Travelers pack airspace and fans fill college football statements as new cases in the u. S. Hit the highest level since january. Plus, the state with the highest labor day gas price ever. Crime wave in chicago, at least 55 people are shot in the city over the holiday weekend, including a four yearoldboy, the new crackdown on illegal gun sales. A small town cries foul: workers at a minnesota factory are worried their jobs will be outsourced to china. Unbearable, why officials in tahoe are telling residents to be on the lookout for bears. And surf s up: a different kind of therapy for front line healthcare workers. This is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. Yuccas: good evening, to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. I m jamie yuccas in for norah. Tonight, millions of storm victims from the gulf coast to the northeast are bracing for yet another blast of heavy rain and possibly even more floods. Flash flood watches and heat a
Taliban now to spare the u. S. Embassy there. Bill: the situation drawing comparisons to the end of the vietnam war in 1975 when they evacuated staffers from a rooftop in saigon. The taliban seized control of kandahar. Southern part of the country. The birthplace for the taliban there. Not much of a surprise kandahar would fall. It happened. The second largest city in the country. Reaction pouring in. You heard jack keane calling it an embarrassing retreat, hasty withdrawal. The territory now the taliban has captured so far in the past four months. That group controls about 2/3 of the country. Closing in on the capital city of kabul. Will me make a move on that? we don t know. U. S. Officials say it could fall in a matter of months. Jack keane, roll this. They re it will be horrific. They are a killing machine. Jackie heinrich, hello. Good morning, sandra and bill. The u. S. Sending 3,000 troops to kabul to assist in the evacuation of americans and diplomats. Signals to many deteriorat
We re currently seeing the middle east unravel faster than ilhan s marriage to her brother. We re seeing an surd an absurd gas shortage and high gas prices. We have a bumbling leaders who scares no one such someone who uses herbal essence shampoo. Unemployment is rising as benefits keep flowing. Crime is back and bloodier than ever. We re witnessing shootings and murders like never before. Not exactly like never before. We have seen it before. In fact, we ve seen it all before. It s called we ll be making another run the 17 the 70s don t leave home without a gun there is no gas inflation will leave you broke on your ass the 70s we re all going to hell the 70s the 70s [siren] [applause] greg: you don t have to clap. That was no jack jones. But it s true. We ve gone back to the 70s, a 10year span so awful we had to create the 1980s and 1990s to erase it. On the plus side, we might get another one of these. Maybe we have. Seriously. She is this generation s farrah fawcett or jacqueline
at the gas price were david lee miller sees the cost of filling up still soaring and at the white house where sees the president now scrambling. blue origin guys are back safe and sound, the rest of us it s safe to say just sounding off. we begin right now with madison at new jersey grocery store checking in on the eye-popping cost of simply checking out. prices here are on the rise, they just continue to go upgrad this consumer price index up today over the course of the past year prices have gone up 5.4 percent for things like gas and other shopping, the biggest contributor being housing and food. within food, there are some categories that have increased more than others. let s look at some of the highest hitters in terms of tha increase. when it comes to meet, using an increase of over 12 percent annually. makeup of over 19 percent. fish and seafood up over 10 percent. we spoke to shoppers today and many say they are clearly notin things skyhigh prices when they shop.
hough starts us off tonight from the white house. alex, good evening. good evening, trace, yeah, president biden had an address today and this is less about announcing new negotiating to combat inflation more so providing update on strategies already deployed. my plan is already in motion. from releasing oil from the strategic reserve to combating food price gouging, president biden says his efforts to combat inflation are working. i want every american to know that i m taking inflation very seriously and it s my top domestic priority. and i m here today to talk about solutions. but the president was also there to talk about alternatives plan. one that he says has been proposed by republicans. they don t want to solve inflation by lowering your costs. they want to solve it by raising your taxes and lowering your income. there is no republican tax plan. president biden was referring to an individual proposal by florida senator rick scott. i can t believe that t