this is all. these are the top stories are confidential reports by the you. i m claims the taliban has priority lists of people and the ones to arrest enough canister on those at risk include africa, military, police, and intelligence units. the un says the taliban have been carrying out targeted door to door visits. a couple international airport. the evacuation of diplomats and afghans continues. the u. s. moved 3000 people on thursday, including those waiting for visas. nato says about 800000 people have been evacuated since the taliban took over on sunday. rob mcbride is incredible. with more the report talks about former military and also intelligent personnel from the former regime being targeted taliban going door to door. also worrying, they talks about the families of those people. if they don t get the individuals themselves. the families are then targeted as a way of putting pressure on those individuals to come forward friday by 25 who they are. and also talks abo
another republican voice to the table, congressman adam kinzinger. the question is, what does kevin mccarthy have to say about the move? and team usa continues its quest for medals. katie ledecky comes up for the first event, but the question is can she still bring home the gold? it is way too early for this. what s up, everybody? we will start with the news. coronavirus continues to rise and the nation s top infectious diseases expert dr. anthony fauci says the u.s. is headed in the wrong direction. nbc news correspondent meagan fitzgerald has the latest. reporter: the worst-case scenario among the unvaccinated. it feels like we re going back in the bowel again, and it s definitely another wave. reporter: the highly contagious delta variant fueling a new surge in cases across the country. the country s top doctor. we could have a considerable problem with the surge of infections. reporter: the variant sweeping through the south accounting for 40% of the new c
among nats fans they they don t pay the way they should. but we ll take it, charles schwabber. he is on the injured list and probably will be for a couple more weeks. that s as seen by the sox as an effort to match what the yankees have done, picking up gal low and rizzo. but the big trade not official yet, but rumors the nats are close to sending max scherzer and tray turner both of them to an already loaded dodgers team. that s going to be tough. going to be very tough. we ll see what happens. hopefully the red sox will do better than last night. but the red sox, it was the red sox and the yankees last night, lost by a combined like 27-1, something like that. so better days ahead. let s hope. yeah, let s hope. let s get to the headlines this morning. faced with a surging number of coronavirus cases, president biden has announced sweeping new requirements for millions of federal workers. under the new policy, federal government employees and members of the military wil
i don t favor gain of function research in china. you re saying things that are not correct. you re fooling with mother nature here. you re allowing super viruses to be created with a 15% mortality. it s very dangerous. and is a huge mistake to share this with china and a huge mistake to allow this to continue in the united states. we should be very careful to investigate where this virus came from. i fully agree you should investigate where the virus came from, but again we have not funded gain of function research on this virus in the wuhan institute of virology no matter how many times you re parsing words. there was research ripped from the pages of qanon. why is he doing this to himself? i don t know why he does. it s really strange. it s more than strange. it s disturbing. it s part of a bigger picture. dr. anthony fauci pushing back on saturday rand paul s allegation that the national institutes of health had been funding the chinese lab in wuhan.
restrictions from india as it is dealing with the devastating coronavirus outbreak, and the country setting a global record recorded for 100,000 new cases in a single day. back in u.s., more incremental steps for the normalcy and the kentucky derby is set for tonight with the limited capacity of 50,000 people. evan mcmorris santora is at churchill down, and evan, what is being done there to keep everyone safe and i imagine that the folks are out to be doing something they love. well, you know, that is right, fred. it is a party scene here, and people want to be out, and the churchill downs is taking a lot of steps to try and make things different this time around. and you know, a limited capacity that you mentioned, and upwards to 170,000 at these derbies sometimes and this time, 50,000 is the expectation, and the big test is whether or not we can do the indoor events again dealing with the pandemic, and now in the world the confusing cdc guidelines of what to do with the m