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children as some parents lose their minds over masks. welcome to lead. i m john berman. a look now at what s become the deadliest path of hurricane ida and the death toll keeps climbing. at least 23 people killed in the last 24 hours in the northeast. hundreds more rescued. scenes like this just aren t supposed to happen. that s floodwaters rushing through a home in montclair, new jersey. in new york, the rain fell so fast it could have filled 50,000 olympic-sized pools, and this is what happened when all the water pumps and the barrier walls and the sewer lines couldn t keep up. watch. that s just unreal. one river near philadelphia rose so high today it floated awfully close to traffic passion on the bridge above, and look at this. this is a minor league baseball stadium in bridgewater, new jersey. the water, at least five rows high. we want to go live to cnn s miguel marquez in new brunswick, new jersey. miguel, this is one of the most trying days so many people ....
third consecutive title and her sixth paralympic crown. moments after this, imran fell 200 feet. we ll have the story of the daring operation to save him. and for most of us another dry day with some brightness or sunny spells but there is a little more detail than that. i will be back with all the details. it s sunday august the 29th. our top story: the uk s military involvement in afghanistan is over after nearly 20 years and the deaths of a57 british service personnel. troops, diplomats and officials left kabul last night but around a thousand people, including uk citizens and afghans who were eligible to seek refuge in britain, have been left behind. jon donnison has more. packing up and heading out. the last british shoulders and diplomats have now left afghanistan bringing to an end a military operation that lasted just shy of two decades. in recent days, more than 15,000 people have been evacuated by the raf. british nationals and afghans who had worked with the uk ....
many pieces and my body is here. my soul is in afghanistan. researchers say protection against covid from two doses of the vaccine starts to wane within six months. it s a golden start in tokyo for paralympics gb as cyclist dame sarah storey takes the 15th gold of her career in her eighth games. and once they were hunted to near extinction but now there are plans to release beavers back into the wild to help save the english countryside. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the government says it will use every hour that s left to evacauate as many people as it can from afghanistan. the raf has flown more than 10,000 people out of kabul including 6300 afghans but more than 2000 people who are eligible for relocation are still waiting. last night president biden rejected pleas from borisjohnson to extend the operation from kabul airport beyond the current deadline of next tuesday. uk troops will have to leave in advance of that, possibly by this weekend, so it s ....
reporter: good morning. president biden says he may have to extend the u.s. troop deadline in afghanistan in order to get folks out but he s running into resistance this morning from the taliban. there s discussions going on among us in the military about extending. our hope is we will not have to extend. there will be discussions i suspect on how far along we are in the process. reporter: a taliban spokesman called any extension a red line and a provocation. there have been desperate and violent scenes outside of kabul s airport but the president stands by his decision for a quick u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. we have evacuated nearly 28,000 people since august 14th. bringing the total number of people we evacuated since july to approximately 33,000 persons. we are proving we can move thousands of people a day out of kabul. we have a long way to go. and a lot could still go wrong. reporter: a lot could still go wrong and the white house is facing pressure ....
early this afternoon. it comes amid frustratingly slovak evacuation process from kabul. the united states has the capacity to evacuate 9,000 people a day, but instead we ve evacuated just 9,000 total in a week. that includes 350 americans who were flown out in the last 24 hours. but that is just a fraction of the 15,000 americans who may be stuck in afghanistan right now. in fact the pentagon admitted yesterday that they are not even sure how many americans are still there. and then there are tens of thousands of afghans also trying to get out of the country, nbc s chief foreign correspondent richard engel has that story. reporter: we are in doha and we took one of the evacuation flights from the kabul airport. that is the only way out of the country right now, the only safe way. the civilian airport is closed and all of the land crossings to other countries are controlled by the taliban. it was a long flight, it complicated journey and for many life-changing. this is ....