On the CBS News Weekend Roundup with host Allison Keyes; the death toll continues to rise after Hurricane Ida batters the Gulf Coast before dumping record-breaking rains on the Northeast. Cleanup continues as both regions try to dry out. President Biden also visits Louisiana to survey storm damage. CBS's Mireya Villarreal begins our coverage; CBS's Jim Krasula also joins Allison from New Orleans. Major controversy over Texas' strict new abortion law, with the president blasting the Supreme Court for allowing it to take effect. Late Friday, a Texas judge temporarily shielded abortion clinics from lawsuits by the non-profit Texas Right to Life in more fallout from that strict abortion law. At Planned Parenthood, Ianthe Metzger reacted before that ruling, but is alarmed. Allison gets the latest from CBS's Nikole Killion, along with reaction from both Planned Parenthood's Ianthe Metzger and National Right to Life Committee President Carol Tobias, who is pleased. CBS's Jericka Duncan reports from suburban Denver on the manslaughter indictment of three police officers and two paramedics in the death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain -- two years after the Black man was put into a chokehold and injected with a powerful sedative. In this week's Kaleidoscope, we discuss the fears that have come to a head for families and women now that the Biden administration has pulled the last U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. U.S. Country Director Naheed Samadi Bahram at Women for Afghan Women, joins Allison to discuss what is happening there, and what is needed to help the Afghan refugees streaming into the U.S. How will COVID-19 worries impact Labor Day travel this holiday weekend? CBS's Errol Barnett reports. Finally, the story of an artist who's found a unique way to tell the tales of Asian American heroes that are often left out of history books. CBS's Adriana Diaz has the story.
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