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taking questions, you on afghanistan. carley: doug luzader begins coverage in washington. this reported threat of an imminent attack follows ominous warning coming from the us embassy and that warning said due to threats outside kabul airport us citizens should avoid traveling to the airport, those at the eastgate or northgate, these frenetic evacuations continue but get into the airport has remained a huge challenge for afghans hoping to secure a ticket out of the country and we don t know how many americans remain in afghanistan. state department settled on this estimate of 1500 people yesterday and among them may be a group of families from california. march of this year we spent 19 separate messages, encouraging and urging them to leave the country. there could be others who never unrolled and have not identified themselves to us. evacuation operations at the couple airport have to end relatively soon to the forces enough time to get themselves out ahead of ne ....
behind. what do you do? these are the types of impossible choices that parents across this country are up against. we ll talk to one of them in a minute. headlines like these make it even more frightening. children s hospitals, mostly in the south, overwhelmed by a surge in young covid patients. one mom in tulsa spent the last week documenting her toddler s battle against covid. little aurora needed a ventilator. the good news, she is now breathing on her own and will be able to go home soon. you would think stories like these would inspire some gop governors to rethink their war on mask mandates. just today, the superintendent of leon county school district in florida announced he will defy governor desantis ban on mask mandates. this comes after governor desantis promised to make good on his promise to withhold paychecks. the state says two school districts must rescind its mandates by this weekend or lose out on pay. this morning on fox news, the u.s. surgeon genera ....
stunning, surreal images of building after building after building just pancaked and the number of casualties, tens of thousands and you really got a sense for a damage that the quake like this did in 2010, it was a 7.0, and now this, a 7.2. already, i have reached out to some contacts that i have in the capital, port-au-prince. they say it doesn t appear it was damaged excessively. greta van susteren was a reporter in the wake of 2010, set up a children s home there and i texted her immediately, is the home okay? she says that things are doing well, but obviously, to the west, 125 kilometers west as you can see on our map, a different story. we re hoping that there s no sort of repercussions here with the tsunami or anything of that sort. ryan has everything we need so far. can you bring us up to speed? yeah, absolutely. haiti a country that can t catch a break. this quake had a magnitude of 7.2, it occurred five miles off the haitian coastline, about 90 miles from ....
now it s reversing that trend. from the pulpit to politics the anti vaxers who refuse to change their tune as the delta variant sweeps through america s south. india dominate england at lord s on the first day of the second test. and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel, there s a busy night of european football ahead, celticjust one of the british sides involved in europa and europa conference league qulaifying. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. more than half a million gcse students in england, wales and northern ireland have achieved another set of record results, with both the proportion of students getting top grades and those achieving pass rates rising slightly from last year. it follows a second year in which exams were replaced with the assessments of teachers. as with a levels a couple of days ago the numbers offer new insights into secondary education. girls moved further ahead of boys, with a third of them scoring ....
of teacher assessed results raises questions about regional differences and girls move further ahead of boys. the taliban is continuing its astonishing sweep across afghanistan, with more dramatic developments just today. in the past two hours we ve heard that they have captured afghanistan s third biggest city, herat, and appear poised to gain control of the second largest kandahar. if that s confirmed, this day will mark the most significant advance so far as one after another, the country s provincial capitals fall to the militants. with thousands of civilians fleeing the violence, a sense of humanitarian disaster is deepening. the bbc s yogita limaye is in kabul. things are changing at an incredible speed here. we started the day talking about the fall of a city hundred miles south which is strategically important and now, just within a span of 12 hours, we are looking at cities which are even more significant. herat in the west is close to the border and is an im ....