town hall on racism. >> racism? what's that? >> reporter: and much, much more. >> this is "hidden figures." the movie was -- >> reporter: like from the movie. >> yeah. >> reporter: it is frustrating for the students. >> this is a board that after hearing their student's concerns about diversity in the district, hearing my struggles with race being indian american and consistently feeling like i didn't belong, after all those conversations for weeks on end, they still pursued this book ban. >> i want to learn genuine history. i don't want to learn a white wash version. i want to hear all of it. i don't want everyone to worry

about how we feel because no one was worried about the members of the community felt. >> reporter: the ban called school librarians to pull the books from the shelves. >> and i have to now with this resource ban think twice about whether or not i should or could use a james baldwin quote as an opening for my class. >> there are teachers looking over their shoulders wondering if someone will be at their door, darkening their door, that you said something or you mentioned something or you used something that you were not supposed to. >> reporter: the fact that all the banned materials are by or about people of color is just a coincidence, according to the school board president. concerns were based on the content of the resources not the author or topic she said in a statement. she and the rest of the school board refused to speak on camera. she says it is not a ban. the materials are frozen while the board vets them. but the process is still ongoing

after nearly a year. that suits some parents in this 82% white district just fine. >> i don't want my daughter growing up feeling guilty because she is white. >> reporter: that sentiment is spreading. at least 27 states have passed or considering policies strictly defining what students are allowed to learn about race. one expert says the york ban is something new. >> this seems pretty egregious. i can see how certain trainings or workshops that some parents take exception to seem really outside what a history class can be expected to do, but the kind of texts that are being banned here make me feel that there is now just sort of an allergy to anything that mentions race or racism. >> reporter: this is about more than a book or a movie or even a curriculum some veteran teachers say. in york they worry that it is a war on their profession. >> i'm not an enemy of the state. i'm here to take care of your babies when they walk into my classroom and there are some of

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france says its military forces have killed the leader of the islamic state in the greater sahara. emmanuel macron called it another major success in our fight against terrorist groups. the isis leader had claimed responsibility for the 2017 ambush of u.s. forces in niger. cyril vanier is live in paris. tell us more about who was killed and how important this is in the war on terror in the region. >> reporter: yeah, france is claiming major victory in its war on terror this morning with the killing of the man they described as the founder and leader of the islamic state in that part of africa. his last name is a reference to his presence in the a sahara

desert. and he was a source of slins and terror across the region. and he is the person who not only masterminded an ambush in niger that killed four u.s. soldiers and four nigerian soldiers, but also an attack on french aid workers that killed six french humanitarian workers in the summer of 2020. the french foreign minister considered him enemy number one and he was also a high priority target for the u.s. they had put a bounty on his head over the last two years offering $5 million to anyone who would provide information leading to his capture. >> cyril vanier, thank you so much. appreciate it. prime minister saying the best path to stability in afghanistan is to engage with

the taliban. he sat down with cnn for an interview. he talked about afghanistan's future and says the taliban are looking for international help to avoid a crisis. >> if you do not back this government and do not help the people of afghanistan right now, it is not a question of people of taliban, it is people of afghanistan. if we, the international community, does not help them, what choice have we got. >> in the past few weeks women across afghanistan have taken to the streets to protest against taliban rule and now many are living in fear and in hiding worried that much like their rights and freedoms, their lives could also be at risk. nic robertson has more from kabul. ♪ >> reporter: in happier times, society saved children from

abuse, paid for with profits from a construction company she built. now she is in hiding from the taliban, in fear for her life. >> translator: they are trying to threaten us and execute us secretly. as they did to many of my female friends. >> reporter: her cry, in the taliban's eyes, protests taking to the streets two weeks ago demanding equal rights. she was beaten and bruised. ever since, taliban death threats have stalked her. so many fear she hopes if death comes it is fast. >> translator: i'm not afraid of death, but i wish when they find me they kill me quickly. if they torture me first, then they will kill me without any honor. everyone wants to die with dignity. >> reporter: before the taliban, she was well-known, popular, ran for parliament, might have been elected if not for enendemic

corruption. but she has no idea what do now. >> translator: how long can i be brave, how long do we have to fight? fight with whom? with whom to talk, with whom to discuss? we are in darkness with no way to get to a brighter future. >> reporter: across the country, many more women like her hide in fear of the taliban. they share all the new social media posts that they say show arbitrary abuse. they are both hard to verify and the taliban deny. but for now they are the only way the women can protest their plight. >> everything is at stake right now. because we are actually facing a situation that we are so disliked by a group of people who are actually running this country. they can't even look at us.

>> reporter: and this woman is afghanistan's highest proceed fight women's rights activist. she returned from the u.s. when the taliban were ousted two decades ago and she won't leave again she says, will stay here to defend women, get the world's attention. >> they are going to make problems, they will raise their voices, they will start -- the world is becoming a very small place now. >> these are brutal guys with guns who turn them on crowds. >> it is true. but for how long? they are going to be killing everybody, is that what they want to do? >> reporter: she faces an agonizing choice. she is the breadwinner. her brother's family and abused children she rescued depend on her. >> translator: they need me so i need to be strong. and that is really hard. >> reporter: but to stay is to risk death. >> translator: we tried a lot to have a better afghanistan, to have a better life, to have a

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and in iceland oig, one plant w suck it from the air and put it underground where it will turn to stone. in this plant, they are using an unusual method. >> we have turned our operations the largest carbon capture plant currently operational in the world with capacity of 5,000 tons of co2 that are captured from the air every year. >> reporter: a swiss startup partners with an icelandic firm developed the plant named orca, reference to the word meaning energy. powered from a nearby geothermal plant, the eight large containers use high tech filters and fans to capture our suck planet heating carbon by oxide from the air. from then -- >> we are then handing it over to our partners. and the co2 is mineralized and

turned into stone within a period of two years. that is the most safe and most 2 from the atmosphere. >> reporter: but it was expensive and needs more development before it could impact global warming. 15 capture plants removed less than 10,000 tons of co2 in 2020. that pales in comparison to the billions of tons of carbon emissions the world releases each year.he developers say thay plan to scale up and that there is more investment and government interest in their technology. a hopeful start they say in the growing fight against the world's climate crisis. to learn more about this and other climate-related stories, visit cnn d.com/climate.

what was tropical depression nicholas is dumping heavy rains along the gulf coast and now threatening to bring dangerous flash flooding to parts of the south still reeling from hurricane ida. ped tram javaheri is tracking tt system and more trouble in the tropics. >> yes, good morning. it has been so soggy along portions of the gulf the last couple days really going back a few weeks with ida's presence across the region. but notice two day rainfall estimates putting it as much as 6 to 8 inches, pockets of 14 or more in and around galveston. so flood alerts still in place. and here is what is left of nicholas, pumping in the tropical moisture in parts of georgia and the panhandle and even the carolinas getting into some rain showers this morning. on the back side of it, it is a bit drier. we could see pockets of thunderstorms developing, so flooding is still a concern. but see the color brown? that is all the dry air filtering back in and behind

this feature. so we do expect at least a bit of a break going into friday as the system tries to rain itself out across this region. again the heaviest rains look to remain east and north of this area. across the tropics, high possibility of formation in the next five days, 90% chance. slightly lesser just off the coast of africa. closer to home, a 70% probability of a tropical system forming in the coming days. and of course we're watching exactly where the models are indicating where these systems could end up, but the one near africa poised to develop and push toward the windward and leeward islands. the one closer to home, just about every model wants to guide this away from the united states. so some better news in that sense. but again, worst watching the southerly storm over the next several days. there is a flooding kconcern around the southeast and increasing clouds in the west before fire weather has been a huge story here. and finally we're getting a taste of autumn, onshore winds,

cooler temperatures and even wet weather to be had but certainly will help the firefighting efforts the next couple days. highs only in the upper 60s in seattle, 92 in dallas and temperatures around new york city, not too bad, 75 degrees. there are new revelations in the abuse scandal involving some of america's top gymnasts. here is don riddell with a minute in sports. four american gymnasts have agenda bravely relived the trauma of their sexual abuse scandal being a cruising the fbi and justice department of playing a role in their suffering. and in a day of explosive testimony at the senate, the athletes including bisimone bil accused fbi agents of mishandling allegations which allowed the abuse to continue. meanwhile there was a thrilling night of action in the champions league, but a disappointing one for lionel messi. psg could only draw one-all.

elsewhere in group a, a big win for another tournament favorite manchester city who big summer signing scored a goal in their 6-3 win. and there was no shortage of excitement where jordan henderson scored the winner as liverpool came from behind in group b. and that is your minute in sports. and that is it for "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber in atlanta. "early start" with laura jarrett and christine romans picks things up after a quick break.

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good morning, it is thursday. we begin with this saturday's justice for j-6 rally does not turn into a violent repeat of january 6. overnight crews started to fence off the capitol. capitol police have already requested help from the national guard hoping for more manpower on the ground. the rally's stated goa