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reporter: i don t think anybody is happy about the price tag, particularly given there s going to be another gubernatorial election just a year from now. people will be voting on whether or not gavin newsom should be the governor again in 2022. if you would have asked me about the surprise a month ago, the answer potentially would have been yes. but the fact that gavin newsom is going back to work in the building behind me this morning after the last couple of weeks that we ve had here in california, i don t think it s a surprise. certainly not to his campaign. they felt very confident about how this was going to play out, especially with the late campaign turn, larry elders, and he wasn t going to accept the results of the election. and the reality is people support gavin newsom s policies, they support him on covid vaccine mandates and mask mandates, support his effort to help the unhoused population, to close the inequality gap and fight the wildfires fueled by cli ....
if taliban understand that our families, parents, are in afghanistan, they will catch them until we show up. reporter: since many have already been to the u.s. for training and fought so closely with american forces, the visa process is expected to go smoothly. which would be a huge relief for the men who are forced to dramatically flee their native country and start life in a new one. i can t explain how happy i am. and it s a big pleasure not only for me but for all that were in uzbekistan. on top of the afghan air force personnel who have gotten out of uzbekistan, there are still around 140 more in neighboring tajikistan. general hicks has been tracking their cases as well and has told us that processing on them has started. john, between those two countries, around 60 planes and helicopters were flown out of afghanistan. what will happen to them remains unclear, but thanks to those pilots, the taliban will not get their hands on them. nice to get some good ....
this was an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions. i never thought in my lifetime i would see an unconditional surrender to the taliban. this is betrayal. i do not believe a word you re saying on this. i do not wish to hear from you. what you said is dead wrong. i don t wish to hear your lie. it is so unfortunate the consequences. you need to resign. that would be leadership. dana: senator mike rounds will question secretary blinken this morning on the senate side. peter doocy with the latest from the white house. let s go to capitol hill where aishah hosni is standing by for day two. if it was anything like yesterday it is sure to draw the ire of republicans. blinken yesterday defenlded the withdrawal of the troops from afghanistan at one point hitting his message home saying we inherited a deadline. we did not inherit a plan. he also revealed there are still several thousand u.s. green card holder on top of the some 100 citizens still stuck in afghanist ....
finals fails. we begin in north korea and what appears to be a show of strength. state media reporting that north korea has now successfully test fired new and strategic long range cruise missiles. according to the report, the missiles tested over the week flew 1,500 kilometers before hitting their targets and falling into water. both south korea and the u.s. say they are looking into these claims. south korea s top nuclear envoy is set to discuss north korea during a meeting monday with u.s. and japanese officials. let s go straight to the region. paula is standing by for us. what more can you tell us? hi. reporter: this was another wake-up in the region. it is not as significant as it would have been if it were a ballistic missile. this is the type of missile that is not violating u.n. security council resolutions so technically, north korea didn t break any rules. clearly it is something that everyone in the region and washington watches very closely. we know i ....
so high. california s gubernatorial recall election is in the final stretch with voters heading to the polls tomorrow. can governor gavin newsom hang on to his job? we ll be following that. we re going to begin with the bid for tennis history that came up just short last night at the u.s. open. there it is. medvedev makes his own history. wow. top-ranked novak jovic failed to complete the grand slam falling in straight sets to medvedev in yesterday s u.s. open finals. med very desk denied djokovic what would have been the first calendar grand slam since 1969. djokovic remains tied with nadal with 20 career majors. let s bring in right now veteran sports columnist mike. everybody was there to see history being made. djokovic get his 21st career grand slam. really from the beginning, this is to take nothing away from medvedev, nothing to take i can say his name perfectly by the way, nothing to take anything away from him, but it was almost like djokovic didn t h ....