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The unknown, the big unknown. >> reporter: there are a number of risks. one is, israel has, for the past 30 years has been able to basically with measure of ease, not have to sort of man up or have a large military presence on its border with israel or egypt, rather. it's one border they have not had to be concerned about. it allowed it to focus on other threats. the border of lebanon and iran. going forward, they don't want to stretch the military to place it on another border. also, they are looking at the region as a whole. they are looking at jordan. protests in jordan for a couple weeks. ...

Welcome back. live pictures from the briefing room. the epa's carol browner. let's go to bill nelson from florida at the balcony and anne thompson from the gulf, a reality check from both of you. first, hearing good news from the president and his top officials reports today. are you as optimistic as they are that the gulf situation is far better than we expected and that we believe it's two-thirds or three-quarters cleaned up? >> i believe if that's what they think, then i believe it. let me say, the big unknown, andrea, is still how much oil is lurking underneath the surface and what are the...

People and that's the big, big unknown. and that's what may keep us there years longer than even the president thought we might be there. >> but right now, over the past month, americans have had great success tracking down the taliban, right? arresting taliban members and killing taliban members. >> yes, we have had great success. and i mean the administration again to its credit is being moderate about it. it's not pumping its chest and saying we're doing extraordinarily well. they don't want to -- >> no "mission accomplished" banners yet? >> not yet, joe. and the other thing we found out --...

In recent weeks across the uk and there is huge uncertainty about how big this third wave will be. the number of covid patients being admitted to hospital has doubled in the past ten days to more than 500 per day but if we look at december, to the point when daily cases were the same as they are now, then there were more than 2,000 admissions per day, four times the rate now. the difference is down to the protection from vaccines. they could be as much as 98% effective at preventing serious illness with the delta variant but if it is just a bit less, let's say 94% effective, that would lead to...

Congressman standing by. let's get to the latest on where we stand-in all of this. chad, good morning, what can you tell us? mada >> good morning. everything so far has been -- they will advance the nomination to the senate floor. the big unknown is if other gop senators told grassily they can't have a vote because they lack information. if they do move ahead running through the senate procedural traps it will take friday night for a confirmation vote on the floor. this nomination might be in