Good evening, bret. Once again republicans called on the Secretary Of State to resign but in a shift from yesterdays house hearing, he wasnt getting much love from democrats either. Doing the right thing in the wrong way ends up being the wrong thing. Democratic chairman of the senate foreign Relations Committee Robert menendez Set The Tone for what turned out to be three hours of intense Questioning And Scolding of Secretary Of State Antony Blinken over the withdrawal from afghanistan. We realize this is a complete debacle. This Sant Failure of intelligence. This is a failure of policy and planning. This is a Puppeteer Act if you would and we need to know who is in charge and who is making these decisions. Committee democrats deflected, letting the secretary explain how we got here over the last 20 years. And pointed fingers at the trump administration. Republicans handled the interrogating. Senator Rand Paul who has been pushing for years to leave afghanistan took issue with reports
Tonight the biden administration moving to shift the nations focus away from afghanistan back to the issues here at home. As u. S. Officials express growing concern that far right extremists and White Supremacists are praising the taliban for toppling the u. S. Backed afghan government. Also Tonight Ida still a very powerful storm pounding the midatlantic and northeast with drenching rains, Flash Flooding and tornados. Were going to check in with our weather center. Some really, really terrible weather here in the northeast. And president Joe Biden harshly criticizing the new Texas Law banning abortion six week into pregnancy, calling it extreme and a blatant violation of the constulational right to an abortion. I want to bring in now cnn national Security Analyst Juliette kayyem. Good to see both of you. President biden is trying to move past afghanistan focusing on the crises here at homelike the aftermath of hurricane ida. Were still dealing with it. Surging covid case. Is that poss
With four people dying after being trapped in their flooded basements. Tornadoes reported in pennsylvania and New Jersey where homes were reduced to rubble. Bryan llenas is live in one of the hard Hit Areas in queens, New York. What are you seeing, bryan . Good afternoon, emily. Were talking about at least 16 people that have been killed as a result of the historic flooding and torrential rains from yesterday including nine people in New York. Two people, a mother and her son, died in this apartment when Flood Waters came rushes in to the basement apartment. Four feet of water came in there. They had five minutes to get out. Unfortunately they could not. The father and the other son were able to get out. They were not. 2yearold boy died in a similar basement apartment. The governor of New York, Kathy Hochul was here. They were caught off guard by this Record Level of rain. Listen. We did not know that between 8 50 and 9 50 p. M. Last night that the heavens would open up and bring Recor
Of the century. We are seeing this very clearly in our observations now. Now experts are calling for radical action to help prevent the worst consequences of Climate Change. Also tonight. More young people are being urged to get the coronavirus vaccine, as a Government Scientist warns of a bumpy Autumn And Winter ahead. Alarm injapan, as new covid cases surge to record highs, but the tokyo games will go on, say officials. After a golden week in the pool, we hearfrom british swimmer Tom Dean, who says he still cant believe what has happened. Even now, its not really sinking in. I woke up this morning and looked at these two gold medals and thought, you know, theyre actually mine. Its amazing. And coming up in the sport on the Bbc News channel. She trained at the London Olympic Venue and now she is an olympic medallist. Mallory franklin wins silverfor Team Gb. Good evening. A Landmark Report from the Met Office has found The Uk is almost a Degree Celsius warmer than 30 years ago, as Clim
Folks who already got vaccinated, but this is the deal if incentives help us beat the virus i believe we should use them. An inquiry into the murder of a maltese anti Corruption Journalist says the state must bear responsibility for her death. Im Sarah Mulkerrins Live In Tokyo on day 7 of the olympics where the focus will start to shift to the track where the worlds fastest women are in action in the 100m heats. And reliving past glories, former asian olympians tell us what it feels like to taste sporting success. Live from our studio in singapore, this is Bbc News. It is newsday. Its 8am in singapore and 9am in tokyo where theres increasing concern that enthusiasm for the olympics has contributed to a spike in coronavirus cases. For the first time, since the pandemic began, the number of new daily infections there has passed 10,000. The japanese authorities say the dramatic rise will not affect the olympics, but experts are warning if something isnt done to control the spread, the Cit