Goldman: rock is probably the most important cultural event in the history of america, and out swarmed a whole generation of freaks. It s what guys seem to get off on, they like this highenergy sort of event. Cornelius: and if the sight and sound of soul is your pleasure, you can bet your bottom, we got em baby. Downs: unless you ve been living in a sealed cave, you ve probably noticed that america s latest craze is disco dancin . This is punk rock, and its purpose is to promote violence, sex, and destruction, in that order. Pure rock n roll energy, pure guts, pure stamina. Rock singer jimi hendrix died today in london, according to a police source, from an overdose of drugs. Reynolds: janis joplin was found dead last night. The cause of death was said to be an overdose of drugs. Jim morrison, the lead singer for the doors, a rock music group, is dead. He was 27. Naftali: the early years of the 70s are sad in music because you lose people. And you lose the beatles. Simon: this small
Indicates how quickly the story keeps changing. For example, when i was first looking at this just a few hours ago, there were some estimates here that as soon as we d see the taliban being able to take control of things, if they even got to that point it would be early next week. Some today talking in terms of hours. And at this point, there s a great deal of confusion as to what our response is. The 3,000 additional troops, many more to come to back them up and still no word yet about a strategy that will still maintain all u. S. Personnel being out of afghanistan in less than 2 weeks. Let s get the read right now from lucas tomlinson who has been following this closely from the start. He joins us out of washington. Lucas. Lucas: the reports u. S. Jets are hitting the taliban outside of kabul over fear it is capital with fall anyday. The first u. S. Marines arrived to start evacuating americans. Marine corps chc helicopter, preparing for full evacuation and closure of embassy in kabu
Agents and one police officer. This after record crime numbers in the chicago area. More than 100 people shot has a summer crime wave that has folks wondering will it ever stop? welcome. I m neil cavuto, this is your world. The focus is right now on crime. We re talking about chicago for the time being. We could be talking about new york as well where democrats have gone ahead and nominated for mayor a guy who spend 20 years in the police form and says the defund police movement is hurting. He won. He could be new york s next mayor. This was a guy elected by democrats. Who cite crime as their number 1 issue. Something to get into right away with mike tobin in crystal lake, illinois where the president was today. Mike? neil, we have weather whipping up about the time that the president is expected to hid back to o hare airport where air force one is waiting. He had a significant meeting with mayor lightfoot. She s troubled that she can t get control of the blood shed there. The white ho
With the leaked cctv footage. Borisjohnson says his plans for ending inequalities in the uk won t make richer areas poorer. Give musicians a fair share of the hundreds of millions of pounds record labels earn from streaming, say a group of mps. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Sugar and salt should be taxed and fruit and vegetables prescribed by the nhs in order to improve our diets, an independent review has said. The report, led by the businessman henry dimbleby, says the taxes raised could also be used to extend free school meals to more children. Mr dimbleby said that poor eating habits cause horrific health harms. But the food industry says new taxes could increase the price of food and when asked about the review, borisjohnson said that he is not in favour of raising taxes on food. Here s our correspondent ellie price. Maureen has got a number of physical and mental health issues. She knows she needs to eat more fresh food but it s something she can t afford without the he
Show july fourth. That big, that eventful, that now. That much relief to a country that wanted to get out of this pandemic and in this particular weekend they re doing so. Some people say this could be back to prepandemic levels. It comes at a price. We re following that with 48 million americans that are hitting the road. If you combine that with those that are flying. And then the price you pay when you do get on the road. Gas prices are moving up. Anita vogel covering that and jeff flock on the road. Keeping track of what is happening at the pump. We ll go to them momentarily. First, anita vogel on this great rush that is on and a record number of americans, at least records post pandemic, getting on to it as well. Anita? hi, neil. The skies are expected to be very crowded this holiday weekend. We re not just talking about with roman candles and other kinds of fireworks. According to the industry experts that track these figures, air travel is already at 85% of precovid capacity. Mo