And celebrations in guinea after the military takes over in an apparent coup. Good to have you with us. The taliban are now claiming to have taken complete control of the last holdout province in northern afghanistan. The panchia province has been the scene of first fighting but the taliban s claim is being denied by the national resistance front. A spokesman told cnn resistance forces are still in strategic positions across the valley and are continuing to fight. Meantime, a vital lifeline for afghanistan has reopened. The kabul airport is now seeing more domestic flights resume, and on sunday aid planes brought in more than 50 tons of medical supplies and food. So let s head straight now to kabul where journalist ben farmer is standing by. He joins us now. So ben, we are getting these mixed reports on where things stand in northern afghanistan. What are you learning about who has control in that region after some fierce fighting there? reporter: just in the last few minutes, the tali
And celebrations take over in an apparent coup in guinea. Thanks for joining us. The death toll in louisiana is st still climbing a week after hurricane aid. The latest victim is a 74yearold man who died from the heat without offering any other details. That brings the tally of stormrelated debtaths in louisiana to 13. Nearly 600,000 customers are still without power and facing another day of scorching temperatures. Here is governor john bel edwards stern warning. Heat is a major factor right now. That is especially true in areas without power because you can t go in and cool off with air conditioning, you typically can t get a cold drink of water and that sort of thing. So please take advantage of cooling shelters if you can. Run your generators if you have them but do it safely. And make sure that you continue to check on your neighbors especially those who are elderly or have special needs. Louisiana residents are also navigating a mine field of other challenges including shortages
It s a tinderbox, out west. More than 80 large fires burning. The biggest of which, now, creating its own weather. And the competition for olympic medals in full swing at the summer games in tokyo. China and japan have, now, won three gold medals. Each. The u. S. , with the most medals, overall. Seven, including one gold. On saturday, skateboarding and surfing made their olympic debuts. Beside the pressure of playing, athletes, also, having to battle a humidheat wave. And covid, of course, remains a serious concern. At least 137 cases, now, linked to the games. Topamerican golfer, bryson dechambeau, won t be competing after he tested positive just before he was due to leave for tokyo. Now, a top draw this sunday, as japanese tennis star, naomi osaka, who lit the olympic cauldron, of course. She will be playing her first olympic singles match, after bowing out of the french open, earlier this year. Now, patrick snell of cnn world sport is standing by with me, with the latest on the comp
dislodged. they are now working on pulling the front of the vessel out while keeping the freed stern away from the bank. let s bring in cnn international correspondent, ben wedeman, and he joins us live from cairo. looking more promising now, isn t it? what s the latest on the efforts to remove the cargo ship that has been stuck for nearly a week. reporter: this is a massive improvement of the situation than 24 hours ago. we heard from the chairman of the suez canal authority that says the stern of the ship which was just 4 meters away from the west bank of the suez canal has now been shifted 102 meters away, so the canal is still not functioning properly but certainly this is a massive step forward. now, they are waiting for the high tide which is in about 2 1/2 hours at which point they are hoping to completely free the ever given, and then they will float it north to the great bitter lake, and that s about 30 kilometers from its current location. that will allow the e
world surpasses 100 million cases, but in the u.s. why the cdc today urged schools to reopen and the growing number of states loosening restrictions the powerful ef2 tornado carving a deadly path of destruction, and the new storm threat tonight. 50 million under winter weather alerts across 24 states the senate sworn in for president trump s second impeachment trial. and breaking news, the health scare for the senator presiding over the trial, taken from the capitol to the hospital and she turned her garage into a community lifeline the neighbor inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt go president biden has just announced plans to sharply increase shipments of covid vaccine to states across the country it s in response to the urgent pleas of state and local officials who say they have the capacity to vaccinate but they don t have the vaccine doses themselves the urgency of getting the shots into americans who want them is coming fro