welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. just ahead on "cnn newsroom" -- >> trumpism has no place here and trumpism will be defeated. >> california, the eyes of the nation are on you. keep gavin as governor. >> president biden making a

final pitch for gavin newsom. hurricane nicholas makes landfall in texas and bringing heavy rain and possible flooding. and the united nations steps in to help war-torn afghanistan warning millions of people could face hunger and poverty. good to have you with us. we are just hours away from the polls closing, or opening i should say, in california where governor newsom is fighting to survive the attempt to remove him from office pl early polling suggests the recall evident will fail but nowsoewsom is taking n

chances. he compared his challenger to donald trump. >> you saw what happened on election night, the big lie. you saw what happened a few months later, january 6, the insurrection. you've seen what has happened across this country and voter suppression all across the united states of america. you saw what happened in texas and the fact that we have other republican governors that hope to model that texas legislation as it relates to denying women's right to choice. we may have defeated donald trump but we have not defeated trumpism. trump iism is still on the ball in california. >> president biden traveled to california to campaign for governor newsom and had a similar message. >> all of you know i got the chance to run against the real donald trump.

well, this year -- this year the leading republican running for governor is the closest thing to a trump clone that i've ever seen in your state. >> underscoring the democrats' concerns, larry elder and other national republican figures are already laying the grounds work to cast doubt on the election results. and elder has a history of past controversial comments. >> i've always felt minorities and women complain too much about racism and sexism. like it or not, slavery was legal and so their legal property was taken away from them after the civil war. so you can make an argument that the people that are owed reparations are not just black people but it is also the people whose property was taken away. >> i think that i'd rather have a -- this is why people profile. instead of being angry at

george, be angry at the thugs. to all the reasons why the 2020 election was full of shenanigans and my fear is that they will try that here. >> where or not you win or lose, will you accept the results of the election tomorrow? >> i think we all ought to be looking at election integrity. a cbs news poll last month found most voters did not want to recall governor newsom, the same poll also found a majority of voters were divided on who should replace him. roughly one quarter chose elder, about the same amount were unsure. america's top diplomat will testify today before the senate foreign relations committee about the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. secretary of state antony blinken defended the operation to a house committee monday calling the largest airlift in u.s. history an extraordinary effort. he said the choice was between

ending the war or escalating it. >> there is no evidence that staying longer would have made the afghan security forces or the afghan government anymore resilient or self-sustaining. if 20 years and hundreds of billions of dollars in support, equipment and training did not suffice, why would another year, another five, another ten. >> republicans called the pullout a debacle and betrayal of the afghan people who helped the u.s. during two decades of war. some even demanded that blinken resign. >> this was an un mitmitigated disaster of epic proportions. i never thought in my lifetime that i would see an unconditional surrender to the taliban. >> blinken laid blame squarely with the trump administration which struck a deal with the taliban and excluded the afghan government. he said the u.s. was locked into

a deadline for the withdrawal without a plan to make it happen. >> when president biden took office in january, he inherited an agreement that his predecessor had reached with the taliban to remove all remaining forces from afghanistan by may 1 of this year. as part of that agreement, the previous administration pressed the afghan government to release 5,000 taliban presumptive nominee they ares including top war commanders. even the most pessimistic assessments did not predict that government forces in kabul would collapse while u.s. forces remain. as general milley said, nothing i or anyone else saw indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days. >> the biden administration is also under pressure to get the remaining americans out of afghanistan. cnn's ryan nobles has more on that.

>> reporter: secretary of state antony blinken was on capitol hill monday taking tough questions from the house foreign affairs committee. in fact republicans really went after blinken on a number of issues related to that afghanistan withdrawal, the policy itself, how the biden administration handled it, and what the long term plan is by the american government. b blinken also questioned as to how many american citizens are still in the country that want to get out and this is how he responded. >> as of the end of last week, we had about 100 american citizens in afghanistan who had told us that they wish to leave the country. and i want to emphasize that this is a snapshot in time. it is more accurately a moving picture. as you know stepping back for a minute to know precisely at any given moment in time exactly how many american citizens are in any country. that number of about 100 american citizens still on the

ground looking to get out of the country, that has been a number that has been pretty consistent across all facets of the biden administration, that is what the pentagon will tell you, what the white house has said as well. the question is how will they get those folks out and that is obviously a much more difficult procspect when you take into account that there isitary pres anymore. it means we're relying on military contractors, other countries and at least in part in the taliban to help facilitate that on some level. and that is something that republicans are very uncomfortable with, they don't believe the administration should be trusting the taliban. and to be clear blinken made it clear that the administration really doesn't but they have to deal with them at this point. what blinken did make abundantly clear in his remarks, that there are no regrets from the biden administration. they believe that this was the appropriate policy decision to

follow through on a campaign promise and get the american military out of afghanistan and end this 20 year war. they believe that history will look kindly upon this decision even though in this early going to has been a very difficult process. ryan nobles, cnn, on capitol hill. house republicans had plenty more to say about the biden administration's afghanistan policy after the hearing. and a lot of it centered on the prospect of u.s. relations with the taliban. >> i asked the secretary specifically, there is discussion about recognizing the taliban now and i said tell me at what point did the taliban in essence become the governing group of afghanistan or was this an armed coup. and he said by default they are now in charge. well, that is us acquiescing to a coup d'etat. >> this intelligence capability that went down has left us stark in the region. we can't have eyes and ears in

country but also russia, china, iran. this is the first important question i asked the secretary, what are you doing to restore that in a nearby country and there have also been allegations that mr. putin talked to president biden and basically threatening him that he could not build intelligence capability in the region. right now hurricane nicholas is battering the texas coast after making landfall in the past couple hours. more than 130,000 customers are without power as the state braces for fierce winds and heavy rain. the governor has signed an emergency declaration and local officials are urging residents to seek shelter and remain off the roads. so let's turn to pedram javaheri, he is tracking the storm for us. so pedram, tell us what you are seeing now. >> still a category 1 hurricane. i do expect to weaken over the

next several hours, but we have see it meander right along the coast and interact with land and as well as keep part of the storm still over open waters. so there is quite a bit of tropical moisture. houston getting lightning strikes and certainly quite a bit of rainfall. nearly 5,000 strikes in the past two hours. so you would imagine it is a loud night across coastal regions of texas and approaching areas of houston over the next several hours. but hurricane warnings in place towards freeport, and tropical storm warnings from port arthur on into houston for this current hour. but rainfall amounts, you can see the previous 24 hours, much of the heavy rain remained just offshore. we'll now gradually begin to see that heavy rain encroach on to some of the major metro areas and houston will be one of the first to see first rounds of heavy rains to see the outer bands of the storm try to push in toward houston metroplex and certainly could see 4 or 6

inches across houston before it is all said and done. upwards of 12 plus million americans under flooding alerts. and we'll watch the progression of this because we do expect this to be a high risk day. that tmagenta color you see tha at 4% on high risk days and that is responsible for about 40% of fatalities. and we know that this sort of a setup was in place across portions of the northeast where we had remnants of ida bringing with it tremendous rainfall and the concern is of course houston another major metro area quite a bit of assault, quite a bit of concrete and a lot of these structures certainly won't be able to take on the amount of water the system has to offer. and notice it kind of meanders here for a couple days and gradually shifts into portions of louisiana which is just another area that we don't need

to see additional rainfall. latest model run here does bring in the heaviest rains north of that region, but we expect alexandria one of those areas across central and northern louisiana to see the brunt of what the system has to offer when it comes to possibly as much as 10 inches of rainfall. >> many thanks to pedram javaheri keeping a close eye on all of that. hurricane nicholas is also threatening to derail recovery efforts in louisiana where people are still picking up the pieces after hurricane ida slammed ashore two weeks ago. on monday, officials confirmed two additional storm-related deaths bringing the death toll to at least 28. more than 94,000 customers across the state are still without power. and now nicholas is likely to bring heavy rain and flash flooding to areas still full of debris from the last storm.

>> one of the things that could exacerbate the threat of flooding are all the ditches and catch basins and storm drains, all these drainage systems that have debris from previous storms that hasn't yet been cleaned up. in florida cnn has just obtained photos from surfside police investigating the alleged identity theft of victims of the surfside condo collapse. these are some of the items investigators discovered while conducting a search warrant. police say there are seven victims in this case, five of whom are deceased, four people have been arrested so far. and are accused of using the victims' identities to steal money, credit cards and other items. the miami-dade state attorney says the suspects moved very quickly after the collapse to grab what they could from the

victims. u.s. capitol police are preparing for possible unrest during a right wing rally this saturday. they are reinstalling temporary fencing around the building and lawmakers are being briefed on security arrangements. meantime a california man is under arrest in washington, police say that he was spotted near the democratic national committee headquarters with a machete and multiple knives in his truck. the truck had a swastika and other white supremacist symbols painted on it. joe manchin has launched a public campaign voicing his concerns over the hefty price tag for president biden's massive spending bill. on monday manchin told reporters a number of his democratic colleagues share at least some of his concerns about the scope and cost of the $3.5 trillion plan. manchin of course is the key swing vote democrats need to get the bill passed underscoring the

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the u.s. food and drug administration is set for an important meeting with vaccine experts on friday to decide covid-19 booster shots. but so far there have been late sending data to the experts for review with participants receiving their first documents only on monday. a team of israeli scientists will also be at the meeting to share data on their own booster program. now nearly one-third of israel have received their third shot. but even though the country has a head start, one doctor says the u.s. shouldn't rush into approving booster shots. >> we don't need to rush out and get a booster. the full scoucourse of the two moderna or pfizer shots or he e even the single j and j still protects us against severe disease or death which has been

the goal. we can use those shots more effectively. because you knownoeknow what pr us all? getting us all vaccinated, not a booster shot. >> meantime the state of california begins its booster campaign next week with officials saying they are ready to give 2.5 million shots every month. new covid-19 data shows an exponential growth in cases among children in the u.s. the american academy of pediatrics says infections among children skyrocketed 240% since july with nearly 500,000 cases in the past two weeks. children with covid-19 account for nearly 30% of all cases in the country with no date yet on when they may be eligible for vaccines. officials in orange county, florida announced the county's first covid death in a child less than a year old on monday. florida is in the midst of an

end of summer surge of infections and you can see the seven day average of new cases is still well over 100,000. during a press conference monday, the state's governor stood by as a gainesville city employee stated false information about vaccines. governor ron desantis did not correct the falsehoods and when asked to comment, his press secretary said the remarks belong to the speaker, not the governor. meanwhile desantis is ratcheting up his feud with the white house. the republican governor says he plans to fight the biden administration's new vaccine mandate calling it unconstitutional. he is also threatening to fine cities and counties requiring employees to get vaccinated. >> if a government agency in the state of florida forces a vaccine as a condition to employment, that violates

florida law. and you will face -- [ cheers ] and you will face a $5,000 fine for every single violation. the british prime minister will announce the plan for managing the coronavirus pandemic through autumn and winter in the coming hours. downing street says the plan focuses on vaccines as the first line of defense followed by testing, public health advice and monitoring for variants of the virus. the government is also expected to unveil its booster shot program with details of its rollout. the prime minister will also layout plans to repeal previous emergency powers that had been granted during the pandemic such as applying restrictions to events and gatherings. >> we've got to do everything

that is right to protect the country, but the way things are going at the moment, we're very confident in the steps that we've taken. i'll be sending out a lot more tomorrow, i'll be giving a fullufull update for the plans for the autumn and the winter. >> the uk will now be offering the first dose of the pfizer/biontech vaccine to young people age 12 to 15. health officials say kids will primarily receive their vaccine in schools with invitations for appointments set to begin next week. a judge in the largest county in texas will present a resolution today opposing the state's ban on abortions after six weeks. republican governor greg abbott signed the restrictive law in may. to allows private citizens to bring civil suits against anyone who assists a pregnant woman seeking an abortion in violation of the law. last week abbott addressed the

lack of exceptions in cases of rape or incest. >> rape is a crime. and texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them and getting them off the streets. so goal number one in the state of texas is to eliminate rape so that no woman, no person, will be a victim of rape. >> abbott's comments stunned many people at the time but they are even more shocking in light of the fact that texas has more than 5,000 untested rape kits sitting on shelves around the cnn's randi kaye has our report. >> that would be a beautiful thing to see, but it is not going to happen. >> reporter: this woman isn't buying it, she has also hope governor abbott can deliver on his recent process to eliminate

all rapists from the streets of texas. how can the governor of texas eliminate all rapists from the street when the governor and the state hasn't even been able to eliminate the backlog of rape kits? >> exactly. that is the biggest question. when you say things like that, it is outlandish to say things in that manner. >> house bill 8 is now law. >> reporter: when governor abbott signed into law the act in 2019, she was there. the act was designed to audit untested rape kits across the state and set strict testing requirements. the texas department of public safety tells cnn as of august, there are still 5298 untested rape kits. but we've learned that number doesn't include the untested rape kits from 231 law enforcement agencies who did not report their numbers to the state. so the number could be much hire which means thousands of rapists

could be on the run possibly raping others. how frustrated are you that thousands of rape kits are still unprocessed? >> i'm very frustrated. >> reporter: she was a member of the sexual assault survivor's task force was raped at knifepoint back in 1985. she was just 13. her own rape kit set untested on a shelf for more than 20 years. by the time her attacker was identified, the statute of limitations had run out and the man was already in prison. he had been caught after raping two other women while lavinia's kit was still on the shelf. >> this is not an easy task. >> reporter: texas state representative has been working alongside lavinia for years to clear the rape kit backlog. at one point she says there were about 19,000 untested kit. >> each box is not just a box on

a shelf, it represents a survivor's story, it represents an individual, a family who has been impacted by this, it represents women who are waiting for justice. and so we know that there is still more work to do. >> reporter: she says the state is making it a priority and has approved $50 million to help test these kits. but with thousands of rape kits still on the shelf, that leaves a lot of women wondering who raped them and a lot of rapists on the street. >> that is a big reason why many women do not report that they have been raped because they don't think that their case will be prosecuted. >> reporter: beyond the backlog, the new texas law banning abortions afof a six weeks i infuriates her. >> that makes no sense. we already felt like we lost our power and now you are continuing

to strip us by saying by six weeks if you don't get rid of that baby, you have to keep it. no, sir, that is ludicrous. >> reporter: she knows if she had gotten pregnant and that law had been in place, she would have had to carry and deliver her rapist's child at 13. >> i didn't know who he was. and that child wants to know their father. they don't know their background, they don't know their history. i don't know about the illnesses or anything. but i would be forced to carry that baby. that is nuts. that is not even common sense. >> reporter: randi kaye, cnn, dallas. we'll continue to shine a light on this. just ahead, a promise desperatery needed aid for afghanistan but also a warning that the country will need much more than humanitarian help to fix the current crisis. they fled afghanistan as the taliban took control and now

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the u.n. secretary-general is warning that the people of afghanistan are facing the collapse of their entire country all at once. guttierez delivered the assessment during a company naturing event.

he says food could run out by the end of the month and an application collapse would create a mass exodus threatening the stability of the entire region. >> if we want to protect the human rights of the people of afghanistan, the best way is to move on with the humanitarian aid and engage the taliban and take profit of that humanitarian aid to push for those rights to be implemented. let's have no illusion. we are not trying to transform afghanistan into sweden. or switzerland. but we know that there are a number of basic rights that is essential to implement and they are in the center of our engagement with the taliban. >> earlier i spoke with the global spokesman for the u.n. high commissioner for refugees, he talked about whether the pledged funds will be enough to turn afghanistan's crisis around. >> we are reaching a point where

in terms of their coping mechanism, we are talking about 3.5 million afghans that have been displaced inside their country. more than 630,000 during this year. this number includes 80% of women and children. and those needs are huge and they are mounting day by day. so all the pledges now need to turn into real cash and they need to materialize in terms of providing the humanitarian assistance. you heard the warnings and we have been trying to highlight this again and again to the world that stay engaged, stay focused inside afghanistan, don't leave afghans or afghanistan at this critical juncture. arwa damon is joining us live from istanbul.

the situation is dire across afghanistan. what is the latest on what afghans are dealing with at this time? >> reporter: it is absolutely heartbreaking, rosemary. they are dealing with an inability to access their money and that is if they had that much money or funds to begin with, keeping in mind that around 76% of the population before all of this, before the taliban takeover of kabul was already living below the poverty line. they are dealing with hunger, they are dealing with an inability to access proper health care, basic medical care, essential services. when we talk about the economic collapse of afghanistan, we're also talking about the collapse of certain infrastructures or certain processes, logistical processes that were in place to try to get humanitarian aid where it needs to go.

again, already an enormous challenge prior to the taliban's takeover and one that is going to prove to be even more difficult. getting that humanitarian aid where it needs to go. a number of international organizations are warning about the collapse of the health system there, one that was already struggling to begin with. there are warnings about malnutrition, there are warnings about women's health, girls' health. and so that is why it is really critical right now that number of these aid organizations engage with the taliban. and they are engaging with the taliban to try to ensure that humanitarian aid does get to where it needs to be to try to ensure safe passage and ability for their staff on the ground to be able to operate. but you have a number of organizations including doctors without borders saying that the need is so great right now and there is such a lack of staff and kcapabilities on the ground

they wish they could clone themselves. and this is where a great burden of responsibility does rely on the u.s. and its allies. after all they were the ones who withdrew. there was no plan in place for the withdrawal and there most certainly was no plan in place to ensure that these vital life lines for humanitarian aid supplies continued to function in a manner that the population needs and that the population deserves. the great concern that lot of these aifd organid organization others are highlighting, yes, there is a lot of attention, yes, there is money being pledged, but our attention span unfortunately tends to be very short. so what happens when afghanistan eventually does slide out of the spotlight, there have to be measures put into place to ensure, to put it very bluntly, that people don't end up none he isly dying because they don't

have access to basic medicine or access to enough to eat. >> such an important point. arrwa damon joining us live fro istanbul. many thanks. secretary of state antony blinken is calling the evacuations from kabul an extra ordinary effort. during a virtual hearing, he said they got almost all the u.s. citizens and afghans who wanted to leave out. tens of thousands of afghans who fled the country are now in the united states. cnn's oren liebermann has the det details. >> reporter: ever since the first flight of evacuees landed at dulles, the number of afghans coming into the united states has soared. the u.s. anticipates the arrival of more than 65,000 afghan refugees by the end of the month. already the military has built what one official described as small cities on eight bases. those bases thousanow house 53, risk afghans. ft. bliss was the first to grant

media access to see the facilities. here there is housing for more than 10,000 afghans. they will get covid vaccines, medical screening and the beginning of a new life. in new jersey, the afghans have broken up their village into councils, leaders meet with base officials, an afghan society within a u.s. military facility. already two babies were born on different bases, some of the first new americans from the afghan evacuation. some afghans who were far along in their visa application left the bases within days. but that number one u.s. official said was not large. many may be here much longer, months even, as they work through a complex visa process. at dulles airport, officials discovered three confirmed cases of measles among at-risk afghans. another case confirmed in virginia and a fifth in ad wisconsin. >> no 100% guarantees with any of this, but i'm comfortable

with the extreme vetting process that we were briefed on today, the multilayer, biometric, all the background checks. >> reporter: and the discovery of the disease prompted military to pause the flights of afghan advantage xis from europe to the united states for at least seven days. >> we want the people who work on these bases and the families who live there to know how seriously we're taking it. >> reporter: one homeland security official said this is likely one of the most important missions they will ever work on as the u.s. tries to draw a better future for tens of thousands of afghan evacuees. secretary of state antony blinken was grilled about the screening that will go into to allow entry into the u.s. and homeland security has added about 150 employees at u.s. bases to help in that streaming process and some 400 overseas. but make no mistake, this is a process that will take time. there is no clearance for how long the u.s. military will house these afghan evacuees,

they simple y say as long as is necessary. or reasen liebermann, cnn. and vladimir putin took a swipe at the u.s. and turkey saying foreign troops stationed in syria without a u.n. mandate are a threat to the country's sovereignty. the kremlin says mr. assad thanked the russian leader for humanitarian aid to syria and his efforts to stop the spread of terrorism. still to come, president biden surveys the devastation from this year's western wildfires and joins california leaders in demanding more action on the climate crisis.

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m mull multiday tour. he also took part in a memorial for the more than 100,000 slovak jews killed in the holocaust. pope francis is scheduled to meet with measures of the community and followed by an address to young people. u.s. president biden is calling the devastating wildfires in the western part of the country a blinking code red on the impact of climate change. the remarks came as he toured some of the hardest hit areas in california and idaho. josh campbell is in sacramento with more. >> reporter: president biden visiting the western united states on monday spotlighting an issue that has continued to playing so many parts of the country out west and that is wildfires. he began his day in the state of

idaho meeting with officials at the national interagency fire center getting an update on what authorities are doing to battle so many of these blazes. he also came here to sacramento getting an aerial assessment of the so-called caldor fire. officials tell us that it currently sits at over 1 2 20,000 acres burned, over 1,000 structures either damaged or destroyed. biden speaking shortly after his visit. take a listen. >> we have to think big. thinking small is a prescription for disaster. we'll get this done. this nation is going to come together and we are going to beat this climate change. >> reporter: of course biden continued to spotlight the root cause of so many of these wildfires, climate change. authorities tell us that here in the state of california, they are seeing fire seasons start much earlier, go much later, and fires hotter and much larger. josh campbell, cnn, sacramento. apple issues an urgent software update after

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