People dying for no reason, people torturing people dying for no reason, people torturing for no reason. Why? because torturing for no reason. Why? because they are human. Great britain because they are human. Great britain has a humanity. That s all i can say england lose the second test. It was a thrilling and dramatic day of cricket at lords, but india came out on top. Jodie comer tells us about her hollywood breakthrough, how she mastered an american accent and the time she got her mum s sunday dinners on set. Good morning. Today once again it is going to be fairly cloudy. The cloud thick enough for patchy light rain and drizzle. Limited sunshine. Details coming up. Good morning. It s tuesday, august 17th. Our top story. President biden has defended his decision to withdraw us troops from afghanistan. He admitted surprise at how quickly the taliban seized power, but blamed afghanistan s leaders for the defeat. Military planes are reported to have begun flying again from kab
Nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. I m kate snow in for lester tonight. It is rare to see hurricane warnings on the west coast of florida in july. But that s exactly what we have tonight. Tropical storm elsa dumping heavy rain on the florida keys today and then strengthening over the open water with maximum winds now just below hurricane strength and the threat of lifethreatening storm surge the tampa area bracing with forecasters expecting the storm to become a hurricane just before making landfall tomorrow morning, likely somewhere north of tampa we ll have the full forecast ahead, but we begin with catie beck in tampa tonight. Reporter: tropical storm elsa growing stronger over warm gulf waters with winds nearing 70 miles an hour, the threat of tornadoes and up to eight inches of rain are expected along florida s west coast everybody is always concerned. You never know what it s going to do. We re going to take on some water. That s all there is to it. Reporter: many busin
a new gallup poll highlights a dramatic shift in u.s. politics, showing more americans see themselves as republicans or a leading conservative and the g.o.p. is holding a five-point lead on that front. the democrats had a nearly ten-point edge about a year ago. think about that, not just the flip, but a big one. in fact president biden s party had the highest approval in decades when he first took office last january. now the stunning reversal. why they blame the biden administration s missteps for it. one democrat strategist is pointing fingers elsewhere. he got infrastructure success which is a good thing because it success breeds success. but i think the problem of the democrats is not that they have bad leaders, they have bad followers. harris: so you want to take on the entire american voting force. pete, a record number in the last presidential election. you re going to take them on and blame them? pete: apparently, i looked at the totality of his comments and i t
next crisis could be a recession. so is the present didn t tries to convince americans he s got this, moments like this in north carolina, just not helping. god bless you all. yikes. there were several other moments but i had a compilation of moments i put together. there was one moments yesterday, tall tale reminiscent of others that the president is told, take a listen. i d love to drive an 18-wheeler. i d like to. i ve been on a lot of university campuses. for four years i was up professor at the university of pennsylvania. it seemed times yesterday when the first time i got arrested. full professor for two years, a driver of an 18-wheeler, that i ever tell you, jamaica my was a world champion sumo wrestler? i was technically a champion horseback rider if you count the quarter my mom put in a horse outside the supermarket. emily has actually done a lot of things. not as many as the horses. joe biden is like the doe psyche interesting man in the world. h