Everywhere. Judge jeanine: thanks, bret. Bret: you bet. Bret: good evening, welcome to washington. I m bret baier. Breaking tonight, we are following two major stories, the acting head of the secret service gets a grilling from senators over the attempted assassination of former president donald trump. We will have the highlights. There are a lot of them. We begin tonight with israel. Striking back over the murder of a dozen children by hezbollah rocket fire this past weekend. Israeli forces striking beirut, lebanon and what the israelis say was a successful mission to kill the terrorist commander in charge of that attack. And tonight people are holding their bret, collectively in the region. To see if this could mark a major escalation in the middle east. Correspondent trey yingst has the latest tonight from tel aviv. Good evening, trey. Trey: bret, good evening. Tonight, the israeli military confirming that a senior hezbollah commanders was killed in the beirut strike. An explosion r
Because president biden met with his national security team today. They discussed the security situation there and counterterrorism operations. Pennsylvania congresswoman susan wild will join us to consider what happens now. Plus, covid remains a critical situation in alabama. And also, in florida. Today, that state passed 3 million confirmed cases. Florida s governor is giving some school districts 48 hours to drop their mask mandates or face losing some funding. And donald trump is holding a rally in northern alabama where a covidemergency declaration is in effect. From nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. Welcome to the week. We begin with the rapidly shifting situation in afghanistan. Two defense officials tell nbc news that the u. S. Is tracking specific threats from isis. The threats target americans and others who are trying to reach the kabul airport. That is forcing the military to work on alternate ways into the airport. One aspect of this threat comes
The situation. And in haiti a race to rescue survivors of saturday s devastating earthquake as tropical storm grace bears down on the island. Thank you for being with us. We start with more breaking news out of afghanistan. Commercial flights from the capital, kabul, have been canceled leaving people fewer options as they try to flee the taliban. The capital surrendered to the militants on sunday triggering an exodus of civilians, diplomats and the afghan president. Ousted leader ashraf ghani has fled the country. The video from al jazeera shows heavily armed taliban leaders in that hasn t stopped chaotic scenes like this. Cnn cannot independently verify it, but video shows crowds storming the tarmac earlier scrambling to board any plane that will get them out of afghanistan. And cnn s ana coren has reported extensively from afghanistan including on a recent trip there. She joins me now from hong kong with the latest on the taliban takeover. Good to see you, ana. So what is happening a
Hong kong as one of america s top diplomats begins talks with china. Also coming up there s a lot of potential fuel for that fire to continue if it crosses. And so our efforts and our priorities over there are to keep that fire from crossing the road there. We ll bring you the devastating toll from the wildfires raging in parts of the united states. The tokyo summer olympics in full swing despite the pandemic. Just a short time ago the tennis superstar japan s naomi osaka advancing to the round of 16. Good news for the host nation. And let s have a look where the medal count stands at the moment. It could quickly change, though, with 21 medal events on monday. Now, officials have meanwhile confirmed at least 153 covid cases linked to the games so far. One of the new cases was a resident of the olympic village, and that brings the total number of cases from the village to 16. Japan now contending with the pandemic and also bracing for a tropical storm that s expected to bring rain and s
pettypiece. you have nancy pelosi for now planning to vote tentatively on that $1 trillion infrastructure bill on wednesday. that s the roads and bridges bill that has bipartisan support. but to take that bill will regard a framework on the larger bill, manchin saying we could have that framework by the end of the week. we also have more details on what is in and what is out on that bill, and we still don t know how it will be paid for, although democrats are now talking about a new billionaires tax. leigh ann, a lot of moving parts, right? we also learned joe manchin is point to go a sticky point when it comes to paid leave. talk about where we are now. reporter: these are the final parts of the negotiations and there are difficult negotiations still to be had, hallie. lights start with what senator manchin is wanting and where he is at this point. my sources tell me senator manchin isn t supportive of four weeks of paid leave. that was already in negotiation down from 12