afghanistan. texas senator ted cruz not holding back when confronting antony blinken about a child brian. did you receive that urgent guidance question on how many children have been subject to sexual abuse? what have you done to rescue young children from illegal and abusive relationships? after being brought to america by the state department. shannon: they report that the nation s top general bypass than president trump, large secret phone calls to china and more. we have the breaking details. we begin with judgment night for california governor gavin newsom, declared the winner by most outlets in this recall election. we are told that there are still people in line to vote. senior correspondent claudia cowan is tracking the details live from sacramento. hey, claudia. big breaking news within the last few minutes. gavin newsom will not be recalled. he will hang onto his job here at the state capitol in sacramento. the associated press calling the race less than half
just look at this video here on your screen. flooding is wide spread. and some areas could see up to 20 inches of rain. more than 700,000 homes and businesses are now without power. and that number is sure to climb. officials say it could take weeks to fully restore power. now within the next hour or two, new orleans will be seeing its highest winds and heaviest rain. the levee system was vastly upgraded after katrina and holding as of now. south of the city, the rainfall and storm surge have pushed water over our levee in plaquemines parish. a flash flood emergency is in effect. i spoke to a critical care doctor in baton rouge bracing for the worst. we would be able to be the most significant event of our lifetime. we currently have a full hospital, but we re the regional medical center and so we are essentially acting that role. we have over 700 providers in the hospital. 50 of those are physicians. 400 are nurses. 300 are non-clinical. we re split into two staffs. we wil
the course of during covid i ve been saying we can t use the word plan for anything we re talking about in our future. it s an idea i might do, x or y. i think in this news environment it s the same thing, and as long as this evacuation is going on in afghanistan, we can guess what we re talking about tomorrow night, but we re not going to know. it is true and it is humbling. but i am going to try. i m going to try and that s all i can say. i think you ll get it done. i think that s the night for it. good night, rachel. good night, lawrence. we ve been through this only once before in our history. before the evacuation in afghanistan, the americans had carried out only one evacuation from a war that we lost. that was from vietnam in 1975, and when the airport we were using came under rocket fire from the north vietnamese army and two marines were killed, the final two soldiers killed in combat in vietnam, republican president gerald ford immediately ordered the ab
but we won t know. it s true, and it is humbling, but i am going to try. i m going to try, and that is all i can say. i think you will get it done. thank you, rachel. thank you, lawrence. i appreciate it. we ve been through this only once before in our history. before the evacuation in afghanistan, the american military had carried out only one major evacuation from a war that we lost. that was in vietnam in 1975. in vietnam when the airport we were using came under rocket fire from the north vietnamese army, and two marines were killed, the final two soldiers killed in combat in vietnam, republican president gerald ford immediately ordered the abandonment of the airport, and the switch to helicopters, dangerously taking people from the tops of buildings to finish the evacuation. president ford immediately ordered the evacuation speed it up. the president never gave a thought to try to avenge the deaths of those two marines, or in any way prolong the dangerous situati
to go through what we did. i think the pandemic has showed us the sacrifices that they give. i think the pandemic has showed us the value and sacrifices that they give. before leaving, abbas s family gave karim a final, touching gift. a surgical textbook once belonging to abbas, now with a new generation of doctor. charlie haynes, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here s nick miller. a hint ofjekyll and hyde in our weather at the start of this week, clear skies at times, and although temperatures are below average for this time of year it still feels warm in the sunshine but the other face of the weather is torrential downpours, already bouncing off the panto on the isle of wight today with reports from the met office some spots may have had over 100 millimetres of rain from some particularly heavy downpours that have moved through, on the railfor radar. a few showers developing elsewhere in england and wales so there is a risk of flooding from some of these. some rai