trudeau is hit by a handful of gravel as anti vax protesters target his campaign for re election. britney spears father files a petiton to end his controversial 13 year control over her estate we ll have the latest live from la. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. medical workers in the western afghan city of herat say three people have been shot dead when the taliban opened fire on a protest. it comes as the islamist group announced a caretaker government, more than three weeks after they ousted the afghan president and took control of most of the country. the head of the interim cabinet is this man mohammad hassan akhund who also happens to be on a un terror sanctions list. earlier, hundreds of protesters, many of them women, also took to the streets of the capital, kabul. they were met with warning shots from the taliban. secunder kermani reports from kabul. death to pakistan, the crowd chant. they re furious at what they believe is the
this is load off from the secretary of defense been a resounding success. of course if you subtract the 13 dead americans, the two dozen trapped school children, the afghans falling off airplanes, or the fact that we armed the taliban with $90 billion worth of automatic weapons and helicopters, it s been great. they are saying this so often, however, that it may not be propaganda. it is starting to seem like everyone in the biden administration actually believes they just won. that might explain why they are promoting jennifer rubin columns from the washington post and walking away from reporters without taking any questions. they don t have to explain themselves. it s obvious this is a victory. watching all of that should worry you. there are only two explanations for it. either every senior government official in washington has been chugging i waltzed out and departed from reality on the early train, and that s possible. or on some deeper level, may be they are actually t
can come avoid any unnecessary travel. flash flood warning for the area has been extended to 3:00 a.m. eastern. of the flooding also stranding air travel, with water rising in new york international airport. earlier, tornadoes touched down in new jersey, dozens of homes destroyed. joining us now for more on the situation is new york city councilman, in staten island, one of the hardest hit areas. joe, can you hear me? i can, thank you very much. what does it look like where you are right now? it s more widespread in terms of damage that hurricane sandy. with that storm, it was the storm surge and some of the low lying areas. we have the coast affected come almost predictably. with this, just the sheer volume of water is something i have never seen in all my years living in staten island, and it just overwhelms the sewer system and has backed up so many basements with sewage water and flooded garages and flooded houses, and i have to say, i ve never seen damage this wide
america s withdraw from afghanistan. we re waiting for a update from the secretary of defense. we also have new exclusive nbc reporting that another isis terror attack may have been forwards by the taliban one aide says it is absolutely instrumental in saving american lives. let s get the latest on afghanistan. courtney, let me start with you. a little less than two hours from now we dpopt here from the charge of defense. you have extraordinary exclusive reporting here on the extents that the taliban cooperated with u.s. forces during the withdrawal? tell us more. the military was very open that they were cooperating with the taliban there. the u.s. central command met in doha about two weeks ago, and they discussed the cooperation, how the u.s. wanted to get americans out and the taliban gave them essentially a coordination on the ground. what we now now is the extent to which that was happening. the state department would reach out, tend a text mess an, and tell them to g
the president s domestic agenda has house democrats are divided on infrastructure strategy. lost to get to. let s bring in john harwood and senior political analyst mr. john avalon. good evening one and all. both johns, by the way. john harwood, you first. let s start with this critical week for the president s domestic agenda. this is where the rubber really is going to meet the road here and it comes down to the democrats this time so give us the latest. what do you think? what do you know? look, don, the democrats will have to decide whether to hang together or hang rseparately. this is the margins are so small in the house and senate anybody or any small group of people in the house can take down the president s agenda if they want to. so you ve had this group of moderate democrats in the house who have been threatening to withhold support for the larger budget bill that they re going to do with democrats only votes, the $3.5 trillion unless they first get a vote on t