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Been planned, prepared for months and months. and long before the c00 documents which you refer. to give you an example, the baron hotel which was so important, the evacuation handling that was commissioned months ago. and you cant do an operation like this just on the spur of the moment. and i really congratulate the men and women of our armed forces for what they have done. and everybody involved. the home office, the c00 has been quite amazing. no one expected to move so many people, 16,000, ...

Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. a new afghan government, composed of senior taliban figures, could be announced as early as friday. a senior leader told the bbc the government would be inclusive. but against this backdrop — the economy of afghanistan is close to collapse — with little immediate prospect of the new islamist rulers gaining access to the countrys foreign currency reserves held in the west. prices of essential goods are soaring, the value of the cu...

And even the towns around across the northeast. a lot of rain fell in just a short amount of time, and thats what created this. idas path has stretched 1,500 miles, more than 500 flood reports. look at all of these records across the northeast. more than 20 daily rainfall records. staten island, almost 9 inches of rain. this is in a 24-hour time span, but we know that most of this rain fell in a much shorter time span than 24 hours. newark, new jersey, had the wettest day on record with almost 8...

Would be inclusive. but against this backdrop — the economy of afghanistan is close to collapse — with little immediate prospect of the new islamist rulers gaining access to the countrys foreign currency reserves held in the west. prices of essential goods are soaring, the value of the currency is falling, and many public services are barely able to function. heres our afghanistan correspondent secunder kermani. the taliban are in firm control of the country. this, a huge military parade in ...

To establishing a government, now that the us exit from afghanistan is complete. a senior leader told the bbc the government would be inclusive. but against this backdrop — the economy of afghanistan is close to collapse — with little immediate prospect of the new islamist rulers gaining access to the countrys foreign currency reserves held in the west. prices of essential goods are soaring, the value of the currency is falling, and many public services are barely able to function. heres our...

Little the sky is falling, the sky is falling. well see. it certainly looks like the sky is fall noing now. republicans have been very up front what they want to do on the supreme court. they may do it as of now. well see what if any political blow back there is. you know, it has certainly been more animating and successful issue for republicans than for democrats, but as states start to outright ban abortion, maybe that will change. but i dont hazard a prediction about that. >> jeffrey toobin, ...

There. the likelihood were going to have some uneasy semi positive diplomatic relationship with the taliban in the next year, whats that likelihood? >> so i wouldnt use the word diplomatic, chuck. i think the u.s. deliberately withholding that idea of diplomatic recognition, the ideas to watch and see what the cobb does, create an inclusive government, i void the civil war that may be looming by taking in other ethnic groups. what we already are seeing and i think the u.s. would very much like t...

>> since you have been having me the last few weeks working with veteran activists [inaudible] to get afghans as well as american citizens out of the country. we have been able to evacuate several hundred. i think the real question is why is this falling to us? where was the formal government organization to get these individuals out of the country? and what i have observed was there was none. there wasnt a plan. and its been left to people to just pick up all of the slack and the result of the ...

A little bit. so we are literally taking this hour by hour. the winds are not as bad as they were earlier this morning. there were some gusts reported as much as 50 miles per hour in some parts of the state, around here as well. most of the damage and power outages are to the south of here as the storm moves further north, it seems to be breaking up. but its moving very slowly and just sitting over these areas and thats why the rain just keeps on falling. we are at a place here, at a hotel where...

Pumps but the entire parish of orleans went out in terms of the power thats being provided there. but thats true for most of the southeast louisiana. were up to getting close to 800,000 outages. not unexpected when you have winds that come in at 150 miles per hour. and so this storm, as you mentioned, is everything that was advertised in terms of the wind, in terms of the storm surge and quite frankly, the rain thats falling, as well. so this is a very devastating storm. >> yeah, in fact, last h...