Biden referred to the threat at the airport from this Terror Group known as Isis K and he details his decision to stick with that August 31st deadline to leave afghanistan. That deadline just six days away now as the scramble to get out intensifies, one critical question has been, how many americans remain . This afternoon, the Secretary Of State put the number at about 1500. Officials are in touch with about 500 of. Them but are still reaching out to others. For the remaining roughly 1000 context that we have who maybe americans seeking to leave afghanistan, we are aggressively reaching out to the multiple times today. There is no deadline on our work to help any remaining american citizens who want to leave, along with many afghans. That effort will continue every day past August 31st. Now the secretary said about 6000 americans we are in afghanistan when the taliban took control about two weeks ago he said over the past ten days over 4500 of those americans were evacuated with 82,00
more than 50 lives. almost 2,000 buildings. in moments, we ll talk to a local pastor about what the church is doing to help, but first to the senior national correspondent william lajeunesse live for us on the ground in maui with the very latest. william. reporter: trace, we re in the harbor about ten miles south of la hind a and this is also where the police roadblock is and the check point. people can t get into lahina because they re still looking for bodies but if you want to go you have to go by boat but that s supposed to be illegal. we heard some incredible stories today from people who were in the water for eight hours or more, waited to be picked up and had jumped to avoid the flames in lahina per se. one thing i heard today over and over, the speed of this fire was so great, people could just not they couldn t get out in time. they couldn t even see the flames, the smoke was so thick. traffic was backed up. people literally died in their cars. now, lahina is of
i m paula newton. ahead on cnn newsroom, when it comes to u.s. weather the good news says there s little relief in sight for the country. the latest on heat alerts from coast-to-coast. republican candidates, including donald trump, gather in iowa. sew how one found out the hard way what happens when you target the former president. and the other side of the debate in israel. we ll hear from those who say they support at least some of president benjamin netanyahu s controversial judicial reforms. and we begin this hour with more than 100 million people still right across the united states waking up to those heat alerts in the hours ahead. that s nearly one in three people in this country from southern california right up to the northwest and new england. but remarkable improvement from the 150 million affected yesterday. but then there s phoenix, where temperatures are expected to stay above 110 degrees right through the weekend. the scorching temperatures in the mid
scrambled, and a u.s. f 22 successfully shut it down. it s unclear whether the latest object has anything to do with the chinese by balloon shutdown off the coast of carolina s just last week or the object that was down over alaska on friday. nbc is in washington with the latest. ben, tell us what we know about the jets taken down a short time ago in canada. we do not know really anything more than what you just pointed out, which is this tweet from the canadian prime minister saying that they took down this high altitude object so this is 24 hours since a another high altitude object was taken down off the coast of alaska by a another u.s. fighter jet, another of 22. we still don t have any answers on what that object was other than that it was roughly the size of a small car, and it was not manned. in this case, this was spotted over northern canada, there were u.s. and canadian aircraft tracking it, and the f 22 fighter jet shut it down. what altitude was a? what s beat
just like pat boone in those really factor commercials. [laughter] but we got preempted last night for a rehash of the january 6th show trial. i know, it is like getting bombed for an infomercial created for and by buttheads. the upside is by taping this show on thursday, i get friday off, so while you are watching this, i am not really here. i am here. yeah, looks like i am having fun. [laughs] hope i don t get the pox again. even though we were on thursday, we did the show anyway because i did not want to cancel my amazing panel. and brian kilmeade. [laughter] if he is not on the air, people worry that he will want to hang out. right. greg: and if he finds out he is not on tv, he throws more tantrums than joy behar when the zoo forgets her eating time. we also got the amazing tulsi gabbard! [applause] one of the few reasonable people left on this planet. i say that so she will let me stay at her pad in hawaii. okay, fine. greg: or hawaii. there you go. greg: you