controversy erupts over the deaths of elderly nursing home residents. and a possible snag in the white house plan to roll out booster shots. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robin kurnow. thanks for joining me this hour. afghanistan s new rumors have yet to declare a formal government, and that has presented a small window for afghan women to publicly demand their rights be protected. [ chants ] these women are demanding the right to work and have a continued voice in the country s affairs, especially on education and health. as you can see here, even this small demonstrations was enough to provoke the taliban to try and break it up. meanwhile, anti-taliban forces
attacks via twitter. just a short time ago, the mayor cruz tweeting this picture that s her in the water showing her wading through it. a bullhorn she s carry, shaking the hands of a young man on the canoe. the mayor with this image with the caption saying, the goal is one saving lives. it was the president who said she was showing poor leadership. the humanitarian crisis in puerto rico is gripping the country. but they re not the only island struggling to recover. the u.s. virgin islands also hit by back-to-back hurricanes. here now is robin kurnow. reporter: this isn t puerto rico but in the u.s. virgin islands, the trail of destruction and suffer regular much the same suffering are much the same. the u.s. and british virgin islands were dealt a one-two
robin kurnow is out front in pretoria for us tonight. reporter: oscar pistorius calm and composed as he walked into court. a stark contrast from the olympian we saw yesterday, crying, gagging, repeatedly throwing up as the state pathologist detailed his model girlfriend reeva steenkamp s final moments. the testimony so gruesome, the judge cut the live video feed. today pistorius listened intently as the pathologist contradicted the athlete s claims the couple went to bed by 10:00 and were not fighting the night she died. he testified steenkamp had eaten about 1:00 a.m., two hours before the shooting. a friend of pistorius also taking the stand. we had met on a breakfast run and subsequently became very friendly thereafter. reporter: darren fresco testified about an incident the court heard about last week where pistorius lost his cool after an officer stopped them for speeding and touched his
car that can differ so dramat dramatically about when and where and why the shot was allegedly fired. not only did oscar pistorius s friend contradict other witnesses, he also seemed evasive, unsure of himself, unsure of his own testimony and statements under cross-examination. his performance on the stand buoyed it seemed the defense team. they left the pretoria high court at the end of the session with smiles on their faces and his friend will now appear again for further cross-examination tomorrow. erin, back to you. thanks so much to robin. breaking news, very important political race tonight. cnn is ready to make a projection in the special election for house seat in florida s 13th district part of st. petersburg. we can now project republican david jolly has beat democrat alex sink. many believe it is a crucial bellwether for the mid-term elections in november.
his bag and handed his satchel, actually vomit into.s to - so this was the kind of deep visceral emotion that pistorius experienced. and i think for anybody watching it on television, any of us inside the court, it was sad, it was powerful. it was just gut wrenching, wasn t it? so, robin, what about what was said on the stand? apart from the drama that was playing out, you know, from defendant s table, what about the actual testimony? what was said from this witness that was so critical to this case? well, i think this witness as well as four others who lived at varying distances as neighbors around pistorius s house, this doctor was the closest. and i think to broadly sum it up it s about what they heard and when. all of them over the course of the past few days have acknowledged that they heard