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could get? dixie is has already burned 1400 square miles of land. dixie has destroyed nearly 600 homes. it s only about half contained at the moment. it is the second largest fire in california history. the caldor fire just outside of lake tahoe has destroyed even more homes. at least 622 homes and counting. it is raging right now toward even more populated areas. only about 25% of the caldor fire is contained. both of those fires have multiple evacuation orders and warnings in place. the fire season is just unrelenting and merciless. firefighters working in basically inhuman conditions now for weeks on end fighting unprecedented fire after unprecedented fire. just a huge devotion of resources, human and otherwise, and so far no end in sight. in the northeast we have watched all day as the death toll has climbed from the floods that left behind by the trailing ends of hurricane ida last night. this is hurricane ida s remnants hitting the most densely populated part of ....
but is this the time to be asking for more health? hello and welcome. i m christian fraser in london. the british foreign secretary told a committee of mps today that his government had ordered british embassy staff to destroy anything that would hand the taliban a propaganda coup. yet we now know, in the haste to evacuate, they left behind the contact details of afghans who d worked for the embassy and the cvs of people who applied. fortunately, they were found by a british reporter, not the taliban gunmen scouring the building. as for the propaganda coup, well, they don t come much bigger than the celebration in kandahar today, at which the taliban paraded the humvees, a helicopter, and an arsenal of weapons they have captured. to the victor goes the spoils of war and the keys to the presidential palace. the taliban are working to form their new government. it will be announced in the coming days, but without any women in senior positions. in an interview with bbc p ....
thank you. as jen said isis since yesterday people were worried about everything about the taliban. they were psychologically a lot of situations the gates [inaudible] but since yesterday isis created afghan people are more worried. do you think that this [inaudible] and everybody now wants to leave the country because now is double. before was only taliban. now isis also show up one more time their activity. do you think that s another [inaudible] before i try to answer that question, i do want to take the opportunity on behalf of the department of defense to also make sure that we express our condolences for the afghan people who suffered in yesterday s attack. we know that there were a number of killed and wounded afghan civilians at the airport and that there are families that are dealing with the same devastating, terrible news that now gold star families here in the department are dealing with. again on behalf of the secretary we offer our condolences, t ....
situation there and deeper look at this branch of isis claiming responsibility for one of the deadliest days in america s longest war and then back in washington, president biden vowing revenge and facing a bipartisan barrage of new criticism. we ll talk to one democrat in congress, a veteran of the afghanistan war and former intelligence officer, before we go live to the pentagon for an update from officials as well, good morning, everybody. i m yasmin vossoughian in for hallie jackson today. we ll start with raph sanchez. raph, in london, four days left until this august 31st deadline now, after the deadliest day in afghanistan that we have seen in quite some time as of yesterday. what is happening from what you re hearing on the ground in kabul this hour? reporter: yasmin, flights are continuing, a desperate effort to make the most of the remaining hours of this evacuation. afghan civilians are still coming in small groups to hamid karzai swer national airport. the ....
they were tortured by the taliban, but since yesterday, the afghan people are more bullied. do you think it is another civil war, and everybody now, they show up one more time for their activity, do you think that is one? before i take that question, i want to take the opportunity to make sure that we express our con don lens for the afghan people who suffered in yesterday s attack. we know there was a number of people killed and wounded people at the airport. there are families dealing with the same devastating terrible news that gold star families are dealing with. on behalf of the secretary we offer our thoughts and brayers. we don t, we obviously don t want to see the country torn through civil war, but that is why whatever the future is from a governance perspective, we want to make sure that afghanistan leaders are held to proper account for the way they re governing and that afghanistan s neighbors also try to play a constructive productive role in whatever the ....