The nationalities of the victims. The taliban also says the culprits will be brought to justice. It remains to be seen if they have those capabilities. Theres been no claim of responsibilities. A senior official says it points to an isis affiliate. One explosion an apparent Suicide Attack took place at the Abbey Gate at the airport. Another blast was nearby outside or near a hotel. Not clear what that means for the final stage of the evacuation. There have been reports dozens of americans need a Military Escort still to the airport. Through Talibanheld Territory in kabul and despite warnings of more attacks being possible. The pentagon called the attacks a complex operation. We have our correspondents covering this. Sam, lets talk about the two locations that we know about outside the hotel and by the Abbey Gate. Weve gotten some early horrific images which we had shown earlier. Talk about what we know happened. Well, what we know is there were two blasts. The first, one of the blasts
We ll show you that terrifying video. Wildfires out west, no relief in sight. Now firefighters are being pushed to the limit. We are so glad that you woke up with us this saturday july 17th. Amara, it s always great to be with you. It s always great to be with you. Thank you, boris. A dangerous deja vu, covid cases picking up as vaccination rates are lagging in the fight to eradicate coronavirus. The white house calling this new face of the covid crisis a pandemic of the unvaccinated. For the first time since january, cases are rising in all 50 states and the outlook is much worse in parts of the country struggling to get residents lifesaving vaccines. Indoor mask mandate regardless of vaccination status in los angeles, county, california, will take effect. And number of places recommending everyone to mask up is growing. Meantime the white house is putting the blame on social media companies, saying that antiscience messages spreading on platforms like facebook are costing lives. They
Welcome to tokyo. It s day two of the olympics and the sporting action has brought us just the sort of unpredictability and excitement only these games can bring. About an hour ago, team gb won its first silver medal in the taekwondo, with bradly sinden narrowly missing out on gold after defeat in the final. Nestor mcgregor is with bradly s mum in stainforth in south yorkshire. They must be celebrating there? yes, aood they must be celebrating there? yes, good afternoon they must be celebrating there? yes, good afternoon. This they must be celebrating there? 133 good afternoon. This is they must be celebrating there? 1 1: good afternoon. This is doncaster. It is worth saying, up and down the uk, there are probably many many homes that look like this one, but this garden is the garden that bradly sinden practised that there was a tae kwon do moves that we saw her earn him a silver olympic medal. His mum has also planted these amazing flowers which are white, red and blue, team gb co
Of a part two of the partisan benghazi investigation which dragged on for years during the obama presidency. Questions are swirling around who house minority leader kevin mccarthy will appoint to the committee. Will it be a pragmatic republican determined to work in good faith and get to the truth or trump loyalists devoted to derailing the work? we ll speak to a member of the committee in a moment. First to laurenne fox on capitol hill. Democrats have a majority of the select committee. The house speaker also has veto power that she may or may not use. What are the what is the strategy, in effect, right, to keep this focused on the questions of january 6th? reporter: well, jim, there is really a dual strategy here. One of them, of course, is to get to the bottom of what caused the insurrection, what were the factors leading up to it. And you can t ignore the former president s role. They know that. They realize that trump is going to be a big piece of this. But in the meantime, they w