hi there. i m stephanie ruehl. it s wednesday, august 18th and we start this morning with a frantic round the clock push to get as many people out of afghanistan as fast as possible. this is video just in from dull less international airport, outside washington, d.c., and these are our first pictures of u.s. and afghan evacuees arriving safely in this country and there are plenty more on the way. we saw proof of that earlier this week, when more than 600 people packed on to a c17 military transport plane. so for more than 5,000 americans, families and afghan refugees have been evacuated or relocated. our new reporting finds as many as 15,000 americans are still in afghanistan as we speak and it s not clear how we re going to get them all out. on tuesday, the administration told senate staffers they do not have a plan to evacuate u.s. citizens outside kabul, because of taliban checkpoints. the taliban has said they would give safe passage to americans and afghans that want to
the civil war after senate republicans blocked the creation of an independent bipartisan commission to examine the origins of that day s violence. and that block is just another result of the political gridlock holding up legislation in congress on issues like badly needed infrastructure. republican senator shelley moore capito heading to the white house again today to try to find a bipartisan path forward but with a 50-50 balance in the senate and 60 votes needed to get anything to the floor, compromise looks hard to find here. that same grid lock threatens president biden s push for a voting rights bill to counter republican efforts in states like texas where, among other things, drive-through voting and 24-hour voting would be banned. absentee voting would be limited. and partisan poll watchers would be granted new power. joining us now is republican texas state senator brian hughes. he s one of the lead authors of the controversial texas senate bill 7. it s up in the air
under pressure too. she says it may take time for vaccinated people to feel comfortable removing their mask. it seems like the president is one of them. here he is coming out of church outside, puts the mask on as he goes from church to the car. then there s california, new york, maine, massachusetts. they re playing catch-up. the last couple hours, headlines crossing every hour it seemed about things they re dropping and letting people do in those states. new jersey though still likes the indoor mask mandate for now. dr. makary has been ahead of the curve all along. he gets credit for that. he s a professor of health and policy and management at johns hopkins school of public health and a fox news contributor. he s joined by joe concha for the hill and a fox news contributor. you represent the two sides of this equation. you have the public message, what it looks like, what the media is saying and doing about this from joe, and the medical side from dr. marty makary. so i wa
after you get what you want, you don t want it, that s a perfect number, because that s really her story too. because after you get what you want you don t want what you wanted she had money and the lights and the costumes and the fans. i know you but there was something missing. she doesn t want to be stuck at fox making stereotype movies. i could have sworn you were a dramatic actress. you think that s impossible. what i d like to do is be a good actress. when you want that, you re not necessarily going to find it in hollywood. there is no business like show business opens to great fanfare. but marilyn is nowhere to be seen. marilyn monroe didn t show up for her own movie premiere. her mind and her life were already somewhere else. she is incognito. as zelda zonk. zelda zonk was a beautiful woman in a black bobbed wig, sneaking away from l.a. to start a new life in new york. she didn t tell anybody anything. nobody knew. marlyn walked out a
acknowledging being part of the 2020 fake electors plot. and star actor and director regina king tonight mourning the loss of her son who has died at the age of just 26. and we begin tonight with breaking news in the very tense situation between russia and ukraine, and it s likely to have a ripple effect across the world. an explosive new finding by british officials that the kremlin has a plan in place to install a pro-russian government in ukraine as it considers whether to invade and possibly occupy that country. a memo from the british foreign office says moskow may be considering a former ukrainian politician as a candidate to lead what will essentially be a puppet government. tensions between russia and ukraine have grown for months with moskow amassing about 100,000 troops on their border with ukraine and giving no straight answers as to why. cnn s nic robertson is in moskow. so tell us about this new reporting and the significance of it, nic. reporter: you know,