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i m kim brunhuber. coming up on cnn newsroom, the stakes are so high in the u.s. midterm elections that four current or former presidents are back out on the campaign trail, hoping to get their candidates in the win column on tuesday. we ve got the latest from the battleground states ahead. ukraine is reacting to iran s admission it has sent drones to russia after weeks of denying it and we re live in kyiv with details. plus comes on, kyle tucker, this time they finish the job. the houston astros the houston astros clinched the title, game six of the world series. coming up, we ll show you the biggest plays. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. with the u.s. midterm elections just a few days away, several presidents have descended on a key swing state. in pennsylvania, barack obama shared the stage with president joe biden on saturday. both campaigned if democrat john fetterman in the closely watched sfl senate race ....
plus, the latest on house speaker nancy pelosi and taiwan. the uncertain visit is straining an already tense relationship between the united states and china. and a texas man gets the longest prison sentence to date tied to the capitol attack, but his daughters want someone else locked up, too. good morning, and welcome to way too early, on this tuesday, august 2nd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. after decades on the run, the top leader of al qaeda has finally been taken off the battlefield. ayman al zawahiri was killed this last weekend by a cia drone while standing on a balcony in downtown kabul, second in command to osama bin laden during the september 11th attacks, and became the top leader when the united states killed bin laden in 2011. a senior administration official tells nbc news that the strike was so precise, none of his family inside the home were killed. in a rare evening address last night, president biden still isolating from covid ....
led to what biden called a precision strike targeting the most wanted terrorist. we make it clear again tonight that no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the united states will find you and take you out. zawahiri s death comes 11 years after the u.s. killed osama bin laden. at one point he was bin laden s personal physician. jasmine wright has more on biden s decision to take him out, and ben wedeman joining us with the details on the strike itself. let s start with the strike. it was months in the making. what more do we know about the operation itself? reporter: basically it was done by a drone that fired two hell fire missiles on to the balcony of the building that ayman al zawahiri and his family were living in in kabul, it happened at 6:18 a.m. local time in kabul. and this obviously, yes, as we ve heard time and time again, this was an operation long in the making. but what is interesting is that until now ....
the united states successfully concluded an air strike in kabul, afghanistan that killed the immere of al qaeda. ayman al zawahiri. he was deeply involved in the planning of 9/11. let me make it clear again tonight that no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the united states will find you and take you out. and good morning to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is tuesday, august 2nd. i m brianna keilar. john berman is off. john avlon is with us this morning. and president biden delivering that message to the nation, that justice has been delivered. ayman al zawahiri, the leader of al qaeda, and the world s most wanted terrorist killed in a precision u.s. drone strike. zal zawahiri was bin laden s leader and the leader of the terrorist attack of 9/11, his death coming after the u.s. took out bin laden. these are image of the neighborhood where the taliban said the strike was carried out. mission w ....
Hello, everybody. 5 00 in the morning. Were glad you are here with us this 21st. I was pleasantly supplies surprise walking out this morning. Full sunshine and southerly winds. Were still running extremely warm at this hour. 50 degrees in boston. 44 in worchester. 38 degrees in providence. We have some clouds to help trap that daytime heat. We are running lower in all yesterday. 13 degrees warmer and lawrence and 12 degrees warmer and concorde. We will have are right around 48 degrees for the rest of the day here. 50 degrees by 3 pm. The wind kicks in from the bring in slightly cooler air. Overnight tonight, a chance for rain. We will go through that hour by hour timing and let you know when we could be tracking our next chance of soaking rain. We do have breaking news. Seven people are dead following shootings in the kalamazoo area. Police arrested a 45yearold overnight and found weapons in his car. Police say the shootings were random. The suspect opened fire in multiple locations in ....