and out west, two people dead in their cars as an explosive wildfire in california rips through a national forest. crews struggle to contain the blaze. and it s primary day in five key states with just three months till the november midterms. in kansas today is the first direct vote on abortions post-roe. sharice davids will join us today. and we begin this morning with a strike that took out one of the world s most wanted terrorists while still in isolation from covid, president biden announced that al qaeda leader ayman al zawahiri was killed in a drone strike in kabul, afghanistan, where he and his family had been hiding. justice has been delivered and this terrorist leader is no more. people around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer 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. this morning the white house released this picture of the pr
talk to us a little bit about where the strike was carried out and then there s been talk ken was talking about the diplomatic quarter. what is that and what was the area and the context in which this strike was carried out? well, thank you, jose. the neighborhood is a neighborhood that was very well known amongst the western community. it was a fairly new neighborhood post-2001. it used to be a military barracks and a lot of the afghan warlords came in and built poppy palaces. it was mansions built with a lot of money that came from the poppy industry, from corruption. unfortunately, there was a lot of westerners who rented these villas including the barracks that i lived in. fox was there, cbs was there, the spanish embassy was there. you could walk to embassies. this is hiding in plain sight. i don t think it was a shock to many of us that al zawahiri was