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as thousands of afghans try to escape the taliban, europe is bracing for a potential new wave of refugees and a state of emergency is declared in parts of new york state ahead of the expected arrival of hurricane henri. cambodia s last remaining population of critically endangered vultures are on the brink of extinction. and our sunday morning edition of the paper review is at 9:35 this morning s reviewers are journalist and author, shyama perera, and martin bentham, home affairs editor at the evening standard. that s for viewers in the uk. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. thousands of people desperate to leave afghanistan are continuing to crowd around kabul airport, a week after the taliban seized control of the country. people have been trying to get through checkpoints in sweltering heat to reach evacuation flights. the british defence secretary, ben wallace, said the uk had flown out more than 1,000 people in the last 2a hours. ....
in other news covid antibody tests are offered to the public for the first time. liverpool great terry mcdermott has been diagnosed with dementia. the 69 year old made 329 appearances for the club. it comes in the same week manchester united and scotland legend denis law announced his diagnosis. good morning to you. it s sunday the 22nd of august. our top story: chaos continues at kabul airport as thousands gather, anxious to board flights out of the country. it s been reported that some needed medical help after being crushed. americans hoping to leave afghanistan have been told not to travel to the airport, amid concerns about the potential for attacks by islamic state militants. meanwhile, efforts to evacuate british citizens and afghans who supported the uk continue, almost 4,000 people have been flown out of afghanistan since last sunday. simonjones reports. desperate to leave. their goal to get inside kabul airport and get out of the country. but the chaos and confu ....
this storm heading straight for rhode island, parts of the eyewall already on shore and we re seeing the storm move to shore as we speak. more than 1500 people under tropical weather alerts right now concerned about storm surge in the harbors and the bays of rhode island, new york and massachusetts. concerns about flooding in the coming hours and widespread power outages because we re talking about a part of the united states not used to seeing tropical weather barrelling into shore. storm surge as well. we re going live in a moment to derek van dam who is in newport, rhode island who can give us a sense of what s happening on the coast. but first let s go to allison chinchar for the latest on the track. allison, any updates from the national hurricane center? we ve got several, in fact. we re learning it is moving very, very close to shore. landfall is expected imminently here. what we re also seeing is that little bit of downpush in wind. the winds are at 60 miles a ....
tough guy for donald, which is what we all wanted to be. that s when you are being investigated, but it is a whole other story now once you are being indicted. so also ahead, democrats, they re ready to go to work to get to the truth about january 6th. they re just waiting to see what the republican sidle do next to try to derail things. it is like they ve got amnesia. this was one of the worst days in our country s history. it was an attack on our democracy. it should be a bipartisan commission, that s on the house and the senate. it should be totally objective. people won t agree to it. you can t get amnesia about the pictures you are showing right now. our lives were threatened. people came to the hill to kill us. plus, the demolition of the building that collapsed in florida set to happen in a matter of hours with more than 100 people unaccounted for. i will talk to an expert about that ahead. i want to start with the president s trip to michigan and his mes ....
adviser, private citizen, meaning whatever conversations he had with trump at the time were likely not protected. ultimately this will almost certainly play out in court. you see, if the full house votes to hold bannon in contempt, speaker nancy pelosi would refer the charges to the department of justice and it will decide whether to prosecute. president biden has made clear what he would like to see happen at that point. i hope that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable. should they be prosecuted? yes. now five former trump aides and allies, none have testified. meadows and patel are engaging with the committee, whatever that means. it doesn t mean much obviously. this morning republican committee member adam kinzinger told cnn more subpoenas could be coming, including one for trump himself. if we subpoena all of a sudden the former president, we know that s going to become kind of a circus. that s not normally something we want to do up fr ....