i m kim blrunhuber. we re following breaking news out of afghanistan where taliban fighters have claimed two of their biggest prizes yet, the country s second largest city kandahar and the capital of helmand province lashkar gah. cnn can t confirm this and you had then discity, but taliban fighters claim that they seized hundreds of weapons, vehicles and ammunition. afghan forces appear to either surrender or flee. so the taliban now control 14 provincial capitals, harat, the third largest city fell on thursday. meanwhile the u.s. is deploying 3,000 additional troops to kabul to help evacuate american citizens. let s bring in nick paton walsh who is live in london. nick, it is stunning since you and i spoke yesterday by my calculation four more provincial capitals have fallen, but the latest two lashkar gah, two huge prizes for the taliban. speak to the significance of the lot of these cities. reporter: yeah, kandahar birth place of the taliban under intense pressure over
of wind damage and 400,000 still without power at this hour. this weather is brought to you by carvana, the new way to buy a car. so we will have more weather in the same area today, more wind damage likely, right over wisconsin, illinois, into michigan. the same type of weather, the same type of squall line like we had. and pretty much the same spot, too. so we ll have to watch out for that. people still picking up the pieces there. it will be another hot day today. monticello, iowa, yesterday had a heat index for a few minutes of 125 degrees. that s off the chart. here you go tropical storm fred we talked about this yesterday the potential was there for fred and certainly now it is here at this hour. headed toward the florida straits. see what it does, east coast, west coast of florida you re still in the cone. we ll keep watching. new day continues right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m
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it is way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that s still broadcasting here from planet earth for now. i m alicia menendez on this tuesday, august 10th. we ll start the news. we begin with the latest on coronavirus as the delta variant causes infections to surge across the u.s. the u.s. case count now exceeds 36 million since the start of the pandemic. for the first time since february t country is averaging more than 10,000 new cases a day fueled largely by infections in areas with low vaccination rates. in some parts of the country, hospitals are nearing capacity with available icu beds available in the single digits. worse, in some instances, patients are being turned away. nbc s news correspondent morgan chesky has more. reporter: as the delta variant wreaks havoc nationwide, covid is on the rise in every state. the virus causing the highest number of u.s. cases since february, hitting the south where vaccination remains low
oh, he says much worse in a new book. and the authors are here to talk about it. i m jonathan capehart. this is the sunday show. this sunday it is full steam ahead at the capitol, where in less than 48 hours lawmakers will gavel in for first scheduled hearing of the january 6th select committee. capitol hill and metropolitan police officers are expected to give their personal accounts of that harrowing day. but the time and place of the hearing is about all we know. since plans to create a more bipartisan committee crumbled this week. now, republicans are threatening to run their own investigation after speaker pelosi vetoed kevin mccarthy s, quote, ridiculous appointments of trump sycophants jim jordan and jim banks to the slate. it is my responsibility as speaker of the house to make sure we get to the truth on this, and we will not let their antics stand in the way of that. joining me now is mississippi congressman benny thompson, chair of the house homeland secu